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[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed

Zombies, heroes, or monsters? (Updated: And the winner is...)

[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed
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Updated on October 28th, at 11:40: This week's winner is... not Dead Trigger 2! You guessed wrong, guys.

Instead, the voters picked Robot Entertainment's hack-and-slash space brawler Echo Prime. It's a lightweight action-RPG with a sharp control scheme and feisty firefights.

And while it comes from the guys behind Hero Academy and Orcs Must Die!, this is no strategy game. Outside of picking the best echo power-ups - either from your own arsenal or by borrowing one from a buddy - that is.

At review, we pinned a shiny Silver Award on its lapel and said: "A well put together and entertaining brawler, Echo Prime is a slow burn, but it's worth the effort."


Every week, thousands of new games hit the iOS App Store and Google Play on Android. Trying to find the diamonds in the rough is no easy task, let us assure you.

We like to think we do a pretty good job with our news articles, mid-week round-ups, expert reviews, and comprehensive features, mind.

But, now we want to know what YOU think.

Today, we're going to ask you to pick the best game that was released on iOS and Android from the past week (from the nominations below), and then we'll announce the winner in a glamorous article next Monday.

There are loads of places to vote. Leave a comment at the bottom of this article; answer the poll on Facebook; or create a zombie plague in your lab, and encode your answer in the genetic make-up of the toxin for our scientists to discover.

The nominations
Dead Trigger 2 (iPad, iPhone Android) Shoot some zombies right in their stupid faces in this Bronze Award-winning free to play FPS sequel.
Echo Prime (iPad, iPhone) Hack, slash, dodge, and shoot your way through deep space in this action RPG with a twist from Robot Entertainment.
Oil Rush (iPad, iPhone, Android) Graphics-heavy strategy game set on the post apocalyptic high seas that sees you defending drilling platforms from scumbag pirates.
Combat Monsters (iPad, iPhone, Android) Collect monsters and use them to hit other monsters until one of the monsters is dead in this mash up of RPG, CCG, and turn based strategy.
Random Heroes (Android, previously on iPad, iPhone) Gold Award-winning shooty platformer that's finally made its way onto the Google Play Store.
Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.