Tagged: Gaming
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Amazon has a new game studio, and a literary Facebook game (video) News
07.08.2012 Amazon has revealed its new games team, Amazon Game Studios, along with the release of a new social game for Facebook, Living Classics, that sees gameplay take place amid the... -
London 2012 hurdles: interact with today’s Google Doodle to spur athlete on News
07.08.2012 You could be forgiven for whiling away a few minutes on today’s Google Doodle, which allows users to try and get an animated athlete to jump over hurdles at the Olympic Games by... -
More than half of mobile gamers play at home News
06.08.2012 ‘Mobile’ gamers seem to misunderstand the meaning of the term, with more than half of those surveyed in the US and UK opting to play games on their mobile device while at home,... -
Samsung brings motion-controlled Angry Birds to smart TVs News
03.08.2012 Samsung has introduced an Angry Birds app for its range of smart TVs. Developed by Rovio, the app lets smart TV viewers play the popular pig-destroying game using gestures... -
Sony seeks avid gamer to judge LittleBigPlanet for PlayStation Vita competition News
26.07.2012 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is seeking a gaming enthusiast to judge the best creations by the LittleBigPlanet community for PlayStation Vita in a Europe-wide... -
Uniloc sues Minecraft, EA and others for patent infringement News
23.07.2012 Copy protection software company Uniloc has filed a lawsuit citing 10 companies – including Electronic Arts and Mojang, developer of Minecraft – whom it alleges have infringed... -
Tech start-up of the week: ThoughtBox News
22.07.2012 Our start-up of the week is ThoughtBox, a new venture that’s on a mission to disrupt the way kids learn maths and science via interactive games. The company’s first app...Categories: Software Development, Software, Science, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Education, Apps -
Become Batman with The Dark Knight Rises mobile game (video) News
20.07.2012 Unless you’ve been living in a bubble under a rock on the moon, you might be aware that there’s a new Batman movie out this weekend. And, like any good summer superhero...Categories: Multimedia, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Irish start-up BatCat Games launches P-3 Biotic twin-stick shooter for PCs News
19.07.2012 New Dublin-based indie developer BatCat Games has unleashed its twin-stick bacterial shooter P-3 Biotic on IndieCity and IndieVania. P-3 Biotic was released on the Xbox LIVE... -
Marvel attempts to distract from The Dark Knight Rises hype with Marvel Heroes trailer (video) News
19.07.2012 Though all the focus this weekend will on Batman as we reach the world premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, Gazillion Entertainment don’t want the DC Comics hero to steal all the... -
NASA reveals Mars Rover game for Xbox 360 News
17.07.2012 With NASA's planetary rover Curiosity on a trajectory for an early August landing on Mars, the space agency has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new game for the Xbox 360...Categories: Software Development, Science, R&D, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Energy, Education, Apps -
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn live-action series trailer debuts at Comic-Con (video) News
13.07.2012 Today at San Diego Comic-Con International, 343 Industries and Microsoft unveiled the trailer for Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, a live-action web series that provides a prelude to... -
Amazing Alex, Rovio’s follow-up to Angry Birds, has finally arrived News
12.07.2012 We've been waiting for this one for awhile! Amazing Alex, a new puzzle game from the creators of Angry Birds which involves creating contraptions out of household objects, is... -
Angry Birds continues world takeover – next stop: PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS News
11.07.2012 Activision and Rovio are teaming up to bring the extremely popular game Angry Birds to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS consoles.Tags: Games, Gaming, Consoles, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Kinect, Nintendo, Angry Birds, Activision, Rovio, -
Michael Fassbender to star in and co-produce film adaptation of Assassin’s Creed News
09.07.2012 Acclaimed German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender has signed up to star in and produce a film adaptation of the popular video-game series, Assassin’s Creed, along with Ubisoft... -
The environmental impact of video games (infographic) News
10.07.2012 Six billion pounds of games and consoles have been sold, and if all the games and consoles produced by Nintendo ended up in a landfill, that would amount to the weight of more... -
Video-game marathon raises almost US$93,000 for charity, breaks world record News
09.07.2012 Two women on different sides of the Atlantic put a gaming obsession to good use, raising almost US$93,000 for charity: water by playing Solitaire Blitz for 30 consecutive hours... -
Preview: LittleBigPlanet for PlayStation Vita News
06.07.2012 Sackboy is going on a new adventure, and this time it's handheld. The LittleBigPlanet franchise is coming to PlayStation Vita this autumn, and producer Tom O’Connor of XDev... -
Preview: Book of Spells for PlayStation Wonderbook News
05.07.2012 The storybook will never be the same again thanks to the Wonderbook, a new creation for the PlayStation 3 that brings stories to life – starting with the Book of Spells from JK... -
Forza Motorsport 4 goes vintage with its July Car Pack (video) News
04.07.2012 The latest car pack for Forza Motorsport 4 gives players vehicles from automotive history to collect, customise and drive, including two classic American models – just in time...