Archive for the ‘Games’ Category
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
My good friend Lex Friedman has just released a game called Let's Sing. It's an asynchronous guessing game, sort of like Draw Something, except you're given a song which you must hum, whistle, or la-la-la enough for the other player to guess. I've been recording my plays with a guitar, ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
My friend Kyle Richter has just released version 3 of Trivium, his iOS trivia game. It's currently free on the App Store, with additional question packs available for in-app purchase.
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Steven Sande has some nice things to say about Typewar for the iPhone.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Eldarion and Massively Overrated are proud to present the Typewar iPhone app (iTunes link).
Our thanks to the Eldarion team for putting so much time into creating an API for us. Jay and I could not be more pleased.
Posted in Games, Software |
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Via Kotaku:
But with the Nintendo DS posting record sales in America during 2009, the exec said this was not the time to discuss when this successor will hit the market.
While the two companies are often compared, the difference between Nintendo and Apple is that Apple never waits for sales to ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore gamer — I don't play Halo or Gears of War, or any of the sports titles — but I do occasionally get sucked in by well-crafted games. Here are my favorites of 2009.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
It deserves all of the awards being heaped upon it ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Kotaku has an interesting look at a young stay-at-home mother who obsessively collects achievement points in Xbox games.
I feel bad for her husband, but far worse for her kid.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
From Kotaku:
During that same period, net sales were down 34.5 percent compared with the same period last year. Net income as down 53.4 percent from the same period last year as well — from 144.828 billion yen to 69.492 billion yen in the period ending September 2009
This is what happens ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
The iPhone has a new $1.99 word game from Rogue Sheep, the guys behind the Apple Design Award-winning Postage.
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Four months after moving, and I still haven't even turned the thing on. Finally, Nintendo gives me two good reasons to keep the Wii around.
Super Mario Bros. Wii (multiplayer side-scrolling!)
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The former coming out in time for the holiday season, and the latter coming sometime in 2010.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Why? Because they can.
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I'm pretty sure it's not even possible.
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Excellent article from Marcus Zarra at Cocoa is My Girlfriend:
No one is going to pay you for adding code to your software that is targeted at pirates. However you have a good chance of losing money if your customers get caught in your anti-piracy code and can’t use their software ...
Posted in Design, Games, Software |
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
MTV Games and Apple Corps have announced an exclusive Beatles game from Harmonix, the Rock Band folks. This is not, however, a Rock Band-based game.
The game will be a journey that will take you through the entire Beatles catalog, from the first album to the last. There will be an ...
Posted in Games, Music |
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Kotaku rounds up their coverage of last night's Nintendo event. The important stuff:
Nintendo DSi, because the lack of a camera was killing the DS
The world demanded more Punch-Out
Re-releasing GameCube games to confuse people
Saving games to the SD slot almost solves a problem
The larger screen on the DSi might be nice. ...
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