The BBC's announced a few year-end stats for its iPlayer service, claiming that nearly two billion TV and radio shows were streamed during 2011. Mobile connections are powering growth, with tablet viewing up nearly 600 per cent year-on-year.
This is hardly surprising given that Microsoft rather shockingly bought Skype last year, but here's official confirmation -- Windows Phone users will soon have full Skype access through their mobiles.
Attending a show is different now. Everybody's holding up a cellphone shooting video instead of watching and listening. This doesn't have to be a 100 per cent bad thing, however.
By any definition of the word, Time Ducks is an ugly-looking game. The stick pixel style, the horrible clash of colours, the jagged movement. If it were possible to play it with a bag over the touchscreen, it'd be a small mercy. Nevertheless, it's a clever puzzle game where you use time-shift techniques to escort animals through traffic. Frogger meets Braid, anyone?
Amazon's just released a little PC helper app it calls Send to Kindle, which, as you might be able to work out, has one main function. It adds a right-click menu option to share documents from your desktop to your Kindle.
A capella music - the kind that consists of just the human voice, was once strictly the domain of college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. Now, it is having something of a cultural moment.
David Attenborough would take one look at Lumi and he'd be scratching his head. What species does this creature belong to, exactly? It's body is a yellow furry blob, with big blue eyes, pointy ears and a tail. Oh yes, and there are whiskers. Perhaps it's a cat? No wait, judging by the yelping noise Lumi makes whenever it dies, it's definitely part-feline.
Games company Sega will take one look at Crazy Hedgy and probably have cause for concern. Not because the title character is a hedgehog – aside from species, he bears no resemblance to Sonic the Hedgehog. But because the core concept of tilt and roll appears to have been lifted verbatim from another of their major franchises, Super Monkey Ball. Is replacing monkeys with hedgehogs enough to keep the lawyers at bay?
Another silly confection from Adult Swim, producer of titles like Robot Unicorn Attack and Major Mayhem. This time you take command of a team of slimy anthropomorphic bogies, your job to defeat an evil armada of sentient mould. There's gross-out humour in abundance, but also a stylish blend of play-styles "borrowed" from Peggle and Angry Birds.
SCB is an infuriatingly addictive game built around two core tenets. Firstly, it makes absolutely no concessions to the delicate sensibilities of modern gaming. One life, no continues, rack up as many points as you can. Secondly, it celebrates the glorious 8-bit era with chunky pixels, bright colours, and a phat chiptune soundtrack. Needless to say, we lost the better part of the weekend playing this sucker.
Sky has today announced an exclusive partnership with new mobile start-up Zeebox, with the features of the TV companion app set to appear in Sky's other mobile telly applications.
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Translation is a tricky business. If you say the wrong phrase from a book, you could end up in jail. Keep track of earthquakes in the US. Create a powerpoint presentation and control your entire home theatre from your iPad.
This is a 2D side-scrolling platformer, where the lead character jumps on heads, breaks blocks, and seeks out hidden bonus items. No prizes for guessing the inspiration. But it's a slick exercise in genre, with a premise that owes more to Monsters Inc than Super Mario Brothers, and for the most part it works a treat.
If you spend your spare time huddled over mobile phone boot screens fiddling with things THEY don't want you really fiddling with, one step in the process has just got a little easier thanks to new touchscreen controls in recovery tool ClockworkMod.
