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Review: Resident Evil 4: Mobile Edition
By Gagan Biyani, Tech crunch
The first few times I picked up Resident Evil 4: Mobile Edition (iTunes link), I wanted to throw my iPhone out the window and watch it slowly sail 8 stories below into the Potomac river. Now, after five days of playing through the game’s 12 levels, I am ready to take [...]
Risque German Game Phenomenon Tries To Repeat Success In English
By Jason Kincaid, Techcrunch.com
Most of our readers have probably never heard of Pennergame, a controversial German game that asks players to rise from virtual homelessness to great wealth, by any means necessary. The text-based game has proven immensely popular in Germany, where it sees 1.8 million unique visitors a month and 1.5 billion page impressions, [...]
Fantasy Sports Game Developer RotoHog Secures $2 million In Funding
By Leena Rao
Fantasy sports site RotoHog secured $2 million in Series B funding from by VC funds Mission Ventures and DFJ Dragon. In 2007, the company received $7.8 million in Series A funding from DFJ Dragon, Mission Ventures, and others. Founded in 2006, RotoHog operates and develops custom branded fantasy sports games for clients such [...]
Y Combinator’s Voxli Targets Gamers With Browser-Based Group Voice Chat
By Jason Kincaid
Voxli, a new Y Combinator startup launching today, is looking to make group voice chat as simple as possible. The service allows gamers and team members to visit a static persistent URL to join a group chat session, and features push-to-talk using a browser plugin. Voxli is available on Internet Explorer and Firefox [...]
Zivix Headliner Digital Guitar Is Rock Band & Guitar Hero Friendly
By Andrew Liszewski, Ohgizmo.com
A Minneapolis-based company called Zivix has developed a real guitar with special fingertip sensors allowing it to be used with games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. The idea is that players who’ve spent countless hours mastering the games might actually be able to learn to play a real guitar at the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gateway P-7808u FX 17″ Notebook PC
By Sze, itechnews.net
Gateway launches the new P-7808u FX notebook PC, which is now available from J&R. Powered by an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 2GHz processor and a NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS with 1GB RAM, the P-7808u FX is perfect for gaming.
This new laptop has 4GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVDSuperMulti DL burner, [...]
Microsoft drops Xbox Live Gold membership price
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Microsoft is hoping to entice Xbox Live Silver members to upgrade their accounts by offering a $10 discount. The promotion is for a limited time only, though the company has yet to confirm how long the offer will stay open for, and brings the price of a Gold subscription down to $39.99 [...]
Fallout 3’s The Pitt DLC dated for March 24
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Bethesda has announced that the next bit of downloadable content for its Fallout 3 title will arrive on March 24. The new content, dubbed The Pitt, takes place in an industrial raider town located in the remains of Pittsburgh and will introduce new weapons while focusing on the conflict between slaves and [...]
Amazon launches game trade-in program
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
In a move sure to irk some game developers, Amazon.com has just introduced a new used game trade-in program that lets consumers send in their old video games in exchange for store credit. The process is fairly simple: Find the game on Amazon’s trade-in beta site to see how much it is [...]
Two Twitter Games That Help Make Your Day Less Boring: @TwitBrain And @BeatMyTweet
By Robin Wauters – Techcrunch.com
If you’re procrastinating on Twitter anyway, might as well train your mind while you’re at it. Here are two simple games that make use of the microsharing service’s functionalities and keep your brains busy while tweeting:
TwitBrain
Follow @TwitBrain and get served calculations on a regular basis (like 3 per hour). If you’re [...]
RCTiger.com: Real-time web-based tank warfare
By John Biggs
We received an email today telling us about RCTiger.com, a German website that lets you move little remote control tanks around a simulated battlefield. While I was quite skeptical at first, once I started the game I was taken aback at the fun I had running little Tiger tanks over miniature trees.
The system [...]
GamersGate, an alternative direct-download games service
By Devin Coldewey
When people think of games on demand, Steam is usually the first thing that comes to mind, since so many of us have it by default, after having bought Half-Life 2 and whatnot. But there are services that have been around for just as long and which offer the same huge variety of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Aqua Moto Race For Your iPhone
By Jason Kincaid
It’s no secret that the iPhone is one of gaming’s hottest new platforms, and while many of the games on the App Store leave something to be desired, every once in awhile we stumble across a game sporting very high production values that rival dedicated videogame systems. This weekend, Resolution Interactive unveiled a [...]
