Spring and Summer Yardstick Games - Capcom Digital Day Delivers Downloadable Delights
Kicking off the Digital Day press event this week, Capcom’s Chris Kramer said that 2008 will be “the biggest single year in company history.”
That remains to be seen, but if its slate of spring and summer games is the yardstick, it’s gotten off to [...]
Guitar Hero III World Records Gamer’s Edition - Guinness world record goes up in flames
When the first Guitar Hero came out in 2005, a running joke inside its fanbase was the hypothetical inclusion of infamous power-metal group DragonForce in an upcoming installment of Activision’s popular rhythm-game franchise. Though the idea was initially brushed off as [...]
Electronic Arts and Its Take-Two Buyout Offer
Take-Two may have rejected Electronic Arts’ first $2 billion offer to acquire the company, but EA is trying again, this time by reaching out directly to the shareholders in a hostile takeover bid.
EA is offering to buy all outstanding Take-Two Interactive stock for $26 a share, which closed at [...]
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Play Energy Games to extract the maximum benefit?
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are trying to extract the maximum benefit from their neighbors’ misery. As the people of Central Asia shiver through the harshest winter in generations, Ashgabat and Tashkent are turning the screws, or shutting off the valves altogether, in a bid [...]
Play Online Games, or Study Harder?
According to reports, the conventional wisdom about the video-game industry is that it’s all about entertainment. But a group of 350 game designers, educators and government officials think that games can be used as a tool to teach critical thinking, and in the process, improve American education.
To Henry Jenkins, host [...]
Play video games with your brain: Human subjects play mind games
WUSTL researchers have shown it possible to play video games with your brain, not your hands. ‘Look, Ma, no hands!’ That’s using your brain.
For the first time in humans, a team headed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has placed an electronic grid [...]
Free Woman Games for Girls: Play Video Games Online
Who else is hiding woman! Nintendo?
Well, I’m working on the “becoming a video game designer” thing at the moment (as much of a long shot as that always seems), going to school for computers/art. For me, when it comes to video games (or really anything), the whole [...]
Moon Patrol Game - Play video games and classic arcade games on the Web Internet
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Classic ‘left-to-right’ shoot em’ up game that I remember playing vividly on my old Atari 2600. An impressive yet quite challenging action/shooter game with its unique 3D graphics, funky techno background music - and its revolutionary gameplay, that’s still good even [...]
Simon electronic game - Play Simon Online and Win Extra Income Prizes
The game consists of 4 large colored buttons (red, green, yellow, and blue). The game begins by the unit lighting these buttons in a particular sequence and the player repeats the process by pushing down on the buttons as they just heard them. It [...]
Star Castle - vector graphics in Asteroids and Battlezone games
You may not remember Star Castle - actually, I didn’t either - but visually this game (released in 1980) uses the same ‘vector graphics’ that are seen in games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Vector graphics are, as seen in the screen shot to the right, [...]