Posted by jolt3500 on December 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The iPhone is already touted for its gaming prowess almost endlessly, but it looks like things are about to take a pretty big leap forward. Epic Games has been crackin’ away at an iPhone port of their Unreal Engine 3 — the engine that powers such jaw-droppingly beautiful games as BioShock, Mirror’s Edge, Gears of [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

All things Gears of War will be discussed at today’s Gears of War: The Gearsiverse panel, featuring Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski and Rod Fergusson, just for starters. We’re in the hall, livebloggin our little hearts out. Dude and Rod will be joined by Gears of War movie scriptwriter Chris Morgan, Gears of War comic book [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

It’s easy for those of us with HDTVs to forget that not everyone has them yet. And Epic’s Mark Rein’s stat that over half of Gears of War 2 players played it on an SDTV really brings that home. If you’re wondering why Microsoft and Sony are going to drag this current generation of consoles [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office assigned the maker of the Xbox 360 and publisher of Gears of War the feature to offer seamless switching from solo to co-op gaming in squad-based shooters. The patent, #7,559,834 was invented by James York of Austin, Texas and filed back in the original Xbox era [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Here’s the latest action:
Confidence is coming back among venture capitalists — So says the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index, which measures the mood among dozens of well-known VCs.
Facebook sued for click fraud — RootZoo says its own analytics show discrepancies over how many Facebook users clicked on RootZoo’s ads.
Gawker says ad revenue up 35 percent [...]
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Posted by jolt3500 on July 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

About 50 rungs further down the innovation ladder, some new Apple patent applications revealed this morning are definitely less interesting and complex than the few we covered last week. In fact, considering some of the technology has already existed for quite some time we’re not even sure why Apple is attempting to patent a few [...]
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