The creators of Cut the Rope release King of Thieves for Android

If you’re a fan of addictive games you’re probably well acquainted with Cut the Rope from ZeptoLab. The game first arrived in 2010, and since then there have been many variations of the classic game. Today ZeptoLab has released a brand new game for Android called King of Thieves. If it’s half as good as Cut the Rope we’re in for a treat.

There are two genres mashed into King of Thieves: platformer and tower defense. The platformer aspect involves going on raids and trying to steal gems and gold from the tombs of other players. However, you also have a tomb, which is where the tower defense aspect comes into play. You have to build traps and defenses to protect the contents of your own tomb from other players.

The longer you play the more gear you will unlock to make the game easier. Of course, since this is a mobile game in 2015, you can make in-app purchases to speed things along. At first glance King of Thieves seems to have all the ingredients of a hit game. You can download it from the Play Store for free right now.

Project Ara has a Lion King moment at Google IO

We didn’t know what to expect from the Project Ara team at the ATAP Google IO session. Would we finally get news on a widespread launch? New modules to show off? Perhaps just a quick update on their progress?

Well, we didn’t get any of that, unfortunately. What we did get was a majestic moment of pride from one of the project leads holding the a working Project Ara prototype up like the infamous scene straight out of Lion King.

Seriously, dude, way to be proud!

That wasn’t all that was noteworthy, though. We do get our first look at hot-swappable Ara modules, though, with the team attaching a camera module to the frame of the phone while it’s powered on and having it seamlessly recognized and functional. They then proceeded to take “the world’s first Ara photo in public” with the audience.

We’re also told that Ara prototypes are now running the latest version of Android, though we’re not sure if they’re referring to Lollipop or the new Android M developer preview. Cool stuff, that, but we’re honestly yearning for any bit of word regarding when we’ll be able to hold one for ourselves. Stay tuned.