In what looks like a mashup between Knightmare Tower and Rayman, Super Kid Cannon, the first property from Miami based mobile game developer, SkyJoy, is soon set to launch on iOS, Android and Windows smartphones and tablets, debuting first in New Zealand in about two weeks time. The game follows …
Read More »IBM explores selling-off its semiconductor manufacturing unit
IBM has reportedly started to search for a buyer for its semiconductor manufacturing business. While the move itself seems like a milestone for the whole industry, the potential transaction will not have a huge impact on the market since IBM is not a leading maker of chips. Moreover, chips today …
Read More »Dungeon Keeper on Android filters out 1-4 star reviews
When Dungeon Keeper arrived on mobile devices, many fans of the original games branded it as a micro-transaction greed fest, not many people like the game at all. So you might be wondering, if so many people hate the game, why does it have such a high rating on the …
Read More »Kim Dotcom offers $15,000 NZ for Good Times remixes
Internet entrepreneur, Megaupload founder and now musician, Kim Dotcom, released his first full length album “Good Times,” recently, with a big campaign on his still-in-beta music service, Baboom and with real world posters. Now though he's offering up a total prize pack of $15,000 for whoever makes the best remix …
Read More »Win Thief 2014 on PC this weekend!
This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win the upcoming Thief 2014 on the PC. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from the very same game. It means you …
Read More »The internet’s creator want’s it to stay free and open
One of the founding fathers of the internet and creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about the current state of the internet in the March issue of Wired magazine, stating that he doesn't want to see countries developing their own closed off internet infrastructure in …
Read More »Rust ditches zombies
Rust, the open world survival and trouser finding sim created by Garry's Mod developer, Garry Newman, has now completely ditched zombies from the game. While Rust was initially intended as more of an open world DayZ, with the current spate of zombie survival titles out there, Newman felt they had …
Read More »Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight returns for 2014
Poor Tim Schafer, he just wants to enjoy his sandwhich in peace, but without Amnesia Fortnight, everyone at Double Fine pitches directly to him. That won't do, so he's launched 2014's Amnesia Fortnight once again with public involvement, Humble Bundle pre-ordering and a Two Player Productions documentary to commemorate it all. …
Read More »Google floods Russia, Putin pro gay messaging everywhere
Across Eurasia, around 300 million Russian speaking folks will have powered up their favourite search engine to be treated to a peacock display of pro-gay messaging. Has any country's state policy ever backfired so badly and so publicly? KitGuru looks for rainbows in the skies over rain-drenched Blighty. Some battles …
Read More »Panasonic brings 4K video to the Digital SLR market
With companies like Sony struggling badly in the consumer electronics market, it's interesting to see that one area where the CEO does not want to back away from is 4K TVs. As 3D interest cools (awaiting the next instalment in the Cameron blockbusting Avatar series for renewed energy), 4K looks …
Read More »Sony to spin-off TV business, focus on 4K, high-end models
Sony Corp. on Thursday said it would implement additional reform measures to return its TV business to profitability. The company said it would shift its focus on high-margin premium-class TV-sets, including those with 4K resolution and will continue to cut-down its costs. The latter will effect in optimizations, outsourcing and …
Read More »Smartphones with 4K screens incoming, 23 million to ship in 2015
The ultra-high-definition resolutions is incoming not only to televisions and PC monitors, but also to mobile devices. Next year the first smartphones with displays featuring 3840*2160 resolution will hit them market, according to analysts from NPD DisplaySearch. Obviously, such handsets will be rather rare, but even in this case their …
Read More »Steve Jobs inspired some Sony products, and Sony inspired him
Although Steve Jobs always wanted to build his own universe around Apple and its products, he carefully examined devices made by other companies and in many cases liked them. One of the companies he admired was Sony, so, he frequently visited its headquarters, looked at new products and shared his …
Read More »Apple will continue to use Imagination’s PowerVR graphics
Imagination Technologies and Apple on Thursday made a disclosure with the London Stock Exchange that the latter has extended its multi-year, multi-use license agreement that allows it to utilise PowerVR graphics cores. The announcement means that Apple plans to continue using ImgTec’s PowerVR graphics in its future system-on-chips that power …
Read More »Sony to sell PC unit to JIP, Vaio to become Japan-exclusive
Sony Corp. and Japan Industrial Partners on Thursday announced that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding under which Sony plans to sell its PC business currently operated under the Vaio brand to the JIP investment fund. The terms of the deal are expected to be concluded next month …
Read More »Turtle Beach launching Titanfall Atlas headset
