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After flinging avian creatures no longer provides a suitable outlet for your mental acumen, you may wish to graduate to a more challenging level of iPad gameplay. Might we suggest moving crates?
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Cargo-Bot is a deceptively simple iPad puzzle game, made on the iPad (video)
Granted, we hope to see a new Xbox before 2014 , but if NVIDIA has its way, mobile devices will have enough graphical prowess to surpass the current generation of gaming consoles by that time. The company brought the smackdown today with a chart that combines both historical and projected data, and while we don’t recall NVIDIA exiting the desktop market in 2010, it reinforces the idea that smartphones and tablets of the future may stand as thoroughly enviable gaming devices — provided that developers are willing to create enough visuals to make these things sing. NVIDIA projects mobile SoC GPU performance to surpass Xbox 360 by 2014 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:04:00 EDT
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NVIDIA projects mobile SoC GPU performance to surpass Xbox 360 by 2014
Following the success of Battlefield 3 EA has turned its Frostbite 2 engine to work on Medal of Honor: Warfighter ahead of the game’s release
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Medal of Honor: Warfighter gameplay trailer released online
If you’ve always wanted to create and manage your own Linux distribution, but lack the talent and skill necessary to do so, today is your lucky day. A new video game, titled Linux Tycoon, now affords Windows, Mac and — obviously — Linux users the opportunity to select software packages, squash bugs and manage a highly skilled virtual development staff, all while trying to keep the size and scope of your *nix distro in check. The game, which is currently in beta, can be yours for a paltry $4 and is available for download from the source link below
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Linux Tycoon game lets you ‘create’ your own distro, neck beard not required
Let’s be honest here: as great as The New York Times story on casual gaming might be, it’s destined to be overshadowed by the sweet interactive feature at the top, an embedded version of an Asteroids -like shooter from Rootof Creations that lets you do a number on the site’s page layout, zooming across the article and blasting elements like ads and Facebook plug-ins. So, is this the future of newspaper publishing right here?
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New York Times playable space game lets you blow up those pesky banner ads
Ahead of the October 31st Assassin’s Creed 3 release date, Ubisoft has revealed the three special edition releases that will accompany the game
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Assassin’s Creed 3 special edition releases detailed
Mozilla is flexing its HTML5 muscles today, with a new game called BrowserQuest. Designed specifically for browser-based gaming, BrowserQuest brands itself as a “tribute to classic video games with a multiplayer twist.” The game’s plot is relatively routine — warriors, hidden treasure, etc. — but what’s most interesting is its underlying architecture
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Mozilla releases BrowserQuest for HTML5 gamers and warriors (video)
The Byrds once sang “So You Want to Be a Rock n’ Roll Star” but what if you always wanted to be a Rock n’ Roll photographer? Well, for the aspiring Bob Gruens and Mick Rocks of the world, there’s an iPhone app for you. Called Rock Photographer and designed by All-Nighters , this game for the iPhone and iPod Touch (iPad version coming soon) uses real footage of musicians, singers and dancers in the app, letting you try to capture rockin’ photos of them just by touching the screen
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The Camera Bag: So You Want to Be a Rock Photographer? There’s an App for That
While no doubt swathes of Android and iOS users have experienced massive productivity slumps since Angry Birds Space came out this week, Windows Phone owners will be left staring at their spreadsheets. Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer, at Rovio has told Bloomberg that there are no plans to release the latest iteration of the popular time sink on Microsoft’s mobile platform.
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Angry Birds Space won’t land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars (Updated: OK, maybe it will)
Hearing “8-bit”, “Mad Men”, and “choose your own adventure” all in one sentence is a bit too much for us to handle. But yes, that’s very much what we have here
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8-bit Mad Men Choose Your Own Adventure looks awesome, is awesome (video)
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
