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Get the most out of your Galaxy S21 Ultra with these 10 apps and features

Many of these will work with older devices as well

The Galaxy S21 Ultra is the best smartphone I've ever used. Taking all of the good points from last year's S20 Ultra and fixing many of the complaints, this device is an absolute powerhouse. To paraphrase Uncle Ben, with great hardware comes great flexibility, and as such, there are plenty of apps and resources you can use to make the most of your shiny new phone, and here are 10 of our favorites.

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12 new Android games from the last week: The best, worst, and everything in between (2/22/21 - 2/28/21)

Inked, Fury of Dracula, Wordsmyth, plus more

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so. Today's list is broken up into several segments, ranging from best, average, to mediocre. So whether you're looking for the best games of quality or are simply looking for the latest free-to-play gacha titles, you're covered. This week I have a gorgeous hand-drawn puzzler, an enjoyable digital adaptation for the board game Fury of Dracula, and a minimal word game that offers a relaxing atmosphere.

12 new Android games from the last week: The best, worst, and everything in between (2/22/21 - 2/28/21) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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The 11 best password managers for Android

Paid and free options

Update
Updated with many additional password managers as well as pricing and feature changes.

Everybody should use a password manager. Whether you only have five online accounts or 500, it's important to use unique, hard-to-guess credentials for every single one. If you reuse passwords, a breach from one of your accounts could help hackers get access to your whole online life. Password managers simplify and safeguard that process. There are tons of great options to choose from, and we've curated a list of eleven of our favorite solutions.

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65 of the best Android games for kids between the ages of 2-8

A hand-picked selection of quality children's games for 2021

Update
This roundup has been updated with new games

The Play Store doesn't always make it easy to find the games you're looking for, especially if you're on the hunt for games that appeal to children that aren't monetarily abusive. This is why I've taken the time to search the store for the best games for kids between the ages of 2-8, and so I've compiled this roundup to help everyone out.

65 of the best Android games for kids between the ages of 2-8 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Terraria developer and Google finally work out their beef

Re-Logic previously said it would cancel Terraria for Stadia

Terraria is perhaps one of the most successful indie games ever, but earlier this month, the lead developer announced that an in-development version for Google Stadia would be cancelled. The decision came after the creator went on a multi-tweet tirade against Google for shutting down his account (allegedly due to YouTube TOS violations), but now the Stadia port is back on.

Terraria's Stadia port only became known after its primary developer Andrew Spinks complained about Google's support staff on Twitter.

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Stadia reportedly had 'hundreds of thousands' fewer players at release than Google predicted

Google announced earlier this month that it would close Stadia Games & Entertainment, the game studio that was tasked with producing exclusive titles for the Stadia game streaming service. The closure was seemingly a result of Stadia's slow momentum, and now a new report from Bloomberg sheds some light on the topic.

Citing two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Stadia missed targets for controller sales and monthly active users by 'hundreds of thousands,' though the timeframe for that estimate is unclear.

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Seven great real-time weather and radar apps for Android

Like an umbrella, we've got you covered

Unless you live under a rock, everyone experiences the weather — even if they don't spend time outside. Government and private industry spend tens of millions of dollars every year on meteorology and the conveyance of detailed forecasts. All of that flows down to the apps we all use to get a quick look at what's coming up the jet stream. But are you using the right app?

The main appeals of any weather app are aesthetics, details, and forecast accuracy.

Seven great real-time weather and radar apps for Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Recorder now has a companion web app for storage and sharing

You'll need the latest v2.2 update

Google Recorder has quickly become one of the best audio recording applications on Android, even though it's only officially available on Google's own Pixel phones. Backup support was announced earlier this week, and now it's finally rolling out.

Google Recorder 2.2 adds synchronization support for the new recorder.google.com web app, where recordings can be uploaded for easy access later on other devices. The web app can play your audio clips along with the transcribed text, and you can even share them for viewing by others.

