Zen Studios has announced that Zen Pinball HD is now available on all Android based devices via Google Play.

The studio has also announced that for the first week the game’s on sale, all Marvel themed pinball tables will be on sale at $0.99.

Anyone who buys Zen Pinball HD also gets a free copy of Sorcerer’s Lair. The developer has also promised that the game will receive constant DLC support regularly.

Here’re some “key features” of the game as describes by the devs:

-The most advanced ball physics on mobile devices.
-Beautifully designed custom pinball tables featuring vibrant colors, multiple modes of play and interactive 3D models.
-A robust social system including global Pro Score and Team Score leader boards and in-game friend challenges. Pro Score measures a player’s performance across all tables, and Team Score is the player’s Pro Score plus friends Pro Scores.
-Achievements for all tables.
-Each table comes equipped with a rule sheet providing tips and tricks to help boost your score.
-Hot Seat multiplayer mode.

Stay tuned for more info.

This new table reflect the current Avengers film, where all six Avengers face off against Loki and his army of no-good aliens (yes, yes, we’ve heard the Hulk joke). The awesome part is that each character gets their own customised ball and power set. This would seem to imply that Nick Fury is the player that you’ll be controlling, which really makes all the sense in the world.

Even if The Avengers in-app DLC doesn’t entice you, it’s worth noting that Zen Pinball on iOS/Mac and Zen Pinball THD for Android are both free downloads, and include the Sorcerer’s Lair table for free. For cooking up spells and something, we imagine.

Which is kind of a shame, because some pinball games go above and beyond the call to provide the player with a high class, well polished, top notch pinball experience, with some great production values to round the experience. Take the recent batch of pinball games that Zen Studios has created for instance. Offering some great themed courses, a solid pinball experience, some great graphics and nice sound effects, and some great value, all at a very nice price, these pinball games are usually recommended to anyone without any hesitation.

Such is the case with their latest romp, Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue. Offering four Marvel themed tables  for $10 on PSN or 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live, the price might be a bit too much to swallow, especially if you already have any of the previous Zen Pinball outings, for what essentially amounts to a map pack. However, the new tables are uniformly excellent and well made, and if you are a pinball fan, this is wholeheartedly recommended.

So, what are the tables that are on offer? There’s an X-Men themed one, a Thor one, a Ghost Rider one, and a Moon Knight one. So the full spectrum of the Marvel Universe is covered, from their most popular characters, to some obscure ones that the casual fan probably hasn’t heard of.

Marvel Pinball appeals to two denominations at once: pinball fans, who will probably want the new tables, mostly because they are so well designed, and because they somehow manage to add a new spin to a formula as well established and cemented as pinball for crying out loud. And to Marvel fans as well, because each of the four tables on offer is like a love letter to the Marvel universe that it is based on.

Each table features prominent characters from the property that it is based on, and it attempts to recreate some of the locales, events, battles, and key story arcs all in pinball form. The X-Men table, for instance, has all the old suspects, and it manages to divert you into several missions and side quests too, before you face off against Magneto for the final boss battle. Yes, all of this in pinball form.

There are three other tables, and all of them are as good as the X-Men one. The Thor table takes you to Asgard, and has you face off against some of his all time favorite foes, such as Loki and Ymir; the Ghost Rider table highlights Johnny Blaze’s stuntman abilities; and the Moon Knight table will probably serve as a great introduction to the character, taking you straight to his traditional setting of New York, and squaring you off against some of his best foes.

Really, there isn’t much else to be said about Vengeance and Virtue. It’s a pinball game. You either like it, or you don’t. You’re either gonna get it, or you won’t. The pinball mechanics here remain as good as they were before, and players of the old Zen Pinball games know what I’m talking about.

If you’re a fan of pinball, I recommend that you get it. If you are a fan of any of the previous Zen Pinball games, I recommend you get it. If you are a Marvel fan, I recommend you get it. At $10, it’s not going to set you back by much, and you’re probably going to enjoy it quite a bit.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.

Excalibur is now available for download as in-app DLC for Zen Pinball on iOS devices and Zen Pinball THD for Nvidia Tegra powered mobile devices for $0.99.

One of Zen Studios’ most popular original designs, Excalibur, takes players back to medieval times, when the Kingdom of Camelot is under siege from every direction. Fire-breathing dragons, bandits, wizards and witches all threaten to destroy King Arthur’s legendary domain.

Those who like Pinball and good bargains may want to take note.

From June 21 – 28, 2011 PSN users in North America who by Marvel Pinball will get ZEN Pinball for free. If you want those eight tasty tables for the meagre price of $9.99 you may want to act now.

ZEN Studios is proud to announce Sorcerer’s Lair, the newest addition to the ZEN Pinball lineup on PlayStation Network. The brand new, originally designed fantasy pinball adventure will be available April 26th in North America, and April 27th in Europe.

Set in an ancient magical Citadel, players assume the role of a brother and sister duo who find themselves outmatched by an evil Sorcerer. In order to survive the Sorcerer’s arsenal of summoning attacks including skeletons, spiders and ghosts, the pair must uncover magical secrets that will aid in their offense. Befriended by Whisper, a friendly ghost trapped in the Citadel, the duo are able to end the Sorcerer’s reign and restore the Citadel to its peaceful existence.

“It is hard to believe that Sorcerer’s Lair is our seventh ZEN Pinball expansion – and we truly thank the PlayStation community for their support,” said Zsolt Kigyossy, Managing Director for ZEN Studios. “We feel so blessed to be able to continue work on a game we love so much.”

Featuring three new trophies, multiple modes of play, interactive 3D models, leader board support, and online multiplayer competition, Sorcerer’s Lair continues the rich pinball tradition established by ZEN Studios, the definitive leader in pinball videogames.