April 1, 2015
Trickey Is A Dinky Hardware Keyboard For Just Your Favorite Shortcuts
Ever felt like there are too many keys on your full size keyboard when all you need to do for the next hour is press Ctrl Z? Of…
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March 31, 2015
Google Maps Easter Egg Sets Pac-Man Loose On City Streets
Google has created a new Easter Egg for Google Maps (pretty much just in time for actual Easter) which lets you play Pac-Man in real-world locales on the…
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Sony’s New Spotify-Powered Music Service Goes Live For PlayStation
If you’re a PlayStation owner who is also a Spotify addict, then there’s good news for you today since Sony and the music streaming service have teamed up…
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The VR-Smartwatch Continuum
There’s a lot of enthusiasm at either end of the spectrum for “go big” virtual reality and “go small” smartwatches and other wearable devices. Is the “game-changing” hype…
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Crush Someone’s Dreams In Music Competition And Judging App Chosen
If American Idol was mobile-first, it’d be Chosen. Built by ex-CEO of Beats Music, Gracenote, and Mog David Hyman with $6.5 million in funding, Chosen launches the invite-only beta…
Read articleMarch 25, 2015
Leap Motion Is Bringing Hand Tracking To The OSVR Headset In May
The open-source OSVR virtual reality headset is getting one of its first peripherals in the form of an optional faceplate that brings hand tracking to virtual reality projects…
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PlayStation 4 Gets Suspend And Resume, External HD Backups On March 26
Sony’s upcoming “Yukimura” update for PlayStation 4 brings the console one magic power that many players have been eager to get their hands on: The ability to suspend…
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iOS Game Mr Jump Leaps To 5M Downloads After Four Days On The App Store
This weekend I jumped a lot, and more than a few of these jumps ended in death: I was playing Mr Jump, a new iPhone and iPad game…
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Nintendo’s Move To Mobile Unlikely To Offer Retro Gamers Much More Than Memories
Nintendo’s announcement that it would partner with Japanese mobile gaming company DeNA to create games on mobile devices using Nintendo’s intellectual property sounds like a dream come true,…
Read articleMarch 19, 2015
Watch Magic Leap’s Video Of Seamless Augmented Reality Office Game Play
Magic Leap is showing what it might look like to use its hardware for augmented reality gaming in the future, with a new demo of what the team…
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