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Date: Wed, 27. January 2010 03:05:44

When Apple introduced the iPhone, it shook up the cell phone business but it also changed the way people play video games. About a quarter of the 100,000 applications that you can download to the iPhone are games, ranging from the simple "Doodle Jump" to a version of "Grand Theft Auto."

Date: Wed, 11. February 2009 11:42:00

PC World - Michael Torchia wants Nintendo to yank Wii games from store shelves until the company makes important changes to its products, according to News Blaze. Torchia claims the games, which occasionally require wide-ranging physical motion, are potentially dangerous.

Date: Mon, 15. December 2008 04:18:17

I wrote about the "3rd Space" by TN Games last year. It uses 8 pneumatic cells embedded in the vest. The cells are designed to simulate the direction and force of bullet fired in a first-person-shooter (FPS) game. Why stop there though? TN Games has announced the HTX Helmet, which will let you experience just what a "headshot" really feels like.

Date: Tue, 20. January 2009 09:14:12

Mother of 3, age 28-38, Divorced, works as hairdresser in Dundalk Oldest Son, age 14-18, into cars, music, girls, hanging out Middle Son, age 12-16, into video games, music, skating, biking Youngest Son, age 4-8, into video games, coloring, TV Ex-

Date: Wed, 20. May 2009 15:42:42

The good news is the Omaha Royals eight game road trip is over. The bad news is they won just two games. The Royals have to be ecstatic to be done with a nightmare journey that saw the pitching staff post a 9.63 ERA over the eight games, and allowed 11 or more runs three times.

Date: Sun, 9. November 2008 03:05:54

With modern console technology making it easy to develop and distribute small games, more and more companies are taking advantage of gamers' nostalgia to re-release decades-old hits, and to create entirely new titles in older styles. Gamasutra takes a look at what the retro game fad has become, and where it can go from here. What old games or series do you think would translate well onto today's consoles? "Many gamers who bought Mega Man 9 did so because of the game's inherent nostalgia, or because they never had a chance to enjoy the older games on the Nintendo Entertainment System when they were younger. Mega Man 9 is very much a product of its context. Its gameplay is fantastic, but it too is a product of the time period in which it reigned supreme. It suggests the question: can neo-retro games stand the test of time? Will games that mimic or lampoon the 8-bit era remain relevant and interesting to the masses long after its original audience has disappeared?"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/0259222amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/08/0259222"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/08/0259222amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4uyktGmCq4UXm133v2ney52BN8Q/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4uyktGmCq4UXm133v2ney52BN8Q/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/lDrQ8Jun0ww" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 13. November 2008 15:04:54

Today film studio Red Eagle Entertainment announced plans to establish Red Eagle Games, a studio that will produce games based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. The games will be developed alongside movie adaptations of the series, which Red Eagle announced a few months ago. They'll be working with Universal on the films. "[Red Eagle producer Rick] Selvage said in an interview that the game company will make a series of games that will be co-launched with the movies. In addition, Red Eagle Games will make a massively multiplayer online game based on the Wheel of Time universe." Wheel of Time fan site 'Dragonmount' recently spoke with Selvage about the movie plans.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/211233amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/12/211233"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/211233amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/pHEaGtvZ9TSE-ZMUP0y0ygq50pg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/pHEaGtvZ9TSE-ZMUP0y0ygq50pg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/PEh5wBaZc6A" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 1. April 2011 08:04:40

An anonymous reader writes "A team of game scholars, game journalists, and plain old geeks have gotten together to put together San Francisco's first and most comprehensive non-profit museum dedicated to the design, creation, history, and play of computer and video games. The museum is currently raising funds and shopping around for a San Francisco space, but they've already managed to get some obscure relics — including the only copy in existence of 1984's never-released Atari Cabbage Patch Kids game. As a scholarly resource, the museum is also dedicated to making its entire collection playable by visitors." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 14. October 2009 16:01:00

PC World - Nintendo next-gen DS video games handheld may sport an Nvidia Tegra chip, in today's second 'confidentially sourced' bit of speculative news. (See 'Next Microsoft Xbox Console to Use AMD GPU?' for the first.) According to Bright Side of News, Nintendo plans to implement Nvidia's computer-on-a-chip technology to power its DS-family successor, possibly lending rationale to allegations that Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang recently said 50 percent of Nvidia revenue would eventually come from the Tegra family.

Date: Sat, 2. July 2011 14:06:58

The simple Rubik's Cube is a harder problem than most people realize. Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now about 35 years to perform. And that's just for a basic 3x3 Rubik's Cube. Your computer probably couldn't handle the computations needed for bigger cubes.