Google Recorder now has a companion web app for storage and sharing was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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17 temporarily free and 56 on-sale apps and games for Friday

Don't miss out on the sales for Beholder, Beholder 2, and Alien Shooter

Welcome to Friday, everyone. The weekend is almost here, and so I have more than a few sales to share with everyone. Of course, I'd like to highlight some standouts, such as the sales on both Beholder and Beholder 2, two quality adventure game's where you'll spy for a totalitarian government. And if you prefer something a little more action-oriented, then Alien Shooter is worth a look since it's a classic twin-stick shooter that's easily worth the current asking price.

17 temporarily free and 56 on-sale apps and games for Friday was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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HBO Max is getting more living-room friendly with Android TV and Chromecast enhancements

HBO Max first launched nearly a year ago, bringing the majority of Time Warner Media's catalog under one roof with select high-profile shows and movies from other companies. The service is likely seeing a boost in subscribers, thanks to all the movies Warner Bros. is releasing on HBO Max (alongside limited theatrical runs), and now there are some improvements in store for TV watching.

HBO Max is bringing back the restart button for Android TV, which was removed a few months ago for unknown reasons.

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WhatsApp now lets you mute videos before sharing

Get rid of annoying audio before you send someone that hilarious clip

Update
Rolling out

If you want to share a video with someone but need to get rid of the audio for whatever reason, you can do so with Google Photos or another gallery app. But let's say you get to the point of sharing in WhatsApp and you still need to remove some annoying sound — the chat app is rolling out a feature that makes that a piece of cake.

WhatsApp now lets you mute videos before sharing was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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LastPass analytics code raises questions about potential security issues

In case you needed yet another reason to switch

LastPass recently caused an uproar by announcing forthcoming changes to its pricing model that will effectively nerf the free tier, and now the company is in for some more bad news. According to a report published by German cybersecurity researcher Mike Kuketz (via The Register), the password manager uses seven third-party trackers that introduce potential security issues, prompting him to recommend LastPass users to switch to competitors.

Kuketz used Exodus Privacy to identify which third-party trackers the app uses, and he managed to find the following seven:

AppsFlyer
Google Analytics
Google CrashLytics
Google Firebase Analytics
Google Tag Manager
MixPanel
Segment

To check what exactly these third-party tools do, Kuketz analyzed the network traffic originating from LastPass version 4.11.18.6150.

LastPass analytics code raises questions about potential security issues was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Two new Final Fantasy VII games are coming to Android

Time to cash in on VII's renewed popularity

Sony recently held a State of Play digital livestream where a host of developers and publishers announced new games for Sony's platform, and so Square Enix revealed an enhanced and expanded version of Final Fantasy VII Remake while also taking the time to announce two new mobile games that are themed around FF VII. The first is called Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier, and it will be a battle royale.

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Twitter Spaces now available for some Android users

You still won't be able to create a Space, though

Audio conversations on social media are all the rage today, but Android users have been left out in some quarters — both Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces have been exclusive to iOS users. While this remains the case for the former (they've announced plans for an Android app, though), Spaces is now opening up its test for Android users.

From what it seems, this is an early preview for a select few who are a part of the app's beta program.

Twitter Spaces now available for some Android users was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Sleep tracking apps on Android will soon use less power and have fewer random issues

Thanks to Google's new built-in Sleep API

Android sleep-tracking apps have had a rough time. They've had to suffer inconsistent and unreliable background app limitations across different Android versions, which can interfere with how the apps work at a very fundamental level. Thankfully, Google is rolling out a brand new Sleep API built right into Google Play Services. It sounds like it should fix that issue — for sleep-tracking apps, anyway.

The API is built into the existing Activity Recognition suite, which (if you allow it) can automatically pick up on the things you're doing based on the device sensors.

