Posted by jolt3500 on December 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
XKCD, the online “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” has taken a jab at the iPhone in today’s comic “iPhone or Droid.”
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“iPhone or Droid” XKCD comic
Girl: Well, it depends what you want. The iPhone wins on speed and polish, but the droid has that gorgeous screen and physical keyboard.
Boy: What if I [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There are three things going on with Hello Kitty Online that render me completely unable to look away.
The first is the whole massively multiplayer online game aspect. That’s the last video game genre next to first-person shooter I would have thought of for a Hello Kitty game. Developers Sanrio Digital and Typhoon Games along with [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I’ve never knew hell would be so much fun. Well, it is, and you can enjoy a visit to hell yourself with Doom: Resurrection (iTunes Link) for the iPhone. As soon as I picked up my iPhone, I was brought back to the days of my youth. As just a child, I remember the sadistic [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Infinity Ward brought Modern Warfare 2 to New York City last night and educated us a bit about the game’s lengthy co-op, ever-changing name, suspiciously inexpensive night vision goggles and more.
The developers of Activision’s first-person-shooter fall juggernaut showed their game on the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan hotel, with drinks offered, a big screen [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Would Custer’s last stand have been his last if the General brought an M-16 to the party? These questions and more are answered in Darkest of Days, coming September for the Xbox 360 and PC.
Darkest of Days is a time-travelling first-person shooter, developed by 8monkey Labs and published by Phantom EFX, hitting retail shelves [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Kill counts have become the rage these days for first-person shooter games. Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 1943, an online-only World War II shooting game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is a perfect example of how you can use them to motivate players. On the official Battlefield 1943 web site, you can see the number [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Blizzard set its sights on one “front line release” for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn’t so sure Blizzard can make it.
The day after Activision pushed back sci-fi first person shooter Singularity, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 was met with some amount of befuddlement and a heap of “WTF?” But Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime says, eventually, you will say “Wow, I get it.”
Reggie tells Fast Company that the same confusion—and maybe even some mockery—followed the introduction of the Nintendo [...]
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