Just yesterday, HTC announced a new partnership formed with digital multimedia delivery company Saffron Digital. Today, the company has its sights set on another digital media distribution outfit: OnLive. OnLive is a company specializing in cloud-based gaming. OnLive hosts games in the cloud, allowing you play from your TV, computer, iPad, and coming… Read more
After the hype of the short but sweet Super Bowl appearance from Angry Birds died down, excitement surrounding the app started to pick back up for another reason. Last night, a manual update was sent out for the app that added some new levels, support for a wider range of devices, and a request for permission to use SMS. New levels and more support make… Read more
Just in case you haven’t already gathered, Angry Birds has taken the world by storm. The insanely popular game is on nearly every platform imaginable — consoles, computers, phones — there are board-games, plushies, shirts. . . the list goes on. So how do you keep the Angry train rollin’ on? Take over the Super Bowl. In partnership with 20th Centuary… Read more
Tucked in among the many wonderful things announced and demoed at the Google Android event held in Mountain View earlier today, was Honeycomb’s new 3D graphics library: Renderscript. Renderscript is what allows for all the flashy new UI elements Honeycomb boasts, as well as the incredibly smooth graphics behind apps and games like Google Body and… Read more
The year was 1995. Team 17 had just released the first version of their game known only as Worms. An Amiga exclusive, the game didn’t originally take off the way it was planned. Fast forward to 1999 when T17 releases Worms Armageddon, and the series couldn’t be more popular. By the time Worms World Party came out in 2001, everyone was playing the game… Read more
Just as quickly as Game Stop’s Flash-based gaming portal Kongregate took the Android Market by storm, it was yanked from it’s position, fate left unknown. In a nutshell, Google didn’t like how much the app mimicked another app store. That would have been a completely valid reason if true – yes technically some games would be downloaded and stored via SD… Read more
Wondering when you’ll get your next holiday edition Angry Birds fix? In a recent video interview, the fine folks from Rovio Spent some quality time talking about where they want to take Angry Birds, how the game came about, and shared a special look at an upcoming Valentine’s Day edition of the massively popular app. Which platforms will see the app… Read more
As far back as early November, PopCap Games’ development director, Sameer Baroova, was quoted as saying “I am delighted to confirm that we are working on bringing both Peggle and Plants vs Zombies to Android in early 2011.″ Well it’s early 2011 already, and while Plants VS Zombies and Peggle are still a ways away, a different PopCap game – the… Read more
When Game Stop acquired Kongregate roughly six months ago, there was good reason to believe the gaming giant was looking to become more active in the online entertainment market. After all, Kongregate is essentially an online Flash portal designed around community involvement. Well today we finally get to take a good look at where Game Stop is looking… Read more
Before you go and get too excited, Sony’s new PlayStation app for Android isn’t directly related to playing games on your phone. So then what is it? It’s more of a PSN management tool, along with some news (advertisements) thrown in. “In version 1.0 you’ll be able to: Check out your PlayStation Network trophies and keep up to date with your… Read more
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