If you have been waiting for the launch of the new Assassins Creed Revelations game on PC. You will be pleased to know that its has already arrive in the US and is now available to download and play. Assassins Creed Revelations arrived on the Xbox 360 and PS3 earlier this month.

If you are outside the US, Assassins Creed Revelations will be arriving tomorrow on Steam, with Steam currently stating that the game will unlock in just 8 hours time. Watch a new trailer for the game after the jump entitled : Assassin’s Creed Embers, after the jump.

In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of the legendary assassin Altair on a journey of revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region

Many thought that EA’s Battlefield 3 game would have a hard time finding sales launching the same month as the new Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 3 game. But even after considerable first day sales, Battlefield 3′s sales are still growing well , even after its initial launch buzz has begun to fade a little.

Even though its competitor Modern Warfare 3 sold a staggering 9.3 million copies during it first week. Battlefield 3 has provided a different game style and mechanics, using the new Frostbite 2 games engine. Which has proved to be popular with gamers worldwide.

Either way the state of games sales over the last few months, goes to show that the games market is stronger than ever and is even making film and music sales look a little meagre in comparison.

Asahi Kasei corporation has unveiled a new cable called the Roboden, which is the worlds first elasticated cable, that can be used for USB devices, data transfer or power.

The company has developed the new Roboden cables working with Spandex, and based their designs on the way the human skin is able to stretch and bounce back, by a factor of around 1.5. Watch the video after the jump to see the new Roboden cables in action.

The possibilities and applications for Roboden cables are massive in the electronics and manufacturing industries, and will aid the design of new machines and gadgets where cables need to expand and contract when certain sections are but in to motion.

3Dconnexion have this week launched their new SpaceMouse Pro, which has been specially designed for 3D software designers and engineers. The new SpaceMouse Pro ergonomic design combines 3Dconnexion’s patented six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) sensor, to provide intuitive and precise 3D navigation together with an innovative On-screen Display.

Antonio Pascucci, vice president of products, 3Dconnexion explains:

“3D mice revolutionize the way people interact with digital 3D content,” – “We are committed to developing products that meet the needs of 3D users. SpaceMouse Pro provides a professional 3D navigation experience, enabling users to better understand their 3D content, while its new advanced ergonomic design ensures a comfortable working experience.”

The SpaceMouse Pro supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac OS 10.4.6 or later, Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC),Sun Solaris 10 (x86/x64), and Linux (Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4, SuSE 9.3 or later) systems and is now available to purchase for around $299.

Further to their on going re-design process across all their services. Google has today started rolling out a new design for their Google Bar which has now been redesigned to enable you to quickly and easily navigate between Google’s services.

Now rather than having a black bar across the top of your screen when you are logged in to your Google account. Soon you will be welcomed with a new drop-down Google menu nested under the Google logo. See it in action after the jump.

Google explains:

“Above each of Google’s products, the gray bar has three main regions. On the left, the Google logo contains a drop-down menu with links to Google services that displays when you hover over or click on it. The central area contains a search box for the Google service you are currently using. The right side features a share box and notifications to participate on Google+ from any Google page.”

For more information on the new Google Bar redesign jump over to the Google’s Help Center article.

The iLIDmk-1 is a case for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S and it was designed by Darren Inglis and a few of his mates from Melbourne Australia, and according to Darren, the iLIDmk-1 is the worlds thinnest iPhone wallet.

As well as protecting your iPhone, the iLIDmk-1 also doubles up as a wallet and it has room to store your money, credit cards, keys, and even a memory card, and thats not all the case can also be used as a stand for your iPhone.

The iLIDmk-1 iPhone Wallet Case is a Kickstarter project and the guys behind it are trying to raise $10,000 to put it into production, you can find out more details over at Kickstarter, the case will sell for $39.95 when it goes into production.

