On this episode of I’d App That, We talk about Sony’s new mobile games studio and Google’s new Trusted Contacts app that lets people find you and your Android phone in emergency situations.  And in reviews, the Hosts bring us Christmas Apps and Honey, the Chrome Extension. Then Peter gives us his impressions of the PCMag.com’s Encyclopedia app.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13866240/sony-forwardworks-playstation-mobile-first-games

In March, Sony announced the formation of ForwardWorks, a new game studio that would focus on creating “full-fledged” mobile games based on PlayStation franchises. Today, it’s revealing the first batch of those games: new titles in the Hot Shots Golf, Wild Arms, Arc the Lad, and What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? series.

In addition, games based on Parappa the Rapper, Doko Demo Issho, and Boku no Natsuyasumi will come later on. Square Enix is also collaborating with ForwardWorks on an as-yet unrevealed mobile project, as is Nippon Ichi Software with its Disgaea and Yomawarifranchises.

The ForwardWorks initiative includes something called Project Field, a Sony-developed trading card platform that works together with a smartphone app. ForwardWorks is developing content for Project Field, and the first release will be based on Level 5’s smash hit Yo-Kai Watch series.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/5/13842058/google-trusted-contacts-personal-safety-android-app

Trusted Contacts lets you add people with whom you want t