Tag: games
If you are involved in the development of apps or games then we want to hear from you. Regardless of platform, be it Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian or Windows Phone. We’d like you the developers to come to our forums and post details about your products. We can …
Today I wanted to let you know about a site I found whilst browsing around the t’interweb. After navigating around the wilderness for quite some time, I stumbled across AndroidPIT. Their Android blog has an exhaustive news stream covering everything from the newest Ice Cream Sandwich updates to …
Now EA Games are at it. Following on from the Because we May sale, EA Games are offering some quite large discounts on several of their big name titles for iOS. These include Tetris, FIFA 12, Shift 2 Unleashed, Dead Space and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Lots more are on offer, even …
Starting earlier today, several developers have got together to celebrate the fact that they can set their own pricing when selling their wares online. The end result is that there are many games that have gone onsale with same rather big titles included. We believe that developers should have …
Android gaming is growing and with a target market of some 300 million + handsets running Google’s operating system is it not really a surprise! Now, Rockstar games is helping the gaming cause by putting Grand Theft Auto III on special offer and making it available for only …
The other day we mentioned that Demolition Inc THD had been released onto the Play Store and I said that I would do a little review of it for you. Well yes here it is. Demolition Inc is not like any other game I have ever played. The closest I …
The Windows Phone Marketplace has a bit of a sale going on at the moment. There’s a variety of apps and games at a discounted rate, such as Rowi which we mentioned the other day. They’re at 79p which, for some of the games, is a drastic reduction. …
One of the most used phrases in my house is”You are always on that bl**** phone, can’t you put it down for two minutes?” Well, I think that the answer is about to be a resounding NO! One of the best selling PC games of all time, known …
The runaway success of drawing game Draw Something was illustrated today by a Zynga statement, with claims the app has been downloaded 50 million times in 50 days – it doesn’t take a maths genius to work out that’s a million downloads a day. Impressive stats indeed. Zynga, …
Head over to https://www.crazygames.com/game/cut-the-ropee with any HTML5 web browser and off you go. I tried it this morning using Windows 7 and the Chrome browser and it was great. Yes, I know I can just install it from the Chrome Web store, but lots of people don’t use Chrome. Lots …
Fancy spending a few hours playing a classic first-person shooter? Duke 3D is now available for free in the Market, and there’s no adverts either. It’s the ideal distraction from tense family festive meals or when you’re getting dragged around the shops. Just don’t start shouting “Got ya …
I previously wrote about World of Goo when it was released on iOS earlier this year. It’s a fantastic puzzler in which you’re tasked with building structures out of cute little Goo balls with the goal being to help your Goos reach the exit pipe for each level. …
Sprinkle has been available for Tegra 2 tablets and phones for a good few months now. I was annoyed I couldn’t play it on my new Galaxy s2 and had to make do with my Advent Vega. But in the last few days the developers “Mediocre” have updated …
Downloaded an app recently? Android now accounts for some 44% of all application downloads according to stats – that’s compared to 31% for Apple. ABI Research research now shows that Android is the leader in market share. Lim Shiyang, Research Associate, states.. Android’s open source strategy is the …
Zeptolab will be releasing a sequel to the much loved Cut the Rope later today. The original has been raking in the cash on iOS for many months now and also found it’s way to Android back in June. The new game is dubbed Cut the Rope: Experiments …
Last night a new game was released on the Android Market it is called Shakytower. It has been in testing for the last couple of weeks now, you may have noticed we retweeted the request for beta testers. Below is how it is described in the Android Market …
LG are to stuff the um-az-in Angry Birds Rio into their new Optimus series of phones. Things kick off with the Canadian LG Optimus 2X with more handsets getting the game as they roll out in Q2. For the 14 people who’ve not downloaded it yet, head down …
The number of apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace continues to rise. WindowsPhoneAppList.com now reports that over 9000 applications are available – up from 8,200 a couple of weeks back. Nearly a quarter of those apps are games and, although it’s still a small number compared to …
Imagine the scene, you’re down the pub and all around you people are playing games on their iPhone. There you sit with your Android phone, playing Angry Birds and hoping that something equally cool appear in the Android Market so that you can compete with your friends. If …
Fans of Chillingo’s iOS puzzler can rejoice as the plucky devs have today released a new set of levels for Cut the Rope. For those of you unfamiliar with this little Gem the aim, as you may have guessed, is to cut various ropes attached to a sweet …
After the success of their Helloween and Christmas versions, Rovio are lining up a Valentine’s Day edition of their incredibly successful Angry Birds game. Scheduled for release on14th February, there is no word yet on what platforms will get the game, but hopefully most will, as the Christmas …
Coolsmartphone.com covers several different mobile operating systems - Windows Mobile, Android, iOS - which highlights the diversity currently in the mobile world. However, all these different OS use different SDK's and programming languages, an...
In the last few minutes it seems that HTC Peep is starting to burst back into life. The HTC Twitter client, which packed up on September 1st, got apparently fixed by Twitter. However, after another "we've fixed some login issues" message from Twitter ...
OK. I need your help with this one. According to Twitter the HTC Peep issues were their fault and they've now fixed them. Strangely I still can't login with Peep. HTC have now followed up with this Tweet which states.. “Twitter is on the case! T...
Earlier the HTC Twitter client, HTC Peep, ground to a halt after Twitter turned off their standard authentication system. The new OAuth system was announced by Twitter in December and the actual "go" date was pushed back as clients were updated to use...
During my tired web-stumbling last night I found this comic from The Oatmeal. It's basically making fun of the people who spend a fortune on gadgets and phones, only to freak out at the fairly tiny price of apps. This, I'll admit, is me. Why? Well, I'...
TrueCaller is an app for Windows Mobile and Android that'll do quite a few interesting things. It can display the name and address of an unknown caller when possible, although it appears that the UK isn't supported yet. The app will also update Twitte...
At Mobile World Congress we hooked up with Astraware. Way back in January 2008 Astraware was acquired by Handmark. They worked together to expand and work together on delivering mobile apps and games to customers across the world. However, just last m...
Woah. PocketGear has just bought Handango. The purhcase makes PocketGear the largest Cross Platform, Open App Store and supports over 2000 mobile devices. Jud Bowman, President and CEO of PocketGearm stated..etGear "Our vision is to facilitate an op...
Pah. Who needs Facebook ? Well, this is what Google are hoping you'll think following the launch of Google Buzz. It's a way to share your photos, videos and updates and it's already integrated into some Gmail accounts. It's also available for your pho...