Microsoft has announced the sales figures for its Xbox console for last week, and it would appear that the black Friday shopping week was Microsoft’s most popular week as they have announced sales of nearly 1 million Xbox 360 consoles last week.

Microsoft sold a total of 960,000 Xbox 360 consoles in the US last week and a total of 750,000 Microsoft Kinects, with more than 800,000 Xbox 360 consoles sold within 24 hours.

Considering this is the 7th year that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has been available, selling that many consoles in one week is pretty impressive.

his is really cool. If you spend a lot of time in major airports, big malls, or certain retail stores and use Android you need to update Google Maps. Google has announced that Google Maps 6.0 for Androidnow supports maps of the inside of buildings in some instances.

The maps can be accessed by zooming in on an address and then the layout of the inside of the store or mall will open up. The blue dot will show you where you are at any given time with high accuracy. The map can even tell what floor of a multiple story mall you are on.

Once you get inside a store in the mall the maps can even show you where specific things in the store are, assuming the store is supported. To start the Mall of America is supported along with Macy’s, IKEA, and several other retailers. Major airports like O’Hare and others are supported as well. I hope this is eventually rolled out to every mall.

ComScore has released some new statistics this week, that show just how big a reach YouTube has in the U.S. We all know YouTube is a massive site but these figures show just how big it is when compared to other similar services. View the statistics after the jump.

YouTube accounts for 49.1% of all videos watched on the web in the US. In total, 42.6 billion videos were viewed that month, revealing that 20.9 billion were served up by Google. In a distant second place is VEVO with 827 million and Hulu in third with 791 million.

Facebook is even eclipsed by the massive amount of unique views YouTube is generating. With Facebook achieving 60 million and YouTube a massive 161 million in just the month of October 2011.

We heard this morning that the ban on the Australian Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 had been lifted, and now it looks like Apple is trying to ban the new revised Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany.

A German court ruled a while back that the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 violated Apple’s patents, so Samsung changed the design, and released the tablet in Germany as the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, the photo top below shows the new Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the bottom photo shows the original Galaxy Tab 10.1.

It would appear that the design changed that Samsung has made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for Germany aren’t enough for Apple, and now Apple is claiming that the new design still infringes on the companies patents.

The next hearing in the case is scheduled for the 22nd of December, and if Apple wins again, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 could end up being banned in Germany for the second time.

JackpotClavin over on the XDA Developers forum has posted a few images that show a new Amazon Kindle Fire booted using CyanogenMod 7. Amazon’s Kindle device was rooted earlier this month and only a few weeks later has received the CyanogenMod 7 treatment. Even in these early stages of development WiFi functionality is already operational on the Kindle Fire.

However functionality on the touchscreen controller still needs a little tweaking and is currently slowing up the the development and checking of other features on the Kindle Fire, due to its incorrect input. As more information becomes available as development progresses we will keep you updated.

Samsung has announced their latest Exynos processor, the Exynos 5250, which is Samsung’s first dual core processor clocked at 2GHz, and the chip is based on ARM’s Cortex A15 architecture, which is reported to be 40 percent faster than the current Cortex A9.

The Samsung Exynos 5250 will support stereoscopic 3D displays and also displays with a WQXGA resolution which is 2560 x 1600 pixels, so we can expect to see this new processor in some tablets from Samsung.

Samsung has said that they will put the Exynos 5250 into production in quarter two of 2012, so we can expect to see new devices powered by this 2GHz dual core processor some time next year.

Back in October, an Australian court decided to ban the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from going on sale in the country, after Apple had sued Samsung in Australia claiming the tablet infringed on Apple’s patents.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was also banned in Germany, and Samsung released a revised version of the device in Germany, and now it would appear that the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 will finally go on sale in Australia, as the Federal court in Australia has lifted the original ban.

This is good news for Samsung, as they have been trying to get the court to overturn the original ruling since the device was banned back in October, and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now expected to be available in Australia from today.

