Duke Nukem Forever’s original developers, 3D Realms, may be gone for ever. They closed their doors finally this month. But that won’t stop Take-Two interactive, potential publishers of Duke Nukem Forever, from extracting their pound of flesh. Take-Two has filed a claim with a New York state court for breach of contract over $12 million paid to 3D Realms for developing the game.
May, 2009
Nokia may be about to launch a high-end phone with a high quality capacitive touchscreen to directly compete with Apple’s iPhone. Separate reports of recent orders for touchscreen components point to a new device being readied for later this year.
An Apple netbook may still be just a myth, but a recent update to Mac OS X, the Mac operating system, has boosted performance on hackintosh netbooks massively. Now, why would Apple go and do that?
There are just hours to go before the weekend kicks off, so prep yourself for the evening pint with some talking points by catching up on all the latest tech news. It’s all right here in the lunchtime lowdown!
Tony Hawk: Ride will be the next Tony Hawk skateboarding game from Activision, the company has announced. More details on the game are expected at E3, the world’s largest videogame trade show, taking place in Los Angeles, in early June. But one thing is clear from the teaser website just launched: the hints from Activision that the game was to feature a new control method are true.
BlackBerry App World, RIM’s app download service to rival the iPhone App Store, has been up and running for a while now, but what are the best BlackBerry apps available? We’ve gone through the store - as well as the wider web – to find the very best BlackBerry apps out there in our round up right here.
Nine Inch Nails recently launched an iPhone app called nin:access- a sort of one stop shop for information about the band combined with a social network and music download service. After much whining by non-iPhone owning fans, the popular app is to be ported to Android and BlackBerry mobiles.