All the stories tagged with videogames
Kiip offers real world rewards for in-game achievements
04/11/2011, The carrot and stick is a common reward system that is employed by many organizations, and even down to families. The same applies to how some games work, and Kiip, a new player in the in-game ad startup market has [...]
AR.FlyingAce lets your AR.Drone shoot lasers
04/11/2011, While the US Navy have successfully fired the first laser cannon on a ship today, the folks over at Parrot have given lasers to their AR.Done quadricopters as well, albeit they won’t set anything on fire – at least not [...]
Angry Birds becomes best selling PlayStation Network game
04/11/2011, And the best selling PlayStation Network game is…? Is it Final Fantasy VII? Not even close. It’s…Angry Birds. Rovio’s smartphone game that has players hurling frustrated birds at a legion of green pigs was the top purchased game on PSN in [...]
Ubisoft wants next-gen consoles, thinks they’ll bring new creativity
04/11/2011, Ubisoft must be out of its mind. The mega giant publisher’s CEO Yves Guillemot is blaming lack of new consoles for the drop in creative new IPs. Guillemot says that without new consoles, game publishers are too afraid to invest in [...]
PlayStation 4 not prepped for launch “anytime soon”
04/11/2011, Yeah, we’ve heard this story before. Speaking to an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, Sony reiterated that it was not preparing a plan to release a PlayStation 4 in the near future. In regards to building the video game console [...]
PS3 hacker Geohot settles with Sony over jailbreak, but did he just lose?
04/11/2011, The cat’s out of the bag: the ongoing lawsuit brought against hacker extraordinaire, George “Geohot” Hotz by Sony is over. By way of the official PlayStation blog, Hotz has allegedly settled with Sony over the entire hacking matter, with both [...]
Xbox Live to offer free-to-play games?
04/11/2011, The rumor mills are churning yet again, and this time we have what some deem to be trusted sources that Microsoft will soon make available free-to-play games over at Xbox Live.To put it in a nutshell, this means that gamers [...]
Parrot AR Drone now works with Kinect
04/11/2011, Want a more fun way to control the Parrot AR Done? Forget the iPhone, how about making use of a Microsoft Kinect instead? The Microsoft Kinect that has been made to perform a million different tasks has recently been utilized [...]
Apple rumored to have hired ex Nintendo and Activision PR staff
04/11/2011, It looks like Apple is really going full steam ahead with plans to dominate the mobile gaming market. As if letting developers sell high-quality games at budget prices on the App Store wasn’t enough to undercut the competition, Apple might [...]
Sony reflects back on 8 years of augmented reality, excited for NGP
04/08/2011, Think the Nintendo 3DS’s cute AR card games is the first video game system to take advantage of augmented reality? Better think again. Sony made a video reminding everyone that it’s the pioneer of augmented reality games, starting back in [...]
EA Sports wants one game profile to rule them all, regardless of platform
04/08/2011, When Peter Moore left Microsoft’s Xbox 360 team to become president of EA Sports, he wanted to make the gaming brand the Nike of video games. For years, Moore’s pushed the envelope for sports games, but his latest dream is [...]
Sony: Nintendo 3DS is for kids, Xbox 360′s DVDs not enough
04/08/2011, It’s just another day in the world and Sony is once again shooting its beak off. This time in an interview with Fortune, Sony Computer Entertainment of America president Jack Tretton sounds off on what he thinks about the PlayStation [...]
Don’t buy the Dirt 3 special edition unless you want a $240 R/C car
04/08/2011, Yesterday, news broke out that there would be a special edition of racing game Dirt 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 that would cost a hefty $300! Where games on those platforms usually retail for $60, special editions usually don’t [...]