Apple and Samsung are still involved in a wide range of legal cases in other countries around the world, and it isn’t clear how this decision will affect the other cases, Apple could also appeal the latest court ruling and try to get the tablet banned in Australia again.

Mobislyder is the world’s first portable camera slider designed specifically for smartphone equipped with video cameras. The Mobislyder comes supplied with 5 different mounts, allowing you to attach your smartphone to the slider in a number of different ways, to create that perfect shot.

Mobislyder has been designed to enable you to add controlled flowing movements to your movies, adding creativity to your shots in an effortless and elegantly simple way. Watch the video after the jump to see the Mobislyder in action.

The mounts supplied with the included : Articulated Mount, Mobile Device Mount, ¼” Standards Mount, Adhesive Ball Mount and ¼” Ball Mount.

The Mobislyder is now available to preorder for £100 or around $130 with shipping commencing on December 12th.

The Asus Transformer Prime is one of the first tablets that will come with NVIDIA’s new Tegra 3 processor, and it also comes with an 8 megpaixel camera which can record full HD video in 1080p.

Now Asus has released a video which was shot with the 8 megapixel camera on the Transformer Prime which you can see below, make sure you watch the video in full HD at 1080p.

From the video the camera looks pretty good on the Transformer Prime, and the video was shot at 30 frames per second, and we get to see some of the camera’s cool features like time lapse, inverted colors and more.

Acer has yet to officially announced the new Iconia Tab A20 Android tablet, but now the device has appeared online in what looks like and official advert from Acer, and we get a brief look at the device.

It looks like the Acer Inconia Tab will come with a micro SB port, a full sized USB port, a micro HDMI port, a microSD card slot, plus a 10 inch display and will come with Android 3.2 Honeycomb.

Acer has launched their latest Android smartphone here in the UK, the Acer Liquid Express which will be available with UK mobile carriers Orange and T-Mobile, and the device comes with NFC (Near Field Communications).

The Acer Liquid Express comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and it features a single core 800MHz Qualcomm 7227 processor, plus a 3.5 inch HVGA touchscreen display.

Other specifications on the Acer Liquid Express include a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash, and the device is available for free with both T-Mobile and Orange on a range of their monthly contracts.

The LG Optimus LTE was announced in South Korea a while back, and the device has also been released in Canada, we recently heard that it was headed to US mobile carrier AT&T as the LG Nitro HD.

AT&T has now officially announced the LG Nitro HD and it will be available from AT&T on the 4th of December for $250 when you sign up to a new two year agreement with the carrier.

The LG Nitro HD features a 4.5 inch HD AH-IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, processing is provided by a dual core 1.5GHz processor and it also comes with 1GB of RAM and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Other specifications include 4GB of built in storage, plus a microSD card slot that comes with a 16GB card installed, on the back there is a 8 megapixel camera which can record full HD video, up front there is a 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat and it comes with WiFi, Bluetooth and 4G LTE.

About a week ago we saw a leaked photo of a new 5 inch Android tablet, Lenovo has officially announced the device and it is called the Lenovo LePad S2005, and it features a 5 inch LTPS touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The Lenovo LePad S2005 comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread and is powered by a dual core 1.2GHz Qulacomm processor and it also features 1GB of RAM, plus a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat.

On the back of the LePad S2005 is a 5 megapixel camera which can record full HD video in 1080p, there is also a 1,680 mAh battery, a micro-USB port, micro-HDMI, and HSPA+.

The LePad S2005 will go on sale in China this week , there are not details on pricing as yet, and also no details on whether it will be available in the US and Europe.

It looks like Samsung could possibly be working on some new smartphones and tablets, which will be called the Samsung Galaxy Sleek, as the company has recently filed trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark office for the ‘Samsung Galaxy Sleek‘

According to a recent report by the guys over at Fusible, the patent filing list the Samsung Galaxy Sleek as devices related to telephones, smart phones, mobile phones and tablet computers.

