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Daily iPhone App: SpellTower is a fast-paced word game with local multiplayer support

SpellTower is a challenging word game that was recently updated to version 3.0. This latest version includes retina graphics for the new iPad and local multiplayer support. Similar to Bookworm and other word games, SpellTower has a grid of letter ...

Valve teases "wearable computing" research with augmented reality overlay

Following on recent rumors pointing to Valve's interest in entering the hardware market in some way, Valve developer Michael Abrash wrote in a blog post on Valve's official site about his...

Why are video game sales looking so weak lately? Blame Nintendo.

If you're the kind of person that pays attention to the monthly reports on new retail video game hardware and software sales from industry tracking firm NPD, then 2012 has looked...

LinkedIn leak points to Xbox Live "monetization" changes for holiday season

Where would we be, as journalists and news consumers, without LinkedIn and its members' penchant for listing upcoming projects and pending accomplishments well before the public relations gatekeepers are ready to...

Fun Game: Why is it Cloudy in Sunnyvale?

Every week Mac Games and More features a fun, casual game you can play over the weekend. This week’s pick is a time absorbing adventure game with some hidden object puzzles and tells the story of a coverup of murders taking place in a...

Why Apple CEO Tim Cook Met With Valve [Exclusive]

valve-portalAn unconfirmed report surfaced yesterday saying that Apple CEO Tim Cook was spotted at Valve’s headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. Whenever Cook is spotted out and about, people take notice. The CEO of the world’s most valuable company doesn’t personally visit other tech companies to simply...

Week in Gaming: EA’s "false advertising," Microsoft’s hexadecacore rumors

This week, we took a look at a Better Business Bureau bloggers' claim that EA's pre-release hype for Mass Effect 3 amounted to false advertising, and found the reasoning a little...

Valve looking to hire hardware engineers for unknown project

Those of you who reload the Valve job postings page every morning hoping to find a way out of your meaningless, dead-end career may have noticed that the esteemed game developer...

Review: Fez’s world-spinning puzzles drive us to distraction

It's hard to think of an indie game that has had more prerelease buzz and attention than Fez. Polytron's Phil Fish has been working on the game for nearly five years...

An in-depth look at the iPad as a gaming device

Writing for GamesIndustry International, Richard Leadbetter discusses the iPad as a gaming device and goes into great details about Apple's choice of internal components. Apple's strategy with the new iPad seems to be to accommodate the Retin...

Rock Band Blitz dumbs the rhythm game down to timed thumb twiddling

When I heard that Harmonix would be showing off a new game at PAX East, I was incredibly excited to see what my favorite rhythm game developer had to offer. When...

Max Payne and Burnout Crash hit the iOS App Store

Two high-profile games, one from Rockstar Games and one from Electronics Arts, hit the iOS App Store today. The most anticipated of the two is Max Payne. The third-person shooter was originally created by Remedy Entertainment for the PC, and Rocks...