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Salute the Mac App Store as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has marched its way onto the virtual shelves. While that’s a few years after it made it to the PC (2007) and the Mac the first time (2008), the arrival of Call of Duty in the Mac App Store suggests a pleasing level of support from Activision for Apple’s latest venture. The down side? They want to charge you a premium for that nice handy download…
The Blackberry PlayBook passed its CES 2011 show pony duties with flying colours but there has been some unsettling chatter about below-par Blackberry PlayBook battery life. RIM’s PR machine is out in force to counter that and has rolled out Senior Product Manager Ryan Bidan to quiet the fears of Crackberry addicts about their upcoming tablet addiction…
The Samsung Galaxy S Mini could be the next Android stunner to join the Galaxy S stable alongside the original Samsung Galaxy S and its MP3-gobbling sibling the Samsung Galaxy Player. Pictures purporting to show the Samsung Galaxy S Mini have popped up online along with specs that predict it’ll be an Android Froyo machine with a 5MP camera and Qualcomm’s budget MSM7227 processor. We’ll also see the same Super AMOLED screen tech as the bigger Samsung Galaxy S. Do we know this for sure? No. But with images of the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S2 also out there we’d expect to see much more from Samsung at Mobile World Congress in a few short weeks.
Out TBC | £TBC | Samsung (via Crunchgear)
The Mac App Store is now bedded in and we’ve been scouting around the virtual shelves for the best Mac apps it’s got to offer. After you’ve nabbed the five free Mac App Store apps and five paid Mac App Store apps we recommended on the opening day, what wares should you be nabbing next?
Read on for the first five Mac App Store apps making it into our Mac App Store App Hall of Fame. There’s a drawing app that’s free but fabulous, Amazon staking its claim to books on your MacBook, an ace way of collaborating over your network, a simple way to create your own autobiographical comics and a game that will get your head spinning…
Our PlayStation Move giveaway, with the best PS3 Move games top 5 bundled in, draws to a close tomorrow, so you’ve only got until the end of Saturday to enter. Want to throw your hat in the ring? Just tell us what your most moving gaming moment was to be in with a shot.
Whether it’s the time you beat Super Mario Bros 3 or your kid waved a Wii wand for the first time, just jot it down over at our competition page, jerk our heartstrings and cross your fingers. Hurry!
Prize kindly supplied by Gamesbasement.co.uk
It seems iPad subscription niggles have nixed the planned launch of New’s Corporation’s The Daily iPad newspaper. It was planned for next week but the brakes have been slammed on, pushing the big shindig with Apple back for “a few weeks, not months” according to sources whispering to Peter Kafka of fellow News Corp outfit The Wall Street Journal…
Our best gadget of CES 2011 shortlist is right here, whittled down from the thousands of gizmos we saw to a mere five. These electronic goodies transcend categorisation, either through their epic potential in every aspect of day to day life, or just through being outright weird. Either way, see what they are right here.
