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The fine folks over at XDA Developers have a treat for NVIDIA Shield owners. The crew has developed a method to unlock the bootloader and root the Shield, allowing users to take full advantage of the Shield’s amazing hardware. They’ve created an awesome and easy to understand video that will help brave Shield owners unlock…
Valve’s Portal has blown some minds in its day. The 2007 cult favorite and its 2011 sequel featured reality bending gameplay that would leave your brain as warped as the portals you’d jumped through. Now a new homebrew project out on the Nintendo DS might just blow your mind again. Aperture Science DS is a…
Autodesk’s Maya 3D modeling software has been the gold standard in 3D rendering for film, television, game development and architecture since its first release back in 1998. Now company has announced a new version, Maya LT, that is made specifically with mobile and indie game developers in mind. Maya LT offers a streamlined Maya tool set…
Amazon unveiled the Mobile Associates API for Kindle Fire and other Android devices, allowing developers to merchandise millions of physical and digital items from Amazon.com within their apps and games, while making up to 6% on qualifying in-app purchases. App and game developers as well as existing Amazon Associates can make money from Amazon by…
Oppo Find 5 seems so popular that some developers want to port Ubuntu Touch to it. The main guy behind this project is Oppo forum user Eoghan, who has only just started “getting a device tree etc modified to work with Ubuntu touch’s build environment.” There’s little “fancy pants” stuff to see for now but…
Maker of popular news apps Zumobi unveiled a series of best practices and findings based on successful app monetization and promotion strategies of leading brands like NBC News, Popular Science and The Week. The white paper titled “App Promotion & Monetization Best Practices Playbook” is full of useful advice for app publishers and some of…
The mobile landscape can be a lucrative place for developers, but first they need to crack the code of monetization. There are 900,000+ apps in Apple’s AppStore and more than a million in Google Play Store. Out of all those titles, only 80 apps generated more than $1 million in revenue during the fourth quarter…
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry has posted the results of a small survey he performed over on his blog. As he was making his apps ready for iOS 7, Hockenberry wondered if many other developers out there are doing the same — dropping support for any version of iOS below iOS 7. So he ran an…
Apple has seeded iOS 7 beta 4 to developers today. The release comes one week late because Apple’s Developer Center was hacked last week and all the systems were shut down for a few days while the company worked to restore them. This delayed the release of the new beta of iOS 7, which typically…
Google just took the wraps off of the new Nexus 7 and Android 4.3 at an event today in San Francisco. Android 4.3 is definitely a minimal update, but it does bring a few new features that are welcomed to the OS. Here’s a quick look at some of the new features for developers and…