Angry Birds Star Wars is not that different from the original title in terms of gameplay. The birds within the game have been modified to resemble characters from the Star Wars movie franchise.

In the trailer below, Red Bird resembles Luke Skywalker and there’s a brand new bird who resembles Princess Leia.

Apple didn’t really let too much of the technical side slip during their press conference to unveil the iPhone, did anyone really expect them to? It’s not really their style. Fortunately it is the style of Anandtech to dig deep into what they see, they did just that with the iPhone 5.

So just what did Anandtech find? Well, using the numbers that could be seen around the side of the A6 chip during the press conference the tech site came up with a few tidbits on the iPhone 5. Those numbers that flank the chip tell the guys over at Anandtech that the iPhone 5 will come with 1GB of DRAM which will have a data rate of 1066MHz. The speed of that memory was clocked at 8,528MB/sec which means the iPhone 5 is 33% faster than its predecessor.

In a separate article Anandtech point out that the Apple A6 chip could be Apple’s first in-house creation. They found that the technology was too new to be part of ARM’S Cortex-A9 architecture and is unique from that to be found in the upcoming Cortex-A15.

If you are the type that can get through really dense material and would love to know the ins-and-outs of the iPhone 5 then you can go check out the Anandtech articles at the links below.

Anandtech iPhone 5 Memory, Anandtech A6 Custom SoC

Wii U Release Date and Price

• UK/Europe – 30th November release with prices ranging from £210-£280
• USA – November 18th with basic costing $299 and premium at $349
• Japan – December 8th priced at ¥26,250 up to ¥31,500

The prices above are for two separate bundles. The basic price will come with all the necessities you will need to get playing including the console itself, one play pad and the HDMI thingamabobs that you might need to hop in.

Electing for the premium bundle will mean that all those white will suddenly be black, you’ll get a boost in storage from 8GB to 32GB and you’ll even get a year of Nintendo Network Premium!

Woah!? WOAH?! Slow down there… What is this Nintendo Network Premium that you’ll get with your Wii U? Well, I’m glad you asked! Nintendo Network Premium will give you a 10% discount on any games you may wish to buy online with your Wii U. You’ll also earn points for purchases that can be used to buy more things! Incredible right? I actually think Sony were the first to this party with their PS+ package.

Nintendo came out with some hardware specs on the stage, it was basically like a blah, blah, blah, we’re finally making our console HD kind of thing. That’s right folks, a 1080p HD console right as 4K and 8K TVs are trying to break into the market with new content.

The console uses 75 watts while in play and 45 while in save mode, just in case there are any green gamers that may read this.

Now for the fun part! What games will we be playing on Wii U release day? Well, the list of release titles is long so here are a fe of my favorites:

• Mass Effect 3
• Madden 13
• FIFA 13
• Black Ops 2
• Zombi U
• Wii Fit U
• Assassin’s Creed III

Well, they can! They definitely will too. Sony acquired Gaikai recently, a cloud based video gaming company and documents from a supposed Microsoft leak led us to believe that they would likely implement cloud too.

If you come away from the big hardware manufacturers there’s already a fully cloud based console that is out there on the market. OnLive offers gamers streaming of games through tablets, mobile, PC, Mac or even a $99 set-top box. 

Having played around with OnLive I can tell you that the service is great! OnLive is how consoles should, and probably will, work. It brings a cheap experience, free of all the clutter of disks.

Unfortunately for OnLive they just don’t have the name recognition when it comes to selling a console to the masses, Microsoft and Sony do! If one of those companies wanted to seize the market once and for all then I think they need a console that would:

• Be small, definitely starting out about the size of the current PS3
• Fully cloud based gaming
• Intuitive and well-organized game inventory system
• Allow software resales

That last one is a tough point, companies like GameStop would disappear from the face of the planet if cloud based gaming were to become the norm. Consumers would also lose out on the ability not to sell software that they no longer use on to somebody else. A company that will allow their users to resell software is in my eyes a winner.

A recent EU ruling gave consumers the ability to sell on digital content and GameStop is looking into how it could work. If Microsoft allowed people to do this on the new Xbox I think they’d definitely have a winner on their hands.

I guess the real question is, will Microsoft or Sony want to hurt the content providers in such a way? Probably not. That’s why, in my final prediction, I don’t see the big three console makers (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) being in the business five years from now.

The future of games, in my opinion, will be run by the likes of OUYA, OnLive, and other, potentially even built-in, tv consoles.

I’d love to get some feedback on this from the readers. Let me know what you think in the comments!

NBC Olympics Live Extra

The NBC Olympics Live Extra app that is available on iOS and Android devices will allow you to watch high quality feeds of any live events that are taking place at the Olympics if you have a cable/satellite subscription in the United States.

