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About David W

David is a native Californian and founder of We Unite - Entertainment. He has a longstanding interest in technology, culture and the future. He holds a Technology and Operation Management degree from Cal Poly Pomona. David is an avid fan of photography, video games and comics. In his spare time, he makes frequent trips to Noodle King in Alhambra for their beef stew noodles.

Humble Bundle for Android

Pay what you want and help charity.  That’s the name of the game for the latest Humble Bundle that just released.  What’s new this time is that instead of only PC/Mac/Linux related games, this time it is for the Android and PC/Mac/Linux.  You choose how much you want to pay and how much you want to allocate between developer, charity and the organizers.  If you beat the average, you also receive a bonus game (or more) all DRM free.  As a note, previous Humble Bundles in the past have added bonus games after the fact, and for those who previously beat the average will also receive the bonus games retroactively.

The following games are being offered right now: Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE. If you pay more than the average price, you also get the indie classic World of Goo!

This is for a limited amount of time and once again this all goes to a good cause!

For more information visit Humblebundle.com

Update: Looks like Toki Tori has also been added, bonus game is still World of Goo

Game of Thrones Season 2 Teaser Trailer

Game of Thrones: You win, or you die.  Seems we got a nice little teaser for season 2, that makes waiting for April that much harder.

Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels.

For more information visit the official site

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut

This is beyond words.  Looks like somebody took all the fan made films and compiled them all together into one large movie reenacting the entire movie of Star Wars: A New Hope.  Take a look down below (it is 2 hours in length).

According to the YouTube description: “Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The “Director’s Cut” is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.”

“In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.”

For more information go to http://StarWarsUncut.com

David Bowie + Tim Tebow = Tebowie

The Denver Bronco’s have made the play-offs and we have not heard the end of Tim Tebow.  On top of this, Jimmy Fallon brought up an interesting idea of taking David Bowie and Tim Tebow and turning him into one person, Tebowie!

Though Tebowmania is running wild, will it hold when the Denver Bronco’s face Tom Brady and the New England Patriots?  We’ll find out this weekend!

Related Article:  Trying to Understand Tebowing

A Year is Such a Long Wait for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

A new trailer has come out for the much anticipated movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.  The movie is about Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug.

I got to say, it looks impressive and makes the wait that much harder.

GBA 3DS Ambassador Game Released

Nintendo hasn’t released the official statement but some readers of the Official Nintendo Magazine have been receiving SpotPass notifications this morning informing them that the games are arriving this Friday for the Japanese and UK 3DS owners.  Hopefully the North America release will also be released the same date.

The full list of GBA games being handed out December 16 includes the following:

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Super Mario Advance 3
Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario Vs Donkey Kong
Metroid Fusion
Wario Land 4
WarioWare, inc

These games are free to download to anyone who bought a 3DS before the 3DS price cut.

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Fourth Day of Android Market 10 Billion Downloads Sale

Day 4 of Android Market 10 Billion Downloads Sale!

Today we find the following apps on sale with a brief description from the marketplace:

Baseball Superstars(R) 2011

Baseball Superstars® 2011 is a full featured baseball game which includes 6 different modes to satisfy everyone’s needs.  My League Mode contains unique RPG elements in a sports title, Season Mode requires great management skills, Exhibition Mode provides sheer entertainment, Homerun Race offers quick challenge, Mission Mode demands finest skills and Match Play Mode allows you to boast your talents to the rest of the world!

Farm Frenzy

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to run your own fully working farm? Looking after chickens, sheep and cows, producing cakes, wool, butter and cheese. If you fancy giving it a go without having to get up at the crack of dawn every day Farm Frenzy is the game for you! In the style of time-management games like Diner Dash you’ll have to work hard to achieve your goals, whether that’s owning a certain number of animals, producing a specific number of goods or simply racking up a huge profit.

Game Dev Story

Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!  Manage your own game company and try to create a million-selling game in this unique simulation.

