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Yahtzee Now Available on iTunes

There are three ways to win in this addictive game from Electronic Arts. You can either roll dice on your own, compete for the top score against the CPU, or go head to head with a friend. Download difficulty levels for added challenges. iTunes now hosts Milton Bradley's popular dice-poker game Yahtzee, iPod vers...

18 February 2008
07:56 GMT

MWC 2008: Disney Launched its New Platform for Mobile Phones

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its new ad-supported Disney.co.uk portal for mobile phones, which brings the Disney digital entertainment experience closer to mobile consumers. Following Disney's philosophy to provide compelling content anytime a...

13 February 2008
04:29 GMT

Steven Spielberg and Electronic Arts Reveal the Ultimate Wii Game

A lot of rumors could be heard in the past few weeks regarding a mega game that was going to come from Steven Spielberg. Some feared that we'll get another E.T. game, others were fantasying about the coolest sci-fi game in the world. Nobody was expecting a Wii title and that is exactly what Steven Spielberg and ...

7 February 2008
03:26 GMT

Windows Worm Stealing Gaming Usernames and Passwords

A new worm has been spotted in the wild and, as far I can see, all the addicted gamers out there are vulnerable unless they got their computers protected. Security vendor Trend Micro writes that WORM_LEGMIR.FU affects most versions of the Microsoft operating system, including Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2...

9 January 2008
08:37 GMT

Women Drink More Than Men in Drinking Games

This time, the researchers have participated themselves in such parties, not relying on self reports of the subjects. The results about drinking games and themed parties, published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, have been a surprise. "Most studies use survey methods that require people to recall the...

8 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Jessica Simpson Is a Blonde Jinx with a Twist

I always suspected there was something not quite right about Jessica Simpson. Didn't you ever wonder how come this fabulously-looking woman who's got pretty much anything she could ever wish for (a great career, a great family...) still has so much s**t going on? OK, maybe I was exaggerating with the "great...

17 December 2007
03:21 GMT

Various Hunting Traditions

Not all the hunters prefer the same game and not all hunt the same way. Of course, some prefer to "hunt" women, but to each his own. For example, in England roe deer and rabbits are not that much appreciated as game species, being left to the rangers, and nobody would think to shoot wild doves, which can become agric...

7 December 2007
08:59 GMT

7 Things You Did not Know About Olympic Games

1.The five Olympic circles represent the five continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia. They are connected to symbolize the sports friendship amongst all the people in the world. 2.The Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius" means "faster, higher, stronger" in Latin. 3.The Olympic flame burned ...

7 December 2007
08:17 GMT

Users Addicted To Games And Movies Downloads

Teacher: "Tell me, Jonathan, what do you like to do when you're connected to the web?" Student:"Well, I visit websites, I chat with my friends through Yahoo Messenger, I check my email and I download games and movies." Teacher: "Games and movies? How do you manage to download such large files?" Student: "It'...

30 November 2007
09:49 GMT

Do You Know What Looks Better? Your Second Life

Let's not get started on the actual game, going back and forth over whether it is your life lived another way, your second choice to do it all over again or just a time consuming application. I wanted to add "mindless" to that last option but I would have given away my opinion about it and I want to keep it a se...

16 November 2007
09:22 GMT

Football Fans, Beware!

Football fans have a serious reason to be happy, as the famous Championship Manager game will be brought again on the mobile platform: Championship Manager 2008 is to be released on November 2007 by Eidos Interactive, a leading developer and publisher of entertainment software. After the big success with Championship...

9 October 2007
09:49 GMT

Mobile Version of Addictive Puzzle Game Announced

Taito, the Japanese game developer, announced that one of the most attractive puzzle games ever created will be soon available for mobile devices, via North America. Bust-A-Move: Mobile Mania is the game we're talking about and it brings a brand new network option that enables players to compete against other pl...

8 October 2007
11:35 GMT

Coolest Security Tool Ever!

Now this is certainly something really nice! Researchers are advising users kindergarden-style! These people are going out of their way to help people stay secure. Of course, the best way of protecting yourself against the threats on the web is to know what they are and how to act against them. That's why the br...