Sleep tracking apps on Android will soon use less power and have fewer random issues was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Zoom meetings should get easier to follow later this year with auto-captioning for free accounts

But you can request the feature early if you need it

Later this year, Zoom plans to make a live AI-based transcription feature available to everyone — paid account or otherwise. If you'd rather not wait for the handy accessibility feature freebie, you can also request access to it early.

Zoom has had automated transcription since last year, courtesy of third-party service integrations. But in October, a new Live Transcription was spotted in the wild. We aren't sure if the company's first-party feature is in any way based on the prior third-party integrations or not, but it promises automatic captioning, free of the manual input process imposed by the existing closed-captioning system — presumably similar to Google's Live Caption feature for Pixel phones.

Zoom meetings should get easier to follow later this year with auto-captioning for free accounts was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google starts refunding Hangouts call credits ahead of feature shutdown

As part of Hangouts' long, drawn-out death, Google is also pulling the plug on the imaginatively titled Call Phones feature, which lets you place a phone call in Hangouts via Google Voice. It was mostly free, but you did have to pay for certain call types. With the feature set to expire by next month, Google is now sending out emails regarding refunds for any remaining balance you might have, and you can trigger the process manually as well.

Google starts refunding Hangouts call credits ahead of feature shutdown was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Wireless DeX for PC now works with Galaxy devices running One UI 3.1

Galaxy tablets are still left in the cold

Update
Devices

When Samsung announced that DeX would be going wireless in One UI 2.5, which was introduced on the Note20, I was excited. Until that point, I'd hardly touched the app because of the requirement to plug my phone into my PC. Sadly, wireless DeX only worked with compatible TVs and monitors, leaving most computers in the cold. Now with One UI 3.1, that's finally changed.

The first thing you'll need to do to get started with wireless connectivity is to update to the latest version of the DeX client on your PC.

Wireless DeX for PC now works with Galaxy devices running One UI 3.1 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Amazon Music is now available on all Android TV and Google TV sets

No longer a Shield exclusive

It's been more than two years since Amazon Music made its first appearance on Android TV, but at the time, the service was restricted to the Nvidia Shield TV. That is no longer the case, as the app is now available for all Google TV and Android TV sets, set-top boxes, consoles, and soundbars.

If you live in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, and Australia, you can look for the Amazon Music app on the Play Store of your Android TV unit.

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Anyone with a Fire TV can sign up for Amazon's Luna game-streaming service now

It's becoming easier to get in on the Early Access program

Amazon Luna is creeping up on Stadia when it comes to availability. The company has announced that the platform is now available for anyone interested who owns a Fire TV, departing from its initial invite-only approach to distributing the service. Luna still remains in its Early Access phase, though.

New customers can download the Luna app on their Fire TV and sign up for a 7-day free trial without having to wait for approval.

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Some Hangouts users are being migrated to a Google Chat 'preview' experience

Group chats aren’t available yet

It's been a while since Google announced that it will split Hangout into two separate services — Chat and Meet. For workspace accounts, the transition to Chat began last year, but personal account holders were only given a blurred ETA of "first half of 2021." For a few lucky accounts, the migration started early, in August of 2020, and continued throughout the year and early 2021 (we've received dozens of tips since the original one).

Some Hangouts users are being migrated to a Google Chat 'preview' experience was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Your children's Google accounts will soon have access to the real YouTube

YouTube Music for kids is in the pipeline, too!

For parents, the dilemma of whether or not to set up your kids' Google account as a child account, and suffer the consequences, is real. Google is finally acknowledging that one of the biggest downsides of that experience is being tied to YouTube Kids. The company just announced that it will soon start testing "supervised experiences," which will allow parents to let their tweens and teens access YouTube in a controlled manner.

Your children's Google accounts will soon have access to the real YouTube was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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There's a new PUBG game coming to Android, and it's built from the ground-up for mobile play

It's called PUBG: New State, and you can pre-register right now

If you haven't had enough PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in your life, I have some good news, there's a new PUBG game coming to mobile, and it's called PUBG: New State. It's coming to Android and iOS this year, and supposedly it will offer an exclusive map, ultra-realistic graphics, and it should be optimized from the ground up for mobile play.

