Posts Tagged ‘ gaming ’

Week in gaming: Move review, new 360 D-pad, console repair

September 4, 2010
By Ben Kuchera
Week in gaming: Move review, new 360 D-pad, console repair

Would it be sad to admit I was excited when our Move feature was pimped on the official True Blood twitter account? If so, chain me to the sad pole, because that was awesome. We went toe-to-toe with...
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Telltale releases Puzzle Agent on the iPhone, iPad

September 4, 2010
By Mike Schramm
Telltale releases Puzzle Agent on the iPhone, iPad

Just an FYI before you start your Labor Day weekend (and any associated trips): Telltale Games has released its latest title, Puzzle Agent, for the iPhone and the iPad. The game got middling reviews on Metacritic, but I think that's mostly because of ...
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5 Fun Games: Getting Drawn, Solving the Crop Circles Mystery, Slinging Your Gun and More

September 3, 2010
By Cate Defrise
5 Fun Games: Getting Drawn, Solving the Crop Circles Mystery, Slinging Your Gun and More

Happy Friday! Here’s this week’s selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include a highly anticipated adventure game sequel, cards mixed with guns, mysterious crop circles and more...
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Flick this! Croke puts Crokinole on the iPhone

September 3, 2010
By Sebastian Blanco
Flick this! Croke puts Crokinole on the iPhone

Crokinole is a beautiful, simple game with a long history. In the tradition of pool and Carrom, Crokinole is a dexterity game that pits two (or four) people against each other around a circular wooden board. Players try to flick little wooden discs tow...
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Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both consoles and PC

September 3, 2010
By Ben Kuchera
Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both consoles and PC

The news of an upcoming announcement at PAX, followed by a tweet that showed the image of a flying pig. These were the hints pointed at a momentous occasion in gaming history: Duke Nukem Forever will see release...
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Epic Citadel shows the bright promise of iOS gaming’s future

September 3, 2010
By Chris Rawson

Epic Games, creator of the Unreal 3 game engine, has been working on getting Unreal Engine 3 running in iOS for a while now. They showed off some of their efforts with a demo of "Project Sword" at Apple's iPod event, and Mike Capps of Epic Games tal...
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Ivy the Kiwi on the Wii, DS is a wonderful, addictive surprise

September 3, 2010
By Ben Kuchera
Ivy the Kiwi on the Wii, DS is a wonderful, addictive surprise

Ivy the Kiwi was created by Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic is a character that continues to enjoy a strong following, and the series gives any follow-up work a huge shadow to live under....
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Valve Software’s Portal Re-Imagined As Classic Apple Text Adventure [Video]

September 3, 2010
By John Brownlee
Valve Software’s Portal Re-Imagined As Classic Apple Text Adventure [Video]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bBv1WkMUFs Valve Software’s transcendent physics and teleportation puzzler Portal already runs sublimely through Steam for Mac… as long as you have a modern MacBook Pro or iMac. But what if Portal wasn’t a mod...
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The virtual play-by-play: talking StarCraft 2 with Mike Husky

September 3, 2010
By Ben Kuchera
The virtual play-by-play: talking StarCraft 2 with Mike Husky

StarCraft 2 has been doing some serious business: Blizzard has recently announced that the game has sold 3 million copies in the first month of availability. Mike Husky is certainly doing his part to keep the game popular;...
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Epic’s Mike Capps talks about Epic Citadel and the future of iOS gaming

September 2, 2010
By Mike Schramm
Epic’s Mike Capps talks about Epic Citadel and the future of iOS gaming

Gamasutra cornered Epic Games' Mike Capps (he of the very impressive Epic Citadel demo yesterday at the Apple special event), and Capps confirms that what you see running on your iPhone is the real deal -- Unreal Engine 3, with all of the bells and w...
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