Last December Zynga bought Newtoy, the company behind the popular Words with Friends game. It seemed like it would be just a matter of time until the game found it’s way to Facebook. Words with Friends has actually had Facebook Connect capabilities for some time now, but it hasn’t yet made the leap to being more »

What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom? Is it “I love tablets?”,or “that’s dope!” or “iPad!”? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack.” This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world. Assembled here are companies whose moves are so strange, more »

Just like the almost cult following that Angry Birds has, there is another mobile game that deserves to fit into that same category and many of you will likely have already played it or at the very least will know the name — Cut the Rope. And similar to Angry Birds, the Cut the Rope more »

We see people doing it all the time. Texting or talking on the phone while driving in their car. The reality is, this is a very dangerous combination. The New York Times put together a game having you test out that combo. When you play the game, you have to quickly navigate in between six toll booths by using your number keys, while at the same time occasionally responding to text messages.

Sci-Fi fans will have the latest round of Terminator at their fingertips. It was just announced today that Gameloft joined in a licensing agreement with The Halcyon Company to “develop, distribute and publish the official mobile game to the first film of the new Terminator trilogy, Terminator Salvation.” The release of the game is set to coincide with the date of the film release on May 22nd.

Gameloft is a top dog in the world of publishing and developing video games for mobile phones and consoles. They were formed in 1999, and have since become a top innovator in their market. Their games for mobile handsets are developed with Java, Symbian or Brew technology. And this is a booming arena. The expected number of games-enabled handsets is thought to be more than four billion within three years.

Christmas is for the kids, right? Better get them crossed off the shopping list first. I checked out a few of the wish lists floating around and thought I would share them with you. Wouldn’t you know, they are filled with electronics. We have plenty of shopping days til the holidays. That is, unless your kids want Elmo Live, which is already selling out.

What are your kids asking Santa for? Keep reading to see.

Net giant Google just revealed their plans to release their version of living in a virtual world with the online 3D social arena “Lively.” Unlike the program “Second Life”, Lively allows users to enter “their world” via IE or Firefox after the initial download and installation of the program. You can make use of integrating the Internet in several ways, bring in your photos or videos that you have hosted online, email your friends inviting them to join, or use the special pre-written widgets to embed your Lively area on your blog. Currently it doesn’t work with MySpace, they are still working on that one.

“It’s integrated with the Internet. It’s not an alternate destination,” said Niniane Wang, Google’s engineering manager for the project. “Our intention is to add to your existing life.”

AMD is introducing a new badging system on its gaming desktop PC’s called “AMD Game.” The AMD Game badging system is aimed at allowing gamers to choose their gaming PC’s specifications as if they were buying a game console. Targeting the mainstream PC gamers, AMD Game hopes to enhance the gamers experience by making it more »