On Feb. 8th, Sony is launching the System Firmware Ver. 1.60 for the Vita. Here is some of what this update contains: a new Map application, video recording, and Mac OS support. More »
Apple is in direct competition with Google’s Android, and Jobs once told Walter Isaac, “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” More »
Next month, maniac shooter DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou is coming to the iPhone and iPod touch. More »
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. More »
I was designing a user interface for someone else’s social game the other day, and I was completely oblivious that I’d just recommended a feature that Just Would Not Do. More »
This week, a report surfaced that a group of 300 Xbox 360 factory workers threatened to commit suicide en masse over a labour dispute. The group took the rooftops, but was finally talked down. Here are the photos. More »
Vector Tanks was around for at least three years on the iTunes App Store and looked a lot like Battlezone the whole time. It isn’t there anymore. Atari recently sent legal papers over to the game’s developer, Black Powder Media, which now warns other indie developers that “anything that has even a passing resemblance to an Atari classic” can expect to see a copyright infringement claim. More »
There’s this famous PlayStation tech with a rubber duck and a submarine. Everybody always forgets the submarine, but remembers the duck. The PS3 had a duck tech demo, which didn’t just have one duck. It had a bunch. Oh, and pirate ships. More »
Every year, Apple holds its own awards for the best in iPhone and iPad applications. Its best of 2011 have been announced, and the top games are… unsurprising. More »
A surprise, official Xbox LIVE app just hit Apple’s iTunes. More »
