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  • Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)

    Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)
    iPad Scrabble playable on your iPhone? Pretty neat. Desktop Asteroids playable on your Android smartphone? Rather more action-packed -- and a little less expensive to get into. Androideroids is a project of Grant Skinner and runs on Adobe's Air platform. It's an eight-player game hosted on a desktop, with each participant given a first-person smartphone view of the vast expanses of space and the hollow rocks scattered throughout it. Meanwhile, a desktop client displays an overhead perspective of the shenanigans, displaying everyone's life and score. Players can either shoot asteroids or each other, tapping on the screen to thrust and fire while tilting to turn. Honestly the move to first-person doesn't seem to have done anything to improve gameplay, but this is still one game of Asteroids we'd make room for in our games folder.

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  • Civ V gameplay video is making me excited

    Civ V gameplay video is making me excited

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    You seriously do not want to Chatroulette with me right now. It would be ugly. Regardless, this new video about Civ V is amazing exciting to a Civ nerd like me. Please let it appear on Mac Steam. Please.

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  • DotWar: Twitter-based strategy game

    DotWar: Twitter-based strategy game

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    It's certainly not the first Twitter-based game out there, but DotWar, a made-in-Japan strategy/action title is a pretty satisfying time waster. The game is bilingual (English/Japanese) and actually to be played outside Twitter, on a separate site. Gameplay is pretty straightforward: Simply enter your Twitter handle to send out hundreds or even thousands of battle "units"out against another player/Twitter user.

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  • SteelSeries announces Spectrum 5xb and 4xb headsets at E3

    SteelSeries announces Spectrum 5xb and 4xb headsets at E3

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    SteelSeries announced at E3 today three new peripherals for the XBox 360: the Spectrum 5xb premium headset, the Spectrum 4xb entry-level headset, and the Spectrum AudioMixer which "allows any headset with a microphone and 3.5mm jacks to function with Xbox 360 gameplay and Xbox LIVE chat". The Spectrum AudioMixer is included in the box with both the 5xb and 4xb headsets.

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  • Nintendo and Activision bring back Goldeneye~!

    Nintendo and Activision bring back Goldeneye~!

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Part of me is stoked that GoldenEye is coming back. But then the graphics look like they are ran off of the original N64 graphic engine. So yeah, it's the classic argument between gameplay and eye candy although I could have swore that it was 2010 and that discussion was somewhat moot.

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  • LeapFrog announces Leapster Explorer on exactly the wrong day

    LeapFrog announces Leapster Explorer on exactly the wrong day

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Way to get your news buried, LeapFrog. Oh well. Anyway, LeapFrog just announced the Leapster Explorer, a crazysexycool handheld device for four- to nine-year-olds. The device has a high-res touchscreen and allows for online play. The Explorer takes over where the Leapster 2 left off and supports online play with the LeapWorld kit as well as [...]

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  • DIYer combines iPhone 3GS with Show WX for pico projected gaming bliss (video)

    DIYer combines iPhone 3GS with Show WX for pico projected gaming bliss (video)

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Worlds_First_Pico_Projector_iPhone_Camera'; The Moject project proved that smartphones and pico projectors do indeed have a thing for one another, but Ethan Janson has taken things one step further with an unnamed contraption that holds his iPhone 3GS, a Microvision Show WX and an "ancient" point-and-shoot camera. Put simply, the handmade thingamajig allows him to play his iPhone games on a far larger screen, and since the Show WX continually autofocuses regardless of distance from walls, there's never a blurring issue when flailing about in order to control the gameplay. The full skinny is down there in the source, but shortcut takers can head straight past the break for a video.

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  • SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've dreamt all your life of blowing up your third-grade teacher with spitball guns, your prayers have been answered. SketchNation is a surprisingly odd game that allows you to select all of the sprites in gameplay. You can set your own character sprite (a spitball gun, for example), the sprites for the bullets or spitballs, and even set up a boss image (your third-grade teacher). You then fly through a hail of bullets until you beat the game. Apparently you can also blow up Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, for whatever reason. Those men are saints. Anyway, if you'd like to try it out, comment below. I'll send codes to five lucky, random readers. Viel Glück!

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  • Video: More Red Dead Redemption gameplay for y’all

    Video: More Red Dead Redemption gameplay for y’all

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Presenting, more Red Dead Redemption gameplay footage~! You’ll recall that the game had a very long line last week at PAX East. It’s not exactly GTA in the Wild West, but that’s a fairly accurate, incredibly generalized two-second description. The question on everyone’s mind: Did they have iPads back then?

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  • Infinity Ward defending the cost of MW2’s DLC

    Infinity Ward defending the cost of MW2’s DLC

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    To say we were a tad flabbergasted that Modern Warfare 2's 5 map pack DLC costs $15 is about right. We weren't exactly outraged. It's just a video game after all and really doesn't matter that much. But $15 is a bit much for five maps with two of the recycled from previous Call of Duty games. Infinity Ward's Creative Strategist Rob Bowling disagrees. He calls it an investment. Well, Creative Strategist is just code for Public Relations so he kind of has to say that.

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  • NVIDIA tries creating real hair

    NVIDIA tries creating real hair

    Posted on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Ten years ago, Final Fantasy VII upped the ante on realistic portrayals of their human characters in their cinematics. It’s a good thing, too –those cinematics became a terrific reward for the hours spent acquiring EXP and levelling up to make one’s characters fortuitous enough to withstand the battles they laid in wait behind. It [...]

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  • Video: Metal Gear Solid Arcade 3D in action

    Video: Metal Gear Solid Arcade 3D in action

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    We've covered Metal Gear Solid 3D (whose first playable version was announced by Konami last week) twice so far, and now it's time to look at the game in more detail. Konami is still in the middle of optimizing the gameplay (which is based on Metal Gear Online) and hasn't fixed a release date yet. In the video embedded below, you can see a model holding a gun in her hands and wearing the "VR" 3D goggles, the main selling point of the title. Your viewpoint in the game changes in line with the direction your head (in reality) is facing. There's an analog stick on the gun, which allows you to move in the game independent of where you look in reality, too.

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  • Atari’s Missile Command (from 1980) to become live-action movie

    Atari’s Missile Command (from 1980) to become live-action movie

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you needed another indicator Hollywood has run out of ideas, here is a new one for you: Atari is about to sell the movie rights to Missile Command, a shooting game that hit arcades back in 1980, to 20th Century Fox and another movie production company. Getting the license doesn't necessarily mean we ever get to see a Missile Command movie on the big screen, but a first step has been made. And in fact, Atari already managed to auction off the rights for Asteroids, another classic action game, to Universal Pictures last summer. Missile Command is supposed to be turned into a 3D movie.

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  • Razer announces Chimaera gaming headset for Xbox360

    Razer announces Chimaera gaming headset for Xbox360

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Thankfully, Razer is finally getting into the console market. In addition to the Onza controller we told you about yesterday, Razer is also launching a wireless gaming headset to use with your Xbox 360.

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  • The Borderland’s Mad Moxxi Underdome Riot trailer

    The Borderland’s Mad Moxxi Underdome Riot trailer

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Sit back and enjoy a trailer that shows a bit of gameplay of Borderland’s next DLC expansion, Mad Moxxi Underdome Riot. [via Joystiq]

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