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Military Madness

• Classic military strategy game where you work to defeat evil out on the battlefield
• Futuristic storyline takes you to the moon in a journey to save planet Earth
• Capture the enemy building or destroy all enemy troops that get in your way
• Turn-based gameplay allows for precise movement and tactical decision-making
• Birds-eye view lets you zoom in and out to explore the battlefield

It’s the 21st Century and the Earth has become far too small a place for man’s insatiable needs. The moon, however, offers man plenty of resources and is a beacon of hope for the future. Nevertheless, Earth’s most powerful countries continue to battle it out for the moon’s valuable riches and the evil Axis Empire has been terrorizing the innocent for years. It is the year 2089 and the Axis army now occupies most of the moon’s factories and continues to produce new weapons for their secret assault on planet Earth. The Axis have tracked down and imprisoned many of the Allied Power’s forces leaving the Allied Power with little chance for success. You must free the prisoners and stop this military madness before the Axis Empire and their secret weapon destroy Earth and its entire population.

Travel across the map to save the world

Military Madness is a classic turn-based strategy game that places a futuristic battlefield in the palm of your hands and puts you in control of the action. As the commander of the Allied forces you’ll have to plan out each unit’s offensive and defensive movements in order to outsmart the opposing factions.

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Replica Island, a nice game that reminds me of the heyday of the Super Nintendo, made its appearance on the Android Market … And  it’s also open source!

In Replica Island, you embody all our mascot, Andou renamed for the occasion, in 40 levels with a superb game platform where he will explore a mysterious island.

Replica Island is a game of excellent craftsmanship, the superb handling and cute graphics that recall the era of 16-bit consoles that promises many hours of gameplay await you!

And even better, the source code of Replica Island is available to all. A nice gesture that will certainly contribute to the development of games on the Android platform.

No movement on Day 3 of the Apple-HTC patent saga (or quagmire, actually). Hey, we said this thing’s gonna take years. But it did bring another round of analysis. Today’s featured piece comes from The New York Times, and it comes with a pretty graphic showing who’s suing whom in the patent world.

And to that we say: “So what?” There are plenty of legitimate reasons for one company to file a lawsuit against another. It happens every day. It will happen tomorrow. Writes the NYT’s Nick Bilton:

Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology was still in its infancy and these large computing companies were trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.

The process of these fights is important, but don’t stay up at night worrying about it. Instead, show some patience and wait for the end result. Or the End of Days … whichever comes first.

For all of you Verizon Droid Eris fans out there chomping at the bit for Android 2.1 and the new HTC Sense to be released for your phone, know that it’s not far off. A build was leaked on XDA Developers (normally a home for GSM devices, but always friendly to HTC hackery) and subsequently deemed to appear to be genuine, albeit corrupt. But that never stopped anybody at XDA, and just a few hours later a build was foisted onto Big Red’s other Droid device. Want to try it yourself? Follow these instructions.

Next question is when will an official update become available? We’re waiting for video to pop up anytime now, as this single picture likely won’t convince some of you. But the chatter seems legit. Check it out for yourself. [XDA Developers] Thanks to everyone who sent this in!