Just saw a new game in the Marketplace called Kubik Adventures and it looks like it has the level of polish and attention to detail to really hit the mark. Let’s cut to the chase. Here’s video of it in action: Nice right? Here’s the official details: The most heart-pumping adventure arrives to your Windows … Read more
At Build Microsoft showed a bunch of ARM reference tablets with Windows 8. But they were all behind glass. Here’s video of some actual use of an ARM tablet running Windows 8. It proves it’s not vaporware at least but I think we’d all love to see this on a 2.5ghz quad core ARM CPU … Read more
This one is sort of weird. There’s a straight port of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out available for Windows Phones. It’s called Punch Out of course and it’s not a game similar to the classic NES game – it’s the same. Same characters and even the cheat codes work. Intriguing on one hand and makes you … Read more
There’s a huge round of applause for what Microsoft has been showing off at Build. This concept of a full PC plus a tablet in one that’s unified has really gained traction. Unfortunately it’s a year off. Know what’s not a year off? Apple’s chilling response. There are great rumors that the next refresh of … Read more
Whoah what the??? I mean we had this awesome ability for devs to write a game/app for Xbox and use the same code on Windows Phones and then of course use it on the PC. And now? OK there are lots of Tweets like the first and third so the death of XNA was a … Read more
This is always my favorite email for the week: Deal of the Week: Zombies are on the hunt for brains when “Zombies Attack! 2” comes to Windows Phone for just $1.99. This tower-defense game pits you against a zombie apocalypse, and it’s up to you to defend your ground and fight for your life! Features … Read more
Really iFanboys? It’s just ignorance…at best. The Samsung developer PC handed out at Build today featured an Intel Core i5 CPU. Sound like any other device you may know? Yeah the Mac Book Air is also using an Intel Core i5. And it’s not a similar chip –it’s the same 2467M chip (see here and … Read more
The New And Improved Windows 8 Blue Screen of Death. Well it is improved. It actually gives you some error details and is less DOS like: Yeah they’re beta bits for sure. We can’t wait for the full review Patrick.
With Build about to get under way lots of news is going to start flooding in. There are screenshots of Win8 already starting to make the rounds as some attendees are using it. Along with that comes the hardware. Samsung was rumored to be providing a Win8 tablet for all attendees and that appears to … Read more
Mango brings with it the ability to do augmented reality on Windows Phones since you can access the camera and the gyro and compass sensors. Jared Bienz of Microsoft has shown off the Geo Augmented Reality Kit that will be on CodePlex soon. For developers, he states that you can write an AR app in … Read more