tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55538032012-01-26T04:05:19.563+01:00games, gaming, game tech, game industry, advergames, casual games, web games, mobile games and really anything that is related to games. You'll find it right here.Gert-Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14538719570600450658noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553803.post-88956568694674239582011-04-18T22:14:00.001+02:002011-04-18T22:15:05.056+02:00

I recently came accross a site with tips for moms. What's that got to do with games you might ask. Well, I was searching for some information on the best way to clean our baby's eye I also found this nice top 10 list non-computer games for kids. Read on. From askamum.co.uk: Technology is so prominent in children’s lives that many of the toys on the market are geared towards the TV and computer

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Remember that as a kid you would create our own sound effects during anything you played. We created our own car sounds while driving our virtual cars going, Brooooom,Brooooom,Brooooom but we also created our gun sounds and explosions. And now you can do it all over again as an adult with the indie developed (by Incredible Ape) pew pew pew on xbla. PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew is a game where two

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A perfect marriage between pixels, 3d and platform puzzle action. That is what Fez, created by Polytron, seems to be. If the game plays half as good as it looks I can't wait to play. FEZ BEGINS from POLYTRON on Vimeo. And even more Fez... FEZ PAX EAST GAMEPLAY VIDEO from POLYTRON on Vimeo.

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Corey from ProbablyInteractive has developed a nice little experimental and innovative html5 game. And it is played completely in your browsers address bar. You need a browser that supports html5 naturally (who doesn't.... ow... IE perhaps... if you use IE then please upgrade to Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera to enjoy a real modern day browser). Anyhow, you control an 'O' that can move from

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James Bond was right, diamonds are forever. Even in the world of Minecraft! But to have a kid bang them out of someones head while at the same time generating a high pitched scream? But hey... don't we all scream like little girls when there are diamonds at stake . Now go and watch.

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Yesterday I saw a new cinematic trailer which I would like to share with you. Square Enix released it for their upcoming PSP strategy RPG title: Tactics Ogre, Let Us Cling Together. It's a fantastic trailer, but don't expect to see anything of the actual gameplay: Recently we wrote about a retro styled shoot'em'up from Footlocker, a good example that you don't always need brilliant animations

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Activate 3D are continuing their efforts with the hacked Xbox Kinect. And now they have created a somewhat simple but nonetheless special demo in which they show how your own movement is beautifully transfered into movement of the virtual character. I can see the possibilities already, what about a new Marine Corps training games including a bag of mud and barbedwire for your living room to up

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What's the secret of a perfect game..? The only part of the secret I know (besides the technical stuff) is being creative, just like 14-year-old Robert Nay from Utah who designed a hit game for the App Store. It's called Bubble Ball, an addictive puzzle game. The game was released December 29th and today reached over 1,5 million downloads, it knocked the smash hit game Angry Birds out of its top

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Although this presentation from Kellee Santiago from That Game Company has been arround for a while now it was still missing on our blog (I know, my bad). She tries to explain why she thinks games could be considered a form of art. Watch and be inspired.

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Games is what we do, what we are and what we believe in! Whether it's for casual fun, branding or advertising, e-learning or hardcore gaming. We mainly create entertaining experiences around your brands that resonate with your audience and create lasting impressions. As derivative from our core business we also develop other applications, for example using Augmented Reality techniques. To get

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Footlocker has launched a simple retro styled side scrolling shooter with a twist. Instead of flying a spaceship (YAWN!) you can now fly a future proof battle sneaker. And you fight against an army of incoming skull sneakers and smelly socks (YEAH!). If you want to play this advergame... click THIS link, otherwise you can ignore this post and go about your daily business. There is nothing to

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L.A. Noire is a dark and violent detective thriller set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the post-war years of the late 1940's, where you'll take the reins of newly minted detective Cole Phelps as he solves gruesome and mind-bending cases, interrogates suspects, and rises through the ranks of the LAPD. "The Technology Behind Performance" showcases how L.A. Noire will utilize the brand new

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Voxatron by lexaloffle is a sweet cubic looking game. It uses voxels to render the environment, giving the game its distinct look. The gameplay gets compared by the developer to Robotron but in 3D. Although the game is not available yet to the outside world, the short video looks promosing enough to already put this on my whishlist. We love to see more of these! Quote: 'If you've noticed an

