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There are a number of services that offer access to live TV streams on Android, but they tend to want money. BitTorrent Live is a streaming TV service from, you guessed it, BitTorrent. It's completely free. It's been available on some streaming boxes and desktops for several months, but the app has now showed up in the Play Store.

As with most things BitTorrent does, this streaming video app is based on the company's p2p technology. It uses many of the same techniques that have allowed Torrent sites to become so prominent as sources for… well, everything. BitTorrent itself is a legitimate business, though. The content on BitTorrent Live is fully licensed.

Because this is based on p2p technology, the quality of the stream will vary based on how many people are viewing it. Just like with a Torrent download, you both download and upload to keep the swarm of watchers going. The result is a system that's much easier on the video source. How does it look? From my testing, I'd say it ranges from middling to good. Some channels look like a standard 480p stream, and other are almost as good as what you'd get streaming HD video from a source like YouTube.

The interface is minimal, and I think it could use a bit of work. You can tap to bring up the current stream info, then tap the arrow at the bottom to get the full channel list. There are nearly 20 channels, some of which are not going to have wide appeal, like the far, far right One America News network. You do get the NASA TV and NASA UHD stream, though. Scrolling through the horizontal channel guide is not pleasant. Inertial scrolling is ramped way up, and any downward movement is interpreted as a swipe to close the guide.

There are some other bugs here too. For example, the stream fails to load on mobile data, so you need WiFi right now. It also strikes me as odd there's no Chromecast support at launch. Still, the app is free and it does offer free streaming video as advertised.

This is not the sort of game you come across often. A Normal Lost Phone simulates someone else's phone on your device. In the game, you find this phone and begin poking around in an attempt to find the owner. Complicating your efforts are a lack of mobile data and calling credits. So right from the start, you need to do some detective work.

The phone in this game belongs to Sam, who has just turned 18. Unfortunately, Sam appears to have gone missing as well. The first thing you see upon using the lost phone is a message from "Dad" asking for Sam to get in touch before "Mom" calls the police. I don't want to give away the details of the story that unfolds in the phone, so I'll just give you an example of the kind of puzzles you'll encounter in A Normal Lost Phone.

The game's interface is a mockup of a smartphone. There's a status bar at the top, navigation buttons at the bottom, and a home screen with a few app icons scattered around. Without internet access, you can't get into very much of the phone. Luckily, there's a nearby municipal WiFi network. Of course, you need a password. The phone has SMS messages cached on it, so you can page through them and look for clues. In one of them, someone tells Sam that the password to the city's WiFi is the ZIP code. But where can you find that? In the weather app.

In addition to the aforementioned apps, there's a gallery, browser, email app, a dating app, and more. As you'd imagine, the dating app holds a wealth of data, but it's password protected. That's another roadblock. The goal of this game is basically to snoop, which you could argue is intrusive and creepy. I suppose you could tell yourself you wouldn't poke around in a found phone, but what if you did? There's a voyeuristic aspect to this game that's oddly entertaining in its own right.

A Normal Lost Phone is an unusual game to say the least. It's not something that will appeal to everyone. There are long periods where you won't know how to proceed as you re-read messages and attempt to access new bits of data. Still, it's a rewarding experience if you get into it. A Normal Lost Phone costs $2.99 and there are no in-app purchases.

Xenoraid is a slick little shooter with some roguelike elements and a compelling, straightforward backstory. The gist is that an alien presence was detected approaching Earth in 2021, in the following years attempts to make contact with the aliens failed. By the year 2028, humanity had built some space fighters to meet the threat head-on. That's where you come in. You have to pilot the fighters against alien forces and save the world. It's a lot of pressure.

You have not one ship in this game, but four. Only one can be used at a time, though. It's a fairly standard top-down shooter with a virtual thumbstick on the left. Over on the right are two weapon buttons, one for your main gun and another for heavy weapons that have limited ammo. The main weapon is only limited by heat generation. The interesting thing here is that each ship can have a different loadout. One might have a machine gun-style main weapon and another a space shotgun thing. They can be upgraded with new abilities as well.

In the lower right corner is your fighter selection panel. Simply tap the ship you want to use, and it'll be swapped in. It's good to have different loadouts available to cope with different situations. The alien ships you encounter come in various different sizes, and with different weapons. Some of them really pack a punch too.

Each of your ships also has a different life gauge, which turns out to be very important. When a ship is destroyed, it's actually destroyed. You have to spend resources to replace it, and that limits what you can spend repairing or upgrading your other ships. Additionally, you can't go back to older levels to get more credits. That means you run the risk of a game over scenario when you lose all your ships. There are checkpoints to continue from, but you can still back yourself into a corner.

The default control is a little different than in other shooters. The ships bank as you move around the screen, and that affects the angle at which the weapons fire. This can help you get an enemy that's further away, but it's also a bit more challenging when you first start off. You can disable this feature in settings.

The visuals are clean, but the lighting and particle effects spice it up a little. I also appreciate the attention to detail on the ships—they actually have maneuvering jets that light up as you move around the screen. I quite like how different the ships look after some upgrades too.

Xenoraid is completely free to play, as long as you don't mind watching a video ad before each level. A single $4.99 in-app purchase will remove them.