We have no idea what Samsung plans to use the Galaxy Sleek trademark for as yet it could be either a smartphone or a tablet, or possibly both, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know.

Google has this week announced via a blog post that it is enabling, forward secrecy by default on its Gmail service. Which will make sure that any emails you have written today will stay as safe in the future when faster and more powerful machines will become available that might be able to decrypt the security.

Google explains that initially, only Chrome and Firefox will use the new forward secrecy by default, when using Google services, as at the moment Microsoft’s Internet Explorer doesn’t support the combination of ECDHE and RC4. But Google do hope to be able to support Internet Explorer in the future.

Google explains:

“Most major sites supporting HTTPS operate in a non-forward secret fashion, which runs the risk of retrospective decryption. In other words, an encrypted, unreadable email could be recorded while being delivered to your computer today,” he wrote. “In ten years time, when computers are much faster, an adversary could break the server private key and retrospectively decrypt today’s email traffic.”

For reference Perfect Secrecy as explained on Wikipedia:

“Perfect forward secrecy (or PFS) is the property that ensures that a session key derived from a set of long-term public and private keys will not be compromised if one of the (long-term) private keys is compromised in the future”

For more information jump over to the Google Blog post.

The iPhone 4S isn’t the only smartphone suffering from battery life problems, the other day we heard that Nokia’s first Windows Phone smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 800 was having battery problems.

Nokia has now released a statement on their support forums, which you can see below, regarding the battery problems on the Lumia 800, and they intend to fix this by releasing two software updates.

A software update in early December will make some improvements to power efficiency, while a second update in early January introduces high voltage charging, increasing the Nokia Lumia 800’s battery power from 1300mAh to 1450mAh. These are scheduled improvements and will enhance the overall experience, but are not designed to address any issues that may be occurring with individual products

So it looks like the first update will land next month, followed by a second one in January, as soon as we get some details on when exactly these updates will be available we will let you guys know.

RIM has announced a new software update for their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and the udpate will bring a range of bug fixes to the device, as well as some new features which include Adobe Air 3.1 and Adobe Flash 11.

A new version of the BlackBerry® PlayBook OS is now available to all BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet users – BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.4985. This free update can be downloaded over-the-air from your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

You can find out full details of what is new in the update over at RIM, and it is available as an over the air update.

On Monday we showed you a video of Apple’s Siri being used to control a home heating system, this was done by developer @plamoni who had managed to create a proxy server for Siri.

Now another developer has come up with a way to control an iPad app using an iPhone 4S and Siri, he used the code which was created by @plamoni, and the video below shows an app on the iPad being controlled by Siri.

Very interesting, it gives us an idea of what sort of functions Siri could possibly have in the future, and we wonder if Apple will open up Siri to developers so that it can be integrated into their applications.

Google has announced on the Google TV Blog, that a number of their Google TV applications have been updates, these include the YouTube and Photo apps, this comes just a few weeks after Google released a major software update for Google TV connected devices.

Google has also said that they plan to update many of their other apps for Google TV, and we will also see updates from many of the third party application developers who also develop apps for the platform.

The video above shows the new YouTube features for Google TV in action, and you can also find out more details on the changes to this, and the photo app over at the Google Blog.

It will be interesting to see how Google develops their Google TV platform, and we have heard that manufacturers like Samsung and LG intend to join the likes of Sony next year.

Benq has unveiled and very neat and portable projector its created, in the form of the BenQ Joybee GP2. Which has been designed to be used with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, but can also be used with USB flash drives or SD Cards if required.





The new BenQ Joybee GP2 projector is capable of projecting movies and media at 720p resolution, and is equipped with a mini HDMI port and even includes 2 GB of internal memory to store your media files.

The BenQ Joybee GP2 projector is capable id fitted with a 100 ANSI Lumen brightness, using 3LED illumination and DLP projection, and is now available to purchase for $549.

