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Lego Minifigures Online Trailer

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Move over World of Warcraft, It’s LEGO time!

Well almost, the MMORPG style LEGO Minifigure game, which was initially announced last year, now has a trailer that shows off some of what’s to come and I have to say that I’m pretty excited about how things are shaping up.

LEGO Minifigures Online will allow you to do much of what you would expect from an online game including gaining experience, leveling up, customizing your characters, going on adventures and exploring new worlds, but all inside the LEGO world.

The game does not currently have a release date but it is scheduled to be available sometime in 2014 for Android, iOS and PC. You can view screenshots and get the latest details about this game by heading directly to LEGO’s website.

Apple Developer Center Slowly Back Online

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Apple Dev Progress

It’s been over a week now since Apple’s Developer Center has gone offline. This is all thanks to an intruder that hacked his way into the developer center last Thursday. Apple has since promised to completely rebuild everything and to slowly bring things back online. They have created an status page that shows the progress of their developer system and as of today, about half of it has come back online.

Here’s the actual statement that was sent out to developers via email.

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

 

 

Featured App: Word Search Puzzles

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Word Search Puzzles is a free word search app that has tons of themes.

Each puzzle theme will change the words every time you play, so that you can go back to the same theme more then once. You will also be timed and rated so you can beat your scores by playing more. The app is free to play, but you have the option to buy more themes in game.

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This app is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Find it here at the App Store

Deus Ex: The Fall Doesn’t Like Jailbreaking

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Screenshot of DeusEx: The Fall Jailbreak Block (Credit: Reddit User KipEnyan)

Square Enix has apparently decided that jailbroken phones are a no-go. According to a Reddit post, Deus Ex: The Fall doesn’t allow players with jailbroken phones to fire their weapon. It’s likely that the developers are trying to prevent software piracy, which usually happens on jailbroken devices. The biggest issue here is likely going to be with those players who do not use pirated software and have other reasons for jailbreaking their phones.

Given Apple’s willingness lately to open up iOS a bit more to developers, we can only hope that jailbreaking becomes less necessary for some users. I’ll be keeping tabs on this block to see if people actually find a work-around, otherwise you’ll have to have a fresh, un-jailbroken version of iOS installed to play this game.

 

Possible Images and Video of Low Cost iPhone

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There has been a lot of speculation as to whether or not Apple will be announcing a lower cost iPhone made from mostly plastic. Many “leaks” have been showing up recently and now it seems we are getting a real good look at what might be coming this fall as Techdy claims to have the real outer shell of the highly rumored and much anticipated phone.

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Techdy believes that the outer parts of the phone are indeed a polycarbonate material and that it has a 4″ screen just like the current iPhone. Techdy has even put together a little video showing of the shell.

Whether or not this is real, it definitely looks like something Apple would put together but it could also be just a cheap replica of the current iPhone that’s meant to run some obscure OS.  I’m not really sure what Apple has in store for a lower cost iPhone but I do hope they create one. It will be interesting to see how they price the phone and how it will compete against other more economical phone solutions.