Jelly Defense

Finally something worth defending!  Join the Jelly forces now and lead them to glory in this uneven and fierce fight against the invaders!  Use your tactical skills and wisdom to tip the scales of victory in your favor in order to save the Diploglobe and the Jelly nation from the agressors!  That’s right, you are their only hope – the one they call the liberator, the true leader, the Jelly savior!  You are the hero they deserve! Just look at these poor little creatures.  They trust you, they believe in you, they rely on you.  Can you refuse those big faithfull eyes (or eye)?  You’re really their only hope!

My Beach HD

Spend a warm summer day relaxing at your own private beach.  Now with custom signs, automatic time of day, Sunset, Night time, fireworks, and more!

Paper Camera

See the world through a novel, original, stylish and captivating lens.  Real time cartoon and painting effects displayed on your camera feed! See the world through a new, original, stylish and captivating lens, have a wonder in your own home and discover how cool is now your world in cartoon!

Sentinel 3: Homeworld

Sentinel 3: Homeworld – From the award winning Sentinel tower defense series!  The biggest installment of the award winning Sentinel sci-fi tower defense series – is finally here on Android!  Take the fight to the alien homeworld and unleash a massive arsenal of weaponry & get up close and personal on the battlefield in your power armor to execute devastating attacks and support your defenses!

Shazam Encore

Hear a song you don’t know? Shazam identifies it instantly. Unlimited, no Ads.  Tag songs as often as you like.  NEW: LyricPlay™ :See full-screen lyrics that play in time to the music you’re tagging – learn the lyrics you thought you knew.

Spirit HD

Intense retro-inspired arcade mayhem, reinvented for touch screen!  Spirit, by Marco Mazzoli. The critically acclaimed iPhone hit now on Android!

Toddler Spanish: 100 Words

Easy and fun way for kids to learn Spanish!  Toddler Spanish helps young children learn Spanish in a simple and entertaining manner. Kids don’t just learn words. They become familiar with all the basic Spanish sounds.

 

Source: Android Market

Day 3 of Android Market 10 Billion Downloads Sale

Third day, another McChicken sandwich down.  Still, we won’t complain when the price is 10 cents per app, especially when these apps normally cost more than a dollar plus.  Perhaps, these are the droids we are looking for.

Check out today’s apps:

ADWLauncher Ex

ADWLauncher EX, beyond tweaking your android desktop.  Highly Customizable Home replacement application.

Blue Skies Donation Wallpaper

Blue Skies Live Wallpaper: Soar through the clouds on your home screen!Soar through the clouds with this beautiful 3D live wallpaper! Colorful balloons drift through the scene, randomly or based on your unread messages! Lots of settings for cloud density, wind speed, sun and moon elevation, scene coloration, lighting based on time of day, and more!

Can Knockdown 2

Knock this Can again! Can you?Millions of players can’t be wrong! The most addicting title of 2010 strikes back with new astonishing levels and even more precise sniper action! Once again your aiming skills will be put to test but this time more challenges await!

Homerun Battle 3D

Go ONLINE for head-to-head match up against the BASEBALL SLUGGERS in the world!

Kids Learn to Read (Preschool)

Kids Learn to Read is a full version of Kids Reading (Preschool) FREE. It has 15 extra words in both the first and the third activities as well as child-lock functionality that can be enabled in Preferences.

Reckless Getaway

Escape with your hard-earned loot and the cops hot at your heels!  Who’d a thought robbing the bank would be the easy part?  Now comes the real challenge – to escape with your hard-earned loot and the fuzz hot at your heels!

Space Physics

Amazing physics game. In this magical world, your hand drawings come to life!  Space Physics is a puzzle game with amazing physics. In this magical world, your hand drawings come to life: they become real physical objects. Want a car? Draw one and it can drive by itself!

Talking Tom Cat 2

Tom is back with an all new adventure! Tom is your cat that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say in a funny voice.

Tetris

Enjoy hours of fun in Marathon or Magic mode!  Discover why hundreds of millions of players around the world have made the TETRIS game one of the biggest blockbusters in mobile gaming history.

Toki Tori

Toki Tori is a brainteasing puzzle platformer starring the worlds cutest chicken

 

Source: Android Market

Round 2 of Android Market 10 Billion Downloads Sale

We hit the second round of Google Android’s 10 Billion Download Sale.

