Welcome to Missing Pieces, our weekly games wrap-up where we round up the interesting stories that didn't quite make it through the dastardly news gauntlet on our site as a standalone article.

This week on Missing Pieces: Twitch beats Pokemon, Batman gets his license, and you turned into Jerry Seinfeld. Surprise!

Dragon Age looks pretty

I have no idea what Dragon Age: Inquisition will be like. After the brilliant Origins and its disappointing sequel, this third game is a total crapshoot.

But at least it will look gorgeous. If looking at Ken Burns-esque shots of environment textures is your thing, the below trailer is a real treat.

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Windows Phone has passed BlackBerry as the third-largest smartphone platform within the United States, according to a Friday report by comScore. 

This is somewhat old news: IDC said in May 2013 that Windows Phone had topped BlackBerry, but Gartner and comScore didn't agree. The landscape of the smartphone market hasn't changed otherwise. Android still dominates the market with 51.7 percent of the market, down a half percentage point from October. Apple's iOS trails with 41.6 percent, up a full percentage point.

Apple is also the manufacturer with the largest market share, with 41.6 percent, followed by Samsung (26.7 percent) and LG (6.9 percent). Motorola and HTC ranked fourth and fifth, with 6.4 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively.

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It?s no secret that Android is the target for almost all identified mobile malware. Generally speaking, though, if you stick to the official Google Play store your odds of downloading something nefarious are significantly lower than when you download apps from a third-party app store. That isn?t always the case, though, as AVAST claims to have discovered an app in the Google Play app store designed to steal your money.

The app is called Cámara Visión Nocturna?which is Spanish for ?night vision camera??and the name seems ironically apropos for an app engineered to rob you blind. As I write this, it?s still available for download. 

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With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices.

The tool they have developed, called Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC), is trained to uncover aberrant code written in the C programming language, the language in which they say most malicious Android code is written.

PREC looks for root exploits, in which a program gains system administration access rights to the entire device, which a malicious hacker can use with ill intent.

The researchers detailed their work, captured in the paper ?PREC: Practical Root Exploit Containment for Android Devices,? at the Association for Computing Machinery?s Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, which was held this week in San Antonio, Texas.

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Ubuntu 14.04 ?Trusty Tahr? isn?t scheduled for final release until April 17, but because it?s a Long-Term Support version, its arrival is the focus of considerable anticipation, particularly among business users.

We won?t get to see its final form for some time, of course, but there?s nothing like a beta version to give us a sneak preview, and that?s just what Canonical released last week. The main Ubuntu Linux didn?t participate in this first beta, but numerous other spins did, including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME.

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