Mr Legs is one of those endless scrolling/running/collecting games, only the action is presented in an unusual 1930s B&W (plus the odd explosion of colour) animated style. It’s like if Walt Disney actually made his name developing Android games. It’s created by I Like James Games. Everything about this appeals to us.

In fact, this may well dethrone Winter Walk as out current favourite mobile release.

Mr Legs is a paid game, costing 99p on the Android Market. Given how bonkers and original it looks, we’re prepared to take a chance on that being a rather sound investment. Bucketloads more of this sort of thing, please, James.

There’s a video of it in action below…

…because we’ve just remembered how important it is try to cover things properly.

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Cartoon Wars is an immensely popular tower defence kind of thing, which has been available on iTunes for Apple telephones since last year. And now, as you might be able to guess because it’s here on this bit of the internet, it’s out on the Android Market for us to have a go on.

Mega-publisher GAMEVIL has taken responsibility for bringing the game to Google phones, fiddling with the accounts to release it for free. Here’s what it looks like:

Cartoon Wars is on the Android Market here. We suspect there may be advertising on some of the screens, as GAMEVIL is not a registered charity last time we looked.

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Mobile publisher Miniclip has finally decided to bring its smash Flash/iOS game Fragger to Android, with a deal done to make it a GetJar exclusive. There’s some good news, though, as Miniclip and GetJar have decided to launch it on Android for free, whereas the iOS version costs a stratospheric 69p.

Here’s what it looks like. It’s about chucking grenades at enemies:

Android Fragger is on GetJar’s mobile web site here. You’ll have to do the thing with the mobile web site and the download codes to get it working.

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X Fleet is a new Android shooter that’s been designed a little differently. It’s sort of a cross between a 2D shooter and an adventure game with… RPG elements. It could be the best thing ever, heralding a new age and inventing an entirely new genre. Or it might be nonsense.

Here’s how the developer describes this new experience:

I set out to do things differently – I desperately wanted to avoid the puzzle / physics cloning that’s rampant in the market. I didn’t even want to bring a classic space shooter into the world.

The end result is a space shooter cut up with the familiar RPG elements of weapons/ship upgrades, NPCs, quests, and a full narrative. Final Fantasy-esque towns take the form of the orbit of all the worlds of the solar system.

Still none the wiser. Here’s what it looks like:

Good to see the British Pound used as a space currency for once. The game’s free to download, with a few ads and some non-essential micro transactions inside to help support it and pay for the maker to one day update his PC’s graphics card.

There’s a trailer on the developer’s site and X Fleet is on the Android Market here.

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One of the more established Android developers out there is Psym Mobile, which wowed us ages and ages ago with the excellent Abduction 2 and several other very sweet little mobile games to boot. And it’s now released a sequel to its popular Gem Miner game. Called Gem Miner 2.

It has much more of a modern look to it, but would appear to offer the same sort of digging-puzzle play, in which you dig holes, collect minerals and upgrade your equipment to GO DEEPER.

The developer says Gem Miner 2 supports d-pad input, so ought to work on the Xperia PLAY straight away. Gem Miner 2′s on the Android Market here for £1.35 of your money.

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A man we once had minor “dealings” with many years ago has developed an Android game. It’s called Kaptilo and is a puzzle thing about poking and tapping a little spherical robot around a maze, turning off the lights off before exiting each level. Nice environmental subtext.

It supports OpenFeint if you ever bother with any of that nonsense, plus it looks very nice indeed. Starts off a bit simple, mind. It becomes much more of a challenge once you’re through the first world and new characters and mechanics appear.

Kaptilo is available in free and paid (60p) versions, with the paid release currently sitting on a respectable 4.5 rating from the feedback thus far.

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The popular GetJar Gold app distribution site, which gives away free, unsupported versions of many hot paid Android apps, has signed a deal with high-profile mobile game publisher Gameloft. This initial launch will see Gameloft’s popular racing title Asphalt 6 given away through the network.

It’s not up there yet. But presumably it’ll appear very shortly. Here’s what Asphalt 6 looks like, in case you can’t imagine cars going around tracks:

The Android Market version of Asphalt 6 currently costs 69p, so that’s how much you stand to save from faffing about with GetJar’s code-based mobile web installation system. Here’s the thing of proof:

Gameloft Signs On with GetJar Gold

Asphalt 6 Zooms Its Way to Android Users for Free

GetJar, the world’s largest free app store, today announced that Asphalt 6, the adrenaline-pumping racing game from Gameloft is now available for free on GetJar Gold. This is GetJar’s first title from Gameloft, one of the world’s premier publishers of mobile games.

Asphalt 6 lets you discover 42 different cars and bikes from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Ducati and many more, and tear up the streets of Los Angeles, Tokyo, the Bahamas and other amazing locations. Drive against tough opponents in different leagues with online and local multiplayer for up to six players.

Asphalt 6 is one of more than 100 free, ultra-premium apps available to consumers on GetJar Gold. GetJar makes over $250 worth of apps free to consumers and gives away up to $300,000 worth of free apps each day.

“GetJar puts Asphalt 6 front and center with millions of consumers around the world, and we’re excited to finally join forces with them,” said Yann Fourneau, Sales Director at Gameloft. “They are innovating on the app store model in ways that are great for the whole ecosystem, including consumers, developers and publishers.”

“It’s great to have Gameloft in the fold and making their games available for free through Getjar,” said GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs. “We now have 95% of the world’s top developers and publishers on GetJar, and the momentum we need to continue to explore new ways to reward both Android users and the developers building great new apps for them.”

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There’s a rather fantastic version of Counter-Strike available for Android over on the XDA forums, in the shape of Counter Strike Portable. It’s a complete rebuild of the Counter-Strike world powered by the Unity game engine, coming in two separate builds – one for older devices and another for more modern phones running Android 2.3 or higher.

This is it:

There’s a video of Counter-Strike running on the Samsung Galaxy S II on YouTube here. It runs great and is very impressive work indeed.

Link via Kotaku.

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A well-known developer is working on porting SEGA Saturn emulator Yabause to Android, creating quite possibly the most exciting clash of old and new hardware formats possible. The Yabause emulator does a decent job of handling SEGA’s complex old Saturn architecture on Linux, Windows and other desktop formats, but the Android version is currently… a bit early.

Here’s the rather hefty disclaimer from the maker:

“This is a very crude initial build, and it runs insanely slow. On top of that, the emulator doesn’t actually load the CD image”

But who cares? We could happily sit there looking at the SEGA Saturn intro screen for several hours. As we did in 1995.

There’s an early “concept” version of the emulator and all the instructions needed to get it running available direct from the maker’s forum if you’d like to give it a go and have a Saturn BIOS and some disc images ready – and there’s a video of it in its current state on YouTube here.

Link via Xperia Gamer.

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It’s been a while since we last bothered mentioning an Angry Birds map pack update, as they were becoming so frequent and numerous we very nearly suffered a Rovio-induced mental breakdown from trying to keep track of them all and the various spin-off titles and associated merchandise.

But the new collection of themed levels for Angry Birds Seasons look pretty nice. They’re built around clichéd Chinese imagery, to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which, Rovio informs us, means we’re now in the Year of the Dragon. Hence the name. This is what it looks like:

Pigs in different kind of hats and fireworks, is the basic gist of the thing. Angry Birds Seasons is on the Android Market here. It’s still free.

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