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Hot off the Android Market is a wacky new title from developer Mojo Bones Ltd called Tongue Tied! Staring Mick and Ralph, a pair of adorably quirky dogs with undeniable charm who — for reasons unexplained — are somehow joined at the tongue. Don’t ask, just roll with it. Using a cross between physics based [...]

Casual games are all the rage these days thanks to the huge success that is the Nintendo Wii as well as mobile devices like the iPhone. One such company, Brass Monkey, wants to take advantage of this trend by transforming your smartphone into a veritable Wii controller. Recently gaining $ 750,000 in funding, Brass Monkey [...]

I came across this title today on the Android Market and it totally rocked my socks. Inertia: Escape Velocity is unique, physics based platformer that introduces a whole new take on the genre. Using onscreen controls, you have to navigate your astronaut through the level by jumping and controlling gravity to float through the air [...]

A new Gingerbread build has leaked for the Samsung Captivate, this time based around Android 2.3.5. Going under build number UCKJ1, the new software looks to freshen up the AT&T device in light of the release of the Samsung Galaxy S II , its successor. If you are stuck in a contract and can’t look [...]

Unless you follow a band closely, chances are you have missed out on a concert or two simply for not knowing when an artist you enjoy has a scheduled performance in your area. Newly available app Gigbeat hopes to make that a thing of the past while making it easy for you to discover where [...]

Facebook wants a bigger piece of your wallet and what mega billion dollar company wouldn’t? As it stands, the company’s largest presence seems to be from your computer where you can click on ads and use their Facebook “Credits” to keep your virtual farm thriving and continue to pester friends to check out your over-sized [...]

Today, Mozilla (the Firefox guys) revealed their plans to build an operating system very much like Google’s own Chrome OS where apps run off of a browser but for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The project is being codenamed “Boot to Gecko” because it takes the Gecko engine from Firefox and transforms it into [...]

The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook was promised as part of a future update to RIM’s tablet, but thanks to some snooping by N4BB, a pre-release build of the apps emulator has been unearthed. What’s more? The Android App Player is based around Android 2.3.3, meaning PlayBook users will have access to a [...]

The International Game Developers Association may have spoken out too soon in regards to complaints levied against Amazon and their Android Appstore pricing policies. In a response posted tot he Amazon Appstore Developers Blog, the company pointed out that the IGDA had based their claims on an outdated version of the Appstore developer policy. The [...]

Ever since I’ve watched Android make its evolutionary jump from smartphones onto the tablet scene, I’ve oft wondered where Intel was during this tablet craze. The semiconductor giant had remained strangely quiet on the subject — until now. Digitimes is reporting that after a year and a half of negotiations with Google, the strategy formally [...]