We’ve seen a leak before that mentioned the HTC EVO Design 4G by name, along with several other leaked handsets for Sprint’s Now Network, and now it seems that handset may be just that much closer to launch according to developer Gameloft. The game studio has listed the EVO Design 4G as a phone when [...]
We’ve already begun seeing the cannibalization of dedicated game consoles–like the Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii, and Sony PlayStation–thanks to the emergence of cheap games on mobile smartphones and tablets that are readily available for consumption by the casual gaming. However, as mobile hardware becomes more powerful, Qualcomm predicts that new smartphones and tablets running its forthcoming Snapdragon [...]
Mobile gaming has exploded alongside the rapid growth of smartphones. No longer are these powerful pocket companions relegated to email and business functions. With beautiful displays and powerful processors our Android and iOS devices are replacing the single use devices from Nintendo and Sony as our mobile time wasters. GeekaPhone has rounded up some interesting stats on mobile gaming from 2011, [...]
Sony has been trying hard to generate buzz for their upcoming S1 and S2 tablets, with a series of teaser videos that have been posted to YouTube. Getting slightly less vague with each one, the third one has now arrived and it gives us a couple more morsels of information. Chief among those is that [...]
Similar to what Netflix did for movies, GameTamium is hoping to do the same with mobile gaming. The subscription-based mobile gaming service costs $5 per month and is compatible on Android smartphones and tablets. Rather than have gamers pay a la carte per game title, players will now have unlimited access to GameTamium’s catalog of [...]
Gameloft now provides a catalog of 17 game titles for the LG Optimus 3D, which will launch in the U.S. under wireless carrier AT&T as the Thrill 4G. The glasses-free 3D smartphone, at least the international version under the Optimus 3D moniker, will come pre-loaded with 3 games and Gameloft will be providing a number [...]
Sometimes new technology forces one to let go of old expectations that no longer apply. When we think of video games, we still tend to think of three categories: home consoles (like the PS3), mobile consoles (like the PSP), and, to a lesser degree, gaming PCs. During the last couple of years, though, a shift [...]
A new tool called ExEn has entered a private beta which will allow Xbox Live game developers to port their games to Silverlight and to iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad with eventual support of the Android. The new tool is already in the hands of some developers so it is conceivable that we will soon see our [...]
When Windows Phone 7 Mango arrives later this year, expect to see plenty of gaming related features in the new Games Hub. The Games Hub feature of Windows Phone 7 Mango will feature better collection management, 3D Avatars with attitude and a collection of XBox Live improvements which could point to multiplayer functionality. The most exciting feature [...]
After the dual-screen Sony S2 Android tablet had gone through the FCC, it looks like Sony’s also readying the single-screen S1 slate for release. The tablet was recently seen going by the FCC for regulatory approval for use in the U.S., and the certification documents reveal that the model being inspected comes with AT&T-compatible mobile [...]
NVIDIA is off to a good start at Computex with a demo of next gen tablet gaming thanks to the quad core Kal-El processor and 12 core GPU, which should be arriving in tablets this fall. That’s right, quad core tablet processing is on the way this August and after this beautiful demo shows you the [...]
Despite a promise that pre-orders of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play would only begin to ship on May 25th to coincide with the launch on May 26th, the U.S. CDMA model has already begun to ship by Verizon Wireless. A reader had sent in screenshots of his FedEx tracking to Droid-Life, which shows that the [...]
The estimated arrival time of Rovio’s popular Angry Birds title for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform is now delayed. Both companies say that the new launch date for the flight of Angry Birds will now by June 29th, not the anticipated March 25th launch date. Microsoft says the delay is to accommodate a better customer [...]
Rovio is now starting to push out updates to its latest Angry Birds Rio franchise with an additional beach volleyball level of game play. The update brings a fresh level of gameplay in which users are not freeing caged birds, but assaulting menacing monkeys, similar to the trying to blunting the pigs with the original [...]
In order to kick-start development for the HTC EVO 3D, a smartphone with a glasses-free 3D qHD display as well as dual rear cameras to capture photos and videos in 3D, HTC and Sprint are now releasing the S3D SDK so that developers can now create and release apps and content for the smartphone. Results [...]
Nokia and Rovio, makers of the Angry Birds franchise, are hard at work to ready an NFC-compatible version of Angry Birds to create a social aspect of game play that mixes the social, real-life experience with the digital game playing experience. The game is being developed and will launch in the Nokia Ovi Store to [...]
An iOS App Store placeholder stating compatibility for the Prompt app says that the app will be compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and a mystery ‘ix.Mac.Marketing Name’ device that’s currently unknown, suggesting that the app may come to yet an unknown device that would run the iOS platform. It’s unclear what the ix.Mac device [...]
The Sony Xperia PLAY is an Android smarpthone infused with PlayStation gaming abilities and perhaps the first dedicated hardware gamepad to be built into a smartphone. The Sony Xperia PLAY is launching worldwide, but in the U.S. the device will land on Verizon. The Sony Xperia PLAY is best known as a PlayStation phone because it will [...]
