10,000,000,000 App Downloaded!

As of now, ten billion apps have now been downloaded from Apples App store. After an ongoing countdown approaching the momentous number, Gail Davis of Oprington, Kent, UK, acquired the ten billionth download on Saturday morning (January 22). As a reward for her purchase of Paper Glider that day, Gail was awarded $10,000 in iTunes credit. (Makes me wish Id gotten that billionth download!!)

During the countdown, Apple released posts of its top paid and free apps. The top games sold were, unsurprisingly, Angry Birds and Flight Control. Also unsurprisingly, Facebook dominated as top unpaid application.

The top free apps

Industry/Political News - Politician to Make Games to have Cigarette Box-like warnings

Congressman Joe Baca (D-Califorinia) tried to introduced legislature in 2009 on display a label warning of links between violent video games and aggressive behavior. The proposal was denied. Read more about the 2009 legislature here.

Cut to 2011, where he has now proposed the exact same legislature with the exact same information, only the difference now is he's backed by Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Virginia). The Virginian Congressman adds that like smokers being warned about cigarettes via labels, we should warn parents and children about the growing scientific backed

Console News - Take your Sony Playstation anywhere!

At Sony's Tokyo Press Conference, Sony announced that they would get into the Android market by releasing PS1 titles, but instead of having their customers download titles one at a time, they would have a program that would act like a suite for the games. The Playstation Suite will also be available on PSP2 as well.

Among the first PS1 games to launch on the service will be Wild Arms, Cool Boarders 2, Rally cross, Medievil and Syphon Filter.

This is great in this blogger's opinion. Because there really isn't that many games for my Android phone aside from the usual. Though I would be concerned about the memory and battery life of my little Samsung moment. But we will just have to wait and see

Industry's biggest to make bigger changes

What is going on in the lead industry workplaces? Is it just me, or have some major companies been making some major changes? Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google will be stepping down from his role on April 4^th. But, he is not leaving the company. Schmidt tweeted,Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed! Meanwhile down at the HP headquarters 4 directors, Joel Hyatt, John Joyce, Robert Ryan and Lucille Salhany will all be stepping down. According to CNN it is due to wake of intense criticism and several shareholder lawsuits over how HP dismissed former CEO Mark Hurd. And to top off the major changes in companies, the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave. Jobs sent out a letter

EVIL CONTROLLERS CELEBRATES WOMEN WITH NEW IMAGING, NEW FASHION, AND THE FIRST EVER GIRL GAMING MONTH

Tempe, AZ. (November 2010) – Let February be the month to celebrate a gaming population that frequently goes unrecognized and underappreciated! With Valentines Day right around the corner, Evil Controllers has taken it into its hands to officially deem this February of 2011 Girl Gaming Month. This month will be all about womens empowermentand, with a few new developments from within the Evil Labs, Evil Controllers hope to do just thatto find a way to empower any girls game.

February 1^st marks the release of brand new imaging for all of Evils controllers, the tough as nails yet stylish Pink Camouflage controller. A little bit of pink might just be what everyones game needs, men and women alike.

The Pink Camo controller will be discounted to begin with, or can be bought together with the Girl

Evil Controllers is on Inc Magazine

Inc. Magazine's February issue hit news stands and Evil Controllers is featured inside! The article discusses some cool new video game devices to keep your gaming fresh. One of those 4 cool new devices? THE EVIL D-PAD! The article is available online and in print on page 48!

The article may not put the devices in a ranked numerical order, but we will happily take the number 2 spot after a little something called the Kinect. This article only reaffirms that Evil is the only place to go for customizable controller

Super Bowl Commercials!

At the beginning of each yeah, most everyone is looking forward to keeping their new years resolutions, going to the gym more and THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! This is one of the rare times that many viewers do not prerecord the show and fast forward through all the commercials. In fact many viewers enjoy the commercials just as much as the enjoy the game itself. Each fan has their personal favorite, from the Snickers: Betty White, to the E-Trade: Jealous Girlfriend commercials. CNN released a sneak peek of the upcoming Super Bowl Ads. Their previews include, an add for Teleflora which include the Grammy-winning singer, Faith Hill , an add for careerbuilder featuring chimps, an add for Pepsi, which is featured twice, once for a low-cal Pepsi Max beverage, then again for allowing their customers to create the adds for Doritos, an add for GoDaddy which will be featuring Jillian Michaels who will be accompanying Danica Patrick, and an add for Bridgestone who features

Retro Halo Game

Ever wonder what Halo would be like if it had been done for the original Nintendo? Eric Ruth has answered the question by creating a retro 8-Bit Halo: Combat Evolved called Pixel Force Halo. Definitely a cool title to check out if you've been curious about the kinds of design decisions that have to be made when a game gets transformed from 2D to 3D or vice-versa.

Pixel Force Halo is a Contra-like side-scroller that incorporates what makes Halo, Halo, in a way that makes the games feel like it's doing more then just simply creating a game with a Halo skin. The 8-bit versions of the weapons found in the Halo franchise actually work in

Apple CEO Sick

Heres an interest piece of gossip for those of you who frequent both our blog and potentially Perez Hiltons as well. Apparently, Steve Jobs, Apples mastermind and infamous CEO, is taking his third leave of absence since 2004 for health related issues. The length of the absence has yet to be determined.

Apple has no word on why he is taking the current leave, but in the past, Jobs has dealt with pancreatic cancer. Hopefully it has nothing to do with that!

As a result, Apple stock has already dropped by 8 percent overseas, in tandem with the announcement, although U.S. stock prices did not change.

Apple COO Tim Cook will be taking over day-to-day responsibilities until Jobs return.

Angry Birds, a popular mobile game where players solve puzzles by sending flying birds into structures housing the porcine adversaries who stole their eggs. As if the game hadnt already invaded your iphone, ipads, other mobile devises its about to invade either your computers or televisions as an animated series. Mikael Hed the CEO of the Finland-based company that created the mobile game said, "We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now -- to work on broadcast content for 'Angry Birds.' " Also Mattel is working with the company to create a board game of real life Angry Birds which should be out in May.