UPDATE: Seems some of the Apps from yesterday’s sale is still active for 10 cents, take a look at the previous list while you still can!  We don’t know if this is intentional or they haven’t removed it from the list yet.

Today we find the following apps for the low cost of 10 cents:

AirSync

Life Without Wires! Sync your iTunes music & videos over WiFi with AirSync.

BB – Bedtime Battle

The Berenstain Bears’ Bedtime Battle kicks off a new line of Berenstain Bears omBooks for your Android device.

Beautiful Widgets

Beautiful set of widgets including clock+weather, with some toggles.  Beautiful set of Widgets containing clock widget, clock and weather widget, weather widgets, date widgets and toggle widgets with skins/themes support! Now with more widgets and layouts!

Christmas HD

Celebrate the wonders of Christmas – in true 3-D!  The creators of your favorite Live Wallpapers are delighted to bring you another 3D Live wallpaper especially for Christmas. Celebrate the Holidays every time you use your device, in true 3-D!

Flick Golf!

Play the most addictive Golf game to ever hit the Android Market!
  No clubs. No rules. Just flick, spin and curve your shots to try and sink that perfect hole in one. Watch out for the usual hazards: bunkers, trees, sand… and of course the wind!

Fruit Ninja

The worldwide smash hit game Fruit Ninja is now available on Android!

Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash.

NFL Rivals

NFL Rivals is an intense arcade football experience like no other. Choose your NFL team and support them throughout the 2012 season. Every time you play, your score gets uploaded to your team’s global ranking. Can you drive them to the top?

Read It Later Pro

Read It Later lets you save any web page or video on your phone, tablet, or browser to view later – even offline – in an easy-to-read interface. It automatically syncs your queue across all your devices on Android, iPhone/iPad, Chrome and Firefox. A great way to take advantage of commute or travel time.

Recklace Racing

THE DIRT-ROAD RACING GAME YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Reckless Racing blends the finest top-down racer style with HD-quality graphics that are so stunning you’ll shout, “Oowee!” Skid, slip, and slide through down-and-dirty racetracks with precision controls, and challenge friends in online multiplayer. Hold on tight and get ready to go. This here is Reckless Racing! Yeehaw!

Reckless Racing PLAY

THE DIRT-ROAD RACING GAME YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Reckless Racing blends the finest top-down racer style with HD-quality graphics that are so stunning you’ll shout, “Oowee!” Skid, slip, and slide through down-and-dirty racetracks with precision controls, and challenge friends in online multiplayer. Hold on tight and get ready to go. This here is Reckless Racing! Yeehaw!  * Xperia PLAY optimized *

Star Chart

The best selling smart phone astronomy app comes to Android!  Now you can have a virtual star chart in your pocket! Look through the eyes of your Android device* to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.

 

Source: Android Market

Android Market 10 Billion Promo

This past weekend, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads.  To celebrate, the Android Market has unleashed a great horror (or awesome deal) to the Android community.

According to the Official Google Mobile blog:

To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make a bunch of great Android apps available at an amazing price. Starting today for the next 10 days, we’ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each.

We’ll keep you posted with the daily deals.  Here is the following list with a brief description from the Marketplace for today’s deal:

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD

Race the world. Feel the adrenaline.  Feel the thrill of arcade racing like never before in the newest adrenaline-pumping game of the Asphalt series.  Discover 42 cars and bikes from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Ducati and other world-class manufacturers. Collect them in your own 3D garage.

Color & Draw for Kids

Simply the best coloring and drawing app for kids (and adults too!)  Color & Draw is a complete artistic solution for PHONES. It invites kids to draw and color. Coloring pages have voice over invitations to get kids’ creative juices flowing.  ***iPad edition was the Winner of Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award 2010***

Endomondo Sport Tracker Pro

Track your sport in real time and challenge your friends using the built-in GPS.  Endomondo makes fitness more fun by acting as your personal trainer and social fitness partner – ideal for running, cycling, walking etc.

Fieldrunners HD

The award winning Tower Defense game you have been waiting for!  Play Fieldrunners HD now to see the original tower defense champion on Android with gorgeously updated HD graphics.