2 October 2007
06:52 GMT

The 'Playstation Generation' Has Low Immunity

It seems that the future generations will live in a 100 % sterile plastic box, spending all day playing computer games and watching television. But these behaviors in children nowadays seem to lower their immune system, making them more prone to infections and diseases. It is a combination between many parents' ...

2 October 2007
06:40 GMT

Video Games Make Women's Brain Function Like Men's

Men and women come from different planets. That's a scientifically proven fact: male brain is better when it comes to navigational and spatial skills (like reading a map in a car or visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams, mentally rotating objects, judging line angles and dis...

29 September 2007
05:26 GMT

Delta Force for Mobile Phones, the New Version

Vivendi Games Mobile announced today the availability of the latest Delta Force game for mobile phones, sequel to the award-winning mobile Delta Force launched last year by the same company. The game is based on the well-known Delta Force Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre from NovaLogic. In the new game, players control th...

27 September 2007
09:37 GMT

Aliens and Nokia's SNAP Mobile Platform

Nokia announced that D3Publisher, a famous console and casual games publisher from Japan, is developing Java games using Nokia's SNAP Mobile platform. The first title to benefit from the SNAP Mobile platform is Earth Defense Force, a hit game of the Japanese developer, available at the moment on PlayStation 2 an...

20 September 2007
09:06 GMT

SINA Joins Nokia in Multyplayer Game Competition

The leading online media company in China, SINA, announced today that it has joined Nokia, as a sponsor, in its Mobile Rules! Multyplayer Competition which has the purpose of discovering new talents in mobile game developing. This way, SINA is not only helping the global search for new talents but will also bring a n...

18 September 2007
09:20 GMT

The First True Online RTS Mobile Game

Mikoishi, the Singapore-based game developer and Nexon Mobile, the Korean game developer and publisher, recently announced the upcoming release of SteamIron: The Fallen, declared by Mikoishi as being "the world's first true online Real Time Strategy game for mobile phones". The game will be released in November ...

10 September 2007
09:55 GMT

Do You Play Games at Work?

The market research Information Solutions Group conducted a survey concerning the employees who play games at work, revealing that no less than 24 percent of the respondents admitted they played video games during the working day. The research included 2,842 employees and was conducted by PopCap.com, a website which ...

6 September 2007
06:20 GMT

Fast, Furious, Play!

Handmark, the world leader in mobile media content distribution and development, together with I-play, the famous mobile entertainment company, announced a new game distribution collaboration. According to it, successful I-play games for BlackBerry devices will be distributed globally by Handmark via its distribution...

31 August 2007
08:58 GMT

Capcom Games for Nokia's N-Gage Platform

Nokia and Capcom, the Japanese video game developer and publisher, announced yesterday that, in 2008, Capcom will be publishing games on Nokia's N-Gage, the next generation mobile gaming platform. The companies did not announce, though, what particular games from Capcon will be published. The collaboration bet...

28 August 2007
09:10 GMT

Nokia's SNAP Mobile Games Go to China

Nokia announced today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in China the beginning of a collaboration with SINA Corporation, a Chinese leading online media company that provides value-added information services. SINA Corporation just launched five mobile games powered by SNAP Mobile, Nokia's Java gaming solut...

27 August 2007
09:19 GMT

AGEIA PhysX Goes Mobile

AGEIA is a well known company among the gamers, game development firms and hardware manufacturers communities that introduced some time ago a revolutionary processor dedicated to complex calculations that could make computer games feel more real. Unfortunately, the hardware support for such calculations already exist...

22 August 2007
10:10 GMT

Nokia Wants to Make German Gamers Happy

Nokia announced today at the GC Developers Conference - the leading conference for game developers in Europe - that SNAP Mobile Games will be available in Germany starting from this year's third quarter. To begin with, the German gamers will be able to enjoy the flagship games from SNAP Mobile's Pocket Part...

