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Space Miner: Space Ore Bust and Tekken | Games review

Venan, iPhone and Namco Bandai, Java Lower development costs for mobile gaming have allowed for a rush of originality on the platform. Scores of small developers are now able to take on the big studios and Space Miner: Space Ore Bust (Venan, iPhone, £2.99) is a great example of the fresh thinking now thriving. Taking control of a space truck to harvest ore and save the family mining business from an unforgiving bank, the story’s told in a refreshingly witty style.

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Games picks of the week

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction , PC & Xbox 360 Gravel-voiced Sam Fisher is back, this time turned renegade and on a mission of revenge. That means all that mucking about knocking people unconscious has given way to the odd bit of lurking in the shadows before jumping out and snapping necks. It’s a far more visceral game than past outings, featuring gruesome interrogation sequences, which only involve pressing one button yet make you feel implicated in Fisher’s wince-inducing brutality.

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Games picks of the week

The Monday lunchtime technology newsbucket: links, we got ‘em

iPhones at Microsoft, Google v news, fibre inequity, Xbox sales, Apple and Google moves, dangerous link requests, dead iPad batteries and more A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Microsoft Employees Love Gadgets, but iPhone Fans Lie Low > > WSJ.com “Despite Mr. Ballmer’s theatrics, iPhone users are in plain sight at Microsoft.

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Apple sues HTC over iPhone patents

Taiwanese mobile-phone manufacturer backing Google’s Android OS is accused of infringing 20 Apple patents Apple is suing the Taiwanese handset maker HTC , alleging that it has infringed 20 patents relating to “the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware”. Among the patents that Apple alleges have been infringed are a number relating to touchscreen interfaces – for which the iPhone has become the best-known, though it was not the first, mobile device. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it

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Apple iPad will choke innovation, say open internet advocates

The Apple iPad’s closed, iPhone-like environment could shut out the next computing revolution, say industry veterans Apple’s new iPad tablet computer could hamper innovation and cause long-term damage if it becomes a hit, according to experts. Just as Steve Jobs tries to wow the world with the “magical” new device – unveiled on Wednesday at a media-saturated launch event in San Francisco – leading industry figures have told the Guardian that the machine marks a fundamental shift in the way the computer industry works.

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