The above trailer offers the first look at PUBG: New State, and as you can see, it's PUBG, but with slightly fancier graphics.

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Pixel-exclusive Google Recorder getting backup support and a snazzy new web interface

Probably coming as part of the March Feature Drop update next week

The best perks of Pixel ownership outside the camera are the exclusive software features like Recorder, which (as its name suggests) records audio and transcribes it in near real-time. Last year, the first signs of Google Drive-based backups were spotted. At the time, the bits of the feature that could be enabled claimed to point to a new recorder.google.com website, which didn't exist. Well, the site is live now, and it's promising the other half of the currently non-functional feature.

Pixel-exclusive Google Recorder getting backup support and a snazzy new web interface was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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YouTube Music gets its first (broken) signs of casting tracks on repeat

Still no shuffle — sorry

If YouTube Music isn't missing a basic feature you'd expect it to have had at launch, then the feature is in extensive A/B testing and only available to a minority of subscribers. Just earlier today, one of the former changes was spotted: The ability to set a casted track to repeat. Unfortunately, though it was spotted in the wild, the feature doesn't actually... what's the term — work?

The change was spotted over on the YouTube Music subreddit, and I can confirm it's live on my device — for certain definitions of "live."

YouTube Music gets its first (broken) signs of casting tracks on repeat was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Samsung Home Up restores Task Changer and adds new features (APK Download)

One UI Home has some new tricks too

As Samsung rolled out the 2021 refresh to its various Good Lock modules, Task Changer was strangely absent. It was unclear if Samsung was still working on making it compatible with One UI 3, or if it had given up on the module entirely. Thankfully the situation has turned out to be the former, and Task Changer is now back with brand new features — but it isn't where you'd expect it to be.

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31 temporarily free and 25 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday

Don't miss out on the sales for Z.O.N.A Shadow of Lemansk, When Silence Fell, and Mathematiqa

Welcome to Wednesday, everyone. Today's list offers many sales, and I even have a few standouts to share with everyone. First up is Z.O.N.A Shadow of Lemansk, an enjoyable FPS that's easily worth the asking price. Next, I have When Silence Fell, a text-based adventure game that offers an enjoyable story. Last but not least is Mathematiqa, a puzzle and quiz game for all of you deep thinkers out there.

31 temporarily free and 25 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google to soon strip the old Pay app of its core functionality in the US

Nudging you to make the switch to the new app

When the new Google Pay app was introduced last year with a refreshed interface, some users didn't feel any compelling reason to switch, and elected to stay with the old app while they still had the option. While we knew the app would reach the end of its useful life at some point, Google is now taking some formal steps towards killing it.

In an email sent out over the last day or two, Google's inform users that the old app and the Google Pay website will lose their transactional (i.e.,

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Spotify's new library UI shows all your offline content on one screen

No more fiddling with tabs and filters

A couple of days ago, we shared with you a new design for Spotify's library that seems to be in very limited testing. The interface, which mixes music with podcasts and offers both list and grid layouts, has four filters on top for your playlists, artists, albums, and podcasts. But it turns out there's a fifth one that only shows up when you set some music to download for offline use, and honestly, I think this is my favorite feature of the redesign.

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Interview: Diablo Immortal lead designer Wyatt Cheng details what's next for the hotly-anticipated MMO

Plus the latest BlizzCon coverage

Ever since Diablo Immortal was announced at BlizzCon 2018, it has had a cloud around its development. This announcement was poorly received at the time, and in the years following, Blizzard fell silent. Then out of nowhere, a technical alpha was launched last year while Blizzard simultaneously released a plethora of content that detailed the game's design, gameplay, and monetization plans. This was a reassuring maneuver to assuage fears of a blatant cash grab, and the lead designer Wyatt Cheng has detailed further at BlizzCon 2021 what we can expect from the upcoming mobile MMO.