It looks like Samsung may be putting an end to its range of various netbooks, and instead concentrating its efforts on Intel’s new Ultrabook platform, as details of an email that Samsung has sent ot its trading partners has been revealed.

The email, which you can see below mentions that Samsung will discontinue their 10.1 inch netbook range, and will be producing 11.6 and 12 inch Ultrabooks instead.



“Following the introduction of our new strategy in 2012, we will discontinue our 10.1-inch (netbook) product range in Q1 2012, in favor of ultraportables (11.6 and 12 inches) and ultrabooks to be launched in 2012.”

It will be interesting to see what Samsung does with Intel’s Ultrabook platform, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know.

This week Google has added a number of high profile file sharing sites to its blacklists, and removed them from its google.com search pages. The additions to Google blacklist which include, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and 4Shared to name a few. Have now been removed from Google’s Auto complete and Instant searches. However the actual pages for the sites do remain indexed with Google pages and can currently still be found on other Google country searches.





isoHunt owner Gary Fung explained in an interview, with TorrentFreak :

“It’s a lot more subtle than the censorship attempts made possible by the pending PROTECT IP and SOPA bills, but it’s still censorship and it starts small. Google is increasingly becoming a self-righteous Big Brother of the Web. So much for ‘Do no evil’”.

Its thought that Google has implemented the new changes to stay on the right side of major movie houses and music studios.

The Asus Transformer Prime is due to go on sale next month, and yesterday we heard that all the pre-order units of the device had sold out in 24 hours in Amazon, and now there are reports that Asus intends to ship 350,000 units of the device in December.

Asus is obviously looking to make sure that there are enough Transformer Prime tablets to meet demand, as the company were initially unable to meet demand for the original Transformer tablet when it was launched.



It will be interesting to see how popular the Transformer Prime tablet becomes, we suspect that the fact it is the first tablet to ship with NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 processor will make it extremely popular.

We had expected the SIM free version of the Nokia Lumia 800 to be available from a number of retailers here in the UK at launch, unfortunately some retailers were told that the device would only be available through certain mobile carriers at launch.

Now it looks like we wont have to wait very much longer for the SIM free Nokia Lumia 800, as the guys over at Clove will have the device in stock form the 1st of December, and it will be available for £443 including taxes.



The Nokia Lumia 800 features Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and it features a 3.7 inch AMOLED display, a single core 1.4GHz processor and an 8 megapixel camera.

The Acer Allegro is due to go on sale in the UK and Europe next month, but it would appear that the device has already gone on sale in France, with one Freh retailer selling the Windows Phone device for 284 Euros.

The Acer Allegro features a 3.6 inch VGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and it comes with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.



Processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor and there is also a 5 megapixel camera, 8GB of built in storage, and something which Acer calls Fast Charge, which is designed to charge you device 2.5 faster than other smartphone chargers.

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Android Market place, which has added support for additional unofficially supported devices. The new devices to now be included within the Android Market for applications to be installed on them include : HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, and Amazon Kindle Fire.





So if you have loaded Android on to any devices that didn’t originally ship with Android, you can now enjoy a simple install process directly from the Android Market.

But be aware the Android Market will also recognise some apps you might have installed from non-Android Market sources, and will try to update them but will fail.

Google has today announced more Google Services will be closing in the latest round of out of season spring cleaning, currently in progress at Google. This month Google services to get the chop include: Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol, Google Friend Connect, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Google Bookmark Lists and Google Search Timeline.



Now with Google+ finished and launched, Google Wave is now being closed for good and as of January 31, 2012 the service will become read-only and finally close completely on April 30th 2012.

For more information one each service receiving the chop head over to the Google Blog post.

We know that a lot of gaming geeks are waiting in anticipation for the video game Batman Arkham City video game to land so they can get their Batman on. If you need a new video card to play the game you will want to check out the new offering from EVGA.