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Please let us take advantage of this opportunity to wish you all a very good, successful, and above all: healthy 2011!Being an active player in the (mainly Dutch) Applied Gaming industry it looks 2011 will be another exciting year for us. In all areas within our large industry (fun, educational, business, social, advergames, etc.) we see nice market growth, Marketing Strategists increasingly come

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Today many people are enthusiastic about several games on the Iphone where you control a rolling ball by using the motion sensors that are build into the phone. That made me think if it would be possible to build this type of gameplay for existing laptops...? The anwser is: Yes!Back in 2003 IBM introduced HD motion sensors to protect your HD when falling, nowadays almost every HD sold has got

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Whatever "2.0" might mean :-)Recently MINI rolled out a very innovative advergame in the city of Stockholm, it's best described as a 'Location Based Augmented Reality Game'. Apart from the latest technique that was used they also alluded to an earlier hype: Getaway in Stockholm (trough the past few years several illegal racing videos came out with this title: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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Eric Ruth has remade the famous DJ Hero game into an 8-bit retro monster! He has captured the gameplay and translated it to the NES gamepad which works out really well. Check out the vid below and if it makes you starving for some 8-bit gaming you can even download it here. Update 06-12-2010: currently the download is not available, keep trying.

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We introduced this game a few years back. It's still widely played, in the month of December we measure more than 7000 gameplays per day! Do you want to get in the mood for X-mas? Simply start playing this game:Fantazm wishes everyone a nice Christmas Season!

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Who doesn't remember the good old Commodore 64... For my generation (I'm 35 now) it was the first 'real' computer on which we could play videogames (in the beginning via cassette tapes lol). I didn't have an Atari, maybe it's therefore that I recognize almost all the games from the movie below. Should we rebuild some of these classic games to mobile apps..? Which was your favorite game during

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200 million minutes of gameplay. That is what the popular game Angry Birds from Finish developer Rovio gets each day! The game started as an iPhone only app, but soon spread to Android, Nokia and various other handsets and mobile operating systems as well. Peter Vesterbacka, 'The Mighty Eagle' as he calls himself, explained at the recent SIME conference how they carefully crafted this success.

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You might be already familiar with them, AR business cards. If not, let us explain. You can add extra value to your business card by adding an AR tag onto it. This tag can be recognized by your phones camera, or by a webcam, which in turn can activate or unlock the content on your screen. Using the latest Augmented Reality techniques we can add anything from minigames, personal info, animations,

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When looking at Kinect with infrared vision you can see part of the magic that would otherwise stay unnoticed. The infrared laser on Kinect covers your room with light dots which the system can read back and interpret into an image with depth. Take a look at the vid below. And no, infrared light doesn't give you cancer!

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In 2010 people spend 8 billion US dollars (real money) on virtual items that only exist inside videogames. In this TEDtalk Tom Chatfield explains 7 ways how video games engage the brain, watch and learn more about the secret succes behind our wonderful gamingindustry:

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A 47% increase in pre-orders on Amazon.com! That's Oprah's effect after plugging showing the Xbox Kinect on her show last week. Watch and be amazed by the Oprah effect (= turning an audience of 'regular' women into mad craving Kinect fans).

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Your objective in this funny game is to earn 10,000 combo as fast as you can. You play the role of businessman with a giant hammer and you must hit running turtles to earn money. With that money you can buy stuff and go for the ultima.... most Epic Combo ;-) Nice time waster!

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BlizzCon2010, 20.000 tickets sold out in less then 30 seconds!Blizzard Entertainment is the company behind the popular games World of Warcraft (with over 12 million active players online), Starcraft and Diablo. Many people think that players of these (MMO) games don't have a sociallife in the real world, when I came across this video it made me think though...Like?

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At this moment our best designers are creating a brand new character based on our logo. His identity still remains a mystery, but it's a friendly, funny, curious, widely interested and good looking *ahum* chap! And of course he's also a very experienced gamer but there's still one important thing missing... his name! We already have several ideas but are also curious about yours, please feel

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Last month www.roomcandygames.com released some figures of their popular Iphone app: 'Pimple Popper'. The app became #1 Overall Free App in 51 countries and reached over 3,6 million downloads! Of course you can not make money with a succesfull Iphone app when it's offered for free but it will give the advantage of Free Publicity, roomcandygames is now known all over the world and most certainly

