Gaming posts

This, one imagines, is the mentality behind Sony’s new promotion in Europe, in which you get 4 free 3D video games when you buy a new Sony Bravia 3D TV. I  mean, a few years after we all just bought HDTV’s, companies are going to need some incentive if they want people to upgrade yet again. Of course, it’s important not to let the really important news be forgotten here: 3D video games are arriving in just a couple of months! 3D (according to the people pushing it) seems to be among the next big thing in gaming, with at least Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s forthcoming Nintendo 3DS supporting the new Avatar-inspired…

There are three rules that gamers follow when it comes to eating food and playing video games: must be fast, easy to eat and taste great. The foods we’ve found have one additional thing going for them; they are inspired by video games, and therefore taste of awesome. Nintendo Cereal System In the 1980s, Nintendo crated a cereal for fans called “Nintendo Cereal System”. The box carried two flavors, one on either side, that featured the characters from Super Mario Brothers and Zelda. Video Game Inspired Bento Meals Zelda. Super Mario Boo Ghost. Little Big Planet character. These video game inspired…

When it comes to news pouring out of Cupertino today,  many are understandably focused on multitasking. It was the thing Steve announced first, and it’s been the thing the ‘sphere has been salivating over for weeks. But the biggest news from Apple today wasn’t multitasking – and it wasn’t even the iAd platform. It was Game Center. Why is gaming such a big deal? Well, first there’s the obvious. Apple themselves have claimed that gaming is the biggest draw on the App Store. While Sony’s PSP and Nintendo’s DS have hundreds of available games, the App Store has 50,000+, and games regularly rank as the…

Mama always said video games were going to ruin the next generation – and now look what’s happened! In this delightful short film by One More Productions, a cloud of pixels is released from a old rundown TV and form into a series of well-known video game icons and characters. As if you needed to ask, they then proceed to then wreak  a great deal of highly enjoyable havoc. What’s worse, they turn half the things they touch into more pixels! Disaster! If you have even the slightest sense of nostalgia for the video games of your youth, you will probably love this video. [Source: Geek Sugar]…

Fans of Starcraft – many of whom poured hundreds of hours into battling South Korean teenagers in the real-time strategy game – might look at this collector’s edition of Starcraft 2 with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. After all, though the $100 set includes some pretty nifty stuff, it might also mean that, for some, it’s time to once more kiss daylight goodbye. But assuming that you have either grown as a person since the first game – or that you’re a true fan and are willing to sink more of your life into Blizzard’s admittedly brilliant stuff, let’s take a look at what comes in the collector’s…

Valve is bringing its popular Steam platform to the Mac. If you’re not familiar with Steam, it’s the super popular digital store front for Valve and its big hits like the Half Life franchise and Portal (the game where we all learned a very valuable lesson about cake.) This in itself is very cool if you’re a Mac owner. It’s even cooler if you’re a “switcher” who has missed playing games on the PC for years and even though it’s awesome and everything, that Xbox 360 sitting next to your TV just isn’t the same. I mean, the Mac hasn’t really ever had a universe of gaming options to choose from… I mean, there’s…

I’m no small fan of Nintendo. In fact, as soon as I’m done with Techi today, I’m probably going to go laze shirtless on the couch and put some hard time in with my Wii. Or maybe I won’t – the following is a Nintendo venture about which I have no idea how I feel. And it involves Google. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, best-known as The Regginator to gamers, has announced that Nintendo has jointly developed a game for the Wii (past tense – meaning it’s already happening) with Google in which, and I quote – are you ready for this? Here it comes: ‘players compete to generate the most…

My friends and I have always talked about how arcade driving is so much more satisfying than real-world driving; you know, the unrealistically responsive steering, the third-person camera angle. It would be a dream. What? Yeah, I’ve got friends. Can’t blog all the time. Anyway, it seems the crew at Rooster Teeth have actually gone and given this concept a real-world shot by blacking out the windows of a pickup truck and securing a camera to the back of it via a really long pole. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say I am now officially content with real-world driving. There’s a bit of sailor-talk…

First off, there really is no end to the tide of Internet startups with names that sound like cartoon sound effects, is there? Just sayin’. Anyway, Zynga (see?) is laughing all the way to the bank; according to equity analysts, the company would be worth $5,000,000,000 if it went public. Yes. That’s five billion dollars.

 Jeezus. If you’re not familiar with the name, Zynga is to blame for the Facebook plagues games timewasters Farmville and Mafia Wars. With over 237 million active users a month, each one shamefully spending real-world money on fake-world goods, Zynga is beating even…

Remember Tetris? We do! We remember playing Tetris on our Game Boys for hours and hours, all while attempting the seemingly impossible challenge of organizing virtual bricks into rows while they dropped faster as time went on. Oh what fun we had. Guess what? Tetris is making a comeback, and this time it is bigger, faster, more challenging, and more in-your-face than ever before. It’s the Tetris redux — reality style — and we want to play it right now. Unfortunately, there isn’t much information about the project, but it is apparent that someone took the time to create a large Tetris-inspired…