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.
April, 2011
What’s better than an app? Well, a Super App. By leveraging the unique capabilities of the BlackBerry Application Platform, RIM is hoping its developers have what it takes to make their apps super. So what does it take to make the grade? Let’s find out.
Listen, we were fans of the Super Nintendo (SNES) just as much as you. 1991 was a solid year in gaming, but 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.
Our insatiable demand for the fresh new Nintendo 3DS in the US and the UK pales in comparison to our friends from Japan. According to the latest Japanese sales data, the Sony PSP has managed to outsell Nintendo’s 3D creation for the second week in a row. Unlike last week’s figures which tallied all PSP sales, this week it only took sales of the PSP-3000 to eclipse the 3DS.
News flash: we are approaching the day when rewritable media encroaches on the storage capacity of hard drives. In a press release this afternoon, 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?
Gaming on Android smartphones continues to elevate as news came in this morning regarding the availability of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). 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.
It’s the end of another working day. Want to see what you’ve missed in gadgetry while you’ve been slaving away? Check out our teatime tech roundup right here. Read on!
It’s a race. Will the Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.3 update hit first, or will the HTC Desire get its Gingerbread infusion beforehand? After finding out that the latter was set to get it as soon as this month, we’re now hearing that Samsung’s own veteran smartphone is due to receive it within “weeks”.