Originally we were going to install custom texture packs using a rather long drawn out method. It wasn't a hard method, it was just a fair amount of steps. This was the plan until a user named Snowbound on the Minecraft.net forums made a program that takes a fair amount of the pain out of installing custom texture packs for Minecraft: Pocket Edition on Android.

Rockstar recently released a game this past winter from their little known franchise called Grand Theft Auto. Hide your children, hide your wife, Grand Theft Auto III has made its way from your living room television to your pocket in form of the Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Anniversary Edition.

At the time of its injunction, mobile gaming has bunkered on lowest level of video game caste system. Regarded worthwhile only to pass the time while waiting on line, cell phone games have been casually dismissed by hard core gamers as time wasters. Not fit to fly under the banner of video games, cell phone games also felt the same discrimination from their mobile cousins, the Nintendo and Sony handhelds.

As many of you know Shadowgun from Madfinger Games is the current big hit title out right now on Android. Released last week for Tegra 2 devices, this game has already blown up on the charts and soon non-tegra 2 Android devices will be able to play it as well for those of you without root.

Angry Birds Season just got updated with the Moon Festival episode which comes complete with 30 new levels, multiple unlockable levels and some sort of secret shadowed out mooncake. Even though this literally just came out today, we already have a complete list of all the hidden Mooncakes.

While we try to avoid posting news that belongs to other sites, this is more of a tutorial and less news so I thought it would be alright this one time. This is a guide is on how to set up your shiny new ( soon to be for most of us ) Xperia Play to take advantage of your control pad while using the emulators that can be found in the Android Market.

With the new launch of the Xperia Play around the world, and coming to the US shortly, we decided it would be best to continue to inform our readers that if they want to unlock the bootloader and gain full root access to their new device they can do so without any super special methods. If you are still interested feel free to read more.

A lot of new Android phones are coming up, your old phones are look weaker and weaker everyday, in a year the mobile world has been up-taken by a revolution in both hardware and software. With the speed of these changes, what should you do? Shall I buy a new phone, upgrade my old one now or wait for everything to settle?

XDA's community has more great news for us. After their triumph over the outdated Windows Mobile 6.5 OS on HTC's HD2 they've managed to do the same with Toshiba's TG-01. The world's first Snapdragon equipped smartphone is now compatible with Google's more modern Android OS. From it looks of it the Snapdragon chip manages games just fine.