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Whale Trail
''Whale Trail'' is a mobile game developed by British software company Ustwo and released in October 2011. The game follows Willow the Whale as he flies through the sky, trying to get away from Baron von Barry, the squid-like antagonist. ''Whale Trail'' is an endless runner game, where the player tries to collect bubbles to allow them to keep flying, while avoiding clouds. The game cost over £150,000 to develop and went through months of design work and beta-testing. Development ''Whale Trail'' was developed by British indie studio ustwo. The company was founded in 2004 by two friends who had just two laptop computers. The company grew quickly and became one of the largest client service-based game developers. Matt Mills, the founder of ustwo, stated that some of his inspiration for ''Whale Trail'' came from the game ''Tiny Wings''. Mills believed that ''Tiny Wings'' created a want for similar "one-touch mechanic" games, which only require the player to occasionally interact with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ustwo
Ustwo Fampany Limited (typically stylized as ustwo) is a London-based software development studio focused on digital design, such as clean and elegant user interfaces. Founded in 2004, the company had initially served clients in supporting their mobile apps, and developed mobile games, but gained significant attention upon release of '' Monument Valley'' in 2014, which won numerous awards and had over two million units sold. Alongside their Ustwo Games division, the company continues to produce other software for a range of computing devices through Ustwo Studios, as well as investing in new firms through Ustwo Adventure, and helping to mentor young talent within Ustwo Foundation. History Ustwo was founded by Matt "Mills" Miller and John "Sinx" Sinclair in the Shoreditch district of London in November 2004 as "Ustwo Studio, Ltd", aiming to get into the nascent mobile app market. Miller and Sinclair had been friends since they were eleven, and so the name "Ustwo" is in refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IOS Games
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes the system software for iPads predating iPadOS—which was introduced in 2019—as well as on the iPod Touch devices—which were discontinued in mid-2022. It is the world's second-most widely installed mobile operating system, after Android. It is the basis for three other operating systems made by Apple: iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It is proprietary software, although some parts of it are open source under the Apple Public Source License and other licenses. Unveiled in 2007 for the first-generation iPhone, iOS has since been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch (September 2007) and the iPad (introduced: January 2010; availability: April 2010.) , Apple's App Store contains more than 2.1 million iOS appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System) Games
Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to as “Android” * Android (drug), a brand name for the synthetic hormone methyltestosterone Arts and entertainment Film * ''Android Kunjappan Version 5.25'', a 2019 film directed by Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval * ''Android'' (film), a 1982 film directed by Aaron Lipstadt * ''Android'', the Russian title for the 2013 film '' App'' Music * The Androids, an Australian rock band * "Android" (TVXQ song), 2012 * "Android", a song by Green Day from the album '' Kerplunk'' * "Android", a song on The Prodigy's '' What Evil Lurks'' EP Games * ''Android'' (board game), published by Fantasy Flight Games Other uses in arts and entertainment * The Android (DC Comics), character * ''The Android'' (novel), by K. A. Applegate * Android 17, a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Video Games
Numerous video games were released in 2011. Many awards went to games such as '' Batman: Arkham City'', ''Portal 2'', '' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'', '' The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword'' and '' Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception''. 2011 also marked the worldwide release of the Nintendo 3DS. Critically acclaimed titles Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews. Events Hardware releases The list of game-related hardware released in 2011 in North America. Series with new entries Series with new installments in 2011 include ''Ace Combat'', ''Assassin's Creed'', '' Batman: Arkham'', ''Battlefield'', ''Call of Duty'', ''Call of Juarez'', '' Cities XL'', ''Crysis'', ''Dead Space'', ''Deus Ex'', ''Dragon Age'', '' Driver'', ''Duke Nukem'', ''Dynasty Warriors'', ''The Elder Scrolls'', ''F.E.A.R'', ''Forza Motorsport'', '' Gears of War'', ''Infamous'', ''Killzone'', ''The Legend of Zelda'', ''LittleBigPlanet'', '' Mario Kart'', '' Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jetpack Joyride
