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The highly anticipated Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect by Orpheus Interactive is getting hammered in the Customer Reviews section of the App Store. Even though the game supports iOS 6.0 it doesn't support older hardware such as the iPhone 4s and iPad 3. This is causing the game to crash which has earned it a two star rating. There is also very little talk about the game on the Touch Arcade forums and there seem to very few, if none, industry reviews, making it very hard to judge if this one is a dud or just suffering from a few release glitches. Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect is available on the App Store for $1.99.

Releasing games based on popular older movies seems to becoming a trend these days. First the lackluster Princess Bride game hit the App Store a few weeks ago, and now the creators of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis have released Mean Girls: The Game for mobile devices. Mean Girls: The Game is a tower defense title where players must "fight off the new clique from piecing together the Spring Fling Tiara and taking over North Shore High School." The game is available for $3.99 on the App Store.

This is a great year for football fans who want to stream the Super Bowl on their mobile device or laptop. NBC is offering 11 continuous hours of free Super Bowl action even if you don't have a cable subscription. “Super Stream Sunday” will include pre- and post-game coverage, the halftime show starring Katy Perry and a special post-game presentation of The Blacklist starting at 10pm. iPad users can download the free NBC Sports Live Extra app to catch all of NBC's Super Bowl XLIX coverage on Feb. 1st.

If you rather watch or stream the big game using your PC or Mac, you can do so at NBC.com. Once again anyone watching the event on NBC.com during “Super Stream Sunday” will not be prompted to log-in with their cable password.

Imagine a future iPhone centered around mobile gaming. Press the home button down hard enough, and a joystick pops up right out of the device. This is the scenario pictured in the Apple patent application titled "Multi-function input device".

The home button would have two modes, button mode (left) and joystick mode. In button mode, the home button would be flush with the surface of the iPhone and act as normal. Joystick mode pushes the home button up, so it rests above the display surface. This converts the button into a full-fledged gaming control stick for the thumb.

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed during the company's earnings call on Tuesday that the Apple Watch will begin shipping in April. Cook did not announce a specific release date, but now Apple fans can stop speculating on what "early 2015" really meant. Another important piece of information we still do not know is what the various watch models will cost. We do know that the basic models will start at $349, but it is unknown how much the other collections will sell for. Apple plans to release 18 different "Apple Watch" models, 10 different "Apple Watch Sport" models and 4 high-end "Apple Watch Edition" models. There will also be two sizes available, small (38mm) and large (42mm).

There will be several bands available for the Apple Watch at launch, and users will have 11 digital faces to choose from. Other features include Apple Pay support, iMessage support, Siri support, a Glance feature and heart rate monitoring. The Apple Watch will need to be paired with an iPhone to work.

The jailbreaking community was spoiled in 2014 with not one, but two jailbreaks for iOS 8. The Pangu Team released the first iOS 8.0 jailbreak tool in October, before the TaiG team shocked everyone by releasing an untethered iOS 8.1.1 jailbreak on Black Friday. The TaiG jailbreak survived one iOS update before Apple finally killed it off today with the release of iOS 8.1.3.

iOS 8.1.3 is only a basic maintenance release to improve performance and stability. The release did not add any new major features, but it did patch the exploits used by the TaiG jailbreak tool, according to the official support page. This of course means anyone with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad should avoid upgrading to iOS 8.1.3 if they want to keep their device jailbroken.