Feb 22, 2012

Nintendo released its latest video onto Nintendo Direct, a news service for Nintendo fans, which featured new information on Kid Icarus: Uprising and other new 3DS installments. Let’s check it out! First up, adding on to other successful downloadable games on the Nintendo 3DS’s eShop, the new action and strategy game Dillon’s Rolling Western...

Feb 22, 2012

Samsung’s addition to its Galaxy range is the £100 Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy Fit. The phone’s specification suits its budget price – it has a 600MHz processor, a small 160MB of on-board storage and a 3.3-inch 240 x 320-pixel display. However the phones poor resolution does not let the screen responsive and highly sensitive interface down. There...

Feb 22, 2012

Rovio recently announced that a new edition to the Angry Birds family would be coming out this March. Rovio believes that this addition to the Angry Birds game lineup will be the biggest since the original game’s launch in 2009. The original game has been downloaded 700 million times on iOS and Android platforms. Of course, games aren’t the only...

Feb 16, 2012

A mandatory firmware update is rolling out for the Xbox 360 starting today. When you sign into Xbox Live you will be prompted to download the update. I just applied the update to my Xbox 360 and the process took at most 4 minutes to download and install the update. My 360 also re-started twice as was expected during the update process. The update is meant to...

Feb 15, 2012

I’ve recently been in need of a new iPhone case. Here’s the thing, I didn’t want a bulky case like the Otter Box and other lines of cases. I also didn’t want a case that completely covered my iPhone and didn’t actually show it off. I then though that Apple’s bumper case just might fit my needs. I wasn’t sure if it was going to offer all the...

Feb 13, 2012

The writers at Saturday Night Live took aim at Verizon and their 4G LTE network this weekend. Mocking Verizon’s numerous products and buzzwords, SNL called the wireless carrier “an old person’s nightmare.” Now think about this in the context of buying a smartphone: As of today, Samsung has over 134 cellphone choices on its website. How likely is a novice...

Feb 11, 2012

It is the time of the month again for the research firm known as the NPD Group to once again determine the health of the game industry for last month which also happens to the first month of 2012. In January 2012 the overall industry isn’t doing quite as well as it was a year ago, down 38 percent in both the hardware and software categories. That said,...

Feb 9, 2012

There’s been lots of big Kickstarter news today, with the first million dollar backed project, and now these new records set by Double Fine Adventure. This game is in development by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions, and is the first major game company to fund their game on Kickstarter, or to crowd fund their project. It has set the records today for...

Feb 8, 2012

The Elevation Dock Scott Wilson’s extremely popular LunaTik iPod Nano watch kit raised a record-breaking $940,000 dollars on KickStarter, a site that helps startups get funded. Wilson’s LunaTik tablet stylus has also seen success, but not to the iPod Nano watch kit’s degree. The Elevation Dock, designed by Casey Hopkins, is also one of the...

Feb 5, 2012

This week in Apple news, a picture emerged of what could be the next generation iPod Nano. These pictures show a camera cutout on the green-colored Nano; and for one reason for another, no camera on the silver one. The new iPod Nano’s will probably be released sometime this spring or...