Fire And Forget Review: Rough Around The Edges, But Not Forgettable

Fire And Forget Review: Rough Around The Edges, But Not Forgettable

When a stereotypical madman has access to some conveniently forgotten nuclear weapons, the only thing that can stop him is a flying tank. There is probably no other game in which that sentence makes a lick of sense, but it’s the basic premise behind Fire and Forget: Final Assault. This [...]

[Don't Panic] Google-Branded H840 Media Player Appears In The FCC, Bearing Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy References

[Don't Panic] Google-Branded H840 Media Player Appears In The FCC, Bearing Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy References

Normally we’re a bit wary of reporting on the certification filings that go through the Federal Communications Commission, because frankly, they don’t often mean anything. But an entry spotted by the fine folks at TabletGuide.nl caught our attention purely on its geeky merit. There’s very little information available about the [...]

Facebook Pages Manager App Updated To 1.4 With Photo Albums, Drafts, And The Mighty Banhammer

Facebook Pages Manager App Updated To 1.4 With Photo Albums, Drafts, And The Mighty Banhammer

Facebook Pages Manager is the odd man out in the social network’s Android suite, but it’s indispensable if you’ve got a public image to maintain. The Pages Manager lets companies or individuals manage their separate likeable identities. Yesterday’s update (version 1.4) adds a number of features from Facebook on the [...]

Two Weeks With The BlackBerry Z10, From An Android Perspective

Two Weeks With The BlackBerry Z10, From An Android Perspective

It’s very easy to look at BlackBerry and see a technological Neandertal – the company that almost had it (“it” being smartphones), but then refused to evolve in order to keep up with the competition. Let’s not mince words: the iPhone nearly killed BlackBerry, and Android is happily hammering the [...]

Google Glass FAQ Updated To Permit Loaning Explorer Edition Unit, Still Forbids Selling As It Is Not "In The Explorer Spirit"

Google Glass FAQ Updated To Permit Loaning Explorer Edition Unit, Still Forbids Selling As It Is Not "In The Explorer Spirit"

Just ask our own Ron Amadeo and he’ll tell you there are a myriad of reasons Google Glass isn’t like other computing devices. It changes the way you interact with data and contextual information, but it’s also not a true consumer product just yet. The Google Glass Explorer Edition was [...]

Verizon increasing data allowances on prepaid plans

Verizon increasing data allowances on prepaid plans

New plans available to existing customers now; new customers can take advantage June 6 As an update to a previous blog post detailing changes to its prepaid plans, Verizon stealthily made yet another change that will give prepaid customers even more data. Verizon keeps things simple on its prepaid smartphone [...]

Mystery Google media player drops by the FCC

Mystery Google media player drops by the FCC

Could a Nexus Q successor be on the way? Google’s kept pretty quiet about the Nexus Q since removing it from sale last summer. Last we heard, the company was still working on refining its streaming sphere, and that was back in January. In recent days, the lack of Nexus [...]

Top 10 Android games released this week: Can Knockdown 3, Daddy Was a Thief, Sonic

Top 10 Android games released this week: Can Knockdown 3, Daddy Was a Thief, Sonic

Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap to focus on new releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games you can install and start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know if you [...]

Google expanding mark up tools to select partners to influence Google Now cards

Specific partnerships not yet named; hotels, flights and reservations are the focus Speaking on one of the countless Google Developers Live talks at Google I/O, one of the creators of Google Now Baris Gultekin explained how select partners will get better access to Google Now going forward. When commenting on how Now [...]

NVIDIA Shield pre-orders are now live

NVIDIA Shield pre-orders are now live

So excited about selling the NVIDIA Shield are retailers that they have begun offering pre-orders early. Effective immediately, you can place an order for the gaming console/controller/Android device through places like Newegg, GameStop, and NVIDIA. Gamers look to Gamestop as their defacto gaming destination,” said Joe Gorman, vice president of [...]