Hunger Games: Catching Fire - for iOS and Android

 The Reliance Games and Lionsgate have announced the next chapter in The Hunger Games saga to mobile devices (Android and iOS). 

Hunger Games: Catching Fire Game

It's based on the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which opened in theatres worldwide on last November, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Panem Run mobile game puts the movie's action in the palms of players' hands. The game will employ both competitive and social elements, allowing players to challenge fellow Hunger Games fans to see who can bring glory to their District, achieve the greatest distance, and attain the highest score.

"With its epic story of struggling for survival, The Hunger Games franchise lets us recreate the competitive world of Panem in a social mobile game," said Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games. "In partnering with Lionsgate, we'll build a community of Hunger Games fans, teaming up to face unique challenges together as they run through the Districts of Panem.""

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Panem Run mobile game it's a fun and exciting complement to the film's spectacular action and story," said Danielle De Palma, Lionsgate Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing.

You can download the Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Panem Run, via Google Play and iTunes app stores.

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Apple "World's Most Valuable" by Forbes

Apple logo : Photo bostinno.co

Apple has topped the 'World's Most Valuable List' compiled by Forbes magazine with a brand value of $104.3 billion, nearly twice other technology major Microsoft, which has a brand value of $56.7 billion.

"The Apple name is as strong as ever. Apple is the most valuable brand in the world for a third straight time at $104.3 billion, up 20 percent over last year. It is worth nearly twice as much as any other brand on the planet by our count," Forbes said. Meanwhile, Microsoft's brand value has remained flat over the past three years, as the company struggles to make a transition from PC to the mobile world, the magazine said.

"Growth has slowed, but it is still one of the most profitable brands in the world with operating margins of 34 percent in its latest fiscal year," it said.With a brand value of $54.9 billion, Coca-Cola was ranked third in the list, followed by IBM ($50.7 billion), Google ($47.3 billion).

Among the top 10 brands, McDonald's, with a brand value of $39.4 billion, was ranked sixth, followed by General Electric ($34.2 billion), Intel ($30.9 billion), Samsung ($29.5 billion) and Louis Vuitton ($28.4 billion).Brands from US-based companies make up just over half of the list of 100, with the next biggest representation from Germany (nine brands), France (eight) and Japan (seven). Technology brands are the most prevalent with 19, including six of the top 10.Samsung, which came at No.9, had the strongest one-year gain of any brand in the top 100, up 53 percent to $29.5 billion. The company's value soared 136 percent over the past three years.

"Sales for Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone have been on fire and the company also benefits from its market leading position with memory chips," Forbes said.

Forbes, however, said the value of a brand can collapse in the complex, fast moving technology world. Forbes had valued the Blackberry brand at $6.1 billion last year, but this year it stood at just $2.2 billion and has come out of the top 100 brands list.Similarly, three years ago, Forbes had deemed the Nokia brand worth $27.3 billion, ninth highest in the world, while today it is worth $7 billion, which ranks the company at the 71st place.

Forbes valued the brands on three years of earnings and allocated a percentage of those earnings based on the role brands play in each industry. The 100 most valuable brands span 15 countries across 20 broad industry categories.

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Angy Birds Go! So expensive at $100

Are you fun of Angry Bird's apps? You might be shock with this news. Rovio's upcoming kart racing game, Angry Birds Go!, will be full of in-app purchases with some priced as high as $100. While the game will be widely launched on December 11, the Finnish developer has now launched it in New Zealand via Apple's iTunes App Store as part of a soft launch. Mobile gaming focused website PocketGamer, has
already previewed the game, and discovered that it's a free download but features a number of in-app purchases including cars, energy systems, pay-for power-ups, multiple currencies and advertising priced as high as $100.

Angry Bird Go! Photo: www.konbini.com

The Angry Birds Go! preview also describes the game play, mentioning that the action can be controlled with tilt or touch but one can't jump and drift. Races can be started by catapulting birds from the start line.
 
The report points out that Angry Birds Go! power-ups can be used free of charge once or twice following which one needs to use premium currency, in the form of gems to buy power-ups. To purchase gems after you run out of the initially allocated quantity, you need to pay in real cash.
 
Karts can also be upgraded through in-app purchases, and most notably, there is even a Big Bang Special Edition car, that costs a whopping $99.99.  It even uses a waiting system wherein you'll need to "re-energize" your player by paying in gems, or have to wait for it to be ready.While there's still time for the game's full launch, and there might be some changes, as the initial reaction has been of outrage, similar to how mobile gaming enthusiasts reacted to games, like Real Racing 3, which were full of irritating in-app purchases.
 
Rovio released the game play trailer of Angry Birds Go! last October. It is a kart-racing game that brings the Angry Birds characters to a brand new downhill kart racing set-up. The game would be available worldwide on December 11 on all major mobile platforms including Android, Apple ios, Windows Phone 8 and even BlackBerry 10, via respective app stores. 
 
Angry Birds Go! will be the 8th game in the popular series, following the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds Star Wars II and Angry Birds Friends, and excluding the Bad Piggies spin-off.  

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Apple iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

iPad Air will be available in Philippines later December this year next to iPad mini with Retina display has already release lately, Apple's authorized distribution partner has announced via a press release.The distributor also confirmed that 16GB Wi-Fi iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display will be available at Php 24,800 and Php 19,180 respectively. These prices are in line with others had exclusively revealed around 3 weeks back.

Apple Ipad Air

From what I had read earlier, but not yet announced by the distributor, the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB iPad Air Wi-Fi only models will be priced ranges from PHP28,980, PHP33,880 and PHP38,780 respectively. The 16GB iPad Air with cellular connectivity will be priced at Php 24,080. The 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models will be priced at Php 35,280, Php 40,180 and Php 45,080. 

Also the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB iPad mini with Retina display Wi-Fi only models will be priced at Php 24,080, Php 28,980 and Php 33,880 respectively. The iPad mini with Retina display and cellular connectivity will be priced at Php25,480 while the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models will be priced at Php 30,450, Php 35,280 and Php 40,180.

As what I had read at apple site, Apple will continue to sell the 16GB iPad mini without Retina display for Php 15,490 for the Wi-Fi version. However, the cellular model is expected to get a price bump to Php 21,990. The iPad 16GB iPad 2 will continue to sell for Php 18,990 and Php 24,900 for the Wi-Fi and cellular models respectively.

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