The Samsung Galaxy S8 S8+ dominated the week in Android news, but even if you’re not eyeing a flagship upgrade, you can still get something fresh: new apps games from the ay Store. have five more selections this week, starting with M Tap Sports Baseball 2017, a streamlined officially licensed multiplayer game.

Stance is another intriguing release, as the app makes it easy to contact your United States congress members, while VUDU just rolled out a feature that lets you buy cheap digital copies of the DVD Blu-ray movies you already own. And if you’re looking for other game options, wer Rangers: gacy rs is an action-packed fighter, while N.O.V.A. gacy lets you blast aliens in the face, no matter where you are.

M Tap Sports Baseball 2017

Glu

The 2017 Major ague Baseball season kicks off on Sunday, fans have been anxiously awaiting the first pitch since the Chicago Cubs’ historic rld Series win in November. If you love playing baseball games as much as you love watching the real thing, then you might want to check out M Tap Sports Baseball 2017. 

Glu’s mobile series adds M teams for the first time alongside the licensed players, this streamlined, batting-only experience lets you swing for the fences in turn-based battles. You’ll play your at-bats against an A.I. pitcher then wait for your online opponent to do the same, alternate back forth until the final out is recorded.

It’s built to be a free-to-play grind. You’ll pick your favorite team, but the top players are stripped from the roster made available via card packs instead—which means your lineup will be filled out by rom picks from other teams. The simplified approach feels pretty limited, but if you only care to swing for the fences, this freebie may be worth a look. A more robust, premium RBI Baseball 17 should be popping up on the ay Store soon, as well.

Stance

Ense

In these times of heightened political tension across America, it’s important to make your voice heard by the powers that be. However, with millions of other people feeling much of the same stress anxiety, it can be difficult to actually reach your congressional representatives, thanks to long phone waits overflowing voicemail boxes. Stance has a solution for that.

Stance helps you find your representatives based on address or current location, then lets you record a voice message directly from the app— even helps you shape your approach. Once recorded, the message is not only sent to the representative or senator’s phone, but also tweeted to him or her. It’s shared on the Stance website, too… so maybe don’t get too personal with your details. 

wer Rangers: gacy rs

ny Inc.

ether you grew up with some era of the wer Rangers on TV or you’re just hyped about the new film, wer Rangers: gacy rs is for you. This team-based fighter brings together Rangers from all across the franchise spectrum, whether you prefer the spex-clad warriors of the earliest series, the futuristic versions from this big-screen reboot, or one of the many different iterations in between. And it all looks pretty slick along the way. 

You’ll pick a trio of combatants for each battle tap the various attack defense move buttons as your energy meter refills. It’s not the most fluid of fighting experiences, but with real-time online battles against other players, at least there’s a solid sense of competition. gacy rs is strongly freemium, with an energy meter seemingly endless unlockables for new fighters perks, which come slowly unless you spend some cash.

VUDU Movies & TV

VUDU

Some of us have significant DVD /or Blu-ray collections, which is great… except they take up space don’t play on the touch devices streaming boxes that are quickly outmoding physical media. at can you do? ll, with VUDU’s Disc to Digital feature—newly added to the service’s Android app—you can pay a small fee to get a downloadable version. 

Simply scan the U barcode from your physical box VUDU will tell you if it’s eligible for a digital “conversion.” If so, you can pay $2 for a stard definition version of a DVD movie, or $5 to upgrade to VUDU’s HDX format. And if you’re coming from a Blu-ray, then it’ll just be $2 for the HDX version. The digital versions come via the VUDU UltraViolet platforms, which have apps on various devices, the program works with about 8,000 movies as of now.

N.O.V.A. gacy

Gameloft

You might have played the original N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard liance several years ago, when Gameloft’s Halo clone was one of the earliest flashy first-person shooters on mobile. ll, now it’s back: N.O.V.A. gacy is something of a remastered reformatted edition, with improved visuals a new free-to-play approach. 

Ripping off Halo isn’t nearly as exciting in 2017; hell, Halo isn’t all that exciting these days. But for a free mobile F experience, N.O.V.A. gacy packs in a solid amount of fun. The solo campaign has you blasting aliens in compact chunks, but the bigger draw is surely the live online multiplayer action, with six-player deathmatches across 19 different maps. st ignore Gameloft’s boast about it being a 20MB app: you’ll apparently download about 300MB more when you first open it.