Back in the 1980s, you were required to pay hundreds of dollars to play primitive games with even more primitive graphics. Since then, gaming has slowly but surely become a much more accepted hobby in the world. Helped by increasing graphical, storytelling and gameplay complexity, and decreasing prices, gaming is now amongst the most popular hobbies in the world.
Joshua Hill, better known throughout the jailbreak community as Chronic-Dev Team member p0sixninja, has announced via Twitter that he's left the group. He hasn't offered any real reasons for his departure, aside from stating that he's "no longer associated" with the team, adding, "it was never about the money for me."
The pressure on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook to continue updating and improving the social network has perhaps never been so fierce, and as well as placing a lot of emphasis on monetizing and enhancing its mobile ventures, Zuck's team has just revealed some significant changes to the site's photo viewing capabilities.
When it comes to bootleg products, no nation does them better - or should we say worse than China. The world's most populous country is responsible for the good, mainly bad, and usually ugly of the knock-off market, and the most recent is the i-move, which takes Xbox popular Kinect and morphs it into a new console.
Angry Birds, a title which started out on iOS, is one of the simplest physics-based puzzlers around, yet has transcended into a billion dollar franchise available on pretty much any platform. As well as selling the title to pretty much every consumer in some way, shape or form, makers Rovio have sold a plethora of Angry Birds branded merchandise, including plush toys, smartphone and tablet covers, and other such peripherals, and it's by far the biggest success story to emerge from any mobile platform.
Mozilla's Firefox has been around for quite a while now, and despite Google continually pushing updates of its fast-growing Chrome browser, Firefox has continued to remain resilient, altering its own release schedule in a bid to stay relevant. Hence, here we are at Firefox 14, and just six weeks after Firefox 13 was seeded on Mozilla's servers, and the fourteenth iteration still manages to offer a bunch of useful changes.
About a week ago, we reported on that FCC filing that surfaced which suggested that a new PlayStation 3 model - perhaps the last to be released before the next-generation PlayStation debuts - is in the works. Now, a more revealing leak has surfaced, again from another filing; Tecnoblog discovered several alleged images of the device itself that were included in a filing with the Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications (Anatal).
Being the geeks that we are here at Redmond Pie, we appreciate the very cutting-edge in technological advances. Be it the new MacBook Pro or Google's Project Glass, we're always interested to see companies and individuals push the boundaries. Despite this, we're interested in pretty much anything techie, and the Useless Box, brought to our attention by Mashable, is one of the most hilarious inventions we've ever seen.
Although the smartphone and tablet market is mostly dominated by Apple, Samsung and Google et al, Amazon has been keenly interested in adding its own hardware to proceedings. While the Kindle Fire didn't live up to the pre-release hype, the world's foremost online retailer could be, so says the WSJ, testing its very first smartphone effort, complete with a 4-5 inch display.
One of the world's most successful video streaming services, Hulu, is now offering new customers the chance to take two months free as a trial period - perfect for streaming to an Xbox 360 for instance.