21 August 2007
08:49 GMT

Casual Games from I-play to the N-Gage Platform

Nokia and I-play, a well-known mobile entertainment company, will collaborate in order to bring a series of casual games to Nokia's N-Gage platform. The first games delivered by I-play to Nokia, available from 2008, are Super Mah Jong (based on the ancient Mah Jong) and World Rally Championship, which has FIA WR...

20 August 2007
08:47 GMT

YouTube Not As Popular As Online Gaming

Market researcher Parks Associates conducted a new study concerning the online video platforms and the impact of online gaming over the users from every corner of the world. According to the research, 34 percent of the Internet users over 18-year-old played at least one online game while 29 percent of them connected ...

17 August 2007
17:06 GMT

Do You Like Music and Games? How About a Combo?

AdME, sub-division of SONiVOX, a leading supplier of sound products and technology, recently released a new music-driven mobile game on US' largest network, AT&T. The game is called GuitarStar, uses an innovative beat-matching technology and enhances the player's level of engagement by being the first game ...

5 August 2007
12:04 GMT

New Laptop for Gamers from MSI

The new GX700 Extreme Edition is expected to be a revolution in the field of gaming laptops. As LAN gaming events become more popular every day, this is also a great opportunity for the gamers to show off their hardware equipment. The Taiwanian producer MSI took this into consideration too when he decided to produce ...

30 July 2007
11:56 GMT

What Makes a Good Baseball Hitter?

Perhaps the aspiration of a not so literate father is to see how his son becomes a great hitter. Well, a new research shows that it is not all about training, but genes too play a role in tracking balls and other moving objects, as revealed by a new research. "Our results show that individuals vary tremendously in th...

25 July 2007
04:36 GMT

Google Prepares Search Engine for Ringtones, Mobile Games

The Mountain View giant improved its mobile side a lot recently but it seems like it plans to assault the market with one of its top technologies: the search engine. Wall Street Journal reports that sources around Google said the company is interested in building a revolutionary technology that would allow the consum...

17 July 2007
12:36 GMT

Wanna Play Online? Try These Websites!

The online gaming industry is one of the most attractive markets for most of the big companies as it brings huge profits to all involved names. A recent study conducted by comScore revealed that no less than 217 million people are forming a huge online gaming community dominated by one of the most famous companies on...

10 July 2007
08:48 GMT

Video Game Addiction, Classified as Mental Illness

Video game makers will have a nasty surprise. Their products can turn you into a sociopath: living only in your room, ignoring friends, family, even food, sleep and shower, driven just by the obsession of levels and soars. Many researchers believe one can become as addicted to video games as he/she can be to heroin. ...

25 June 2007
05:24 GMT

Exclusive GTA IV Trailer Prepared by Yahoo

The Sunnyvale company Yahoo recently signed an exclusive deal with the producer of the famous game GTA IV to show trailers, photos and other multimedia content concerning the upcoming well-known title. Although there is no official statement about the agreement, PSPSPS sustains that Yahoo bought the exclusivity for t...

22 June 2007
08:50 GMT

Mobile Gaming Deal Between Nokia Siemens and Maxis

Nokia Siemens Networks was chosen by Maxis, a top Malaysian mobile operator, to integrate, host and deliver "Master of Maya" - a brand new interactive mobile game. Ready to be launched at the end of this month, the new game will allow subscribers to use their mobile devices and play online, competing against each oth...

31 May 2007
09:43 GMT

Spider-Man 3

It's the season of great expectations as we're drooling for GTA IV and Starcraft II and frantically unpacking the new Spider-Man 3 and Shrek The Third games. Well, new doesn't always mean better and this is also the case with Spider-Man 3, in its dreadful PS2 version. Why would I say such a thing? It&#...

19 May 2007
15:49 GMT

Sony's PS3 to Be Secretly Monitored by Google

The Mountain View Company Google filed a patent that reveals the search giant's intentions to monitor the gamers' activity and use it for the advertising platforms. SPOnG reported that Google wants to do this without the approval of the users because the search giant might intend to sell the gathered inform...