The video card firm has unveiled a new video card that is a Special Edition to go along with the game. It has Batman graphics from the game on the side. It would be perfect for a gaming PC with a clear side. The card has a GTX 580 NVIDIA GPU on it.

The card can be used in SLI mode and it has 512 CUDA cores. The 1536MB of GDDR5 RAM is clocked at 4GHz and it supports PhysX and 3D vision surround. The core clock is 797MHz and the shader clock is 1594MHz. The card is available now with the game for free for $509.99.

It looks like Sony Ericsson has another Android smartphone in the works, as well as the Nozomi which we saw recently, details have been revealed of the Sony Ericsson Nypon LT22i.

According to the guys over at Recombu, the Sony Ericsson Nypon will features a qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels, and it will run Sony’s own processor, the NovaThor U8500, which is a dual core 1GHz processor, which you can see in action in the video below.




The device is also expected to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as soon as we some actual photos of the device and some more details we will let you guys know.

During the DroidCon event in Amsterdam this week Dream Chip Technologies have introduced their new xBounds wireless display mirroring system for Android. Which has been designed to allow you to connect Android smartphones through regular WiFi to HDTVs, monitors and projectors.

The new xBounds systems brings true wireless display mirroring to Android and can be seen in action after the jump in a demonstration video.



Dream Chip Technologies explains:

“xBounds connects the Android phone e.g. over WiFi IEEE802.11 to the tiny xBounds RemoteGPU and mirrors unchanged Android Apps, including fast interactive 3D Games, wirelessly to an HD TV. We use a standard TCP/IP network. No cables and no additional HW in the phone is needed to enable low latency gaming on HD TV.”

Al Sutton, a UK-based Android developer, explained via a Tweet that the Xbounds dev kit (including a Nexus S) will be priced at €998 around $1,344, while the consumer kit will come to market at €99 (about $134).

Last month the new Batman: Arkham City game launched in Europe on October 21st for Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers. But if you have been patiently waiting for the new Batman: Arkham City game to arrive on PC, your wait is over and the game is now available to purchase.

As well as the arrival of the PC version of the Batman: Arkham City game. The new Robin DLC is now also available, which lets you play as Boy Wonder, Batman’s faithful side kick. Watch the launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City and the new Robin DLC after the jump.

The Robin DLC is now available on both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for 560 Microsoft Points, or $6.99.Batman: Arkham City has been developed by Rocksteady Studios, and promises to bring more of the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum. With Batman and Robin soaring into Arkham City, the new maximum security “home” for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds. Enjoy!

Today Facebook has rolled out their new Facebook Messenger desktop client to a limited number of test users. It has been designed specifically for Windows 7, and once officially launched to the masses will provide you with access to your ticker feed, notifications and allow you to chat your friends.

The new Facebook Messenger desktop client has been developed to enable Facebook users to remain logged in and up to date with events within their feed, without the need to keep a browser window continuously open.





If trials of the new Windows 7 Facebook Messenger client go well, Facebook is expected to rollout Messenger clients for other operating systems.

Facebook has already launched stand alone Messenger applications for Blackberry, Android and iOS devices. That provides users with the ability to chat to friends on the move, and Facebook is now looking to expand its chat services through its desktop client.

LG announced recently that the Optimus 3D would be getting updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the update would also bring a range of new features to the device, and it looks like the update has now started rolling out.

According to LG the update is supposed to bring some new 3D specific features which include 3D video editing and 3D to 2D video conversion at higher bit rates to the Optimus 3D.



According to some reports, users have not seen the updates that LG had promised with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update.

The 360 Panorama app has been available for Apple’s iPhone for a while now, good news if you own an Android smartphone as 360 Panorama is now available for Android smartphones.

360 Panorama for Android will work with any Android device running Android 2.3 or above, and the app will help you take 360 degree panoramic photos with you handset, the video below shows how it works.




The 360 Panorama App for Android is now available for $0.99 from the Android Market, and you can also find out more details over at the developers website.