It looks like those little green hamlets have been filling their noggins with all sorts of engineering tidbits. Armed with nothing more than a few spare parts and ingenuity, these Bad Piggies are set to take off and conquer Android, iOS, PC and Mac come September 27. Rovio has teased us once or twice already, but this is the first time we get to see the actual gameplay of this upcoming Angry Birds spin-off.
[Update: Currently the WiiMote App cannot connect to devices running Android 4.2 but the developer is looking into a fix.]
My biggest gripe with trying to play console quality games on a mobile device has to do with on-screen controls. No matter how accustomed to them I become, they just don’t offer the same precision and/or experience as do physical controllers. I find playing FPS games with on-screen controls to be close to unbearable. Maybe I’m just old school, but give me a controller over onscreen controls any day.
With HTC’s New York event right around the corner, the rumors are flying from every direction. They all seem to point to a 5-inch device that appears to be making its way to Verizon. The top two possible names at this point are DROID Incredible X or HTC One X 5. I personally prefer the first.
The Kindle Fire HD has received the ritualistic iFixit teardown, exposing all of its innards as well as giving us an idea of what to expect should it need to be fixed. Despite having the LCD fused to the front glass and plastic frame, the Kindle Fire HD scored reasonably well on iFixit’s repairability scale. In fact, the Kindle Fire HD score a 7 out of 10, the same score handed down to the Nexus 7 and only 1 point below the original Kindle Fire.
For some reason, Google has allowed every carrier (other than Sprint) to block access to downloading Google Wallet from the Play Store. I realize the carriers are behind this whole charade but I ultimately blame Google for not offering us another method of downloading the .apk. Thankfully the Android community is not bound by the same back door deals as Google, and are not afraid to offer up the .apk for us to download.
