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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to another episode of Google Play weekly we have a lot of awesome news this week but first of all happy birthday to the Google Play Store which will be turning to soon we're going to talk a little bit about that some booyah news and the latest Humble Bundle along with a lot more stuff so let's get this show on the road square enix announced this last week if they're working on a new RPG called rise of mana that will not cost an arm and a leg at least not at first as you can see from the video the game actually looks really good compared to the remakes of final fantasy and chrono trigger that Square Enix has done so far in so far as we can tell it looks like it'll play more like an action RPG like Legend of Zelda rather than the typical JRPG style that we're used to seeing out of Square Enix they are aren't a lot of details yet so we can't give you an exact release date we do know they'll be releasing the soundtrack on April 23rd in preparation of a summer launch for the game itself in terms of pricing Square Enix states that it'll be a quote paper action RPG unquote so it won't cost anything to download but if you look up the dictionary definition of all of those words it doesn't sound all that promising well reserve our final judgment for when the game gets released XBMC has released a beta of their new version called Gotham which reportedly significantly improves video playback on Android now as you can expect it being in beta means that there are likely a bunch of bugs and crashes so you really shouldn't actually try this out until something more stable gets released that said the bill does offer a lot of improvements which is great because the app has always bran a little sluggish on Android some of the improvements include some minor polish around the UI in places like menu animations and on-screen controls more consistent and improved video playback in both standard definition and high definition formats and significantly improved battery consumption for those who may be interested the new release will also support Raspberry Pi the only downside is that there is no evidence of chromecast support yet regular viewers of the Google Play weekly show know just how much i love a good humble bundle and this latest one is one of the better ones I've seen in a long time if you're not familiar with humble bundles there are two ways to buy it you can give under the average donation price and get a few games or you can give over the average donation price and get all of the game if you give under the average you'll get catan vector riptide gp2 which is a favorite here at Android Authority and zombie gunship this is a very strong list of games and we've covered most of them before if you're feeling generous and go above the donation price which is about three dot sixty-six cents at the time of this video you'll get the premium version of bad land along with breach and clear so for about four bucks you can pick up a half a dozen great Android game titles to give you an idea of how good of a deal this is catan on its own is worth four dollars and Riptide gp2 on its own costs three dollars plus the money goes to charity and who doesn't like that the google play store turned to this last week and to celebrate its second birthday its tossing a great big sail to celebrate its second birthday the google play store is tossing a sale of various items throughout the store where you live tends to change what you can get on sale so if you live in australia you'll have a slightly different set of things on sale than people in the united states and other places it is worth noting that there aren't any actual free premium apps available what you'll find is discounted media like books music and movies while apps are generally either getting discounts on the price of the application or discounts on the price of in-app purchases some of the more fun things up for sale or black sabbath's paranoid album the in-app purchases of fifa 14 star trek into darkness the hobbit and unexpected journey the amazing spider-man bad grandpa and some dr. Seuss titles the OEM was a pretty big deal when it first started on Kickstarter and it has since fallen into obscurity with a new initiative called o'yea everywhere that may change the concept of oh yeah everywhere is very simple it's the oogah gaming platform available you guessed it everywhere according to reports the standout of engadget leah is looking to make their platform available on other set-top boxes and smart TVs which would greatly improve the experience of those set-top boxes and smart TVs unfortunately we don't have a lot of information other than that there is no release date right now and it's been confirmed that oh yeah is still going forward with their yearly hardware refresh as scheduled so really we're just playing the waiting game at this point although I'm sure we'll hear more about this the closer it comes to release who wants to see some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you can find the links in the written companion which is in the video description first up in our trending apps this week is the one loosen icon pack this is a brand new icon pack out of the popular icon theme ur the one dynasty it's a neon themed icon set with over 450 icons available it also comes with two wallpapers and support for pretty much every launcher that can support custom icons we decided to put this up this week in celebration because the a v8 launcher now supports custom icon packs and we thought hey what a better way to celebrate than to get an awesome new icon pack like this one all cast seemingly makes our show every other weekend that's because every couple of weeks couche does something to it that's worth talking about in an update that hit this last week the app has fixed or improved many features like transcoding on certain devices general performance improvements and the ability to change the streaming bitrate to help stop laggy playback and now includes muzie support a new user interface and a new icon in short it's a pretty darn big update this may be a bit pre-emptive because the next Shazam update hasn't rolled out quite yet but we have it on good authority that some big changes are coming to Shazam so the app is worth keeping an eye on according to the reports and teasers the upcoming update will feature a brand new user experience which will undoubtedly include a new user interface new features and some more new stuff millions of people have tried it and the google play store rating is really good so it's definitely worth checking out kemco games is probably the most known name in the mobile RPG space aside from Square Enix and they have just released a brand new game called rusted EEMA 'the in this JRPG you play as a young man who rides golems during the course of the game you hunt down bounties while you try to figure out what destroyed your homeland and why it's seven dollars and ninety-nine cents usually but for a limited time it's 399 so if this looks interesting get on it quick while you can still get it on sale blast up this week is a goofy little puzzle game called another case salt in this game you play as a customizable detective who solves crimes the premises you're in a world where candy is illegal or you can also think of it as a world where king.com gets to make the rules and you must hunt down criminals who are stealing candy and doing other nefarious things it's free to play it's goofy and fun and it doesn't take itself too seriously it's definitely a game worth checking out once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and if you want to follow android authority myself or the rest of the awesome youtube team you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a min we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there including the best applications of february2014 and Jace Berta wants to know how you think Android could improve finally don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description for all of the source links and download links as always thank you for watching and have a wonderful day