The Empire Strikes Back table for Zen Pinball looks like the one to get.

Ready to visit a pinball arcade far, far away?

Tomorrow, Zen Studios will release Star Wars Pinball for Android and iOS, giving you the chance to see how your pinball wizardry matches up with your Jedi wizardry. (The game is getting a simultaneous release for Mac, PlayStation, and Xbox.)

Zen will offer three Star Wars-themed tables as part of its existing Zen Pinball app, which is free and already offers such tables as X-Men, Captain America, and Thor. Each one will cost $1.99 via in-app purchase.

Depending on your level of fandom, "Star Wars" and "pinball" may be all you needed to hear. If that case, check out the just-released trailers for all three, then meet me below for some thoughts.

Boba Fett

The Clone Wars

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Opera's new WebKit-based browser for Android phones is due to ship by the second quarter of 2013 -- maybe even the first if Opera Software Lars Boilesen gets his way.

BARCELONA, Spain--Opera Software has dropped the new engine into its browser and now has begun revving it up.

A the Mobile World Congress show here, the company began showing for the first time its new WebKit-based version of Opera for Android. That browser is the first product from a completely overhauled product line and technology strategy for the company based in Oslo, Norway.

Opera is changing the browser engine at the core of its software, dumping its own Presto for the open-source WebKit used in Chrome and Safari. It's a radical change in many ways: many engineers are changing jobs, dozens of them left the company, and the engine must be painstakingly bolted to Opera's user interface and other features.

A tour of the WebKit-based Opera for Android (pictures)

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Registration for the Windows 8 $15 upgrade offer expires this Thursday.

Those of you who recently bought a Windows 7 PC can score Windows 8 for just $15 but you'll have to register before Thursday.

To drum up interest in its latest OS, Microsoft cooked up a couple of upgrade deals last year.

The first one allowed any user of Windows 7, Vista, or XP to upgrade to Windows 8 for $39.99. That deal ended on January 31.

The second one lets people who bought a Windows 7 PC between June 2 of last year and January 31 of this year get Windows 8 Pro for just $14.99. Though that deal expired last month, you can still register for it, but you'll have to act before this Thursday, February 28.

The registration process prompts you for your contact information as well as the brand and model of your Windows 7 computer, the retailer, and the date on which you bought it. The process ... [Read more]

Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 is able to run modern Web apps, just like IE 10 on Windows 8.

Internet Explorer 10 debuted on Windows 8, and until now was only available to people who bought into Microsoft's big Windows redo. That changes today, as Redmond rolls out IE 10 for Windows 7 (download).

The update brings enormous changes to the browser, and mostly for the better. Internet Explorer 10 is not only faster and more stable than the current IE for Windows 7, version 9, it's also far more standards-compliant.

"Gone are the days when developers aspire to build for the lowest common denominator. The way the Web becomes like an application is when you take advantage of the latest hardware. We've stopped the era of trying to maximize for aggregate browser share," Ryan Gavin, general manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, said in a phone conversation with CNET last week.

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