Steve Jackson the legendary UK games designer, and co-founder with
Ian Livingstone of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy, has this week
launched a new iOS game called Steve Jacksons Sorcery.
The new Steve Jacksons Sorcery game is an epic solo quest first
published by Penguin Books via the ‘Fighting Fantasy’ series of
adventure gamebooks way back in 1983, which I have fond memories
playing.
Now the books have been updated into a iOS game that allows you to
Journey across the wilds of Kakhabad on a quest to recover the Crown of
King. Watch the trailer to see it in action.
"Choose your own path across the hand-drawn 3D map, overcome devilish traps, and battle fearsome cre
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After a couple of leaks along the way Ubisoft has this week
officially released their new retro styled game Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.
The new Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon game is a standalone expansion to Far
Cry 3, even though either game has very little in common with the other.
Watch the launch trailer after the jump to see it in action.
"Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon lets
players get the girl, kill the bad guys and save the world in a VHS-era
vision of the future! As Sergeant Rex Colt, you are part man, part
machine, all American. You are a state-of-the art Mark IV cyber-commando
on a mission…of vengeance.
You’re out to bring down your old c
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Adonit has this week announced the launch of their new Jot Touch 4
Stylus which builds on the technology used in its previous styluses and
now includes Palm Rejection Technology.
Allowing you to enjoy drawing naturally without worrying about your
palm drawing lines as you write or sketch.Watch the video after the jump
to see it in action.
The new Jot Touch 4 Stylus delivers 2,048 levels of pressure
sensitivity enabling you to draw and write with a wide variety of
strokes. The Jot Touch 4 Stylus can be paired with Bluetooth 4.0 devices
and its rechargeable battery proves a month of use on a single charge.
"You deserve the freedom to write and draw like you’re used to.
Jot Touch 4 was created to give you th
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Facebook recently revealed their latest financial results, they also
revealed some details on how many people are using Facebook each month,
there are now a total of 1.11 billion Facebook users each month.
They also shared some information about how many people use Facebook
on a daily basis and also how many mobile users the company has, you can
see more details below.
Daily active users (DAUs) were 665 million on average for March 2013, an increase of 26 percent year-over-year.
Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.11 billion as of March 31, 2013, an increase of 23 percent year-over-year.
Mobile MAUs were 751 million as of March 31, 2013, an increase of 54 percent year-over-year.
Earlier we heard that the new LG Optimus G Pro will go on sale with
AT&T next Friday the 10th of May, the handset will also be available
to pre-order from this Friday the 3rd of May and now we have a video of
the handset in action.
The LG Optimus G Pro features a 5.5 inch full HD IPS Display with a
resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, processing comes in the form of a quad
core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor clocked at 1.7GHz, the device
will also come with 2GB of RAM.
Other specifications on the LG Optimus G Pro include front and rear
facing cameras, on the front of the device we have a 2.1
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Valve has this week rolled out a major update for a number of its
games including Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat:
Source, and Half-life 2: Deathmatch, which now allows them to be
delivered via Valve’s new SteamPipe content distribution service.
Valve SteamPipe has been designed to provide players with faster
downloads, faster map load times and much faster boot times, easier
distribution, installation, and management of mods.
The new SteamPipe upgrade will change how the games are downloaded and how they are stored on your computer. Valve explains:
"A one-time conversion process will occur, which will take a bit
longer than the usual download. You should
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It looks like more evidence has been revealed that Android 4.3 Jelly
Bean is about to be released, as the guys from Android Authority have
spotted a number of Nexus devices with Android 4.3 on their server logs.
The devices that were spotted with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean include the Galaxy nexus, the Google Nexus 4, the Google Nexus 10 and the Google Nexus 7, and there were a number of versions of Android 4.3 spotted including 4.3.1 and 4.3.3.
It looks like Google may launch Android 4.3 Jelly Bean at their Google I/O developer conference later this month, so it doesn’t looks like they will launch Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie at Google I/O after all.
Toshiba has this week added a new addition to their range of Windows 8 tablets, in the form of the newly launched Toshiba WT310.
The Toshiba WT310 is fitted with a 11.6-inch Full HD screen and
provide a number of way to interact with Microsoft’s latest Windows 8
operating system.
Toshiba has powered their new Toshiba WT310 tablet with an unspecified Intel Core processor, support by a solid state disk (SSD) for storage and a DigitiserPen for note taking and drawing when required.
Other features of the Toshiba WT310 Windows 8 tablet include
Bluetooth 4.0 and optional HSPA+ / LTE connectivity, together with
HDMI-out, an SD card slot
and USB 3.0 port. Toshiba is also making a dock availab
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Mike DiGiovanni has this week released a new application for Google’s
Google Glasses eyewear, called Winky which required him to decompile
GlassHome to get the functions working correctly.
Winky for Google Glasses has been designed to enable users to quickly
capture a photo by winking and lets you lifelong without very little
effort. Check out the quick video after the jump to see the Winky App in
action.
Mike DiGiovanni explains a little more about his Winky Google Glasses application:
"The big technical hurdle turned out to simply be that at least
one spot on Glass does some checking against the build type and disables
the wink gesture completely if it’s a user build and it ever detects a
wink. I was able to get around this by intercep
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If like me you have been patiently waiting for the launch of the
awesome new Star Command game to land on mobile devices. Those of you
that have an iOS device will be pleased to learn that your wait is now over.
Star Command is now available to purchase for $2.99 directly from the iTunes App
Store and brings to life the challenges and joys of managing a
starship. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Star
Command iOS game and see it in action.
"Upgrade your ship, get out into the unknown and watch your crew
die grizzly deaths all at your command. Strange and exotic alien
civilizations await you at every turn. Manage each of your ships roles,
focusing on science skills, tactical combat and s
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