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If you’re scratching your head as to what the hell Google Play is, read the news for yourself and then come back here once you’re caught up. As for the rest of you hipsters who are on the edge of tech news, with Google’s rebranding of the Android Marketplace to Google Play the company has…
Halfbrick’s Jetpack Joyride certainly impressed me when it was released last August, surpassing 13 million downloads after going completely free in October. Thanks to the mobile gaming community’s continued support of the game, Halfbrick has finally announced what their major content update is. Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve the Fruit Ninja sensei. The next update for Jetpack…
Temple Run for Android has seemed like a thing of legends, only to be revealed once every millennia when the planets have fully aligned, pigs fly, and unicorns run free all at the same time. Release date windows have come and gone, but now, it looks like the wait will finally be over as Imangi Studios has…
Regardless if you’re big into gaming or not, I’m sure you know either first-hand or by someone you know that today is when Mass Effect will be on the minds and lips of many gamers worldwide. That’s because the final chapter in the Mass Effect saga, Mass Effect 3, has hit retailers and is probably…
Spaceport.io, the maker of a cross-platform development tool kit for games, decided to conduct a study pitting iOS against Android to see which platform HTML5 games perform better on. It did so by determining how many images their respective browsers can move across the screen while maintaining at least 30 fps. The test dates back…
One of the most groundbreaking downloadable titles on XBLA, PSN, PC, and Mac has got to be Playdead’s Limbo as its simplistic gameplay mechanics and graphics delivered an experience that everyone who played it understood and loved from beginning to end. It kept the player guessing what would happen next as it didn’t reveal itself…
If you read my review for The Simpsons: Tapped Out, you should know that I really enjoyed my time with the game before it was officially released to the public last Thursday. It looks like many of you caught wind Tapped Out was actually a good game, thus making the demand much greater than the supply…
Well, well, well – it looks like I’m not the only one who enjoyed their time with the Playstation Vita as Sony announced they’ve sold 1.2 million units worldwide in just two months, exceeding expectations. Not only that, but software sales for the Vita have exceeded 2 million units in both retail and on the Playstation…
SEGA announced in late December Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II was going to be released on multiple gaming platforms, with an iOS & Android version expected in the mix. They also announced a partnership with NVIDIA to fully support Tegra devices at launch, especially NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip. It looks like SEGA has gone…
NVIDIA has a small get together here at Mobile World Congress and it was all about gaming. We’ll soon get into what specific games were demoed at the party in another post but here are a couple of pictures from the event itself. All decked out in the almost-edgeless and gorgeous Samsung HDTV’s, NVIDIA demoed…