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this episode of android apps weekly is brought to you by the new york times hello buggin ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority I and welcome back to Android apps weekly Sega is taking games down and Nintendo is releasing them let's talk about it Corbin Davenport has made headlines before by getting emulators to work on Android wear and he's added again this time he used a mini vMac to emulator and managed to get the old macintosh to OS running on android wear as you can guess it's buggy and terrible but it does work and that's awesome earlier this week Google announced that they are going to shut down editing in map maker this comes in the footsteps of the now infamous edit that showed an Android peeing on an apple this decision is likely to prevent things like that from ever happening again Sega made an announcement that they will be removing games from the Play Store that do not meet their standards it's really just some housekeeping but some believe that the games aren't good enough all others believe that the games aren't making enough money we don't know which games are getting candid just yet the google play store got a new feature this week developers can now allow users to pre-register for applications and games that aren't out yet if you pre-register you'll get a notification when that app or game becomes available there are a few titles using it already and this can help generate buzz for their new content in our last headline this week Nintendo has announced that they will be releasing five games by the end of 2017 with the first one coming this year we have no clue what kind of game it's going to be but Nintendo did say that they were not going to port old games to mobile I guess we'll see how this pans out when the first game gets released for even more Android apps and games news updates and releases don't forget to check out this week's newsletter which is linked in the video description below there you can find the full range of stuff that happened over the course of the last week if you're so inclined you can even sign up with your email address and we'll send you the newsletter to your inbox every single Friday so you can stay up-to-date ok folks is take a look at the apps and games that made a big splash this week herocraft Z is a new RPG released by end games it features decent graphics powered by the unity 3d engine a full campaign mode the ability to assemble and build your own team there are some online components as well that include a PvP arena you can collect over 50 companions with various ability it's a premium game through and through but it is free to play and it doesn't look half bad after a few weeks of waiting the highly anticipated snake rewind game is now available on the Google Play Store as you heard this is a revamp of the classic snake game that adorned the cell phones of old and the mechanics remain largely intact the controls are a bit wonky as they rely on position based tapping and there are n app purchases which feels a bit weird but overall it feels like a positive experience and a good source of nostalgia with a cheap price tag bleep is a new messaging application from believe it or not BitTorrent the idea here is privacy messages are stored on user devices and not in the cloud like usual while every message sent is encrypted and the encryption keys are also stored on user devices and not in the cloud there are various ways to sign up the UI isn't half bad and you can invite people using your public key is similar to blackberry messenger if you need privacy this is a great way to do it but do beware of those release day bugs wild bleep focuses on security trumpet totally doesn't the idea of this photo messaging application is that photos you sent show up on the recipients device above the lock screen they can then interact with it if they want to or swipe it away and go back to using their device it's a fun premise especially if you love sharing photos with people of course I can see this going very badly if you know someone who likes to take inappropriate photographs in any case it's totally free and worth the shot just beware of those release day bugs last up this week is a game called see beard which is a new game that saw some moderate success on iOS our own andrew grush liking the game to a mixture of Zelda win maker and animal crossing and it totally feels like a Nintendo game it features colorful cartoon graphics with a lot of content for you to do and plenty of other features it's been noted that in F purchases are a tad heavy but with a little bit of patience you can get past that obstacle it's free to play and it's available right now thanks again for watching this week's show everybody but let's get down to some serious business the New York Times recently went through a lot of trouble to overhaul their application included in the massive update was a complete design overhaul that follows standards of hollow and material design and it does look really good add to that the world-class news coverage a few good features like Twilight mode and the ability to customize your news reading experience and you have an application that's definitely worth checking out it is subscription-based but you can try out the application for free and read a few articles every month without buying anything so it can't hurt to try it out we'd like to thank the New York Times for their support of Android apps weekly once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel and if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there and they're also linked in the video description below for you folks on mobile finally don't forget to check out the written companion which is in the video description below and hey don't forget to sign up for that newsletter as always thanks for watching everybody have a wonderful weekend