Call Rebecca Black, it’s Friday. Time to kick off your morning with a daily dose of tech news, better known as the US Update. Sweeping this morning’s headlines is news from Epic’s VP Mark Rein who confirmed the Unreal Engine is coming to Android, say hello to Infinity Blade. We hop on over to the latest sales data for portable gaming consoles in Japan where the PSP reigns supreme. We take a look at a bug giving Windows Phone 7 handsets 16-bit graphics and more.
Epic Games VP Mark Rein confirmed to website Gamasutra that the UDK will appear on Android and they’ve been providing Unreal Engine 3 in source code format for their licensees for quite some time. Panasonic confirmed they’ll unveil a rewritable single-sided three-layer Blu-ray disc with a 100GB capacity on April 15th. As the world’s first rewritable 100GB Blu-ray disc, what’s next for consumer electronics giant?
The grass is greener for Sony in Japan. This week PSP sales reached 58,075 units, an increase of 7,000 on the previous week. Meanwhile the Nintendo 3DS raked in 42,979, down nearly 8,000 units over the last seven days. Taking a 2011 HTC Windows Phone back to the days of 16-bit graphics is not exactly what we had in mind for a Friday morning. According to user submissions over on wmpoweruser, this is exactly what is happening on the HTC 7 Trophy and HTC HD7 after loading the latest Windows Phone update and NoDo.
Last up this morning are details on RIM’s new Super App requirements. We cover the six steps in order to make your app super and update you on the status of Android apps for BlackBerry Tablet OS. That wraps up your daily dose of tech news. As always I’m Nick Marshall and I’ll see you again tomorrow.