Interview: Diablo Immortal lead designer Wyatt Cheng details what's next for the hotly-anticipated MMO was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Firefox now supports multiple PiP windows and improved cookie protection

Each website will now have its own cookie jar

Mozilla's Firefox is among the most popular desktop browsers out there and it offers good privacy protection — its last update cracked down on supercookies. In a bid to further improve in this area, Firefox 86 is introducing a new measure called Total Cookie Protection (TCP) which will be available for both desktop and Android clients.

It essentially prevents cookies from tracking you around the web by creating separate cookie jars for different websites.

Firefox now supports multiple PiP windows and improved cookie protection was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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New v22.0 update merges Magisk and Magisk Manager app

Samsung's Galaxy S21 series is now supported too

If you've ever rooted your Android phone to modify system components, chances are, you've come across Magisk, which allows for systemless root access. Developer John Wu has constantly updated it to ensure it works just as well and goes undetected by Google's SafetyNet. The tool is now being updated to version 22.0, which introduces support for the Samsung Galaxy S21 series and kills the Magisk Manager as we know it.

The update's focus is on improving the user experience, which is why separate releases of Magisk (the core components) and the Magisk Manager (the companion app) are being done away with.

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How to use and disable Chrome's new tab groups and grid switcher

Not everyone is a fan of this new tab UX

It's been a while since Chrome for desktop introduced support for tab groups. The feature helped bring order to chaos for those who had a habit of keeping umpteen tabs open. After being tested since 2019 on Android, the feature is now rolling out on the mobile platform as well. The update also brings a grid tab switcher to Chrome.

Tab groups have started to roll out more widely with the Chrome v88 update that was released last week.

How to use and disable Chrome's new tab groups and grid switcher was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Telegram v7.5.0 update adds auto-deleting messages and widgets (APK Download)

*This subtitle has been deleted*

Telegram is already one of the most feature-rich messaging apps out there, but that doesn't seem to stop the developers from constantly churning out new updates. The newest v7.5.0 introduces a bunch of new features, the most notable ones being the ability to auto-delete messages and new widgets.

Auto-delete needs to be enabled manually (Tap ⋮ > Clear History > Select duration) for each chat, and there's an option to choose between 24 hours and 7 days.

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Google Pay gains support for 84 financial institutions across the globe

Canadians are in for a treat!

Google's mobile payment app continues to support a growing number of banks and financial institutions across the world. Since our last update, 84 banks and credit unions are now compatible with Google Pay across 24 countries. Interestingly, the majority of them are in Canada, with a whopping 57 new ones.

Australia
- Bank of Queensland Limited
Austria
- Prepay Solutions
Brazil
- XP Investimentos
- Banco Inter
- Digio
Canada
- Access Credit Union
- Advance Savings Credit Union Limited
- Affinity Credit Union
- Assiniboine Credit Union
- Beaubear Credit Union
- Blackville Credit Union
- Caisse populaire de Clare limitée
- Cambrian Credit Union
- Cape Breton Credit Union
- Chinook Financial/CF CU
- Coastal Financial Credit Union Ltd
- Community Credit Union of Cumberland & Colchester
- Conexus Credit Union
- Consolidated Credit Union
- Cornerstone Credit Union Financial Group Limited
- Credit Union Atlantic
- Dodsland Credit Union
- Eagle River Credit Union
- East Coast Credit Union
- EasternEdge Credit Union Limited
- Envision Financial/FW CU
- Evangeline-Central Credit Union
- First Calgary Financial/CF CU
- Foam Lake Credit Union
- Innovation Credit Union
- Interior Savings Credit Union
- Island Savings/FW CU
- Kingston Community Credit Union Limited
- Leading Edge Credit Union
- Libro Credit Union
- Luseland Credit Union
- Macklin Credit Union
- Mainstreet Credit Union
- Malpeque Bay Credit Union
- Morell Credit Union
- Mountain View Financial/CF CU
- New Brunswick Teachers' Association Credit Union
- Newfoundland And Labrador Credit Union
- PenFinancial Credit Union
- Prospera Credit Union
- Provincial Credit Union
- Radius Credit Union
- Souris Credit Union
- St.

