With every new year in the gaming industry, one or two titles always seem to carry the flag, serving as the most exciting and hotly-anticipated amid hundreds of releases. For this year, Titanfall was among the coveted few, and whilst an excessive build-up often leads to a disappointing eventual title, it's abundantly clear that Titanfall has come through and realized its potential. For a limited time, Titanfall is available to play for free, and if you've been curious to see what all the fuss is about, now would be a great opportunity for you to indulge in this cracking first-person shooter.
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Apple announced third-party keyboard support for iOS 8 at the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, and for the very first time, we now get an opportunity to see how a user will go about installing a keyboard downloaded from the iTunes Store.
The long-awaited, albeit incremental Android 4.4.3 update was only officially released a couple of weeks back for folks on the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 smartphones, along with the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets and Google Play Edition devices. Already, though, the Big G has deemed it necessary to push Android 4.4.4, and the reason for this swift update is to fix a lurking security bug discovered shortly after Android 4.4.3 dropped.
Yo, the brainchild of an Israeli developer who managed to scoop an impressive $1 million in VC funding for his app that simply lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, has enjoyed a very encouraging start in its first couple of days as an iOS and Android instant messaging app. But even though its position at fourth on the App Store's list of freebies is good news for Yo founder Or Arbel, the launch has proven a bit of a double-edged sword, with a number of security bugs allowing a hacker to, for example, discover the phone number of a fellow Yo user.
It's often the case than when browsing through our iPhone's Camera Roll in trying to find a particular snap to show a friend, we put about as much effort into dodging those silly / embarrassing shots as we do in locating the photo we intended to share. But given how painful it can be to continually fish these images out and back them up externally before removing them, a new app lets you simply obscure snaps that you don't necessarily want the world to gawk at.
In spite of the continual wave of information pertaining to the iPhone 6, Apple is said to have a further trick up its sleeve in the form of the elusive iWatch, which is also slated for release at some point this year.
Social apps are on the rise, instant-messaging is, after Facebook's monumental acquisition of WhatsApp, also experiencing something of a spike as ambitious folk look to cash in on the potentially lucrative market. But while the App Store is awash with scores of WhatsApp and Viber clones laden with features, one developer has gone the other way and created an IM app with just one feature. Yes, the appropriately-named Yo app lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, but while they can also say "Yo!" back they you so wish, there's not much else to see here.
Smartphones, tablets and mobile gadgets in general are regularly targeted by unwanted individuals, and devices bearing the famous Apple logo tend at higher risk than those created by other manufacturers. The iPhone, in particular, has been a hot item given its strong resale value, and as such, Apple has felt compelled - obliged even - to take action. The Activation Lock system introduced alongside iOS 7 has, according to a new report, notably reduced iPhone theft across three of the world's major cities, with London, New York and San Francisco all having noticed less activity involving theft of Apple's most prized of assets.
Since Apple first brought forth official support for third-party gaming controllers along with iOS 7, peripheral makers have continually offered their takes on what a modern-day joypad should look and function like. But although the announcement of Made for iPhone accessories was lauded by certain sections of the mobile gaming world, things haven't quite taken off as Apple might have anticipated, and Wikipad's new Gamevice effort for the iPad mini will seek to finally give this market the boost it appears to require.
It's not uncommon, particularly given the popularity of the mobile gaming industry, to see long-standing titles and franchises ported through to the likes of iOS and Android, and having long since been a favorite of the strategy fans, Age of Empires is poised to make its debut on the App Store and Google Play very soon. In an attempt to ramp up anticipation, a new trailer of Age of Empires: World Domination has just been released, and although it's only a one-minute preview, we cannot wait to dive straight in!
