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Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, One of Android’s Most Adorable Games

Eric July 9, 2014 22

A birthday just isn't a birthday without a cake. So, you can imagine the frustration and confusion when poor little Niko wakes up on his special day and finds that his cake has gone missing. Soon enough, you are guiding Niko around the island of Gogapoe Island...

iFixit Gives the Samsung Gear Live and the LG G Watch a Teardown, Looking for the Secrets of Android Wear

Eric July 8, 2014 16

Google's first iterations of Android Wear have been on people's wrists in the form of the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live since Google I/O ended. Like clockwork, the guys from iFixit have gotten their hands on a few devices, so they could tear them down...

NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Spotted in Global Certification, Could This be the “Mocha” Tablet?

Eric July 2, 2014 21

Back in May, details dropped of an NVIDIA tablet that was being worked on behind closed doors under the codename "Mocha." Well, a few days ago, an NVIDIA tablet made its way through the Global Certification Forum, but under the SHIELD brand name. There was a...

Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us Comes to Android, Amazon App Store Exclusive For Now

Eric July 1, 2014 16

As if it wasn't awesome enough for Telltale Games to start releasing its great The Walking Dead games on Android, we have now been blessed with the launch of The Wolf Among Us, as well. The game, based on the comic series Fables, only launched on PC eight...

OUYA Testing Annual Subscription Model, $60 Nabs You Almost Everything

Eric July 1, 2014 34

The retail packaging for OUYA states that the little Android-powered console "has big dreams." Unfortunately, dreams don't move sales numbers, so OUYA is trying something new to get their little-console-that-could up and running in today's market. In an effort...

Facebook Explains the Future of Its Android App is Through Efficiency and Performance

Eric June 19, 2014 57

In a post on their engineering blog today, Facebook said that it was about two years ago when they became a "mobile-first" company. The struggle with that outlook is the definition of mobile is not the same all around the world. To make sure that its...

T-Mobile on a Roll, Updating Galaxy Note 3 and G Flex for All VoLTE Markets, Galaxy S5 as Well

Eric June 19, 2014 52

If you thought that T-Mobile was done making moves after its event last night, you would be wrong. T-Mobile is looking to continue to impress people with the roll-out of their VoLTE service to more markets around the country, assuming those people have devices...

Thousands of HTC Shareholders Show Up to Annual Meeting, Grow Frustrated When They Don’t Receive Free Phones

Eric June 19, 2014 83

After a few quarters of disappointing sales numbers and returns, HTC is in the middle of a pretty big slump right now. For this year's annual investment meeting, I'm sure HTC wasn't expecting a warm welcome, but they certainly were not expecting to be...