ShinyShiny snippets: WhatsApp launches ‘Message Yourself’ feature

WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible, right next to your other WhatsApp conversations. Called ‘Message Yourself’, the feature lets users send notes, reminders and shopping lists to themselves on WhatsApp.…

ShinyShiny snippets: GTA publisher strikes £9.6bn deal with FarmVille

The video games publisher behind Grand Theft Auto has struck a $13bn (£9.6bn) deal for FarmVille owner Zynga in a huge bet on the future of mobile gaming.  Take-Two has paved the way for smartphone spin-offs of its biggest console hits by creating one of the industry's largest mobile game publishers with sales of just over…

Top 5 Video Games That Feature Gambling

The Legend of Zelda, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Grand Theft Auto, SoulCalibur, Super Mario Galaxy, Red Dead Redemption, and Metroid Prime. These are some of the best video games ever created that still top charts to this very day, even though they’ve been around for quite some time.  These days, however, having a gambling feature…