A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game.
Apps & Web
New Angry Birds Announcement from the International Space Station
Earlier, Rovio released a few hints of what to expect from Angry Birds Space. We knew that it would take place in… well, space, and that it would include some new birds and new physics.
Today, the company revealed some …
How to Make Your Facebook Photo Feed Look Like a Pinterest Board
What if you could combine the addictive photo-grazing of Pinterest with the addictive voyeurism of Facebook? Then you’d have Friendsheet, the new app from developer Zach Allia that lets you turn the photos from your news feed …
Apple Announces iOS 5.1, iPhoto App, and Updates to GarageBand and iMovie Apps
Yes, today we got the specs for “The iPad: iHarder,” but Apple also revealed some pretty intriguing software updates as well.
The entire iLife suite got an update, with each app available for $4.99 or as a free upgrade if …
YouTube to Live-Stream the London 2012 Olympics for NBC
For the casual Olympics fan, TV coverage of popular sports like diving and track and field is broadcast often enough. But what about the handball fans? The judo followers? The people who are crazy about canoe sprints?
That’s …
SimCity Returns: Maxis Calls PC Game ‘Rebirth of Franchise’
SimCity! It’s back! Or wait, did it ever really leave? Okay, it’s been a while — five years in fact, back when EA outsourced its city-sculpting series to Children of the Nile developer Tilted Mill and released something called …
Background Check for the Digital Age: Employers, Colleges Insist on Full Facebook Access
For years we’ve been told to keep drunken Facebook photos and racy wall posts private to avoid the judging eye of a potential employer, but now even that might not be enough.
Mass Effect 3 Review Roundup: Pleasing Even the Usual Critics
Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were far from great games. Oh I know, they have high scores on a certain mathematically broken review aggregation site, but in our Fringe equivalent of a parallel universe, they’ve been rightly …
Ubisoft Unveils New Trailer for Assassin’s Creed III
Goodbye Ezio; hello Ratohnhaké:ton. The unpronounceable hero of Assassin’s Creed III kills plenty of Redcoats in the trailer released by Ubisoft, which today revealed several details about the upcoming game set in Colonial …
Halo 4 Preview Reveals Details About Multiplayer, Master Chief’s Return
Master Chief is back. After a brief hiatus in Halo: Reach, 343 Studios is reviving the character in Halo 4, which will directly continue the storyline developed by Bungie in Halo 3. A new preview — while not revealing a whole …
Apple User Gets $10,000 iTunes Card for Downloading 25 Billionth App
And a great hush came over the world as Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China initiated the download of Where’s My Water? Free.
Free though the app may have been, Chunli Fu’s fortuitous timing ultimately resulted in the awarding of …
Ka-Ching! Square’s New App Turns the iPad into a Cash Register
Square, the startup that democratized credit-card transactions with its little plastic doohickey which allows any business (or anyone) to accept plastic as a form of payment, is at it again. It’s built a new iPad application …