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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and welcome back to Android apps weekly this is episode number 166 so let's get started the developers of critical ops announced this week that their game has over 10 million downloads and 300,000 active players for those who don't know critical ops is a first-person shooter that's been in a perpetual beta ever since its release even so it's a solid game with decent graphics and mechanics it's a free download in the Google Play Store if you want to try it out for yourself it's a worthy competitor to more popular shooters like modern combat 5 a new study done this week shows that Android users are more than twice as likely to uninstall apps and games than iOS users the study indicates that 43% of games and 21% of app downloads eventually get uninstalled on Android on iOS those numbers are 13% and 9% respectively whether Android users simply try more things or are more particular about their apps are open for discussion either way it's pretty interesting word around a digital grapevine is that Telltale's upcoming 2017 Marvel game will be based around guardians of the galaxy the information comes from a supposed leak originally covered by comic book movie comm along with that the leak also allegedly lists The Walking Dead Season 3 as a game that's totally happening we hope all of these leaks are true because that would be awesome Taiwan is currently trying to have over banned from every App Store in its country here's what happened in Taiwan transportation services pay a different set of taxes from technology platforms uber classified itself as a technology platform while the Taiwanese government is well aware that it's essentially a transportation service well let you know how this turns out in the long run but it's not the first time uber has been in hot water Facebook and Google are making some moves to prevent the circulation of fake news Facebook will simply no longer allow these stories to trend on its website while Google removes their Adsense money and also effects their search results we don't know what this will mean for the satire community but it's actually kind of sad that we have the culmination of human knowledge at our fingertips via the internet and this is still somehow a problem we'll see how this turns out as these changes roll cinepak is a voice recorder application that lets you record yourself and it does the standard recording stuff pretty well you'll be able to record yourself doing whatever and then export those files to your internal storage dropbox or google drive another feature is the ability to let's nip back run as a service that can temporarily record all the audio all of the time and then let you recover it if you want to we don't recommend leaving that on all of the time but it's a nifty little thing to have haunted rooms is a VR puzzle game that was released earlier this week it's an escape game which means you'll spend most of your time solving puzzles in order to get out of whatever scenario that you're in it boasts decent graphics a short story line and a spooky ambience the developers have also stated that they'd like to bring more episodes to the adventure over time it was made for Google cardboard so it should work with almost any similar VR headset and it's also free to download fingerprint gestures is an application that allows you to use your fingerprint scanner as a gesture pad the way it works is you assign actions to a specific activity for instance you can set recent apps to a single tap of your fingerprint scanner when you perform the activity it then in turn performs the action it's a little rough around the edges and it doesn't work with every device you'll also need a device that's running at least Android marshmallow in order to use it Jade Empire began life as an action RPG on the original Xbox all the way back in the mid-2000s it was eventually ported to PC and now it's been ported to Android the game takes place in a land inspired by ancient China and the characters were as well it's a Bioware title so fans of their games know what kind of experience they're going to get with this one it's a tad expensive at $9.99 but it comes with full controller support on screen controls and additional content that wasn't in the original release photoscan by Google is an application that helps you digitize your photographs you use it to kind of scan your real-life photos which are then added into your gallery it also has a few tools to help things along for instance you can use a crop tool to get rid of any frame or background that you took in your original image it doesn't take long to learn how to use and it only really does this one thing anyone who's been meaning to get digital copies of their old photographs you should definitely try this one for even more Android apps and games news releases updates and more don't forget to check out this week's newsletter which is linked 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