All Entries Tagged With: "games"
Angry Birds For Blackberry Update
Angry Birds Space was released on the Blackberry platform a couple of weeks back, and has now been updated to version 1.1, with a new Fry Me to the Moon level for those poultry-catapulting addicts who’ve already completed the first two levels. The menu layout has been tweaked, and the ‘Coming Soon’ teaser image is [...]
WikiPad – first gaming tablet
Gaikai usually competes with OnLive in the cloud gaming sphere, but has now announced that it is teaming up with WikiPad to priduce the world’s first tablet specifically geared towards gaming. At CES this January the WikiPad was on show as a concept design of an Android slate designed to work in synergy with a [...]
Sonic Moves Up Gear For Mario-style Racing Game
Sonic is the iconic Sega hedgehog, and he’s been around a while. Now Sonic is taking to life in the fast lane with Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – with the most brilliantly dynamic vehicles which morph from cars to planes to boats according to the racing environment. The game will be released on a [...]
NVidia GeForce Experience app
It’s can be tricky trying to eke out the best frame rates on your NVidia graphics cards, especially when differing display resolutions are taken into account. Now NVidia has launched its GeForce Experience software app, the culmination of a 5-year project at NVidia, where the company has built a data center, complete with supercomputer, crammed [...]
Mozilla Browser Gaming
Mozilla has just released a new game, BrowserQuest, which runs purely in the browser environment, making use of the various HTML5 elements with such HTML5 elements as ‘audio’ and ‘video’ in what Mozilla claims is a ‘tribute to classic video games with a multiplayer twist.’ Hopefully the tribute-aspect is to blame for the slightly dated [...]
Street Fighter X Tekken for PS Vita
Anyone who likes a bout of digital fisticuffs might like Street Fighter Tekken, which amalgamates two of the most successful fighting games ever into a new fighting experience. The new game will run on all major consoles and on Sony’s new Playstation Vita handheld console, albeit with a few alterations. The Vita version will will [...]
Sonic 4 now good for ICS
Until now Sonic 4 Episode 1 was not compatible with the new Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade to Google’s Android 4.0 operating system. Now SEGA have finalized their update and Sonic 4 can be played on ICS gadgets, whether the Transformer Prime or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Sega claims Sonic 4 is the game users waited [...]
Nintendo Wii U at CES
Nintendo showcased their newest and hottest at the CES 2012. Free Nintendo DS Roms reported a new Wii U spotted at their booth. Wii was around since 2006 and they’re many followers who swear by it. Of course this CES clearly showed a stiff competition coming from tablets (especially the quad-core ones), ultrabooks and most [...]
Microsoft Selling Kinectimals In The App Store
In a somewhat shocking move, Microsoft Studios has launched its Tamagotchi-like tiger cub mobile game Kinectimals in the App Store. Retailing at $2.99, the app enables users to nurture a litter of tiger cubs in the style of the original Tamagotchi games. Users can also play mother/zookeeper on a companion Xbox 360 version. Earlier this [...]
Video Games – Forty Years On
It is now ‘bigger than Hollywood’ but the video game industry is just forty years young. In November 1971 Computer Space, thanks to Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney , first video game appeared. Prior to founding Atari, the dastardly duo manufactured the world’s first coin-op arcade cabinet, and in so doing produced the first ever [...]
