Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Samsung CTO Responsible For The Galaxy Tab Line Steps Down
July 20, 2011 – 9:26 pm | No Comment
Omar Khan, the Samsung CTO who was responsible for the rise of the GalTab and other Android-powered smartphones, is moving to Citibank to handle that company’s global digital banking initiatives. He will be replaced by Nick Dicarlo and Gavin Kim in “product and service spokesperson responsibilities for Samsung Mobile.” Clearly this whole hardware thing didn’t work out for him. These sorts of lateral moves aren’t unusual but for Khan to have led a fairly successful run of tablets and cellphones and then decide to roll over to a bank ...
Ubergizmo Giveaway: Two Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Win!
July 17, 2011 – 5:38 am | No Comment
Ubergizmo Giveaway: Two Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Win! We have recently closed the previous Android tablet giveaways, but if you missed out on those, here’s another chance to get one of the coolest Android 3.x tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 features an impressive design which is light and comfortable. Ubergizmo is teaming up with NVIDIA to give away two (2) Samsung Galaxy Tab 16GB/WIFI. Here’s an overview of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, by NVIDIA: Get amazing performance—to go—with the super-thin Samsung Galaxy Tab, ...
Samsung Galaxy S II/ Galaxy Within spotted headed for Sprint?
July 16, 2011 – 2:07 am | No Comment
Samsung Galaxy S II/ Galaxy Within spotted headed for Sprint? The Samsung Galaxy S II – one of the most anticipated Android phones that still hasn’t reared its head on this side of the world yet might be on its way to Sprint. The folks over at This Is My Next managed to get their hands on some photographs showing what appears to be a Samsung Galaxy S II phone that’s been branded with the Sprint logo. Samsung ...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Now Available from Verizon for Pre-order
July 1, 2011 – 11:48 pm | No Comment
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Now Available from Verizon for Pre-order Tablets are so popular that just about every hardware manufacturer in the game no matter how big or small has come forth with their own offering. As we’ve told you countless times the current undisputed king is none other than the Apple iPad which has managed to secure a hefty portion of the market. However, Apple is not the only company seeing success in tablet land as Samsung is another company with several tablets on the market falling into their Galaxy Tab line up. While the Galaxy Tab ...
eBay Lists Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi for $529
June 28, 2011 – 5:18 pm | No Comment
eBay Lists Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi for $529 Many different companies have hopped on the daily deals wagon including Amazon, Groupon and even Google. However, there is one website that consumers have been going to for deals quite some time and that is none other than eBay. If you’re not familiar with eBay you’re sure to be living under a rock as the online auction house has been alive and well for over a decade. Seeing how eBay is no stranger to deals it’s really no surprise that they too have hopped on the daily deals ...
Samsung Infuse 4G Coming to Rogers Soon Complete with Android 2.3 Gingerbread
June 18, 2011 – 10:01 am | No Comment
Samsung Infuse 4G Coming to Rogers Soon Complete with Android 2.3 Gingerbread Samsung is one of the most well known names in the Android world with many different devices, including smartphones and tablets, on the market. While much of their success can be attributed to the Samsung Galaxy S, they do have many other smartphones planned and already on the market that are quite noteworthy. Of these devices, the Samsung Infuse 4G is a prime example with a massive 4.5-inch AMOLED Plus display, 1.2GHz Hummingbird processor, 1GB of RAM, 8/16GB of internal storage, 8 megapixel rear facing camera with 1080p video capture and ...
Samsung Indulge launched on Cricket Communications today
June 7, 2011 – 7:08 am | No Comment
Samsung Indulge launched on Cricket Communications today Folks who are on Cricket Communications, we have some great news for you. The carrier has just announced that the Samsung Indulge (SCH-r915) to be available on Cricket’s network starting today. The Indulge will be the first Samsung Android device to be included in Cricket’s smartphone line up. The Samsung Indulge packs a 3.5″ display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 1GHz processor, Android 2.2 with Samsung TouchWiz 3.0, a 3-Megapixel camera/camcorder, a microSD slot, stereo Bluetooth, WiFi, and a 1,500mAh ...
Samsung Galaxy S 4G (Refurb) Hits T-Mo’s Prepaid Site With $350 Price Tag
June 3, 2011 – 10:44 pm | No Comment
Samsung Galaxy S 4G (Refurb) Hits T-Mo’s Prepaid Site With $350 Price Tag On a scale from one to ten, how excited do you think we were to see the Samsung Galaxy S 4G (Refurb) go live on T-Mobile’s prepaid site? If you guessed somewhere around a six or a seven, good job! If you guessed eleven, you don’t quite understand how scales work. While the Galaxy S 4G isn’t exactly a brand new piece of kit (it’s a few months old at this point, and likely to be replaced by the Galaxy S II before too long), we still ...
Samsung’s lawyers want access to the iPhone 5 and iPad 3
May 29, 2011 – 3:16 am | No Comment
Samsung’s lawyers want access to the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 Here's a big case of "Good luck with that." Samsung's lawyers are demanding to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3, according to ThisIsMyNext. Samsung says it needs to see Apple's upcoming devices because its iPhone and iPad competitors, the Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab 10.1, will likely be on sale around the same time. Samsung wants to make sure it can spot any possible similarities so it can be ready for any potential legal action from Apple. Last week a judge ...
Honeycomb Has A Fighting Chance Against The iPad
May 15, 2011 – 5:16 pm | No Comment
Honeycomb Has A Fighting Chance Against The iPad If you’d asked me a week ago what I thought about Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android, I would have said that it was in very bad shape and that it would be several months before it could even hold a candle to the iPad 2. Because despite my excitement to see Android take on Apple’s ridiculously successful iPad, my experience with the Motorola Xoom — the first Honeycomb tablet — has been  decidedly poor . From day one things were off to a bad start. At first, ...