Sony Online’s sale may allow some of their games to come to Xbox One
Today, Sony Online Entertainment announced their parent company Sony had sold off the game development division to the investment firm Columbus Nova. The move could allow for the team’s massively multiplayer games such as EverQuest, PlanetSide, DC Universe Online and most recently the zombie-themed H1Z1 to appear on other platforms, including the Xbox One console.
Ultimate Guide to Google Play
How to get the most out of the Google Play Store
Google Play is the cornerstone of Google’s ecosystem of content and becoming a critical part of Android. It reaches almost all of Android and through Play Services is capable of fixing many of Android’s problems. Google Play also is a content library and ecosystem that is accessible on more platforms than almost any other. Born as the Android Market, it’s grown from just a home for apps and is now the one-stop shop for applications, books, movies, music, TV shows — basically anything and everything that you can buy and use on your Android phone or tablet.
And we can help you get the most out of Google Play across your devices. Stick around and we’ll show you a few new tricks.
Former BlackBerry developer relations chief lands at Microsoft’s venture capital arm
Alec Saunders, formerly the BlackBerry VP of Developer Relations and the QNX, has landed at Microsoft. Specifically, after having left BlackBerry back in October, Saunders is now a “Principal Technical Evangelist” at Microsoft Ventures, Microsoft’s venture capital arm.
Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle is live, it’s a regular adventure
The folks over at Humble Bundle are at it again, launching a new mobile bundle packed full of games. This time out, they have teamed with the Cartoon Network to bring you more than a dozen games for as little as $8. This is the Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle.
The Humble Bundle sales model began fairly simply, it worked in two parts – first, you paid whatever you wanted to gain access to a selection of games, books, and more, but if you paid more than the average price, you would get access to even more media. As the project moved forward, and the bundles of media got better, the team introduced a third aspect to the pay model, setting a minimum price that grants access to even more media in the bundle.
The best part, of course, is that Humble Bundle offers a portion of what they receive to charity, having now given over $51 million to charity, based on the generosity of users.
The latest bundle, the Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle, packs 11 games, with the promise of more games to come soon. The games are based around shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show and more. Let’s see just what’s on deck.
Pay what you will to receive:
- Adventure Time: Treasure Fetch
- Regular Show: Best Park in the Universe
- Regular Show: Ghost Toasters
- Regular Show: Ride ‘em Rigby
Pay more than the current average to receive:
- Adventure Time: Jumping Finn Turbo
- CN Superstar Soccer
- Regular Show: The Great Prank War
- Ski Safari: Adventure Time
If you pay more than $8, you will also receive:
- Adventure Time: Time Tangle
- Monsters ate my Birthday Cake
- The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville
Finally, don’t forget that there will be, at the very least, one more game added to the bundle at a later date. Usually that happens about a week into the campaign.
Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle is active now and runs for the next two weeks. Head on over to the Mobile tab of the Humble Bundle website for more details.
What do you say, are you up for a little Adventure time, or is this bundle a little too, well, childish, for your tastes?
Android 5.0 Lollipop rolling out to Verizon Galaxy S5
When Lollipop first became official, Motorola was pretty much the first player out of the gate, even beating out the majority of Nexus devices. Many other OEMs talked a big game too, such as HTC and LG, who promised quite updates to Lollipop. Samsung on the other hand kept quiet about its plans, leading many of us to believe they would once again drag their feet.
Fast-forwarding to today, we’ve seen HTC announce it will miss its 90 day Lollipop rollout deadline, and while LG has been good about bringing the update to LG G3 users, the same can’t be said for US owners of the device. Seemingly out of nowhere, Samsung has now beat nearly every other OEM to the game by releasing Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Verizon Galaxy S5 in the United States.
It’s hard not to applaud Samsung for pushing the update out in a reasonably quick matter, and it is even more impressive that they got it out to Verizon.
Similar to the LG G3 Lollipop update rolling out, a lot of Lollipop’s biggest changes (Material Design) are almost nowhere to be seen here due to the OEM UI taking precedence. That said, there are still changes including brighter colors, an updated multitasking interface, ART by default, a new lock screen and the priority system for Lollipop. Regardless, it’s hard not to applaud Samsung for pushing the update out in a reasonably quick matter, and it is even more impressive that they got it out to Verizon, a carrier known for slow updates. It is worth noting this isn’t the first Samsung device to receive an update to Lollipop, just the first Samsung device to receive it in the United States, at least officially.
Don’t be surprised if it still takes a few days or longer for the update to reach your device, though you can always try checking for the update by heading into Settings>System Updates. For those that have received the OTA, what do you think so far? For more details, be sure to check out Verizon’s GS5 Lollipop update PDF.
Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle is live, it’s a regular adventure
The folks over at Humble Bundle are at it again, launching a new mobile bundle packed full of games. This time out, they have teamed with the Cartoon Network to bring you more than a dozen games for as little as $8. This is the Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle.
