News & Reviews:   Google Play Store

It's been many months now since Huawei is facing an unfortunate ban from the US government from using any Google Mobile Services (GMS). Even though they do have their own AppGallery, but it's missing a lot of key apps that users use outside of China. That said, that could all change now thanks to the latest report by Reuters - Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo are gonna team up to create their own alternative platform to Google Play Store!

Prior to the Huawei Mate 30 series release last year, it was most unfortunate that Huawei got caught in the trade war. The company is still not clear out of being able to use Google Mobile Services (GMS) yet, so they have been trying different ways to survive without it with their own Huawei Mobile Service. Despite this, international countries out of China still relies on GMS a lot, so what is Plan B?

The time has come! Microsoft finally released a beta testing app for you to use all the Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) in just one platform on your Android devices.

For you all Mario fans, the Mario Kart Tour game app is now finally released on both Google Play Store and the Apple App Store for free (but of course, with in-game items purchases). But is the game fun? Well, we played a few rounds so here's what you need to know.

There is still some time before we can get our hands on Android Q, but for those who prefer the simple and smaller things like Android Go, you'd be pleased to know that you can actually download it now and install that version on your regular Android phone!

One of the most annoying things to happen while gaming on your phone are the pop up ads and banners that you find yourself accidentally clicking while you play. If you agree with me, there is a way to be rid of the annoying ads. Google is planning on launching a service called Google Play Pass which lets users game with no ad interruptions for a monthly fee of USD$4.99 (~RM21).

Finally some news on the anticipated Pokemon Masters. A lot of fans have been waiting on the release date for the upcoming mobile game but today, The Pokemon Company has announced the pre-registration for iOS and Android users have been rolled out.

It's happening, gamers. Dota Underlords, a spin-off of the massively popular DotA series, is now downloadable and free on Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux), iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play Store & APK) right now. The game is currently in beta so don't expect a perfect game, as there are bound to be bugs. But anyway, let's see what are the game mechanics!

Loot boxes has been deemed a form of gambling in gaming which is pretty detrimental as the audience in games are usually younger children. Due to that, Google has now asked developers of apps and games on the Google Play Store to show the loot box odds.

5 years ago, on 6th March 2012, Google opened its doors to their digital one stop shop for apps, games, movies, music and books across all devices running on the Android operating system, the Play Store. In five years, it had grown to more than 1 billion active users in 190 countries, whom had downloaded countless apps and movies, along with 40 millions songs and 5 millions books.