Sega’s new dancing game, Go Dance, released today for the iPhone and iPad. It aims to provide the kind of living room gaming experience that you get now with Microsoft’s Kinect and games like Dance Central. But Sega has a new game uses only the simple FaceTime front facing camera that comes on all modern…
Gold HTC One Spotted in the Wild
Yesterday Apple became the latest phone maker to bling up its line, announcing the new iPhone 5S in gold. Now a leaked photo hints that HTC might be trying to mine some of the same beautiful, shiny ore. The company’s flagship, the HTC One has shown up bathed in gold! Android news site Phandroid turned up…
Chipotle Launches New ‘Scarecrow’ iOS Game Against Factory Farming.
Upscale Mexican fast food chain Chipotle has made a point of choosing local ingredients and supporting small farms since its inception. Now the company is taking its message to mobile devices with a new iPhone and iPad game called Scarecrow. The game is tied into a short film you can watch below, both depict the…
Future Samsung Phones will Have 64-bit CPUs Too, Says Exec
Apple announced its new iPhone 5S would feature the new 64-bit A7 processor at the company’s event yesterday. Not to be outdone, a Samsung exec announced today that the next line of Samsung phones will be running 64-bit chips as well. Samsung Mobile Business Chief Shing Jong-Kyun told the Korea Times he’d been watching Apple’s announcement…
Microsoft Acquires Xbone.com After Major Nelson Calls the Nickname Disrespectful
The nickname “Xbone” has been trending since Microsoft first unveiled the Xbox One back in May. Some say it’s just a shortening of the console’s name, but there’s a bone of contention in the moniker that’s hard to ignore. Today, Microsoft acquired the domain Xbone.com, nipping any potential parody site in the bud. The software…
Steam ‘Family Sharing’ Will Allow You to Share Games Across Multiple Users and Computers
Valve has announced a new Family Sharing program for its Steam gaming service. The new sharing plan lets Steam users share their library of downloaded titles with up to 10 additional computers. A Steam user will need to send a request to an account lender to authorize a supported computer. Once authorized it will take…
Apple’s Stock Down – Is the iPhone 5C to Blame?
Apple showed off its new, flashy iPhone 5S yesterday at its unveiling event. But it also showed off another phone, the iPhone 5C. Apple’s taking a gamble, for the first time it’s making 2 models of its iPhone. Also, the 5C is a lower end device and aimed at more of a budget market. Well,…
Humble Indie Bundle 9 Announced – Includes Fez, Trine 2, FTL, Brutal Legend and more!
It’s Humble Indie Bundle time again folks, and this collection’s as great as ever! You can name your price for Trine 2, Eets Munchies, Mark of the Ninja and Brutal Legend (yes the one voiced by Jack Black). If you spend a little extra , over $4.05, you can get last year’s cult space strategy…
I Need My Big Mac NOW – McDonald’s Developing an Ordering App
It might not seem apparent, judging from the crowds at your local McDonald’s, but the gargantuan burger chain is struggling to hold on to the millennial market. It’s tried to appeal to younger crowds with new products like the McWrap, and with weird ads featuring people dressed like hipsters. Now McDonald’s wants to let you…
Declassified Documents Show the NSA Illegally Searched 15,000 People’s Phone Records
Due to increasing public pressure and suits from privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Director of National Intelligence released a stack of declassified internal FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) documents and court rulings today. Buried in the documents are details of what Clapper refers to as “compliance incidents,” over 15,000 instances of the…