June, 2011

Categories: Gaming, Gaming    Tags: ,

We all love Angry Birds. At least, 100million people on this here planet do anyway, which by our calculation means that there’s a one in sixty chance that you’re going to love this video.

OK, maybe the odds are a lot higher – read on to see it anyway and watch Rovio’s lead designer explaining just how a level is put together.

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Motorola Photon 4G: world’s first Tegra 2, WiMax-enabled international Android smartphoneThe Motorola Atrix has a new friend, the Photon 4G. Destined for a release in the U.S. on Sprint’s WiMax network, this Tegra 2-powered smartphone runs Android 2.3 and packs the Tegra 2 punch of its fellow super phones.

What separates the Photon 4G from the pack is that it’s an international phone, ready to play nice on GSM networks worldwide while at the same time WiMax friendly for the states. With a kickstand like the EVO 4G and the latest build of Android Gingerbread, say hello to the new heavyweight contender.

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Apple steps up to the plate and intervenes in Lodsys lawsuitiOS developers currently targeted by Lodsys now have a new friend, Apple. The company has come out of the woodwork to put its legal weight behind its developers. The real question is whether Google will follow suit and extend the same courtesy to Android developers?

Apple’s support began yesterday when the Cupertino-based company filed a motion with the Eastern District of Texas to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit from Lodsys that targets seven iOS developers. Furthermore, Apple has presented a counterclaim which suggests its developers have the license rights to use the technology.

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Three dimensional movies didn’t start with the Polar Express: far from it. In fact, the trend started an entire century ago – join us as we discover how it came about in the second part of our five part guide.

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Apple has let quite a few rule breaking apps slip through the cracks of the iTunes App Store in the past (remember iDOS and the fake Mario?). If you grab a banned app before Apple pulls the plug, you can keep it.

But until now, you haven’t been able to download contraband apps again if you lose or delete them. But that’s changed in the version of iCloud currently in the hands of developers…

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Microsoft has suggested it will add Kinect support into all of its first-party titles from now on. But don’t worry, we’re not seeing the death of the venerable Xbox 360 controller just yet.

The explosion in Kinect support will come in a variety of different flavors from full on arm waving madness to subtle inclusions like head-tracking in Forza 4. Find out what Microsoft Game Studios boss, Phil Spencer has to say on the subject after the jump…

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When Google announced an ADK allow with Android Ice Cream Sandwich to allow developers to control hardware, it was almost inevitable that we’d get a moving Android mascot.

But the disco dancing droid created by Chris Elliot is a real treat with light up LED eyes and four servo motors lurking inside to articulate the head, body and arms. Appropriately, you can see Chris controlling the Android mascot with his Android tablet in a video filmed on an Android phone, after the break…

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Apple won’t be throwing UK users music collections up into the iCloud this year. iTunes In The Cloud won’t launch until at least the first quarter of 2012, according to the Performing Rights Society.

The PRS represents UK composers, songwriters and music publishers and without inking a deal with it, iTunes In The Cloud will stay grounded in the UK. Plus it seems Apple hasn’t got the UK arms of the music labels to line up behind iCloud yet…

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