With the upcoming release of Titanfall for the Xbox One and PC, it's no surprise that companies are jumping on board to sell tie-in hardware and Turtle Beach is no different. It's got a high end gaming headset called the Atlas set to debut on launch day – though it …
Read More »HTC might release its own Smartwatch this year
It looks like HTC is gearing up to join the wearable tech market this year as the Taiwanese phone maker has hinted that it is making its own Android powered Smartwatch, which could compete against the Samsung's Galaxy Gear. During an interview with Bloomberg, company co-founder, Cher Wang, admitted that …
Read More »The Order 1886 won’t feature multiplayer
If you were hoping to see some competitive or co-operative multiplayer included in The Order 1886 after seeing the launch trailer, then you're going to be disappointed as Ready At Dawn studio founder, Andrea Pessino, has confirmed that the game will be void of any multiplayer modes. A curious gamer tweeted …
Read More »GAME announces plans to open pre-owned only stores
UK retailer, GAME, has announced that it will start converting some of its existing stores in to pre-owned only shops under a new name: ‘Gametronics'. The gaming chain aims to kick off its new brand in Lincoln and Cambridge and if all goes well, it will expand to other cities …
Read More »Meet the owner of the new Silk Road – DPR2
If you've followed the story of the tor accessible marketplace Silk Road, you'll know all about its closure last year and the arrest of the alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht. However it didn't take long after that initial shut down for other sites to take its place, one of them being …
Read More »US snooping continues expansion with NZ FACTA compliance
Despite all the negative attention that the privacy destroying revelations surrounding the NSA's PRISM scheme has brought to the US and the huge fallout because of that in the US technology sector, the government is continuing to extend its tentacles around the world and is getting local governments to force …
Read More »Snoop gatecrashed Will Ferrell’s Reddit AMA
If you were participating in the Will Ferrell AMA on Reddit yesterday, chances are you were excited to hear about a potential sequel to Step Brothers, or find out just exactly what Mark Wahlberg smells like, but what you wouldn't have expected was Snoop Dogg/Lion to show up and try …
Read More »Monster Hunter Frontier G could be coming to EU and US
Monster Hunter fans outside of the Asian markets have been screwed out of a lot of the series' best games. While the handheld entries always seem to make it to this part of the world, home console releases are few and far between and ultimately, the only two you can …
Read More »Amazon bought a video game developer
Amazon really is starting branch out. Last year it jokingly hinted at possible drone deliveries, but this year it's kicking things off by buying up the developer of Xbox One exclusive, Killer Instinct, Double Helix Studio, throwing more wood on the rumour-fire that Amazon is developing its own console. While …
Read More »Oculus is co publishing Eve: Valkyrie
One of the most impressive Oculus Rift demos that's been showcased to date, is Eve: Valyrie, a first person, cockpit, space-shooter based in the Eve universe, but Rift support was an after thought – or at least that's what we thought. In-fact, as it turns out, Oculus and Eve developer CCP Games …
Read More »Specs and images of Samsung Galaxy S5 leak to the Internet
Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected to be announced in about three weeks from now, but its pictures and main specs have already been published by various leakers. As expected, the novelty will feature an extraordinary display, a new application processor and new cameras. It is unknown whether the device will …
Read More »Sony may sell PC business to a Japanese investment fund
Sony Corp. may sell its money-losing PC business to a Japanese investment fund, according to a local news-paper. The new owner of the unit will likely retain the Vaio brand, but will have to completely reorganize the business in order to become profitable. Nikkei daily news-paper reported this week that …
Read More »Shipments of 4K desktop monitors to reach two million in 2014
Thanks to dropping manufacturing costs leading to declines in average selling prices (ASPs), shipments of ultra-high-definition (UHD) desktop monitors with 4K resolution are expected to increase steadily this year. In the coming years, displays with UHD will continue to lose price and gain adoption, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Unfortunately, 4K …
Read More »John Carmack explains why he left id Software
When id Software founder and Doom programmer, John Carmack, originally left his former studio late last year to work on the Oculus Rift, the studio's parent company, Zenimax, merely said that Carmack was interested in “focusing on things other than game development at id.”, but it turns out that there's a …
Read More »Dell forms research division, set to invest more into R&D
Dell, a leading maker of personal computers, servers and other hardware that is trying to diversify its businesses these days, has quietly formed a research division for the first time in its history. Traditionally, Dell approached research and development (R&D) in a very minimalist way since for years it had …
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