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  • Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)

    Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video)

    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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    Android + Asteroids + multiplayer = Androideroids (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Square Enix considering adding Move support to Final Fantasy XIV

    Square Enix considering adding Move support to Final Fantasy XIV

    When the Move comes out this September, it'll be the games that drive rather people actually buy the peripheral or not. Square Enix is already looking toward that future, and plans to add support for titles like Heavy Rain, SOCOM IV and Final Fantasy XIV.

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  • Video: Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes loves WWE All Stars

    Video: Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes loves WWE All Stars

    This was truly a life-changing moment. Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes was at THQ's E3 booth today promoting the upcoming release of WWE All Stars and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011. And wouldn't you know it, he told me to beat it! Yes~!

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  • Fart Battles for iPhone. It’s what’s inside that counts!

    Fart Battles for iPhone. It’s what’s inside that counts!

    There’s not much to say about this new iPhone app created by Popkiller Games that isn’t covered in their youtube promotional video (see below). The bottom (ooof) line is that you need this app because, well, you fart! The app measures and categorizes a plethora of data on each fart and stores audio samples in your very own [...]

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  • On E3 liveblogs

    On E3 liveblogs

    We’re not doing them. There’s no point. Everyone from G4 to SpikeTV to IGN (edit: and Gamespot) to the manufacturers themselves have live video streams and you should watch those rather than reading our dribble. We will however be on hand for some personal action with the new hardware and games as quick as possible. [...]

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  • Kudos to ESPN’s World Cup live stream

    Kudos to ESPN’s World Cup live stream

    Here's a slight update to my World Cup "all you need to know" post from yesterday. I completely forgot to mention that ESPN3.com is streaming all the games live and totally for free. No need to mess around with shady P2P streams.

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  • Homefront is an exercise at in-game advertising

    Homefront is an exercise at in-game advertising

    Look at that pic. Lumber Liquidators, eh? That’s some major in-game advertising right there and there’s more. In fact, Lumber Liquidators is in four of the eight pics Joystiq featured in their preview post making me think that something big goes down in the shadow of a huge ad. I’m all about keeping the retail [...]

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  • Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 ‘Rockstar’ contest wraps up, neat apps ensue

    Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 ‘Rockstar’ contest wraps up, neat apps ensue

    The success of Windows Phone 7 as a commercially viable mobile platform will ultimately depend on a great many things, but one of the biggest factors might be its chops as a gaming setup -- so naturally, we're excited to see each and every WP7 game that gets previewed right now. In March, Microsoft kicked off its so-called Rockstar competition, where student teams competed to make awesome apps (games or otherwise) for the platform in their choice of Silverlight or XNA -- and the results of the competition are finally in. Two of the top three winners were games, and the grand champion was a game by the name of -- wait for it -- "Droid." Members of the team are receiving $8,000 plus a Windows Phone, and while none of these apps are the most polished things in the world, it's a promising sign that these students were able to come in fresh on a brand new platform and produce solid version 1.0 software in less than three months' time. Hit up Microsoft's Windows Blog for the full list of winners.

    Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 'Rockstar' contest wraps up, neat apps ensue originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • England manager delays launch of player-tracking Web site amid criticism

    England manager delays launch of player-tracking Web site amid criticism

    People who hate to see technology in soccer, rejoice! England manager Fabio Capello has delayed the launch of the so-called Capello Index, a Web site that would have tracked various statistical measures of England players. It was to have started with the World Cup next month and continue into the Premier League season, but the whole project has been shelved for the time being.

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  • MU Interactive Table: You know, for kids

    MU Interactive Table: You know, for kids

    So this thing, called MU, is a "multi-media installation" that shows kids some kind of music and fairy tale thing that teaches them "hearing, musical, and creation." Now kids need computers. Amen. But what they don't need is computers teaching them "hearing, musical, and creation." They "hear" every day, they can play music with a bucket and a stick, and they can create with crayons. They don't need computers.

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  • Amazon selling Dreamcasts again

    Amazon selling Dreamcasts again

    It’s so much fun that brand new Dreamcasts are still available in limited supply. Both ThinkGeek and Amazon have sold them occasionally in the past and now they are back at Amazon with the original description and user reviews from 1999. Classic. It could be a great way to spend $89. Games are widely available [...]

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  • Next webOS update pinned down for late May or early June

    Next webOS update pinned down for late May or early June

    If you're already up and running on webOS 1.4.1.1, it's time to lay off of the Update button for a while. Palm just sent out an alert to developers detailing their plans for the next minor update -- and as long as our math isn't failing us, the dates work out to somewhere at the end of May or the beginning of June.

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  • Benheck’s PS3 Slim laptop has blast processing

    Benheck’s PS3 Slim laptop has blast processing

    Well well well, look what Benheck has come up with. It's a PS3 Slim laptop. It's everything you need to play God of War III in one handy package. And, if you're a wealthy person, Mr. Heckenorn will happily construct you one!

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  • Virtual Boy TV spotted on eBay for $50,000

    Virtual Boy TV spotted on eBay for $50,000

    For the low, low price of $50,000 you can have your very own Nintendo Virtual Boy TV. Originally used by developers to output their games on a TV (for testing purposes!), you can re-live all the fun you had playing Mario Tennis at Toys R Us, but at home, and on TV!

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  • Rumours of a 3D Motorola Handset Rise From Below

    Rumours of a 3D Motorola Handset Rise From Below

    3D is pretty hot right now. There's the movies, the TVs, the games, the handhelds, and, well, why not the mobile phones? Photos of a rumoured 3D phone by Motorola surfaced today, and while the screen on the device looks 2D on my monitor, there is reason to believe that the screen is, in fact, a 3D thingo.

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