Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve seen the HTC HD2 running essentially every mobile operating system from its birth till now, but nothing could have prepared us for this: hackers have ported in Windows RT! This operating system is meant to be a sort of half-way point between full-on desktop mode and mobile for the Windows tablet universe hoping to join in on the Windows 8 fun – it’s creators certainly never intended it to be worked with on a smartphone. But there it is, on the HTC HD2, no less, the most-hacked smartphone of all time, without a doubt.

What we’re seeing here is a set of users, both CotullaCode and StroughtonSmith, working together to bring this tablet-loving OS to the smartphone. This user interface is made for much larger devices and certainly wont be widely used by smartphone hackers, thus exercise thusly made real for the fun of it – or for the challenge of it, of course. You’ll see int he gallery below a set of shots of the OS working on the old HTC Windows Mobile device, with the name “LEO computer” simple to see.

At the moment we’re not being told how it was done, but our friendly source assures us that “it was helped by the EFI implementation he wrote for WP8.” This of course refers to the Windows Phone 8 hacking of the HTC HD2 from earlier this year – just near the end of November 2012, that is. You’ll see this and a collection of other HTC HD2 ports in the timeline near the end of this post.

Meanwhile you’ll want to know that this hack is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for the public. At the moment, the creators have no intent of sharing their precise method nor an instructions manual for the meek. You’ll just have to close your eyes and imagine the possibilities.

– Thanks for the tip, Steve!

Windows RT ported to HTC HD2 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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House Speaker John Boehner told lawmakers in a Thursday conference call that work would resume in Washington on Sunday, one day before the nation reaches the fiscal cliff.

“We are waiting on the Senate,” Boehner said to House Republicans, according to Politico.

“The House has acted on two bills that collectively would avert the entire fiscal cliff,” Boehner said on the conference call, according to BuzzFeed’s Rebecca Berg.

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Although the deals universe is waking up from its pre-Christmas torpor and shifting into a Boxing-week frenzy, it’s a different kind of sale we’re seeing. Instead of promo codes that take a percentage off everything in the store, we’re seeing sale sections balloon. That means instead of deals on stuff you actually want, a lot of sales this week are deals on stuff that nobody wanted—and that’s why those products are on clearance. More »

Those who received a physical copy of The Walking Dead on Xbox 360 for the holidays are experiencing some rather game-breaking issues. It appears that some players are having to deal with freezing and stuttering while playing the game. If you’ve ever played one of Telltale’s titles, you know that most of them make good use of quick time events – those aren’t very easy to complete if your game is stuttering or freezing entirely.

Indeed, in posts on Telltale’s forums, some users are saying that the stuttering issues are make it impossible to complete quick time events, thus making it impossible to progress in the game. It gets worse too, as stuttering and freezing aren’t the only issues players are experiencing. Some are attempting to begin episode 2 only to have the game drop them back at the beginning of episode 1.

There are even some who are saying that their choices aren’t transferring from chapter to chapter – for instance, a character who died in episode 1 is suddenly alive in episode 2, while those who made it to end of the first episode are nowhere to be found in the second. These are all pretty big problems, so it’s no wonder players have flocked to Telltale’s forums to complain. Telltale has released a statement on the issues, saying that they seem to only affect 4GB Xbox 360 Slims. That doesn’t appear to be the case though, as people using other Xbox 360 models are reporting problems with their game.

In any case, Telltale says that it will continue investigating the problems and will hopefully have more information on them soon. Here’s hoping these issues get ironed out quickly, because Telltale has quite a few fans asking for a refund at the moment. While these problems persist, it might be a better idea to go for the downloadable version of The Walking Dead if you’re planning to play through it on Xbox 360.

[via Joystiq]

The Walking Dead retail release plagued with freezing issues on Xbox 360 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Oh come on, people. An 8-year-old foster child in Harlem opened a donated Christmas present to find a baby bear. And also a real pistol, which she thought was awesome, and started waving it around and showing everyone. It was inoperable, thankfully, but good lord who is putting guns in little kids’ presents?? More »