Unreal Engine 3 dev kit adding iOS support tomorrow, Infinity Blade clones coming Friday
The Unreal Engine 3 already made a quite spectacular debut on iOS with Epic Games' own Infinity Blade , but the company's decided it's time to finally stop teasing and give us the software to really play with it. Tomorrow's planned update to the UDK will deliver iOS support, meaning that all the fancy tools that helped make Infinity Blade such a blindingly gorgeous game will be at your fingertips should you be feeling creative.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, blade, business, developers, engine, fingertips, game, toolset
App review: Infinity Blade (iPhone)
Aww, would you look at that, the iPhone's trying to play big boy games ! Following in the well received footsteps of Rage HD , today marks the debut of Infinity Blade , the second in what's hopefully a wave of gorgeous-looking iOS games boasting advanced 3D graphics, if not 3D gameplay. Epic Games has put aside the chainsaw-equipped projectile weaponry of its wildly successful Gears of War console series to deliver the first mobile game built around its Unreal Engine 3 . You won't be surprised to hear that it's utterly delicious to look at, and the visuals certainly helped transport us to this alien realm of swords, axes, shields, and magical rings -- where body armor is optional, but helmets apparently are not
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: action game, actiongame, actionrpg, beautiful, chair, engine, graphics, impressions, infinity, magical, projectile, unreal
Red and white official Droid Incredible backs shipping for $25
They're not showing up on Verizon's site at this point, but you can apparently score first-party replacement battery covers for your Droid Incredible -- not just in the original black, but also in decidedly louder red and white varieties. If you've got a buddy flaunting a white EVO , we can't think of anything better than fire engine red to get him to quiet down a bit -- only problem is you'll be asked to shell out a stiff $24.99 for the privilege. Word is they're available in stores now.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, battery-cover, batterycover, droid incredible, engadget, engine, htc, incredible, mobile, privilege, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, vzw
Palm Pixi shows off 3D gaming chops with webOS 1.4.5 release (video)
What with all the "battery optimization" excitement , we nearly forgot that Sprint's new webOS 1.4.5 update doesn't just empower the Pre; it also finally brings PDK'd OpenGL and SDL support to the Palm Pixi. On the off chance you don't speak developer lingo, that's short for 3D apps and games, and as it turns out the pint-sized Pixi doesn't play the latter half-badly. PreCentral fired up a copy of Need For Speed: Undercover on the freshly-upgraded handset immediately above, and found the game perfectly playable with "decent" framerates and only slightly sub-par load times.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3dgaming, engadget, engine, games, lingo, needforspeed, opengl, palm, riced
Microsoft and Apple still in talks for Bing iPhone search option, Google is not on notice
What turned into a pretty frenzied rumor this afternoon ended up being much ado about nothing, but there is something noteworthy.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ado, apple, being-discussed, engine, fri, kara, microsoft, months, option, pretty-frenzied, search, search-option, sources, things-digital
Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced
No huge surprises here, but Google just announced Android 2.2 "Froyo" at I/O, and the big addition is a just-in-time compiler, which brings a 2-5x speed boost to the system. There are also 20 new enterprise features, including better Exchange integration and device administration APIs, as well as a new device backup app that'll let you transfer personal data to a new device. Android 2.2 also features a new cloud-to-device messaging API that Google called "much more than a push notification service designed to make up for a lack of basic features like multitasking," and of course, WiFi tethering -- which was used to get a WiFi iPad online during the demo to great cheers.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: basic-features, Boost, breaking-news, demo, engine, enterprise, features, froyo, integration, phone, result
China Unicom to sell Android phones, not use Google’s search engine
Oh, brother. This just keeps getting better and better, and by "better and better," we mean " uglier and uglier." Google's abrupt decision to stop censoring results in China and redirect users on the mainland to the outfit's Hong Kong portal has stirred up all sorts of tense feelings around the globe, and if you thought this whole war would be confined to the desktop, you were sorely mistaken. China Unicom, which is gearing up to present its customer base with a smattering of smartphone options with Android loaded on, recently announced that it wouldn't be using Google as the search engine on those very phones
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: abrupt-decision, china-unicom, conflict, engine, kong, politics, portal, unicom
Motorola Permits Chinese Users to Change Android Phones Search Engine
According to Reuters, New York, a company Motorola will enable Chinese users who adopt the Android operating system from Google Baidu and other competitors, such as search engines by the network by default, only limit the search to Google. Motorola said that the consolidation of the partnership with the competition of China’s largest search engine Baidu and Google last week and has promised to sign an agreement to search for more. Previously, Google can not withstand the attack network and discuss the differences of China and has threatened to abandon the Chinese market. Motorola still expressed, will provide users in China, with the Android application store – to install its own brand of mobile phones, the platform will be installed in mobile phones from other manufacturers to obtain a permit for this type of store. The move should ease the anxiety of investors pieces of disputes Google may be harmful for the resumption of Motorola in the field, as it is for Android and the rapid increase of the Chinese market for mobile high. Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt said the move eliminated the risk that the success of Motorola in China is totally dependent on Google. McCourt estimated by Motorola in the Chinese market of mobile telephony has fallen to 2 percent quondam 20 percent in recent years. Christy Wyatt, Vice-CEO of Motorola, software and services said the company plans to provide consumers the ability to choose search engines, and apply to provide consumers with choices. Wyatt said, in certain circumstances, the objects of choice for customers vectors’ or simply consumers are certainly different. But take example Baidu, this is clearly a brand with a very high popularity in China. The Director-General also expressed, except for Google, Motorola has provided more options for mobile search mobile Android. For example, the company has provided research services from Yahoo on mobile phones made in Latin America Movil American mobile carrier. Wyatt did not give too many comments about the deadlock over Google, he noted, is not dangerous for business from Motorola, as Android is an open source, meaning that its distribution and development are not supported by Google . Expressed, Google is bending to the strategies for the delivery of applications and services, and who want to see rapid implementation. Wholesale droppshipper as a phone, mobile phone and China. com is optimistic about the new service Motorola. In this way, Motorola will enjoy more consumers to buy its brand of mobile phones. Since it allows users to search information according to their minds, is not just limited to Google. Users can select Baidu, Yahoo or other search engines freely. Consumers can use their phone more comfortable.
Categories: Android Tags: Android, Change, chinese, engine, motorola, Permits, phones, search, users
Unreal Engine 3 up and running on webOS, and we’ve got video!
Palm just showed us the Unreal Engine 3 running on webOS, which apparently took a couple weeks to port over to the platform using that fancy new PDK . It runs at a pretty smooth clip, with just a tiny bit of artifacting in our enemy's death animation. As an added bit of wow factor, Palm has it currently setup to demonstrate the game at 1 fps when in card view
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engine, iphone, mobile, problem, tiny, unreal, unreal engine, unreal engine 3
Samsung Wave: 3.3-inch Super AMOLED, Bluetooth 3.0, Bada, but no multitouch
How's about a little smartphone love on Valentine's Day? Samsung's press conference just got underway in Barcelona, and one of Mobile World Congress ' first smartphones to debut this year is a real doozy
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engine, expansion-slot, internals, megapixel, mobile, mobile-world, mwc2010, phone, result, storage, valentine, Wave, waves8500