Category: Mobile Gaming
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Android Fuelled OBox Console Coming to UK in 2016
The latest Android-based video games console will be arriving on UK shores from China in 2016 and it’s named OBox. Yes, you read correctly. Obox. And on first glance it looks like it might come straight off of a Microsoft production line with its glossy black finish and circular green illuminating power symbol – even […]
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Clash of Clans Revenge event see’s Liam Neeson unleash his Barbarian and Dragon wrath!
Clash of Clans is slowly taking over our lives at Gadget HQ, and just as the Winter update has settled and the snow has been removed, Supercell, the creators of the internationally popular 2012 freemium mobile MMO strategy video game, have unleashed a new “Revenge” focussed ad campaign with none other than Liam Neeson starring. Last week Supercell launched […]
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Minecraft is Raking in the Money for Microsoft
Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang, and with it Minecraft, seemed like a bad deal for gamers and poor business acumen for Microsoft. No one could argue that $2.5 billion for Minecraft a six year old game sounds like a bad business decision, but results so far would suggest as suspected I know absolutely nothing about business. […]
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Xiaomi Debuts Streaming Mi Box Mini
The opening month of this year has seen lots of new gadgets and projects come out of some of the most successful, and some newcomer, companies in the tech industry. From explosions over at the SpaceX landing site to miniature full computer chips being announced over at Intel, it seems like the tech trade is […]
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Apple’s Minimum Price for Apps Raised
Following the new implementation of local collecting of VAT in Europe, which sees online transactions being taxed in the country of origin, Apple has raised the minimum price of apps on their service in the UK up from 69p to 79p. The EU, Canada, Norway, Iceland and Russia have also been affected, with Apple adjusting […]
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GTA Gets Festive with New Features and Platform Releases
Rockstar Games, the creators of GTA, are getting in the festive spirit with new features and updates being added to their very popular GTA V online mode, just in time for Christmas! The update, known as “festive surprise”, brings with it plenty of festive cheer in the form of swapping your machine gun for snowballs […]
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Next Windows 10 Event Announced
Microsoft are forging ahead with new operating system Windows 10, following an immensely successful testing initiative which spawned many opportunities for the company to iron out the bugs in the new computer operating system. Billed as a powerhouse OS designed to run on a whole range of devices, Windows 10, the unified operating system, has […]
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Google Pays Out Following App Lawsuit
The in app purchases problem in the tech industry has bubbled to the surface again this week, as Google has joined the list of companies having to pay out big money refunds for unauthorized purchases made on their app store. Growing pressure from courts and in the media has seen the problem coming to the […]
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Clash of Clans releases Winter Update – Lv7 Giants, lv12 Mines and new Layout Editor!
Fans of Clash of Clans (the 2012 freemium mobile MMO strategy video game) should be checking into their villages today as the Finnish creators Supercell have just released the latest Winter 2014 update for the game, which brings along a host of improvements and new feature. If you know anyone who is addicted to the Strategy game, then you will […]
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Rovio to lay off 110 Staff – Angry Birds Go released soon!
Its never nice to hear about large companies shrinking in size and laying off staff, but in it happens all the time in the fleeting world of technology. Unfortunately of the folks at Rovio, the makers of the mega successful Angry Birds franchise, its them that re currently under threat. Yes, Rovio Entertainment has announced plans to close […]
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Micropay Apps To No Longer Be Called Free
Following continual media and public awareness of ‘freemium’ apps with optional microtransactions, Apple has had to bow to public pressure and stop listing these apps as ‘free’ on the app store, replacing the download button that previously said the game or app was free with one that now says ‘get’. Back in the summer the […]
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How To: Access Android 5.0 Lollipop’s Flappy Bird Mode.
Those fun-loving chaps at Google have slipped a time killing Easter egg into the new Android 5.0 Lollipop which pays homage to the much loved and addictive app game Flappy Birds and as the new mobile OS is starting to roll out now we thought we’d tell you how to use the hidden feature! From […]