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The CEO of GAME, one of the biggest UK-based retailers, has stated that the disappointing winter holiday sales are partly to blame on the lack of new consoles, saying that customers are certainly looking forward to new devices, like the Wii U, as well as the oft-rumored PlayStation 4 or Xbox 720.
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23 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Since the highly expected games Defense of the Ancients (DotA) 2 and Diablo III beta versions were released for testers, cybercriminals began posting fake game variants and cracks that carefully masquerade malicious backdoor Trojans which give them access to infected computers.
Microsoft Malware Protection Center ... |
7 January 2012
06:52 GMT |
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Raising the people 's level of awareness regarding environmental challenges is often a difficult task. Experts try to tackle a wide series of issues using unconventional methods. Two of the most ingenious ways of celebrating wildlife seem to be scientific tattoos and a new kind of game that proves some characte... |
12 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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Scientists are fully aware that climate lectures are often boring and their message is not always understood or remembered by the public. Therefore, developers have thought about including games in the learning process. 'The Climate Trail', one of the finalists in 'Gaming for Good' contest, was de... |
8 December 2011
03:34 GMT |
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Teaching people about climate change through lectures will never work. Pablo Suarez has tested this method and seen people falling asleep in their chairs. After he threw Frisbees to the bored public gathered for a conference in Ecuador, he realized fighting climate change needs a new kind of boost to become popular. ... |
2 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Facebook members who enjoy the Café World Zynga game may be presented with an advertisement that claims a certain avatar called “BBQ ENTHUSIAST” they might run across in the game is actually a malicious virus.
In fact, the warning message that foresees awful things is nothing more than a hoax, suc... |
28 November 2011
06:34 GMT |
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DEFCON attendants had a chance to play "spot the hacktivist" this weekend, as both LulzSec leader Sabu and The Jester claimed to be at the world's top hacker conference.It all started on Friday when Sabu tweeted "#FEDS #DEFCON Vendor room. Across from NO STARCH PRESS. I'm in the area. Find me and you get 0d... |
8 August 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Spanish security vendor Panda Security has launched a new campaign called "Protect Your Family" which allows users to easily obtain a copy of its Panda Antivirus Pro 2012 product that is free for three months.The new campaign features an educational game called Malware Invasion in which users have to deal with a viru... |
8 July 2011
13:49 GMT |
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Developers building games designed to work on Windows Phone 7 might want to have a look at a PowerPoint presentation offered by Microsoft free of charge designed to help them get the best performance possible out of their projects.
Considering the limited hardware resources available in smartphones today, it&rsq... |
30 May 2011
07:12 GMT |
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Alien Arena 2011, one of the best freeware, open source first-person shooter games for Linux systems was released yesterday, December 16th, as announced by COR Entertainment, LLC. Just in time for the holidays, Alien Arena version 7.50 brings major improvements and new features that smooth up the gameplay. "Alien Ar... |
17 December 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Microsoft unveils the first Kinect TV commercials with the Kinect already well-known motto: “You are the controller”. As Kinect will be launched in North America on November 4, the advertising campaign already started, and a brand new set of TV commercials have been released for promoting the webcam-styl... |
28 September 2010
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Michael Jackson, the late, great King of Pop, is set to be immortalized once more through video games, but this time it's through an online multiplayer game, entitled Planet Michael.The title, developed by SEE Virtual Worlds, will feature a world devoted to the life, music and successes of Michael Jackson, who d... |
23 September 2010
17:21 GMT |
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Though he once said he would not be coming out with a new album after his 2008 “LAX” and that he’d retire for good from making music, rapper Game has had a change of heart, as fans must already know. A new album from him is scheduled for release on August 24, which means fans have only so little to ... |
3 August 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Neurologists recorded an observer's brain's response while looking at someone playing a game. Responses depended upon the observers' implications in the game, whether they were neutral, wanted the player to win or wished for him to fail. The study is published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscienc... |
30 July 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Attempts at making of Capcom’s game “Street Fighter” a blockbuster film have been many but few managed to rise to the bar set up by fans, mostly being considered flops. Thanks to actor, filmmaker, action choreographer and, above all, “Street Fighter” fan, Joey Ansah, the community might ... |
5 May 2010
04:31 GMT |
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About a year or so ago, a report emerged saying Nadya Suleman had just filed the papers to trademark the “OctoMom” moniker, the same one she said she hated to hear people call her. She hit a brick wall though when she learned someone else had been one step ahead of her – a company that aims to come ... |
3 March 2010
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Activision was born on October the 1st, 1979, and has turned into a leader in the game industry. Its titles are expected by gamers all over the world and, as soon as launched, they spread with the speed of a tsunami. Its games are probably also the most pirated of all in the world and plenty of them are known even to... |
