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Are iTunes apps going to take over the world?
Games Brief reports some good news and some bad news regarding games in the iTunes App Store. First, the bad news: four percent of iOS games make significant money, aka over a million dollars. But the good news is some games make a lot more than a million dollars! Infinity Blade has made, like, twen
Do Facebook gamers just like to click on things?
You’ve probably heard plenty already about academic/prankster Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker, his honest attempt to troll Farmville that turned out to be a quite clickable Facebook game in its own right. I know I have. But it never ceases to amaze me how devoted some players are to clicking cows. A recent
Videogames: They might kill you.
Bitmob has a post detailing something we already knew already: there is stuff in videogames that might kill you. But the list is worth checking out, especially if you didn’t already know to avoid the giants in Skyrim, or that if your avatar encounters a shark in any game ever, you’re probably hosed.
Naughty Dog is out to "change the f***ing industry" this time around.
Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series boasts an expert level of voice acting and dialogue, alongside equally impressive environmental and character artwork bringing the charm of Indiana Jones to PS3. But in a recent talk with Eurogamer, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann said Naughty Dog still has
"Blindside" can’t be seen to be believed.
Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi are developing a game based solely on audio cues. Inspired by personal experience, Blindside is being developed first as a short, forty-five minute episode for the PC and Mac. It’s called BlindSide, and it’s one of the first games to bring a brand new gaming ex
Now you can play the Zelda series in sequential order. Kind of.
That is, if you are Schrodinger’s cat. While the Zelda-verse has widely been speculated on, a new art book officially published by Nintendo, and translated by Kotaku, confirms that the series indeed branches into parallel universes sometime during, or soon after, the events in Ocarina of Time. At th
The year in roguelikes: Was 2011 the best year yet for the dungeon crawl?
Adam Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun accounted for his year playing roguelikes, the cultish dungeon-crawling genre that is still going strong 30 years after the original Rogue. Unlike commercial games, rougelikes are tweaked and updated incrementally over many years, so Smith’s end of the year list is
Play your old Super Nintendo games on the SupaBoy
Hope you brought back your old SNES games from the attic over the holidays. Here’s the SupaBoy! Essentially a non-proprietary Super Nintendo, available for $79.99 on internets everywhere. Buy it for your younger sibling and then steal it back from them when they’re not looking. [via] [image]
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