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Verizon and Jennifer Lopez’s Viva Movil opened its first retail store in New York yesterday, with the new location popping up in Brooklyn, New York. Viva Movil offers Verizon devices and services, in retail locations that cater to the Latino population and are designed by J-Lo herself. The retail locations will feature staff fluent in…
Nintendo didn’t quite make it to E3 to make announcements this year, opting rather for a livestreamed presentation that was broadcast simultaneously around the world. Early this morning, Nintendo livestreamed its Nintendo Direct presentation, which showcased a slew of new upcoming titles for the company’s Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platforms. In true Nintendo style,…
Among the pile of upcoming Nintendo releases that the company announced at the Nintendo Direct event today is Yoshi’s New Island, which expands on the amazing SNES title, Yoshi’s Island. Yoshi’s New Island retains the same cartoony graphics of it’s SNES predecessor, and includes similar gameplay elements, staying true to it’s 2-D platforming form, complete…
Vine for Android is now the top downloaded Social App on the Google Play Store, putting Instagram, the previous winner, out to pasture. Vine was released on iOS last January, and the six-second clip making social app quickly rose to popularity in the Social App realm. The app has only been available for Android for…
The search for the Triforce continues in Nintendo’s new The Legend of Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds. This title is a quasi-sequel to the SNES classic A Link To The Past, and features a top-down view that will be familiar to any 16-Bit era RPG fans. A Link Between Worlds will feature light and…
Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook’s plans for its Facebook Home software at an investor’s meeting today, CNET reports. Facebook Home, which currently runs on a handful of Android devices such as the HTC First, Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One, will eventually be distributed to Android users via the official Facebook for Android app. “We…
Just yesterday we heard a rumor of Google possibly acquiring the crowd-sourced navigation service Waze, and today that rumor has become a reality. Google today acquired Waze for a cool $1 Billion. Google’s acquisition will merge Waze’s data with that of Google Maps, bringing updated traffic and road information to the already powerful service. “The…
Nintendo showed off some amazing looking games today, one of them being a new RPG for the Wii U from Japanese developer Monolith Soft. The game is going my the name X, and as it is being developed by the same studio that developed the amazing Xenoblade, Xenogears and Xenoblade Chronicles games of yesteryear. X…
Another Android based gaming console has been officially announced today. The Mad Catz M.O.J.O. joins the likes of the Ouya and the GamePop in the gaming micro-console world, allowing Android games to be played directly on a TV. The M.O.J.O. will run the Google Play Store as well as the Amazon Appstore, allowing users to…
Instead of having a physical presence at E3 this year, Nintendo decided to get all futuristic on us and broadcast a live look at what it has in store for us this year. During the livestreamed Nintendo Direct event, the big N dropped some deets about the future of Mario and friends. Nintendo gave us…