2 October 2009
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Although you never forget your true love, you must admit that with the constant development of the gaming industry, you sometimes find yourself in the situation of realizing how much you loved a game two years ago even if it now seems to be ancient history. The worse part is when you also discover that you have mispl... |
14 August 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Fans of the Resident Evil series and owners of an Apple iPhone, rejoice! Capcom has just released Resident Evil 4 for iPhone, a faithful port of the original console game. iTunes imagery shows that the game has good graphics, and typical shooter controls (for Apple handsets). Capcom touts the $7.99 title as “th... |
4 August 2009
09:42 GMT |
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The development team behind the linuX-gamers project proudly announced earlier today that version 0.9.5 of their Linux-based Live DVD was now available for download. Being packed with a lot of games of various types, such as RPG, FPS, RTS, TBS, arcade or puzzle, linuX-gamers 0.9.5 is a 'boot-and-play' Linux... |
26 June 2009
06:02 GMT |
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GarageGames has released a new version of Torque Game Engine Advanced, its next gen 3D game creation platform for Mac. The fresh version of the software adds cross platform support, as well as Dual Graphics API and a Mission editor.Apple's Downloads section reveals that Torque Game Engine Advanced is “the ... |
10 March 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Hollywood is seemingly interfering with the games industry on a weekly basis these days, as last week we saw EA snag the rights for a future Bourne video game, and this week features Activision, who has just announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would arrive this summer, with its action based in the univ... |
10 February 2009
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The movie industry and the video gaming one seem to be drifting closer and closer as time passes. Either by Hollywood releasing movies based on popular video games, like Max Payne or Doom, or by gaming companies releasing titles based on movies, like Star Wars or the recent Kung Fu Panda, these two branches of the en... |
3 February 2009
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Gaming site Kotaku is reporting that Apple's iPhone and iPod touch are dominating this year's list of Independent Games Festival Mobile finalists. Of the 14 titles competing in the IGF Mobile finalists, 11 are iPhone and iPod Touch games, with just one Nintendo DS entry appearing, the report notes.The sourc... |
27 January 2009
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Poker is a very well-known gambling game that offers exciting moments when you’re wining and pretty bad feelings when you’re losing. Poker is not about being lucky, as many of you might think, it is about math. When the cards are dealt, every decision you make should be based on odds, probabilities and ch... |
22 January 2009
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The gaming industry has quite a lot of emblematic figures, with plenty of them having gained worldwide fame due to their hard work and to the innovations they brought to the whole entertainment industry. One of these figures is reputed game designer and producer Richard Garriott, more fondly known as Lord British, th... |
7 January 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii has become quite a phenomenon in terms of popularity and sales across the world. The fact that it appeals to every kind of person, whether we are talking about a hardcore or a casual gamer, and that a lot of games are available for different tastes, made it a must have for a lot of people.But it seem... |
30 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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When it comes to chess, most people see themselves as falling into the category labeled “I have some skill, I may even beat my neighbors or my little niece, but I'm not really a grandmaster.” The last part is perhaps even more true, when it comes to maths. Well, to prove this to you beyond doubt, her... |
1 December 2008
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As much as you might like to work and do your best while at the office, it just comes a time in everyone’s life when one should have some rest and relaxation. And what could be more relaxing for a hardcore computer user like you (a hardcore Mac user to be more exact) than to play a little game? And what’s... |
12 November 2008
03:21 GMT |
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You really have to love Peter Molyneux. He can create hype around any kind of game, especially those made by him. Such is the case with the upcoming Fable II, which is set to hit the store shelves worldwide on October 21. It promises to give players the biggest variety of choices ever conceived in a game, with every ... |
16 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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A series of five games that are proven to improve mental abilities was distributed free of charge by Allstate insurance company to 100,000 old age drivers from Pennsylvania. Of course, they are all driving-based games, not “Diablo,” “World of Warcraft” or “GTA.” The game suite... |
14 October 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Today, THQ has announced that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is available on mobile phones around the world, not just on the iPhone and the N-Gage platform. This is great news for Star Wars fans, since the game will become available for over 850 handsets. This, in turn, means that chances are considerably high that y... |
30 September 2008
05:37 GMT |
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We all need to relax from time to time, as it has been scientifically proved that regular breaks increase productivity, as well as our general wellbeing. This is one of the reasons I decided to present what in my opinion stands for an efficient, brain cooling experience. Pingus is a lemmings-like puzzle game, which, ... |