I tried the app out for quality and I really liked it. You’re free to choose the events that you want to watch, provided that they are live, which is better than trying to find your events on the scattered coverage NBC provides through their TV viewing experience of the Olympics.

London 2012 Results App

The London 2012 Results App is also available on both iOS and Android. The app provides up to date information regarding all the London 2012 events including the latest news, medal winners and medal tables. You can also follow your home nation and keep tabs on the events that they will be competing in and medals that they may have won in the process.

I’d recommend the app if you want to keep up on the happenings around London during the thirtieth Olympic Games.

London 2012 Join In App

Are you in London for the Olympic Games? You might want to check out the London 2012 Join in App on iOS and Android. The app is perfect for visitors to the city during the Olympics as it provides maps around the city to all the venues and possible activities to do outside of the Olympics.

Another app for those in London either during or after the Olympics is the Travel Advisor app, London City Guide. It provides lots of activities and routes around the city so you can always find something to do, even after the Olympics have been and gone.

Let us know your experiences with the apps deigned for the London 2012 Olympics. If you have any other recommendations we’d love to hear about them in the comments section below or on the Facebook page, maybe even send us a tweet :D

On Monday we have the PC release of Orcs Must Die 2. The highly anticipated sequel to the 2011 Robot Entertainment developed Orcs Must Die brings with it many more missions, lots of more traps and of course, more enemies.

3DS gamers will get a new game on July 31st in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. You’ll get a variety of Disney characters to play with and it’ll take you on a similar quests that fans of the franchise have become used to.

My game of the week pick will be released on Wednesday for Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade. Deadlight, from Tequila Works is a cinematic experience that takes place in a post apocalyptic United States. Players will try their best to survive in the action puzzle platformer.

Here is a comprehensive list of video games being released this week:

Xbox 360/XBLA

• Deadlight (XBLA) – August 1st

PS3/PSN

• 4-in-1 Action Pack – August 1st

3DS/DS

• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (3DS) – July 31st
• 3D Solitaire (3DS) – August 2nd
• The Lost Town: The Jungle (DS) – August 2nd

I just went to SpeedTest.net and on a single test my Comcast “high-speed” internet connection gave me 16.42Mbps, I think that’s fast so I have no idea what the people of Kansas City must be thinking right now.

You want to know what is even more awesome about Google’s new internet service? No caps, no download cap, no upload cap, it’s all cap free along with a 1TB Google Drive storage account so that you can send large amounts of data back and forth just to see how fast your new Google internet now is.

As if all of this isn’t enough, Google also announced Google Fiber TV. Google Fiber TV comes with a Bluetooth remote, and an interface like the Google TVs that we have seen in the past. The box Google will give to use with its new TV service comes with a 2TB hard drive allowing you to record over 500 hours of HD content.

Now for the cost… $300 up front to get that fiber-optic cable to your door and $120 a month for TV and Internet. If you sign up now for that package you can even get your $300 fee waived. If you’re happy with your TV service or you just don’t want it then you can get the internet service for $70 per month.

This is just awesome, I have only one request! Expand fast Google, I want your high-speed internet.

In today’s iPhone 5 rumor we have a release date of September 21st and we have two sources involved in the break, PhoneArena and App4Phone, both of which have a good Apple rumor track record. The blogs both cite unnamed sources but they do confirm that the phone will be released on that third Friday in September.

How many KeyNoodle readers will be getting their hands on an iPhone 5 when, and if, it is released on September 21st?

During the earnings presentation Facebook announced that they had also added 55 million users since April resulting in a monthly active user count of 955 million. The daily active user count sits pretty at 552 million which is another gain from the 526 million that the social network reported in April.

The numbers resulted in a gain of 5% immediately after being announced but that quickly turned around and sent Facebook to a further 10% loss in after-hours trading. Currently the stock is trading down 9.33% in the after hours markets after already losing 8.5% in the open market today. On the bright side, it isn’t as bad as the Zynga outcome as that company’s stock had a terrible day on the open market, losing 37.48% for investors.

The OEMs were selected by the three big chipmakers NVIDIA, Qualcomm and TI. Each of the chipmakers were allowed to bring two OEMs in with them, if an OEM was not on the list then they will not be able to bring an RT tablet to market.

NVIDIA has partnered with Lenovo and ASUS, Qualcomm bagged up Samsung and HP and TI managed to get a hold of Toshiba. Most of the biggest electronics producers in the world are represented in the list but others will not be allowed to play for the foreseeable future.

The first line of Windows RT tablets will be hitting stores on October 26th. Will anybody be buying one?