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One of my favorite songs at the moment (it just has a good funky up-beat-vibe to it and the lyrics are soooooo funny). But now in all it's awesomeNESs chiptune musician Inverse Phase has created this song as a NES chiptune. Included are some 'slightly' altered lyrics. As Inverse Phase puts it: 'So what's going on here? Well, the year is 1990. You've finally gotten a Genesis (or a Mega Drive, I

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Ubisoft has chosen to launch an advergame to promote their new console game: H.A.W.X.2. In this 8bit version of HAWX2 you have to master five different jets and terrains to become the best elite HAWX pilot.Play the game:Watch the HDtrailer of the console version:

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What would happen if the characters from a kart game, set in a happy happy joy joy cartoon world (read: Mario Kart) would find out there is more out there... Must feel a bit like finding other civilizations in space. Take a look at this funny Blur TV spot. You gotta love it!

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A nice video compilation from Gameloft. Putting the past 10years of mobile gaming in perspective. It shows Real Football, Prince of Percia and Asphalt.

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A nice mashup between a Wii and a Microvision SHOWWX laser projector. You want to try it yourself? The sourcecode to this project has been made available right here: http://eclecti.cc/videogames/projecting-virtual-reality-with-a-microvision-showwx

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I haz iPad! Then watch this, it's better still.

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We have 3D games, but now I present to you 3D paintings... awesomeness!!! Masterpieces in 3D | Games & Gadgets | SPIKE.com

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The ultimate browsing experience Steve calls it. But what was Steve thinking about leaving out Flash support (as with the iPhone)? Can the iPad run FarmVille? Sure it can. The only thing missing when using and iPad is... THE GAME!!! This is not the only example, many more sites use Flash for it's content and games. Disney, Kongregate, Miniclip, CNN, Hulu, Google Analytics... It became

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Though in this demo video you can clearly see that these are not OLED Display Tiles, but just cardboard hexagonal tiles with a beamer projecting the images on top. It shows in a simple manner a few of the possibilities when you mix technology with board games in a way that is much more attractive than those (mostly annoying and boring) DVD board games Created by Human Media Lab at Queen's

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And that's a good thing! Check out the trailer. It looks the part. Hopefully the game can live up to the trailer so we can really go and save imagination when you battle against the forces of chaos! You can also go to the official site and check out more info about this upcoming game.

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GamertagRadio snagged a video of the event, which you can see below. It's quite lengthy. Check around the 12 min mark for a demonstration of the interface. And around 17 minutes you see a realtime game feed running on an iPhone. Looking pretty damn cool this OnLive tech.

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With a different controller the entire game changes. Creating a team based play experience! It takes some practice, but in the end it's worth it.

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I think that in the perfect world there would be a custom controller for every game.And music games have shown in the past years that it really pays of to create a custom controller for those games. It enhances the total experience, and it might even give you some benefit in real world music playing too. Check out the vid below. A dude playing some extreme drums in Drummania with a drum kit from

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Although you can tell that parts of this vid are staged (360). The dog is obviously addicted to riding a skateboard. Look at it changing position and reacting to the screen. Send me vids of your pet controlling a video game!The vid below shows a Bulldog doing the samething but in real life!

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Almost impossible to see in this video. But the tiny blob on top of that flashscreen tv is the latest project Natal hardware. Although the video doesn't show the entire presentation, Peter and a colleague showed of the famous Milo presentation using the new hardware succesfully. The hardware looked ready for production.

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During a speech of Peter Molyneux at the Game in the City event in the Netherlands past Thursday I spotted a new itteration of the Natal hardware. I am sorry for the blurry pictures (actually blame Nokia). But you can see that it's become a LOT smaller than the previous version of the Natal hardware. It was equiped with some kind of flexible arms to be able to clamp it on top of any flatscreen,

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Dutch Prime Minister Mr. Balkenende can't get enough of Ship Simulator Professional.After performing an in-game opening ritual for Europort Exhibition 2009. Mr. Balkenende just can't get enough of it. He keeps going at it for a few extra minutes until someone steps in and stops his play time.

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Whenever you think of those cute little Space Invaders, think again! They where actually quite realistic top-down, representation of the actual space ships. So, if you ever thought they where bugs, your proven wrong.Want these on a T-Shirt? You're in luck, check at threadless.

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I came accross this smart advergame from a Dutch insurance company. Just make sure you've got plenty of iPhones laying around to play it. It uses bluetooth to sync the different devices together.