26 September 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Playing games without the original CD/DVD may very well be the ultimate dream for all the gamers out there, forced to insert the disc each time they play their favorite games. Some have found a solution in using programs like Daemon Tools, that emulate the original media, but shouldn't there be an easier way so ... |
16 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Together with the C905 Cyber-shot flagship handset, Sony Ericsson has also announced today its first "gaming phone", Sony Ericsson F305, which comes to lure young users with its gaming-related features. As Sony Ericsson puts it, with F305 you'll be able to "play bowling in the bus" as well as enjoy lots of othe... |
17 June 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Today is the last day of Google I/O developer meeting, which is held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco. The conference was meant to offer developers using Google products a better perspective on Google's current and future applications. Unlike the previous years, this year's meeting was entitled I/O a... |
29 May 2008
03:14 GMT |
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SkyZone, the US-based mobile entertainment creator and publisher, announced its new line-up of games that will be released in the second quarter of 2008. Keeping the tradition of delivering various game genres, the new titles that SkyZone will offer range from casual puzzles to arcade and action games. Besides "F... |
30 April 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most expected PS3 and Xbox 360 games ever launched, makes a lot of victims among addicted gamers, and not only due to the fact that the stores' stocks got depleted soon after the game became available. According to ClearMyMail, wise spammers around the world attempt to speculate t... |
29 April 2008
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Yesterday, we heard the announcement that Earthworm Jim and Earthworm Jim 2 would be coming to the Virtual Console service for the Nintendo Wii, which allows everybody to play games launched originally for consoles that are no longer in production, Interplay are at it again and have revealed that they are partnering ... |
23 April 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Facebook is a phenomenon these days and anybody must admit it since the entire web talks about this social network. And because it's so powerful and popular, Facebook is able to turn a simple man into a huge star over night. This is exactly what happened in Calcutta, India after two brothers created a Facebook g... |
22 April 2008
17:51 GMT |
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THQ, global leader in developing and publishing interactive entertainment software, announced the release of a new game for Windows PCs and mobile phones: Dancing with the Stars. Based on the famous TV series airing on ABC (in the US), the new game will allow players to get in the role of the celebrities they like a... |
16 April 2008
09:31 GMT |
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eyeSight, an Israel-based game developer, recently released Ninja Strike, a new game for Symbian phones. Ninja Strike is the first mobile game that allows you to use real-life actions when playing. The game can be controlled by moving your hand in front of the phone's camera: the 3D motions are captured and turn... |
31 March 2008
09:22 GMT |
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There are times when I wish that Hollywood would be a place full of happy, intelligent and sunny people that have no trouble coming with new ideas for movies. That would spare us the huge amount of sub par sequels that the executives of the movies studios tend to release year after year. And maybe such happy, sunny p... |
13 March 2008
17:31 GMT |
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A fishy business is one that you wouldn't want to get involved into, because it usually leads to fishy results and other kinds of fishy situations. And no one wants a fishy life, right?Apparently now there is a fishy business that you would love to be in, and we're talking about a newly announced mobile gam... |
10 March 2008
10:43 GMT |
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So it's confirmed then. Spore is heading the iPhone's way. The news came straight out of Travis Boatman's (EA) mouth, and not only that, the engineer behind the iPhone version of the game also showed off a demo on the big screen. iPhone's Spore hits all the right spots, and it was all achieved in ... |
7 March 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Earlier this month, Apple owners and fans of orb-collecting fun were happy to read that a revamped version of Return to Dark Castle, developed by Z Sculpt and published by Super Happy Fun Fun, had reached its gold status and was due out for Macs. Recently, there's been talk in the news about a demo being release... |
1 March 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Waiting for the iPhone SDK, are we? Well, after watching this video, you'll probably email Jobs threatening to commit suicide if he doesn't roll it out faster. Developer Steve D. of Demiforce has come up with this Bejeweled-like puzzle game for the iPhone which not only uses its touchscreen capabilities but... |
1 March 2008
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End of the week, what do we want to do? Relax of course, and relaxing to some (many) is playing a video game. This week, Softpedia is happy to present a retro-style shoot-'em-up title for Mac by Freeverse called Neon Tango. A demo is already available for immediate download.Players launch their cyberships into b... |
29 February 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Sure, Apple doesn't seem to want to take on the video games market just yet, but that doesn't stop developers from making/porting one or two games to Macs every once in a while. It is the case of Macgamestore.com and Hidden Objects who have announced the release of The Count of Monte Cristo for Macintosh. A... |
25 February 2008
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If you're a fan of driving games as well as reaking havoc, Stunt Playground is the perfect game for you. A developer was able to port it to Macs as well, so everyone could experience the realistic physics of an object on four wheels that's out of control. Players can even design their own tracks to their he... |
23 February 2008
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