Gaming posts

Alright, alright, calm down – no, Big Steve still gets all frowny when you mention Adobe. But assuming you have a jailbroken iPad (I would), Flash can finally be yours with Frash. From the folks that brought you the Spirit jailbreak, and running on a compatibility layer, Frash is… well, it’s Flash, with an R. Finally, that half of the internet you weren’t able to see while lazing on the couch doing that… iPad… thing… whatever people do with iPads. Tapping things? – is suddenly again rendered visible. Time to take back Robot Unicorn Attack. The release isn’t stable yet, so if you aren’t a developer,…

Even I’ve got to admit that while Twitter is unquestionably the hippest most awesome way for totally rad and attractive people like myself to stay in touch… it’s still pretty inane. Case in point: last night, I received an important update from a friend, who announced that they had accidentally given their cat a boner. Guys? This is the internet. And it’s serious business. Not ones to transform Twitter into anything it’s not, Sega have announced that the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown will feature Twitter integration. Because I absolutely needed more garbage sailing into…

The great thing about Apple’s portable devices for fans of simulation games is that you can actually live more of a life while spending almost every waking moment tweaking some setting or researching new technology, or exploring a series of bad decisions as you go to war with your neighbor. This is a good thing. What follows are six of the most engaging simulation type games I’ve come across this week, with many of them available in the HD format for the iPad. Of course, these all work just as well with any of Apple’s smaller-screened iOS-powered devices. And they’re all great fun, enjoy. Civilization…

For as long as the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 have been on the market together, debate has raged over which online service, Xbox Live or the Playstation Network, is better value for gamers. Although many people argue that Xbox Live Gold’s service is a superior offering, many others feel that its advantages are offset by the fact that it usually costs about $50/year, while Sony’s PSN is free. Well now, fanboy arguments are going to get unusually complex and nuanced, as Sony are set to launch Playstation Plus, a so-called ‘premium service’ that will exist atop the existing Playstation Network and…

If you’re one of the millions who downloaded and used the notorious I Am T-Pain iPhone app then hit your upgrade buttons today, as you’ve got an upgrade you just might like. The latest version is wrapped up in lovely iOS4 improvements, but also offers a fab feature for the iPhone 4 — you can use that front-facing video camera to film yourself singing along to something or other while using the Auto-tune feature. Then, assuming friends, family or concerned neighbors haven’t made some kind of intervention to save you from future workplace embarrassment. You can even send those clips right…

Now that some of the dust has settled from this year’s (rather uninspiring) E3, it’s time to step back and think about the prospects for Microsoft Kinect and Playstation Move. After all, these products are like mini- console launches mid-generation – and that’s not something we’ve seen before (unless you count something like Sega’s 32X0. So what does the future hold for these two peripherals – other than you waving your arms around like an idiot? Wii Are Not Threatened First, it’s important to note that neither Move nor Kinect can, in terms of sheer numbers, pose a real threat to the Wii. The Wii has…

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) used to be the most important day within the game industry for publishers, developers, and consumers, but numerous issues over the years had taken away the spectacle’s appeal. This year’s E3, however, certainly had the emotion behind it to propel it back to its former greatness. Unfortunately, “great” isn’t quite the word I would use to describe it. There are three types of gamers in this world: the hardcore gamer is generally the teen or twenty or thirty something that is awake at 4 AM blasting away his or her buddies in Modern Warfare 2; the casual gamer…

“Interestingly enough,” says Shahriar Afshar, “I’m not a gamer myself. I’m a physics professor.” Afshar is not of our generation, and as such finds today’s videogames a bit noisy. That said, he understands the gamer’s need to immerse himself in the sound of loud gunfire, rock music, and angry grunting at full volume. So he got to thinking. And boy, did he think. The Kor-FK is Afshar’s answer to the conundrum. Looking like a set of headphones melting around one’s neck, the Kor-FX is essentially a Rumble Pak (albeit a far more sophisticated, subtle one) that straps onto a gamer and translates what…

Yeah, alright, so there’s no way I’m not rapping about this today. As of yesterday, the Nintendo 3DS was for realy-reals revealed, with president Satoru Iwata himself showing off the device, flanked by a bevy of beautiful women who will likely never play a 3DS. As always, E3 was a party. So what’s the scoop? Well, obviously, the thing plays games in glorious glasses-free widescreen 3D, effectively seeing Nintendo beat Sony and Microsoft into the goddamn ground to another breakthrough technology – this is, of course, assuming 3D is in fact the future. But so far, so good. In fact, Iwata mentioned…

There’s so many fantastic games out there, and so many of these are custom-designed for you to touch and interact with as the action takes place all across the iPad’s lickable 10-inch screen. We’ve taken a little time gaming in our den, and here’s our pick of five great games for iPad. 1. Battle for Wesnoth HD $4.99 This huge strategy/turn-based role-playing game should appeal to Civilization players and has recently been updated for the fifth time. It is a huge sprawling adventure, featuring numerous creatures, monsters and players. The game’s extremely addictive, not least because…