It looks like the pre-orders for Samsung's newest high-end Android phone, the Galaxy S III, has jumped the borders of the UK and are now available for U.S. residents to pre-order. Both the white and blue models are up on Amazon for pre-order at a cost of $799 and up.

The World of Midgard third beta, which is a public beta, has been updated once again and a new download is now available. Officially named Faction Wars, the third beta has been updated on a fairly regular basis, almost every other week to be exact, since it went public.

Yesterday we talked about the popular iOS puzzle game Trainyard, developed by Matt Rix, that Noodlecake was planning to release today onto Android. Well if you were waiting for this challenging puzzle game to arrive, it has now landed on the Google Play store. Along with its arrival, we now know what next week's game will be as well.

While a lot of gaming media may not have heard about Pitbull Studio, a game development company in Britain that specializes in getting hired out for specific projects, anyone who owns a Tegra-based Android device should be familiar with the name Pitbull Studio.

Fans of TCGs (Trading Card Games) has a new title to dig their teeth into. For those of you not familiar with what TCGs are, if you have ever heard of games like Magic the Gathering or some Android games like Rage of Bahamut, then you will already have an idea as to what Hothead Games' newest release called Big Win Hockey is all about.

To continue on with the celebration of Tegra Zone's first birthday, we have another Asus Transformer Pad (TF300) gaming package to giveaway. This package is exactly like the first week's package and this giveaway will pretty much be the same as the last one.

EA has come out to confirm that FIFA 13 will be heading to iOS and 'other mobile platforms' later this year. Why some of these major game development companies have such an aversion to mentioning Android in their announcements is beyond us but we can expect to see this game released onto Android as well.

One of the bigger complains recently has been that Gameloft has not brought support to their games for the Asus Transformer Prime. Well it seems as though this could be changing as the recent content patch for Order & Chaos that happened today also seems to have brought compatibility to the quad-core tablet.

It has been awhile since the Amazon Appstore offered a free App of the Day game that was exciting enough to write about. I'm happy to tell you that Gunman Clive has been chosen to wave the free flag today. Gunman Clive is normally $1.99, so we're definitely getting a good deal. Try to be quick about downloading Gunman Clive because it'll stop being free about 10 hours from the time of this writing. You don't even need a Wi-Fi connection to do so.

Nimbus Games has released a new game onto iOS called Spy Fox in Dry Cereal featuring their newest James Bond style hero, Spry Fox. This game will also be making its way to Android and will feature some great comic / cartoon style art.

Last week we talked about a new racing game for Android called Lunar Racer which was the first game released under Noodlecake's rather ambitious Game-A-Week project, or GAWP for short. This project is about Noodlecake bringing popular iOS games over to Android, releasing one a week.

The Wall Street Journal (via Engadget) is reporting on something that is good news for customers and not so good for mobile carriers. Apparently Google is partnering with five different device makers to create new Nexus devices for the 2012 holiday season. These devices will allegedly run Android 5.0 (rumored to be called Jelly Bean), and will be sold in unlocked form straight from Google.

Infinite Dreams' sequel the their popular Shoot the Birds game will be making its way to Android May 24th. This game continues off from where the first game left off, defending your little pumpkids from the evil birds. This time, however, the birds are not normal as they have come back from the dead.

Heliceum Games has announced that they will be bringing their unique tower defense game, called Human Defense, to mobile and touchscreen devices. Since they use the generic 'mobile and smartphone' phrase, we can safely assume that this means Android and iOS considering those are the only two platforms that matter these days.

By now you know Sega's newest addition to the Sonic 4 series, and possibly the last one as well, Sonic 4 Episode 2 is on its way today for Tegra 3 Android devices. Well it looks like it has finally arrived in all is fast-paced platformer adventure gaming glory.