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A Home Shopping Network presentor kills a nice LG LCD screen around the 5:05 mark.Remember to ALWAYS put on your silly wrist band AND put the crappy attachments on there all the way.

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A bit weird, but I thought it was worth a mention nonetheless. It is not a condition you suffer when playing lot's of games. But it's something for the ladies to show their love for gaming. Take a look. What do you think!

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1500 hours of painstakingly putting all those Lego blocks together and taking shots of them have created this enjoyable piece of 8Bit Lego art. Created by the Swedish duo Rymdreglage. Tomas Redigh created the animation and it's combined with a nice original chiptune composition by Daniel Larsson.You will spot some memorable images of the C64 version IK+ Karate Characters, a rotozoomer effect,

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At the Mario AI competition programmers are creating artificial intelligence to guide Mario through the levels. As you can see from the video below this can result in some speedy time-runs.The competition is based on a heavily modified version of the Infinite Mario Bros game by Markus Persson. That game is an all-Java tribute to the Nintendo's seminal Super Mario Bros game, with the added benefit

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This is it. The first official pic of the new PS3 Slim. In a move that surprised absolutely no one, Sony went ahead and officially announced the PS3 Slim at their Gamescom Press Conference in Germany today. Kaz Hirai took the stage to show it off, and stated that it would launch worldwide the first week of September. It’s smaller and lighter than the current PS3, but has all the same features.

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It is believed that tonight Sony will make some big announcements regarding the launch of a PS3 Slim edition, and a price-cut to €/$299,-.Kmart is advertising with a pre-order campaign suggesting that 'The rumors are reality'.In addition, Kotaku claims to have received a promotional poster meant for retailer FYE. It also suggests that the 80GB PlayStation 3 will have its price reduced to $299.99,

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When you watch the latest Xbox commercial below it might give you a bit of a LittleBigPlanet feeling. It's the music ofcourse that is you probably would associate with LBP. But before you start yelling 'Rip off' you might like to know it's a song from The Go! Team.The Go! Team is a six piece band from Brighton, England founded by Ian Parton. The song is called 'Get It Together'.In the video below

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This game(collection) from Capri Sun has already been out for a while, but I didn't notice it up until today.The intro graphics are nicely done with cute 3D animations.The games however are a mixed bunch. But luckily you can choose which game you want to play. You aren't forced to go through all of them.Play the Disrepectoids game.

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Yesterday marked the 10th year of the Halo franchise since it's announcement by Steve Jobs back in 1999. Check out the commemorative video created by Bungie.

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Playing casual games seems to beneficial to your health. Or at least has a positive effect on your stress levels. And because stress is related to a lot of modern day health problems like depression, hair loss, heart dissease and obesity. It seems this could be a good alternative to some of the other treatments.Check the vid below.

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I can't wait to play Colin McRae: Dirt2. The visuals are stunning, and the gameplay of the original Dirt was a joy! Even if this is going to be more of the same, this will be a great game. The onboard navigation during the cockpit view is a welcome addition.Take a look at this latest clip from the game which will be released on September 8th in the US, September 10th in Europe and September 11th

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Industry Gamers is reporting on a new Michael Jackson game (remember Moonwalker) that is planned for release this Christmas. A representative of MJJ Productions (Michael Jacksons own production company) says the game has been in production for several months already and contains speech recorded by the artist shortly before his unfortunate death.What kind of game it will be is a surprise as no

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Fun to watch, a rendition of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal created with Rag Doll Kung Fu

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Looks like a lot of fun! Make sure you've got enough jump, duck and run space around you when operating this device :)

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Bryan Brewer, ex 3D-Realms modeller and animator, has released some gameplay footage after the recent closure of the studio.There is a really slim chance this game will ever see the light of day as it has been under development since 1997. DNF was officially first announced in April 1997, and promotional information for the game was released in one form or another in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007,

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Enjoy the iDaft play toy. See if you can recreate this classic techno disco punk song yourself.