The Humble Bundle sales model began fairly simply, it worked in two parts – first, you paid whatever you wanted to gain access to a selection of games, books, and more, but if you paid more than the average price, you would get access to even more media. As the project moved forward, and the bundles of media got better, the team introduced a third aspect to the pay model, setting a minimum price that grants access to even more media in the bundle.
The best part, of course, is that Humble Bundle offers a portion of what they receive to charity, having now given over $51 million to charity, based on the generosity of users.
The latest bundle, the Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle, packs 11 games, with the promise of more games to come soon. The games are based around shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show and more. Let’s see just what’s on deck.
Pay what you will to receive:
- Adventure Time: Treasure Fetch
- Regular Show: Best Park in the Universe
- Regular Show: Ghost Toasters
- Regular Show: Ride ‘em Rigby
Pay more than the current average to receive:
- Adventure Time: Jumping Finn Turbo
- CN Superstar Soccer
- Regular Show: The Great Prank War
- Ski Safari: Adventure Time
If you pay more than $8, you will also receive:
- Adventure Time: Time Tangle
- Monsters ate my Birthday Cake
- The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville
Finally, don’t forget that there will be, at the very least, one more game added to the bundle at a later date. Usually that happens about a week into the campaign.
Humble Cartoon Network Mobile Bundle is active now and runs for the next two weeks. Head on over to the Mobile tab of the Humble Bundle website for more details.
What do you say, are you up for a little Adventure time, or is this bundle a little too, well, childish, for your tastes?
Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5 starts seeing Android 5.0 Lollipop updates
I guess pigs fly and hell is freezing over. In one heck of a shockingly wonderful surprise, it would seem that Verizon is in the process of pushing out Android 5.0 Lollipop to the Samsung Galaxy S5. The update is reportedly coming in two parts, one update to prep the device and one update to […]
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Todoist App for Apple Watch Will Bring To-Do Lists to Your Wrist
With the Apple Watch on schedule to ship in April and some developers asked to have apps readied for this month, we are beginning to see a slow trickle of apps surface for the wrist-worn device. Todoist on Monday became the latest software maker to tease their work-in-progress Apple Watch app, sharing a video and screenshots of the upcoming to-do app with MacRumors this morning.
Todoist [Direct Link] aims to bring its popular to-do app for iPhone and iPad to the wrist with a simplistic Apple Watch app that will provide task management at a glance. When paired with an iPhone, the app will enable users to view their upcoming tasks and categories, reply to comments, and schedule or mark complete tasks. Todoist tells us that the video below is missing the task filter view, but plans to add the feature soon.
Enric Enrich, a 20-year-old iOS developer at Doist, explains further:
Once inside the main Todoist app, the user can access their Inbox, Projects (and full task lists within each project), Labels, Filters, and a ‘Today’ view showing all tasks for the day, as well as overdue tasks. When you tap on a task to get the detailed view, you will be able to see the task’s associated labels, its due date, its priority level, and you will be able to either “complete” or “postpone” the task directly from the watch. If you don’t want to complete or postpone the task, you use the watch’s microphone to explicitly assign a time/date to the task (this feature is still in development).”
Apple made its WatchKit SDK available alongside the release of iOS 8.2 and Xcode 6.2 beta in November, although developers are limited to an emulator-only development environment until the Apple Watch is released. For now, a third-party Tesla app and concepts of what apps such as Instagram and Uber could look like provide the best teaser of what the future of the wrist holds.
WeatherPro updated with support for Android Wear
MeteoGroup has just updated its official WeatherPro app in the Play Store. Unfortunately, the upgrade doesn’t transport much by way of new functionality, but it does bring support for Android Wear, in addition to a multitude of new bug fixes and stability improvements.
The release notes for the V4.1 update can be seen below:
- View the weather on your smartwatch! The new watch face gives you the latest WeatherPro data in this convenient way, so you can check the weather whatever you’re doing!
- Adjustments to the start screen mean you can hide the map preview by closing the app when the map isn’t visible. Just scroll up to have a full overview again.
To install the update, simply open up the Play Store on your device, toggle the hamburger menu by swiping in from the left-hand side of the screen, select ‘My Apps’ and click on ‘WeatherPro’. Next, hit the update button, and the application will instantly start to download and install the upgrade from the Google Play servers. Alternatively, you can scan the QR code below to initiate the procedure.
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Amazing things do happen: Verizon Galaxy S 5 now receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop update
Verizon is notorious for being the slowest for releasing updates, but today they are the fastest, at least in the U.S. The Verizon Galaxy S 5 is receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop right now. The software version is LRX21T.G900VVRU1BNLC and will of course get Material Design themes such as notifications on the lock screen and floating action buttons. TouchWiz has a brighter look and feel with bold colors and fluid animation.
Now this isn’t the first time Verizon pulled off a stunt like this. Remember when Verizon was the first to release the Moto X (1st Gen 2013) Lollipop update? That was even before some Nexus devices.
You can see the full change log by clicking on the source link below and let us know if you received the update.
source: Verizon
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