YouTube wasn’t around in the 1990s. It didn’t open for business until 2005. Let’s pretend for 3:31 that it was around in the 1990s, though, because 1990s YouTube looks great.
It’s hard not to be at least a little wary of Google’s cool new augmented-reality glasses prototype. I get distracted enough by my phone walking down the street as it is, and voice recognition on my Droid is more than a bit dodgy. Would blasting all that into my line of sight really help?
Alright, it may be a Monday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day over here, a very special day in video gaming. Many related companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here!
The undisputed Internet-age leader in April Fools’ hoaxes gets a one-day head start on its latest gag — a brilliant announcement video for “Google Maps 8-Bit” a port of the popular, well, map service to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon.
Angry Birds: Space has launched on iOS (iPhone/ iPad) as well as Android (Google Play). Download it now!
Google is in the news this week, not so much for their software and search offerings, but for their hardware, and whispers of an item yet to come.
Coming to Google+ Games in February is what appears to be a virtualised marble balance game with a theme more grounded than what you’d find in your average dentist’s waiting room; you’ll be tilting your way through the streets of our own world.
A Jedi might not care about the sins of the flesh, but Google certainly does, replacing the still for a developer diary with a steamy porn thumbnail in the search results for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Rebecca Black, Google+, Ryan Dunn and… Battlefield 3?