Briefly: Pac-Man Meets Crossy Road, Samsung T1 Portable SSD

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including Crossy Road’s developers tackling Pac-Man and Samsung’s new portable SSD.

• Hipster Whale, the Aussie developers behind cross-platform hit, are working on a Pac-Man reboot called Pac-Man 256 which is expected later this year. Pac-Man sequels have been generally awful, but Crossy Road’s sympathetic take on Frogger gives us hope.
• Gizmodo’s reviews team has checked out the Samsung T1 Portable SSD and reckons it’s an expensive but speedy option if you need lots of data in a ridiculously compact form factor.
• The battle to be Australia’s tallest building just shifted again: a proposed tower in Parramatta will be 90 storeys and 336 metres high.