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Rayman, the wandering samurai of the platforming world

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Rayman: Jungle Run reviewed by me on All About Windows Phone: Rayman never gets the credit he deserves. While Mario built up Nintendo to great heights, as Sonic the Hedgehog saves the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, Rayman has never been a saviour of anything in the real world. Like a disowned samurai warrior, he wanders from platform to platform, with a loyal following of players and publishers, but never quite breaking through to the big time. Will this Xbox Live title change that?

As Real Racing 3 updates on iOS, Real Racing 2 hits Windows Phone

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You know what, I think it was worth the wait. …the skill in Real Racing 2 is not in knowing what to do, but in making sure you do it every single lap, and with as much accuracy as possible. The opposition are taking the traditional racing line every lap, and that’s one of the fastest ways around the course. You’re going to need to drive well, overtake cleanly, and preserve as much speed as possible as you drive. Even dropping a few miles an hour in each corner will add up as it takes time to accelerate back to

Symbian’s not dead yet… the 808 is just nailed to the perch

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Andrew Orlowski on The Register: So for the past year the 808 has had a crepuscular presence. It’s lived on, in a spooky afterlife: Nokia wanted you to know about it, and prominently placed the thing on the front page of its main website – but it did not want you to actually buy it. Nokia had already transferred some 3,000 Symbian engineers to Accenture, and last February cancelled all Symbian devices on its phone road map bar the 808. Yet, something unexpected has happened. The 808 as been quietly receiving lots of loving care and attention. Regular updates and tweaks have continued from

First thoughts on Firefox OS and the Keon handset

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Been tinkering with the Firefox OS powered Keon for a week now, and you can find my write-up over on Forbes: Dusting down my HTML5 skills, I have to agree with Heilmann. The Keon, although it shows a huge amount of promise, is not a handset you would hand to a family member or recommend to a colleague in the office. What it will give you is a head start in developing HTML5 apps optimised for the Firefox OS platform. Mozilla are banking on this being a platform with a huge amount of reach, and now is the time to

Steve reviews the Nokia Lumia 520

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Nokia pushes Windows Phone hard into the £100 pay as you go market with the Lumia 520. The more Nokia push Windows Phone down into this price territory, the better it will do, I suspect – budget Android phones tend to be slow and clunky, whereas the 520, on the whole, flies. And with greater sales at the budget end will come marketshare increase and revenue, increasing awareness further up the price spectrum. Assuming that Windows Phone continues to grow, I suspect we’ll be looking back in a year’s time and realising just how much the Lumia 520 and 620

Sony’s maturing Android smartphone range

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From my review of the Xperia Z, on Forbes: Sony has put out a phone that knows exactly what it wants to be. Sony wants to be a player, it wants to be established, and for that it needs to be seen as a stable and worthy manufacturer. The Xperia S proved that Sony could build a good phone, the Xperia T showed an iterative approach and a new found confidence in styling and advertising, and the Xperia Z is a handset that delivers everything you expect, has the style, and gives you the confidence it will not be out