Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
To understand any gaming system, you should ferret out the games best suited to the system. This is true of any platform, but it's particularly true of innovative approaches finding their way, such as the DS and the Wii. And, yes, the iPhone »
Tags: apparently-past, based-on-these, dollars-poorer, extreme computing, finding-their, game diaries, kindly-waited, random-message
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
From Microsoft: Windows and Live Nation announced they have teamed up to offer a new and simple way of connecting music fans with the music and artists they love most – a new online community know as Section 7. »
Tags: artists, club-or-theater, concert-tickets, daily, flogging-molly, know-as-section, live, madonna
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Timegate Studios just released the first round of downloadable content for Section 8 . The "Seek & Destroy" map pack includes three new maps. Players will be able to fight for control of a geothermal energy plant on the salt flats of New Madrid in "Devil's Backbone" and battle in the narrow confines... »
Tags: astride-the-map, backbone, from-the-get, game, its-superlative, madrid, nature, tear-yourselves, windows, windows live
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
If you walk into a couple of select Chick-Fil-A restaurants in California, you might see the following: ...four laptops are set up; three with the Charlie Church Mouse Games and one with Keys of the Kingdom. Customers are given a flyer with a coupon which offers a 20% discount when they purchase one... »
Tags: charlie-church, christianity, christmas, church, culture, evangelical, extreme computing, games, location, manager, press, unsuspecting
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Who knows what's going on at this Facebook page , which teases some sort of Duke Nukem related "project" called D-Day? I mean, seriously, what sort of game developer uses Facebook or Twitter to make cryptic announcements? Anyway, whatever the heck is going on in that screenshot up there is presumably related to... »
Tags: developmental, facebook, game-developer, glorious, glorious-mess, heck, make-cryptic, nukem, project-remains, rumors, some-sort, voodoo-extreme, whatever-rump
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Have a look at the just-released screenshots for Puzzle Quest 2 (plus some concept art of a lighthouse). Do you see all the cool new stuff Infinite Interactive is doing in this sequel to the game that busted match-3s out of the match-3 ghetto »
Tags: assassin-each, demon, fingertips, game-developer, glorious, glorious-mess, heck, make-cryptic, match-3-playing, puzzle-quest, some-sort, voodoo-extreme
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Neowin reports that Microsoft will deliver Office 2010 in June, which is just slightly more information than what the software giant has already provided ("by the end of the first half of 2010"). Here's the news... Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications for Windows in June... »
Tags: entirely-new, microsoft, microsoft office, news, office, the-end, the-first, updated-wave, will-deliver, windows
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
This must be what it's like if you stick around at the finish line of a marathon after everyone else goes home. A few stragglers, huffing and puffing and maybe a little pathetic and desperate to see if anyone has waited up for them, plod across the finish line. So it is with... »
Tags: across-the-way, goldur, latest games, like-the-game, news, revised-mounts, rogue-warrior, zombie-driver
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