''Jetpack Joyride'' is a 2011 side-scrolling endless runner action video game created by Halfbrick Studios. It was released for iOS devices on the App Store on September 1, 2011 and has been ported to other systems. It was released online as a Flash version on May 11, 2012; on Android on September 28; on PlayStation Portable (via PlayStation Network, ported by Beatshapers) on November 20 in North America and November 21 in Europe; on BlackBerry PlayBook on December 13, 2012; on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (via PlayStation Network, ported by Big Ant Studios) on December 21 in Europe and December 31 in North America; on BlackBerry 10 on March 6, 2013; and on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 on June 5. It was also released on PlayStation 4 on April 26, 2016. The game features the same protagonist from ''Age of Zombies'' and '' Monster Dash'', Barry Steakfries, who the player controls as he steals a jet pack from a top-secret laboratory, being a direct spin-off of the latter g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruff Rhys
Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album '' Stainless Style'' was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize. He won the 2011 Welsh Music Prize for his album ''Hotel Shampoo'', which was followed up by ''American Interior'' in 2014, accompanied by a film, a book and a mobile app. His most recent album, ''Seeking New Gods'', was released in 2021. He is considered a figurehead of the era known as Cool Cymru. Early life Rhys was born 18 July 1970 in Haverfordwest, Wales. He has a brother and a sister; his father was Ioan Bowen Rees (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999), a "poet, essayist, polemicist, mountaineer, internationalist ... and a White Robe Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards". Bowen Rees "campaigned all his life for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TouchArcade
''TouchArcade'' is a mobile video game website that launched in 2008. Arnold Kim of ''MacRumors'' worked on the site and its editor-in-chief was Eli Hodapp from 2009 to 2019. ''TouchArcade'' has been recognized as one of the best mobile game news websites. Games journalists also described ''TouchArcade''s Hodapp as influential within the mobile game community. History The site unveiled a dedicated iOS app in 2012. Early the next year, ''TouchArcade'' began a promotion called Free Play, wherein the website promoted a game that was made free to download for the promotion's duration. ''TouchArcade'' launched a crowdfunding campaign in June 2015. Content ''TouchArcade'' publishes news stories and reviews Monday through Friday about iOS and Android video games. A daily ''SwitchArcade'' feature covers releases and sales for the Nintendo Switch console. The site also produces a weekly podcast entitled ''The TouchArcade Show'' in which Jared Nelson and former editor-in-chief Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cut The Rope
Cut may refer to: Common uses * The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely-directed force ** A type of wound ** Cut (archaeology), a hole dug in the past ** Cut (clothing), the style or shape of a garment ** Cut (earthmoving), an excavation to make way for a transport route ** Cut (etiquette), a snub or slight such as failure to greet an acquaintance ** Cut (gems) ** Cut of meat ** Cutting agent, a diluent used to dilute illicit drugs Geography * Cut, Alba, Romania * Cut, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas * Cut, a village in Dumbrava Roșie, Neamț County, Romania * Cut River (Mackinac County, Michigan) * Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan) * Cutral Có Airport, Argentina (IATA code CUT) * Cuts, Oise, France Computing and mathematics * Cut (logic programming) * cut (Unix), a command line utility * Cut, copy, and paste, a set of editing procedures * Control Unit Terminal, a kind of IBM display terminal for mainfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Birds
''Angry Birds'' is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game ''Crush the Castle'', the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs; versions of ''Angry Birds'' created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, ''Angry Birds Toons'', a televised animated series, and two films; ''The Angry Birds Movie'' and its sequel ''The Angry Birds Movie 2''. By January 2014, there had been over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions. By July 2015, the series' games had been downloaded more than 3 billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original ''Angry Birds'' has been called "One of the most m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android (operating System)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance and commercially sponsored by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008. Most versions of Android are proprietary. The core components are taken from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. When Android is installed on devices, the ability to modify the otherwise free and open-source software is usually restricted, either by not providing the corresponding source code or by preventing reinstallation through technical measures, thus rendering the installed version proprietary. Most Android devices ship with additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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