Nvidia has announced five new games – Dead Trigger,Puddle THD, Demons’ Score, Bounty Arms and Heroes Call – for Android specially optimized for its Tegra 3 platform.

ZTE and Nvidia have teamed up to announce the Mimosa X, which packs in a Tegra 2 Soc, and is also the first phone to pack a baseband/modem from Nvidia.

One of the most visually pleasing game available for Android, Riptide GP, now supports non-Tegra 2 handsets as well. Along with this, Half Brick will be releasing a new version – Puss in the Boots – of their popular hack n’ slash game, Fruit Ninja.

Two new high quality games – Shadowngun and Tintin – have been released in the market. While the former is currently only available for Tegra 2 devices, the latter is available only in the selected region of the world.

The sequel to the popular Samurai: Way of Warrior game, Samurai II Vengeance is now available for download in the Android Market.

Samsung has gone ahead and bumped up the clock speed of the dual-core processor on the upcoming Galaxy S II to 1.2 GHz.

The Samsung Galaxy S II will be shipping with the Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset inside in some regions of the world, instead of Samsung’s homegrown Exynos chipset.

The Nvidia Tegra Zone app has gone live on the Android Market. The app will provide Tegra 2 based tablets and handsets with games which are specifically optimized for their devices.

The LG Optimus Pad, an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet will be launched at MWC 2011 on February 13. It has an 8.9 inch display and is powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform.

Motorola unveiled the Atrix 4G at the CES 2011. The Atrix 4G is a beast of a phone packing a 4.3-inch qHD (960×540) LCD display.

NVidia is launching an Android Market for high-end games meant for Tegra 2 powered devices.

Acer is holding off its tablet family for now as Google has not released the tablet-optimized Android version- Honeycomb. Though, Engadget points out at how unsuccessful they have been in doing so.

The Motorola Olympus has been spotted yet again, in a flea market. It is powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform and runs Android 2.2 Froyo with MotoBLUR.

Android lovers have high expectations from the still unannounced Motorola Olympus. The Olympus is expected to be based on NVidia Tegra 2 and will be ‘fully’ loaded with all the latest technology.

The LG Star is the new LG Android flagship. It has a 4 inch display, and is powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform. It will also sport an 8 MP camera and will support 1080p video recording.