By Brandon Russell |
Wednesday’s three hour Google presentation covered a wide spectrum of information—some exciting, some not—that included a pretty massive update to Google Maps. It looks different, and acts different. Is that a good thing? Absolutely. This is easily the best, most comprehensive Maps experience ever. The…
By Ron Duwell |
Here is a new batch of screenshots and concept art from Naughty Dog’s upcoming survival horror game, The Last of Us. The pictures show off typical images we’ve seen from the game so far. Joel violently hurting his fellow man and slowly sacrificing his humanity…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo announced during this morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation that gamers will use new characters in Pikmin 3. The new characters are Alph, Brittany and Charlie. These new characters are fighting to save their doomed world. They need to collect fruit as a new food resource while…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo announced some fresh information for New Super Luigi U during this morning’s Nintendo Direct. Mario does not appear in the game, so that means we need a fourth character for multiplayer. Gamers will be able to play as Nabbit. Nabbit was the thief that players…
By Sean P. Aune |
Nintendo revealed more details on the upcoming Game & Wario during its Nintendo Direct this morning. Two of the new gaming modes, both playable on the pad controller, include. Ninja Twins – The Patchwork game mode will allow you to solve puzzles with overlapping pieces…
By Todd Haselton |
Archos just announced its latest Android tablet, the 80 Xenon, which comes with a $199.99 price tag. The device is equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm processor clocked at 1.2GHz, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, built-in support for 3G networks, an 8-inch 1024 x 768-pixel IPS display…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia recently took a photo of two women having a cup of tea together with the Lumia 925, the HTC One, the Samsung Galaxy S4, the Xperia Z and the iPhone 5. The photo was taken in low-light conditions, where Nokia’s camera excels, and shows…
By Todd Haselton |
Several new parts that are allegedly being used for the iPhone 5S spilled to the Internet on Thursday. The new parts including a motor assembly that’s used to power the vibrating mechanism on the phone, a tweaked loud-speaker part, the Wi-Fi flex cable ribbon and…
By Joey Davidson |
Yesterday, Sony and Polyphony Digital announced Gran Turismo 6 for the PlayStation 3 during the franchise’s 15 year celebration. Today, we have a gallery stocked with 67 gorgeous images of cars and tracks for the upcoming game. If you’re a regular on the site, then you’ll…
By Brandon Russell |
Before Apple and any other big name company jumps into the busy music streaming world, Google introduced its own service at I/O on Wednesday. The platform, called Google Play Music All Access, is a Spotify clone that allows users to pick and choose precisely what…
By Brandon Russell |
Even in our hyper-connected world, Google said we struggle to communicate with the ones we love. Not that the industry lacks solutions, but there hasn’t been anything, in the company’s opinion, that moves technology aside in favor of people. It sounds a lot like Facebook’s…
By Joey Davidson |
Today, we’ve got a fresh batch of screenshots and artwork for the upcoming Wolfenstein: The New Order. The assets also come with some light story details about this new shooter. Here’s the bit about the story: Europe, 1960. The Nazis turned the tide of the…
By Jon Rettinger |
The NVIDIA Shield just had its pricing and release announced on Tuesday, and already the new controller is on display here in San Francisco at Google I/O 2013. While we spent some time with the Shield back at CES 2013, at that time it was still…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced its All Access Music subscription service on Wednesday and the application is now available for download in Google Play. It’s simply an update for Google Music, but you’ll now be prompted to try a 30-day trial of the subscription service, which might take…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced Google Hangouts as its new cross-platform standalone chat application on Wednesday. It allows users with a Google account to chat with one another, video chat or even group chat across platforms, whether it’s on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced new features for Google Maps mobile today, but it’s also “reinventing” Maps for the desktop. Google asked, “wouldn’t it be awesome, if we could build billions of apps, one for every user?” That’s exactly what it says it’s doing: creating custom maps for…
By Brandon Russell |
Google on Wednesday detailed the future of its Maps service for mobile, which is coming to both Android and iOS . After going through typical figures—200 countries on Maps, 50 countries in Street View, 1 million websites using Maps, etc.—and demonstrating how dense its mapping…
By Todd Haselton |
Google took the stage at Google I/O to discuss the progress of Knowledge Graph and Google Search. Search is now smarter than ever and can compare answers to your questions with other answers it think you might ask. If you’re wondering the population of India,…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just announced during Google I/O 2013 that it’s introducing 41 new features to Google+. The stream experience will be completely redesigned on phones, tablets and the desktop. Google said it thinks the old design was flat and the new one is about finding depth.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Android is getting serious about gaming today at Google I/O 2013. Google Play Games, which leaked out over the weekend, has been made official with a host of new features for your mobile gaming. Some of the new features you can look forward to include…
By Todd Haselton |
We recently published a gallery that included several photos of Samsung’s still unannounced Galaxy S4 mini. Now we have a few more pictures to add to that batch, thanks to Smartnews.bg. We can’t discern too much from the photos except that it appears the mini has…
By Joey Davidson |
Late last month, it was rumored that Scribblenauts was about to see a collaboration with the DC Comics universe. That rumor has officially become reality, as WB Games has announced Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure. This brand new adventure from 5th Cell will feature…
By Todd Haselton |
Google last night quietly issued an update to Google Play that changes the user interface just a hair. It’s not as drastic as the update that was issued in April, but it tweaks the way the icons for apps, games, movies & TV, music, books…
By Todd Haselton |
Google I/O kicks off today and we’re expecting to hear tons of news around Android, Chrome, Google Glass and more. Last night, however, Google accidentally slipped and published a page that showed off some of the new features of the Google Maps refresh. It sounds…