Great Little War Game

Invade your neighbours, spread mayhem and destruction, drink a little tea!  GLWG is the hit 3D turn-based strategy game that everyone’s talking about. With a unique comical style and plenty of laughs and excitement, you’ll keep coming back again and again for “just one more go.”

Minecraft – Pocket Edition

Imagine it, build it. Create worlds on the go with Minecraft – Pocket Edition.  The new Minecraft – Pocket Edition allows you to build on the go. Use blocks to create masterpieces as you travel, hangout with friends, sit at the park, the possibilities are endless. Move beyond the limits of your computer and play Minecraft everywhere you go.

Paper Camera

See the world through a novel, original, stylish and captivating lens.  Real time cartoon and painting effects displayed on your camera feed! See the world through a new, original, stylish and captivating lens, have a wonder in your own home and discover how cool is now your world in cartoon!  This is the ultimate collection of cartoon/sketch/comic book/half tone/noir/neon and many other effects painted directly in your camera, no more boring post-effects, it’s all real time, you simply won’t stop wandering, wherever you are, having a look at things and cartoon-ize them!

Sketchbook Mobile

Unleash your creativity with SketchBook Mobile for Android!  Autodesk SketchBook® Mobile is a professional-grade paint and drawing application offering a full set of sketching tools and a streamlined and intuitive user interface.

Soundhound

What’s that song? Identify it FAST with SoundHound.  Unlimited music recognition! With the world’s fastest music recognition and exclusive singing search, SoundHound is instant music search and discovery.

Swiftkey X Keyboard

Android typing has never been this easy.  SwiftKey X Keyboard makes typing much easier on your phone, replacing your touchscreen keyboard with one powered by smarter natural language technology.  SwiftKey X understands how words work together, giving much more accurate corrections and predictions than other keyboards. Very sloppy typing will magically make sense, and SwiftKey X also powerfully predicts the word you may want next.  SwiftKey X learns as you use it to make typing easier and even more accurate over time, and you can also personalize it using your Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or blog posts.

 

Source: Android Market

Trying to Understand Tebowing

Victory poses.  You’ve seen them before in video games. After a winning match, Ryu, from the Street Fighter series, faces away his opponent and poses as some magical wind blows by moving his head band.  Mario even strikes a pose when he finishes a level.

Even people in real life have memorable poses.  Rocky Balboa lifts both his arms triumphantly after running up the Philadelphia Museum of Art front steps. WWE’s Dwight “The Rock” Johnson lifts up one arm and one eyebrow, as he stands against the top corner of the wrestling ring.

Last night, I watched the Denver Broncos win over the New York Jets (17 to 13). I also watched Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow perform his signature pose at the end of the game – “Tebowing”. Basically, the pose consists of getting down on one knee and start praying even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.

Much like ‘Planking’, Tebowing is a growing viral phenomenon.  Heck, there’s even a site called tebowing.com that allows users to submit photos of their own pose.

After some thought, I came to the following theory.   Tebowing is simply another victory pose.  The only thing missing from Tebowing is Final Fantasy VII’s victory fanfare music.  Play this video from Youtube and look at the photo above and it will change your perspective.

In the end, this could be just another internet meme gone viral. No matter what this phenomenon is, all I know is that Tebow keeps doing his pose, because he keeps on winning games.

Hideo Kojima is Working on Metal Gear Solid 5

Guess whose sneaking back with his cardboard box, Hideo Kojima!  For those who don’t know who he is, he is the creator and director of a number of successful video games, including the Metal Gear series, Snatcher, and Policenauts, and also produced both the Zone of the Enders and Boktai series. Kojima is consistently named by fans and industry experts alike as being one of the most influential and innovative video game directors and writers in the industry.

Seems he opened up to the Playstation Official Magazine UK  as he openly discusses his plans for Metal Gear Solid 5 and Project Ogre for the first time.  He also gives his open opinions on Metal Gear Solid Rising – the first Metal Gear he’s neither written nor directed.

The issue hits UK stores on November 29th. If you’re an iPad or iPhone user with the Newsstand app, you can have it delivered direct to your device (with a discount on the cover price) on release day with their digital subscription.

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