’re in the midst of a busy few days for Android, with yesterday’s announcement of novo’s Moto Z phone first Tango smartphone, plus next week’s impending debut of the Oneus 3. In the meantime, what can you do with the phone you already have? enty, of course— the ay Store has many new picks worth considering.

Opera’s fresh News & Search app puts a streamlined spin on the mobile browser, while Flamingo is an appealing new Twitter client the Autism TMI VR Experience is the rare Cardboard app that isn’t meant to entertain (but is still worth your time). But if you are looking for fun games, the speedy tennis action of TBA is worth a look, as is the raucous beat-‘em-up combat of BlazBlue Revolution Reburning.

Opera: News & Search

Opera may only be used by 2% of web surfers across the world, but the longtime browser has pioneered several features that ultimately ended up elsewhere— the company has also done some interesting things on mobile. Opera: News & Search is its latest experiment: as the name suggests, it’s a mobile browser built around a news feed a search bar, favoring a level of simplicity that’s perfect for phones. 

You’ll see a list of trending news stories that is constantly updated, or you can dig into certain categories to get more specific feeds— if you link up a Twitter account, you can also browse the links shared by friends. It still has some niceties of traditional browsers, including private browsing multiple tabs, but overall the streamlined approach is a welcome shift.

TBA

recently spotlighted One Tap Tennis, which turns the sport into a rhythm game, but here’s another pick that makes tennis fun approachable on mobile: TBA. It’s another cartoonish take on tennis, but instead of moving a character around then swatting at an incoming ball, you’ll simply swipe your character across the screen to dash over return the volley.

It’s a lot trickier than it sounds, since you’ll need to judge the speed location of the ball speedily point your player to that destination. You’ll zip all around the court to try keep up, with the goal to set the highest score possible by continuing the frantic back–forth. TBA is great fun, it has a friendly, y Road-esque freemium system, letting you play as much as you want while gradually unlocking an array of characters—or you can just buy them outright. 

Flamingo

The official Twitter app was updated this week with a stronger Material Design aesthetic, but if you’re looking for something a bit bolder with extra perks, consider Flamingo ($1). It’s listed as a beta release, but Flamingo is already strongly functional highly customizable: you can choose from several premade color schemes or mix match as desired, with the option to tweak the layout as well.

Flamingo has other neat perks, too, such as the ability to bring up a hovering preview of a profile or image simply by long-pressing on it—almost like 3D Touch on an ione 6s. It also plays nice with multiple accounts has a crisp, clean look about it. Initial user reviews are strongly positive it’s easy to see why: Flamingo is one of the most appealing unofficial Twitter clients to date.

BlazBlue Revolution Reburning

If you read the game’s title found yourself deeply confused, don’t worry: it’s a head-scratcher even to those of us who follow panese gaming closely. On consoles, BlazBlue is a wonderfully chaotic technical fighting game, with over-the-top anime-like characters battling it out in vivid showdowns. Revolution Reburning keeps the characters the color on Android, but transforms the experience into a free-to-play beat-‘em-up.

Instead of fighting one powerful enemy, you’ll instead pummel loads of common goons occasional boss warriors, with an upward progression that surely becomes quite challenging before too long. The tap–swipe control method makes a lot of sense for mobile, providing a decent assortment of moves to unleash in each 2D stage— even if you don’t know what’s going on, the combat seems solidly satisfying.

Autism TMI VR Experience

Virtual reality is typically associated with fun entertainment, but the technology can also be used to give you an insight into other peoples’ lives. That’s the goal of the Autism TMI VR app from The National Autistic Society: it aims to recreate the sensory overload that many children with autism deal with via a stylized, 360-degree video inside a shopping mall. 

It’s purposefully over-stimulating intense, as you inhabit the shoes of a young boy trying to deal with all the people, lights, sounds in a busy location while his mom uses the ATM. ile certainly not fun, the goal is build some empathy in viewers: this is the sort of struggle that affected kids deal with, it’s why they might be uncomfortable in that situation. p it in a Cardboard VR viewer for a short but beneficial reality check.