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An entertaining platformer that is themed around the Fairly Odd Parents cartoon.The controls are not completely intuitive which keeps you from completely getting into the game. The graphics and animations are great and are in line with the series. The music has been taken right from the series and supports the look and feel. The sound effects could have been a bit more varied, but hey do their

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Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller hooked through the PSX64 interface.Its design is modeled after the popular “Guitar Hero” series, geared toward the ability to play along to your favorite C64 music on the guitar. Correctly played notes increase your score and applause meter, while incorrectly played notes decrease your applause

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Independent developer Introversion is laying bare Microsoft's approval process for a game to be released via Xbox Live Arcade.The team hopes to provide clarity to the procedures involved in the development and eventual release of forthcoming XBLA title Darwinia+.The developer website details multiple processes including usability reports, internal design documents, company emails and AI code,

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What is the most popular casual game genre? When I would ask you this question 3 years ago you would most certainly reply with 'match-3' or 'bejeweled'. Boy, that where some crazy times. But even now, 9 year after the post apocalyptic Y2K bugs we see the following trends. This is the top 31. Hidden Object (Mystery P.I. - The NY Fortune, Liong - The lost amulets)2. Sim (Build-a-lot 3: Passport to

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Unrelated to the recent Hudson crash remakes Microsoft has confirmed that the ACES studio, the team responsible for the Flight Simulator series, has been closed.However, a Microsoft spokesman did confirm that the series will continue, saying: "We are committed to the Flight Simulator franchise which has proven to be a successful PC based game for the last 27 years."

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If you've watched the news lately you have seen images of the US Airways airbus crashing into the Hudson river. Now hardcore Flight Sim players have used their favorite game to reconstruct the event. It shows that such a game/simulator gives players the ability to create a better view and understanding of the situation within moments after the event. As it obviously lacks the scientific data from

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Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs have created a new electronic device called NanoTouch.

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Ever been bored during one of your long raids and farming sessions? Micheal Fromwiller has been. And to fight boredom he created a little minigame called Besharded, clearly a bejeweled inspired clone. And it didn't go unnoticed. PopCap Games, the owner of the Bejeweled brand has, instead of threatning Micheal with lawyers, asked him if he wanted to develop a more polished version of the game. And

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A recent report by the Inquirer suggested that Google will announce an acquisition of Valve (Half-Life, Portal) very shortly.The distribution system 'Steam' would be central to the deal. Steam is the biggest online distribution system for PC games.Google responded this is all 'rumor and speculation'.

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In a research on the security in advergames by Deloitte they came to the conclusion that almost 90% of the advergames out there are open for exploits by hackers/cheaters.Advergames are easy targets due to various things:1. Use of Flash, Java or Silverlight as a game engine (these are the most vulnerable)2. Not enough knowledge on adding security or wrong security appliance by developer.3. Lack of

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Have you ever heard of Tresling? Well I didn't, until I watched this video.Enjoy!

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...in a computer game that is. (You know, those often funny, hidden features that programmers put in their games.)Check out this short feature from Gametrailers. It shows you the easter egg in Atari's Adventure from 1979.And a Happy Easter!

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Something funny happened today. While Christmas is long gone, I thought It would be nice to upload Shopping Mania to Newgrounds.After the first few positive comments I received a 'You have stolen this game...' etc. message. It's funny how people think they know how everything works. Well in this case using my a personal name for the Newgrounds account made someone suspicious. Because I didn't use

Gert-Janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14538719570600450658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553803.post-81796605646156984802007-12-03T16:34:00.000+01:002007-12-03T16:40:36.866+01:00

I don't want to spend many words on it, but it just happens that Vivendi Universal and Activision are going to merge to become the WORLDS LARGEST games company.The whole deal is worth $18.9 billion. And the new company name will be........ Activision Blizzard. It isn't a real imaginative or catchy name.That's it.

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"Kane and Lynch is an ugly, ugly game" those are the words that Jeff Gerstmann uses to start the review to Kane and Lynch: Dead Men developed by IO Interactive.There seems to be a lot of smoke around the firing of Jeff Gerstmann, editorial director at Gamespot. It is presumed that his review of Kane and Lynch got him into trouble. Word goes around that Eidos, the publishers of this game, called

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It's been already two years since the launch of the Xbox360. So you'd think that planning and design of the next Xbox is well underway. The guys at tech.co.uk give it a shot and predict what the specs for the Xbox 3 will look like.Our prediction for the next Xbox is...So here's the bottom line for the Xbox in 2011, based on current trends and what we know is happening over the next few years.

