Five to Try: Telltale’s Walking Dead game resumes, and NBA InPlay offers prizes for predictions

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Whether you’ve emerged from the holiday season with a new Android phone or you’re still rocking the same handset you had a month ago, it’s probably high time to grab some new apps for the thing. Looking for an exciting game to dive into, or a fresh app to check out? We’ve got you covered with five recent Play Store picks.

Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Season Three is sure to entice fans of the zombie mega-franchise, especially those with save files from the previous game episodes, although it’ll take a pretty top-end phone to run. Otherwise, RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, and Oceanhorn are well worth a look on the games side of things, while NBA InPlay is an intriguing companion app for hoops games on TV and Stitcher Radio’s Premium service is ideal for podcast junkies.

The Walking Dead: Season Three

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Clementine has lived through a lot, but the horror isn’t over yet.

More than two years after the conclusion of the last full season—albeit with a Michonne spinoff mini-series released in between—Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Season Three ($5) hit the Play Store over the holidays, resuming the grim and gripping zombie-bashing adventure series. This five-part series, called “A New Frontier,” sees an older and wiser Clementine paired with a new ally, Javier, as they navigate new groups of survivors that have popped up amidst the undead apocalypse.

As before, The Walking Dead is largely focused on storytelling, as you make dialogue choices that affect your relationships with other characters and help shape the narrative ahead, although action sequences, exploration, and larger decisions also play a part. If you played the previous seasons, you can import in a save file to continue your own story and command your particular version of Clementine, or you can choose to start fresh.

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