Angry Birds Sync is coming this summer, which will be good news for Angry Birds fans who play the game on multiple devices as the service will allow, for example, you to pick up your game on an iPhone where you left off on the iPad or Mac. This way, you don’t have to start [...]
This morning in Notebooks we go hands on with the new Toshiba Tecra and Portege business class notebooks which have just launched and share a screen protector that will make your glossy notebook screen anti-glare and anti-reflective. We also share some news about gaming notebooks and 3D gaming. The biggest news of the morning is [...]
Not only are developers tackling tablets, but they are also tackling games on touchscreen devices in a big way according to a recent survey (PDF download link). EraThink is hoping to combine the two in a portable form factor with its EraPalm device, which will compete with devices like the Razor Switchblade concept and the [...]
Following in the launch of the Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen smartphone-tablet hybrid that won Notebook.com’s Best of CTIA award, Kyocera is rumored to be jumping into the tablet market with a gaming tablet. The rumored Katsura tablet, which means tree in Japanese, would have an etched pattern on the back-side and would probably be Android-focused. [...]
Taking a page out of Old Spice’s book, Sony has released some pretty strange but funny advertisements for their latest Android phone, the Sony Xperia PLAY. Thankfully they aren’t as creepy as the original thumb ads. Featuring comedian and actress Kristen Schaal of Flight of the Conchords fame, the new promos focus on the gaming [...]
Amazon has scored a major win for its yet to be launched Amazon Appstore, which the company hopes will go head to head with Google’s native Android Market offering for Android smartphones and tablets. Amazon has managed to nab an exclusive launch for Angry Birds Rio, a sequel to the wildly popular smartphone game title. [...]
On the NVIDIA Tegra Zone, an app in which the chip-maker highlights high-performance games and apps that are compatible with Android devices running the dual-core Tegra 2 processor, NVIDIA says that the Sony’s PlayStation suite is coming to Android devices, which will bring PlayStation games and other gaming apps to Android smartphones. Of course, Sony [...]
The OnLive Gaming System is a unique streaming video game system which allows users to play video games with rich and sometimes complicated graphics without an expensive or high-powered set-top box or advanced gaming computer. We tested the system and found that while there are a few compromises to be made, OnLive delivers on what it [...]
We were at Intel’s booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California where we had noticed a small, portable gaming device from Razer called the Switchblade. According to the company, the Switchblade right now is still an early prototype or concept device, and Razer wouldn’t disclose any formal specs on this diminutive gaming PC other [...]
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, Parrot was showing off its popular remote control plane/helicopter, which is controlled via an iOS device like the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Combined with the hardware, the company has also released a social augmented reality game for the A.R. Drone, and says that it has [...]
We caught up with Sony Ericsson at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to get some hands-on time with the company’s ‘PlayStation Phone,’ officially called the XPERIA Play. The XPERIA Play is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone that was announced at Mobile World Congress and features a slide-out PlayStation controller along with shoulder trigger [...]
Here is all the important notebook, tablet and smart phone news for the past week. Obviously coverage was dominated by the iPad 2 announcement, but we have a great collection of new videos and other news to share as well. Notebook News and How To’s from Notebooks.com ASUS launched a few new gaming notebooks including naked eye 3D [...]
Our friend Josh Smith Notebooks.com showed off his tests of OnLive running on his MacBook air. The results are pretty impressive. In our tests of the gaming system, we have found that if you have a fast Internet connection the games are only limited by your ability and the occasional stutter or infrequent crash. That [...]
We’ve been testing out the new OnLive Game System and it’s pretty impressive, with just a few problems. So we thought we’d share a weekend sale Onlive is having on 2K Games. This weekend users can get 50%-70% off many popular 2K Games titles including NBA2K11 and Major League Baseball 2k10. Each day of the four-day [...]
There’s another interesting Kickstarter project that may interest mobile gamers and tablet fans. Joystickers is raising money to produce a few capacitive touch accessories, including gaming buttons that can temporarily be stuck on any touch screen. The designers are also working on the Flow, a brush stylus for artists that looks pretty interesting. The Joystickers [...]
While news of a Sony tablet has been quiet, the company may be looking towards Android 3.0 Honeycomb and leveraging its experience with gaming through its PlayStation brand in differentiating itself from other Android-based tablets. The strategy, which is codenamed the Sony S1 according to Engadget, would help the Japanese consumer electronics giant avoid commoditization [...]
The Onlive Game System is a pretty cool device. It is a cross between the Roku box and a gaming console in that you can play games but they stream over the Internet instead of running locally from a game disc. We give it an unboxing in this short video. After just a quick test [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
With its large touchscreen, the iPad seems like the perfect platform for Real Time Strategy games, and Autumn Dynasty proves it, mostly. Autumn Dynasty is an RTS iPad game with art that looks like tradition Chinese painting. The story involves quelling a rebellion while solving a mystery of shady noblemen. The story though, just serves [...]
Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
The Griffin GuitarConnect Pro interfaces with your Guitar and your iPad or iPhone so you can record your music easily using apps like Apple’s GarageBand. My son Daniel, who’s learning to play guitar, helped me test it out and he loved it. When he gets as good as Jimi Hendrix, I’m sure he’ll steal my [...]
Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
