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We Farm smells like more than just Farmville for the iPhone
We Rule , the free social networking game, held me -- and therefore Fidgit -- in its thrall for at least a week . Not that there was anything special about it beyond it being a) really charming, b) really convenient since it's for the iPhone, and c) just clever enough with its... »
Sports celebrity Schilling reveals name of upcoming epic RPG
In case you can't tell by the veritable wall of announcements underneath this post, Electronic Arts announced a bunch of stuff today. One of the most promising announcements is the latest on an RPG being developed by 38 Studios »
Are you ready for the official nation-wide Wii competition?
Nintendo's national Wii Games Summer Competition begins next month in 24 cities around the United States. Check here to see if it will be close to you. »
New karma powers in Sims 3 for consoles might seem familiar
It's not like The Sims 3 needs any new features when it finally arrives on console systems this October 26th. There's plenty of game there already »
The ten most awesome things at E3
Contrary to what I expected from the press conferences, this year's E3 was full of exciting announcements and strong titles. Despite Sony's misguided emphasis on 3D, Microsoft's clumsy Project Kinnect, and Nintendo's blatant play to nostalgia, the Big Three had plenty worth seeing. The other larger publishers rolled out their usual suspects, but... »
Guitar Hero’s next step? Gene Simmons and power-ups.
When Activision was the publisher for Brutal Legend , they apparently wanted to hook it into the Guitar Hero franchise, making it playable with a guitar controller. Fortunately, that didn't happen and Double Fine's fantastic open-world saga emerged unscathed and published by Electronic Arts. So it's not terribly surprising that Activision has enlisted... »
HAWX 2 brings stealth missions to hi-octane arcade jet combat
I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking of the time my fancy high-end Su-27 air superiority fighter got pwned by a pokey old A-10 in the original HAWX . So the first thing I want to know when Ubisoft tells me HAWX 2 is on the way is, "Sir, do we... »
Pac-Man eats productivity along with pills and ghosts
A blog for time management software called RescueTime has estimated the impact of a playable Pac-Man logo at the top of Google's search page last Friday. By tracking data on a random subset of 11,000 of their users, they surmise the average time spent on Google went from four and a half minutes... »
Red Dead Redemption: have horse, will travel
One of the most important bits of an open world game is how you get from point A to point B. In Grand Theft Auto , you drove a car and listened to the radio along the way. In Assassin's Creed , you parkoured the sweet historical architecture. »
Microsoft Releases Outlook PST Interoperability Documentation
From Microsoft: This spring, Microsoft released technical documentation for the .pst file format used to store data in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders, such as email, contacts, calendar events and attachments. »