Google Pay gains support for 84 financial institutions across the globe was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Ten alternative gallery apps to better manage your photos

Because you deserve better than your stock app

For years, QuickPic was one of the first applications I would install on my phone, without even bothering to use the phone's default gallery app. It was small, fast, efficient, and free, but has sadly disappeared at the end of 2018. For a while, I've been trying to find a decent replacement, and some of the below apps are great candidates to become your next go-to gallery app.

We've updated this post with a few more apps, which we didn't cover in the initial post.

Ten alternative gallery apps to better manage your photos was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Calendar is adapting to messier work schedules

WFH? AOK!

For a lot of us, it's only after working full time from home that we've realized how messy balancing work and personal commitments can get — and the pandemic ensured we all got a taste of it. Google now wants to make it easier to share your disordered WFH schedule with your teammates as Calendar entries so that they know when is —and isn't— the right time to ping you.

If you often find yourself working in multiple chunks of the day instead of a single stretch straight through, Calendar will soon let you add those segmented timings for each workday.

Google Calendar is adapting to messier work schedules was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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All the free games included with Stadia Pro

Four new games for March, including one Stadia-exclusive title

Stadia's $10-a-month premium subscription, Stadia Pro, includes access to an ever-expanding catalog of games at no additional cost. The selection of redeemable games varies — Google adds a few each month, and sometimes removes some. Here, for your convenience, we've compiled a handy list of all the games you can claim right now.

Click any linked game title to open it in Stadia on desktop or mobile.

New games for March 2021

Games coming to Pro March 1:
- PixelJunk Raiders
- AVICII Invector
- Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle
- Reigns

Games leaving Pro March 1:
- Kine
- Secret Neighbor
- Monster Jam Steel Titans
- Outcasters (Available through March 2)

Any Pro games you claim stay in your library as long as you're a Pro subscriber.

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Scheduling texts in Google Messages is officially rolling out for everyone

In case you don't want to wake friends with the latest meme in the middle of the night

Update
Now official

You can already schedule messages in Gmail and Telegram (among others), and now Google Messages is joining the club. The functionality showed up for a few people as part of an a/b test back in November 2020, and today, Google has announced that the feature will come to everyone using Messages on Android 7 and higher. The option replaces the long-press shortcut for sending an MMS with a subject.

Scheduling texts in Google Messages is officially rolling out for everyone was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Google Maps dark theme is finally official, more than a year after it was first teased

And it's beautiful

Latest update
Official

Google has been teasing a dark theme for Maps for over a year now, and it even briefly rolled out to a few people, but it was never properly formalized or acknowledged officially. That's changing today, as Google has just finally announced that dark mode is now rolling out to everyone.

The wait for the dark mode was worth it. It's well executed and makes it easy to make out streets and houses, losing little to no clarity compared to the light theme.

Google Maps dark theme is finally official, more than a year after it was first teased was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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PixelJunk Raiders is a rogue-like adventure arriving exclusively on Google Stadia

Release date is set for March 1st

While Google hasn't secured as many exclusive titles for Stadia as competing platforms, there has been a slow trickle of indie games arriving first on the streaming service. Google today announced another game coming to Stadia before anywhere else: PixelJunk Raiders.

The PixelJunk series has been ongoing since PixelJunk Racers on the PS3 in 2007, and this new entry is an 'action-adventure rogue-like' that takes players through treacherous environments as they battle aliens.

PixelJunk Raiders is a rogue-like adventure arriving exclusively on Google Stadia was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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