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In the wake of the departure of David Pierce as CEO, Atari has announced it's going to stop with game development, and focus 100% on publishing instead for the North American department. This also means they have sold the Test Drive license to Atari's majority stake holder Infogrames.It's unclear if Atari Europe will also be following the same path to become a publishing only company.Atari has

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The casual game industry is a €1.56 billion a year market, currently growing by 20 per cent annually, according to the 2007 market report released by the Casual Games Association.Among other things, the report found that men made up 48.3 per cent of casual gamers, although women accounted for 74 per cent of paying casual game players. Those paying consumers average 7 to 15 hours of online play

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That is what various console makers around the globe are trying to tell us. Sony has been clear about bringing iptv to the PS3 sometime in the near future. But no solid dates have been announced for a release. Microsoft has also been pretty quite about it. They have the media extender option in every xbox360, which can give you access to iptv through your PC. But now, from an unexpected source,

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Not something I would normally post here. But it has been bugging me since quite a while, and I have finally found the solution that I want to share with you.If you've got one of those nasty Error 46 messages, you are probably running in anything but the administrator account. And you should (according to those security chaps at Redmond). But unfortunately, those other chaps from the fruit

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BMW has recently launched a sophisticated advergame called PACE - Pursuit Across Europe. You can also define it as an interactive movie, where you play the leading role driving the car.The pursuit across Europe (Lisbon – Paris – Berlin – Prague) takes place in a somehow kind of surreal but friendly parallel world. The special kind of aesthetic of black and white water color paintings, montaged

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Nicole Kidman is using her DS for brain-training. Nice, but years ago Nintendo thought of a whole different kind of use for the console: sex education! Probably never made it any further than this (rare) demo, but that doesn't make it less interesting. Watch and learn ;)Source: Adverblog.com

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I came across a new game from the NRMA, Australia’s largest motoring services group. Created by 3rd Sense. The game is designed to promote the company’s loyalty card. The game shows you how much you can save by using it at different stores. The gameplay is very simple, you control only the jump motion of your character by clicking on the left mouse button or using the spacebar. The character

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Officials from major publisher and developer Electronic Arts have announced the creation of EA Casual Entertainment, a new division focused on developing and publishing casual titles for consoles, PCs, handheld devices and mobile phones.EA has yet to announce any games or license agreements for the new division, and it's unclear how the division will interact with existing Electronic Arts-owned

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Already an old game, but not yet on our blog (we are working on adding older advergames to our blog during the next couple of weeks to get a more complete collection).Chiquita launched a game last year, developed by Belgium agency These Days, that is a mix between a sim and a tycoon game. You get in charge of a Chiquita farm and you need to make sure everything runs smoothly. Harvest the best

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A while back HP launched a new advergame that perfectly combines brains and fingers in this puzzle action game called Jelly Jumper created by UK based Inbox Digital. It's not about jumping on jelly, no you ARE the jelly, and you are jumping around on one of those nice HP Alto notebook keyboards. The game has 8 languages and containing 50 levels. You control the little jelly character with your

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While Nintendo is not entirely saying goodbye to the well known boxed retail versions of their full titles. They are adding a new channel to the Nintendo Wii that will offer the users to download retail titles to the Wii. Personally I see some problems with the storage at this point of time because of the lack of a harddrive you can only put your downloads on the far more expensive SD memory

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Billboard director from Sloggi is not a real game but it lets you play with the Sloggi models as if you were a director. You can give commands like "kill bill", "dance", "move sexy" to a girl while casting them in the studio. You choose a background and up to 4 girls to design your own Billboard. After taking a picture you can add text to the billboard and save it and send it to friends. The best

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Marine Matsuri is the campaign site for a pinball making company Sanyo Bussan, from Japan.They say you should play the games and win special prizes. But with all this "now loading" I just lost my patience after 10 minutes... Maybe it's not that hard if you do understand Japanese, but I don't unfortunately. They should let you play a little game while waiting for the explanation video's or teach

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Great game to promote a TV soap called "Growing up GOTTI". It has a simple gameplay but the idea and development makes it really funny. Choose one of the American brothers and armed with nothing but a good grip and the desire to "expose", your hands are poised in front of you ready to publicly embarrass unsuspecting passers-by by "pantsing"them. Sneak up behind them and pull down their pants,

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This game is visually very attractive, especially for you guys!. The game is made by Achtung for Suit Supply. The concept is great, they made PAKMAN (which means suitman in Dutch) and used the pac-man engine. The flash video makes it all worth while and you guys get some treats when you rescue a very sexy woman. the storyPakman is running in his underwear, his mission is to save Angel from Fatman

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