15 May 2007
08:55 GMT

Furcadia Online

This title here doesn't say much to me. At least not at first sight. But what's good is that this game could replace many a bigger game like World of Warcraft, Lineage 2 or who knows what other MMORPG. From what we know, Furcadia is a magical world where animals have learned to walk on two legs and speak -...

5 May 2007
05:02 GMT

GlobalFun and [adult swim] Have Nonconformist Plans

Since yesterday, 30th April, it's official: GlobalFun, a leader publishing company famous in the wireless entertainment development world, announced in London that they will collaborate with Turners [adult swim] to create mobile games. The first project is to develop a game based on "The Brak Show", [adult swim]...

1 May 2007
10:08 GMT

Yahoo to Host Online Poker Room

Yahoo prepares to launch an exciting project that will attract the poker fans from all over the world: a poker room that will enable clients to play the game using real money. The company recently signed a deal with St. Minver Ltd. that will help the giant portal design the gaming solution. According to Online Casino...

30 April 2007
15:06 GMT

Fantasy Sports Enhanced by Yahoo

Yahoo's sports content is attracting a considerable number of users because the giant portal offers a wide area of information. Today, Yahoo released a new version of Yahoo Sports for TV, a move that was prepared to lure baseball fans to the company. However, most of the upcoming Yahoo visitors will be attracted...

26 April 2007
08:58 GMT

Google Granted Game Patent

One month ago, the search giant acquired Adscape Media, a company meant to design in-game advertisements able to expand the advertising platforms powered by Google. It seems like the company really plans to build a powerful in-game advertising solution because Google recently granted a game patent that provides a lot...

30 March 2007
06:31 GMT

Gates vs. Brin - Search Engine Smackdown

Have you ever wanted to be one of the Google founders, Larry or Sergey or maybe Bill Gates? If the answer is yes, this interesting game is the perfect solution for your need. Pronet Advertising designed an interesting flash to imagine a search engine smackdown between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The battle is based ...

28 March 2007
05:08 GMT

Ozura Launches Come On Baby Mobile Game

Ozura Mobile recently announced the launch of the world's first Infant simulation mobile game, Come On Baby.The highly-acclaimed game will be rolled out across the globe to reach millions of mobile subscribers through Ozura's extensive distribution network. Come On Baby, a casual game which introduces great...

28 March 2007
04:06 GMT

Vivendi Games Mobile Launches Office Wars

Vivendi Games Mobile recently announced the forthcoming launch of its new life-based simulation game - Office Wars. Office Wars is a funny office-based sim which takes place in a seafood company populated by employees that should have never met.Choose from 4 sarcastic employees to play with. Each of them has their ow...

16 March 2007
10:02 GMT

Mac Platforms to Develop Wii Games

Unity is an authoring utility meant to create 3D video games and currently available only for the Mac OS X platforms but able to design products for both the Mac and Windows operating systems. Although the support for developing games compatible with Nintendo's Wii game console was announced some time ago, Over ...

15 March 2007
05:43 GMT

Games on Apple TV Confirmed?

Apple updated yesterday iTunes to 7.1 and QuickTime to 7.1.5. While the QuickTime update was mainly a bug-fix release, several additions were made in the iTunes release. The application now supports Apple TV, has improved sorting options and allows full-screen Cover Flow.Today, after a more thorough analysis of the u...

7 March 2007
06:00 GMT

Ozura Mobile Delivers Mobile Games in South Korea and Japan

Ozura Mobile has recently signed an agreement with Korean-based wireless solution company, Nemodigm.As part of the agreement, Nemodigm will distribute Ozura's mobile games through its distribution network of carriers and partners, which enables 139 million mobile subscribers in South Korea and Japan to experienc...

7 March 2007
05:57 GMT

Cold Fear

Having played Resident Evil 4 a couple of weeks ago, I'm still looking for a scare that would make me feel the same as Capcom's title did. Although nothing compares to Silent Hill, when it comes to nightmarish universes coupled with fierce zombies, I decided to give Cold Fear a shot. The title of the game m...

6 March 2007
05:49 GMT


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