Bendroid, the development team behind the hugely popular Mystique series of games, have announced the release of their latest Andriod game, CarWash 3D.  Car Wash 3D is a similar concept to the flight control style games where instead of guiding a number of aircraft to land safely, you have to try and guide a number of cars through a car wash without them crashing into either one another or the scenery.

Here’s the description from the official market:

CarWash 3D is the world’s most challenging game created just for you. Touch and guide cars directly into the car wash and avoid being hit! Remember, you need to wash every car, otherwise you are OUT OF BUSINESS!!!

Featuring:

- Incredibly simple, but amazingly engaging.

- Beautiful 3D graphics.

- 3 unique locations.

- More than 10 various vehicles.

- Local and Global highscores.

- WARNING: Insanely addictive gameplay.

As well as announcing the game’s release, Bendroid have also announced that, for the first few weeks, there will be a little competition running: the player with the highest score across the three online leaderboards will win a Verizon DROID.

We’ll take CarWash 3D for a spin and will have a review for you next week.

More details can be found here.

Following on from the last update regarding the elusive Enso ZenPad and it’s Chief Apologist, Alberto Armandi, we thought we’d update you with a little more information.  Firstly, we received a communication from Enso offering us the chance to receive a review unit of the ZenPad.  We haven’t taken them up on the offer for a couple of reasons- firstly, we didn’t feel it was right to deprive a genuine paying customer of a ZenPad just to help Enso prove that the tablets actually exist, especially given how few of the paying customers have actually received theirs.  Secondly, we think that Engadget’s review said it all,  and frankly, we could do without the stress that testing the ZenPad for review might bring.

We then received a message from another disgruntled Enso customer.  Please understand, you have to take what follows with a pinch of salt as we have no way of knowing how legitimate this communication is, but, at the end of the day, what does the sender have to gain by making this stuff up?

Here’s what our reader had to say:-

Many of us have been waiting since MARCH to get our Zenpad. The ship date has been changed more often than I can count and emails are no longer being responded to. OK, they shipped out maybe 10 devices. Until we all get the orders we placed months ago, I would call this the vaporpad, not zenpad. I’ve emailed them at least 20 times.

After my continued email campaign trying to get a zenpad or a refund, I got the email below from him on June 12th. (The toothbrush reference was because I said in a previous email that blogging tracking number like he’s been doing really means nothing since he could be sending toothbrushes for all we know. He didn’t like that .

After that email, I replied that I’m not willing to spend my own money to get my refund, but I did send a Western Union location that he could send my money to. I also advised that since my device was due to ship that day, per his email, he could just send it and avoid a refund. Of course he’s disappeared off the face of the earth again and isn’t answering emails. I even sent emails in Italian but to no avail.

I emailed him 3 days ago that I was going to contact various Websites with an update about my still missing zenpad. I don’t expect anyone to care about updating the story but I want people to know the latest in the Enso saga.

And here is what the reader claims to have received from Alberto Armandi:-

From: Zenpad Wanted [mailto:zenpad@enso-now.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 1:06 AM
To: xxxxxx
Subject: Re: Zenpad order # xxxxx

Hey,

Listen i will refund your order personally with my own fucking credit card if you send me just one more email.
I do not give a FUCK about what you think, toothbrushes and this bullshit.

Your one was planned out today, so now please tell me how can i refund money to you with my VISA card ( FROM CHINA ) without using paypal, because, you know, they fucking kicked me out.

I am ready to go refund you, just tell me how., western union should be ok. are you going to pay for the expenses ? it is quite expensive, like to send you 180 usd the expenses are 10 usd.

Alberto Armandi
Director

Charming.  Please folks, if, for some mis-guided and borderline masochistic reason, you’re considering buying a ZenPad.  Do yourself a favour, go buy another Android tablet instead.

Thanks to KMac for the heads up.

Gamevil yesterday announced that the sequel to their very successful Android baseball game Baseball Superstars is now available on the Android Market.  The original sold very well and featured in many folks’ top 10 games lists for the platform.  The sequel promises more of the same and, unlike many new titles these days, is Android 1.5 compatible, so all of you Hero users who are still awaiting an update will be able to play.  At $5.99 though, it’s not as cheap as a lot of the games on the market.  Here’s the press release:-

LOS ANGELES, CA — June 23rd, 2010 — GAMEVIL(R), a leading mobile game publisher and developer, today announced that its Baseball Superstars 2010 game is available on the Android Market. The game will support HVGA and WVGA screen resolutions and will be available for Android 1.5 and above.

Baseball Superstars 2010 for Android is a full-featured baseball game with six different modes: Exhibition, Season, My League, Homerun Race, Mission, and Match Play. In this new version, the user can now customize up to six players through My League mode and enjoy playing the game with more items, more hidden characters and even more hidden teams. The new Match Play mode enables the user to play against their friends asynchronously over the network, and the new leaderboard enables the user to compare their records with everyone around the world.

“Baseball Superstars has been the top selling sports franchise on the Android Market ever since its launch and we’re thrilled to release its sequel.”, said Kyu Lee, Head of GAMEVIL USA. “We’re confident that our users will enjoy the enhancements included within this year’s version as GAMEVIL continues multi-platform support with Android.”

Baseball Superstars 2010 is now available for $5.99 from the Android Market. For more details, please visit www.gamevil.com.

About GAMEVIL

GAMEVIL(R) is a premier mobile game publisher located in Seoul, Korea and Los Angeles, USA. Established in 2000, GAMEVIL has earned a reputation as one of the best companies in the mobile games sector by crafting award winners in a diverse portfolio of games. GAMEVIL is well known for revolutionizing the sector with its original and innovative mobile games, backed by unparalleled expertise in advanced mobile technology. As a world class leader in mobile games publishing, GAMEVIL continues to lead the sector with a commitment to establish mobile as the definitive mass market entertainment platform of the world. GAMEVIL is currently listed on the KOSDAQ Market (Ticker: 063080, Bloomberg: 063080:KS, Reuters: 063080.KQ)

We’ll have a review of the game for you over the next few days.

The WaveSecure team have gotten in touch to say that they will be releasing a few new features for WaveSecure over the next week or so.  The Action Centre in particular looks like it could be a pretty useful feature.  Here’s what they had to say:-
In a bid to make WaveSecure even more user-friendly, we will be introducing an improved Welcome Screen and also Action Center. We are hoping to roll these out by end next week.
Welcome Screen basically steps users through a quick introduction to what WaveSecure service offers. We introduced this as many users wanted a quick overview of WaveSecure post installation.
Action Center makes it easy for users to tweak their GPS, Auto-backup settings, load uninstall protection and more. The main idea behind Action Center is to give users a set of tasks which they can check off to improve the security and experience offered by WaveSecure.

On top of this announcement, we’ve also been told that, to celebrate the ongoing World Cup in South Africa, WaveSecure will be available with 25% off until the end of June.  To get your discount, go here and use promo code ‘GOAL’.