Mobile

Ngmoco’s Eliminate servers closing down

Free-to-play iOS shooter Eliminate will be terminated by publisher Ngmoco on May 25th. The news will likely come as a bit of a blow to those who had invested both time and funds into its premium feature set, which required players to recharge” before they could play on by either …

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LG ditches Windows Phone 7

Korean electronics giant LG has announced that it will not be making any further Windows Phone 7 handsets. It came to the decision having claimed that the total unit of Windows Phone sold in the global market is not a meaningful figure”. Instead the company will press ahead with its …

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Apple reports yet more staggering growth

The Eurozone crisis, global debt levels and international recession. None of which are terms respected by Apple. The company last night reported revenue of $39.2bn for its fiscal Q2 – that’s up from $24.7bn in the same period last year. Profit shot up from $6bn to an incredible $11.6bn. iPhone …

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Free Skype app hitting Vita tomorrow

Sony announced that a free Skype app will be released for the PlayStation Vita tomorrow. It will be available on PSN via the ‘Media & Apps Social’ category at some point tomorrow morning (April 25th). Once installed it will enable owners to make video and audio calls over a Wi-Fi …

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iPhone 5 rumours suggest LiquidMetal unibody case

Apple’s next iPhone design could use a high-tech new metal to distinguish itself from rival smartphones, reports suggest. Wired reports that in 2010 Apple was granted the rights to use a material called LiquidMetal. Sadly it’s not the same material as was used to construct the T-1000 in Terminator 2. …

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Breivik’s World of Warcraft avatar shown in court

The jury in the trial of Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik were yesterday shown images of the accused’s World of Warcraft character. Having been told that Breivik spent the best part of a year playing Blizzard’s MMO full time”, they were shown his character – Justicar Andersnordic. He smiled when it …

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