Archive for December, 2011 - Page 18

If you somehow don’t have enough deals to take advantage of on Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, or PSN, you might want to stop by Gamefly and take a look around. That’s because Gamefly has just started its year-end sale on used games, and there’s a lot to take in. The [...]

Amazon has previously blocked access to Google’s Android Market from within the Kindle Fire web browser. After the latest Kindle Fire update, users report being able to access the official Android app repository, although the results might still not please Kindle Fire users who want full access.

A few days ago we told you that Pod2g’s iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak is working on the iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G and that the hacker will soon release it after testing it on older iOS devices that can run iOS 5.0.1.

The user is usually the best line of defense against malware in any computer system. After all, it’s the smartphone or tablet user who downloads apps and gives authorization when the app wants access to the phone’s hardware and operating system. But a flaw in Android lets apps gain access [...]

Android is growing more and more and that fact can’t be denied as plenty of smartphone makers are busy shelling out more and more Android handsets of all shapes and sizes meant to attract certain demographics. And carriers make sure they sell as many Android smartphones as they can, from [...]

Remember the iPhone 4 Antennagate scandal, one of the most prominent issues that hit the flagship iOS device soon after it was released in summer 2010? Well, it looks like it’s time for a similar scandal, now hitting the Galaxy Nexus, the first Ice Cream Sandwich handset in the world [...]

Samsung unveiled yesterday its Ice Cream Sandwich plans for some of the Galaxy-branded Android smartphones and tablets and today we have similar news from Sony Ericsson, as the company released more details about its own Android 4.0 roll out for Xperia devices.

Now that the next round of dedicated gaming handhelds has arrived, we can begin the platform wars we thought we left in 2007 anew. The 3DS and the PS Vita are both impressive pieces of gaming hardware, but they’re both mighty expensive. That being the case, a number of gamers [...]

We have now arrived at the third day of the Steam holiday sale, which is practically a holiday itself in the minds of PC gamers. Every year, the Steam faithful look forward to the holiday sale, as it is definitely Steam’s biggest sale of the year. We saw some great [...]

It looks like Deep Silver’s surprisingly moving ad campaign for Dead Island has paid off, as the publisher has reported that total worldwide shipments of Techland’s zombie RPG have topped 3 million. Naturally, Deep Silver didn’t indicate how many of those copies actually sold, but still, 3 million shipped is [...]