You guys know my stance on seeing console games coming to mobile devices, but this information today has me at least a little excited. Borderlands, one of my favorite games ever, had its sequel announced as coming to Tegra 3 devices recently. The makers of the game, Gearbox and NVIDIA invited many people to PDXLAN 19 and many were expecting to see a next-gen GPU and most came away disappointed when all they were shown was two games. I’m obviously not one of those that was disappointed. 

The hotly anticipated PS Vita will be on sale tomorrow but rumor has it if you have an HTC device you might just get the next best thing. Apparently, HTC is set to be the first company besides Sony themselves to get their phones Playstation-certified. This certification means that the chose devices will get access to the Playstation store and some PSOne games that you could then turn around and play on your phone. Crash Bandicoot anyone?

Playstation admits that companies have been slow to jump on, but maybe that’s because they saw how well the Xperia Play did. When can we expect the certification on our devices? Well the rumor has it sometime in the second half of this year, but Mobile World Congress is at the end of this month and if HTC is looking to make a splash do not put it past them. Which PSOne game do you most want to play on your phone?

Via: Pocket-lint

Root tools are all the rage these days. It lets the Android devs put together a package to help people root and modify their phone who otherwise may not be able to go through and do all the adb commands or coding. The latest that we have come across is a utility tool for the DROID RAZR. Released on XDA and only working on Windows for now, this tool allows you to do almost anything you can think of with your RAZR.

Restoring a stock system image, installing the rootkepper app, and even rooting can all be done through this nifty little script. Head on over to XDA and download it if you are interested. This only works on Windows so far so be warned, and please make a backup before you do anything to your precious phone.

Via: XDA

By now, we all know and love our 4G LTE network that the various carriers are providing for us. Still even now though, LTE is not used for any voice duties, only data. Verizon specifically uses 3G or CDMA for any voice calls, but thanks to a new test by a Qualcomm chip, the MSM8960 Snapdragon S4, full LTE use is in sight.

This new chipset allows for a single radio to handle the LTE/CDMA handoff seamlessly. This means there doesn’t need to be two separate radios for data and voice. What does this mean for the consumers? Smaller phones and better battery life without the need for multiple radios. When VoLTE (voice over LTE) becomes more commercially focused these chips will be invaluable to our phones.

Via: Engadget

Well, you asked and Valve listened. The Steam app for Android is now open to everyone with a Steam account, so you can download it and start chatting it up with your buddies on your phone. The app is still under construction in some areas but I get the feeling that this will be getting frequent updates to fix all the problems.

In a bit of “I am not surprised” news, it seems that any apps offering the Steam functionality that were not licensed by Valve have been disappearing from the Market. Steam actually had an API available to the public so that they could make apps if they pleased, and there were a few pretty decent ones. However it seems that now Valve is in the game officially they would like you to kindly use theirs.

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Talk about games that I can get excited about coming to Android. When Capcom recently announced their newest upcoming game, Ace Attorney 5, they also dropped the bomb that the first three games in the series would be getting re-releases with updated graphics. Ace Attorney 1, 2 and 3 will be coming to “Android devices.”

Mums the word on release date or what devices those will be but we will hear when these games get closer to releasing. The Ace Attorney HD games will cost you about $7.80 a piece or you can buy the trilogy for around $15.60. The Ace Attorney games are a cult classic and if you have not had the chance to play one before I would highly suggest trying one when they do release, they are great games.

Via: Siliconera

Cheers Rob!

There was a reason why I said that Valve was one of my favorite companies yesterday. We got hooked up with access to the closed beta of the Steam Android application that hit the market yesterday and all I can say is “wow.” The app was tested on my Galaxy Nexus and has worked perfectly and better than expected on every aspect of the app, bringing all of the functionality of Steam to your phone, except for the part where it does not play Skyrim.