Monday, July 12th, 2010
Singularity was created by Raven Software, Activision's development studio in Wisconsin. These were, at one time, the guys who gave us memorable games like Heretic , Hexen , and Soldier of Fortune . Now they're cranking out forgettable fare like Quake IV , Wolverine , and Wolfenstein . »
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Unfortunately, you can't flip a coin to decide which race to play in Starcraft II . That's where the Starcraft Personality Quiz comes in. »
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
It was hard to get to see Blade Kitten at E3. Not because it was under wraps or anything. But because it was sandwiched between The Witcher 2 on its left and Test Drive Unlimited 2 on its right. »
Tags: action games, blade-kitten, comic, drive-unlimited, game, kitten, krome, latest games, stamatiadis, tasmanian, tasmanian-tiger, unique
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Are you ready for some football? Because some football is ready for you. EA releases NCAA Football 2 . »
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Many (myself included) have assumed that smart phones are poised to take over the computing market and surpass PCs as the primary way in which people around the world consume computing resources, whether they're local applications or web-based/cloud services. It turns out that it's more accurate to say that "phones" (i.e. not just... »
Tags: article, data, exceed-the-size, installed-base, mobile, office, phone-installed, position-itself, smartphone, transition, various-markets
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Google has just released a beta version of a tool called App Inventor for Android that lets you "build just about any app you can imagine." Similar in function to early versions of Visual Basic, this is a serious competitive threat to iPhone, Windows Phone, and other smart phone platforms, while harkening... »
Tags: article, developer, installed-base, inventor, mobile, office, provides-access, smartphone, specify-the-app, various-markets, well-as-blocks, while-harkening, windows-phone
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