San Francisco: Nintendo Co Ltd has more to prove than ever when it takes the wraps off its highly anticipated "Wii U" gaming console at next week's "E3," the $78.5 billion videogame industry's most important yearly trade show. Gamers and Wall Street analysts alike will be closely watching for the next salvos from Nintendo, Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp - the "big three" of console manufacturers who have been at...
10:32 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Los Angeles: For 30 years the Grateful Dead recorded music and toured the world with their unique blend of rock, folk and psychedelic songs, gathering an army of followers known as Deadheads. Over those three decades, the music never stopped until Jerry Garcia, the band's lead guitarist and composer of hits such as Truckin' and Casey Jones, died of a heart attack in 1995. While members of the band continue...
01:07 PM, Apr 21, 2012
The goals in video games are usually well-defined: Kill the bad guys. Rescue the princess. Knock the pigs off their pedestals. But there's a whole underground movement of independent designers making games with less well-defined goals. They may look familiar on the surface - especially to fans of running-and-jumping "platform" games like Super Mario Bros. - but the old-school mechanics are a way to draw players into deeper mysteries. The...
01:28 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: India's biggest video game carnival is going in Noida this weekend and what's on offer is pot loads of prize money. Ankush, Organizer, India Gaming Carnival said, "There's 1.5 crore in total prize money. Rs 30 lakh is the top prize in team gaming events. Rs 7.5 lakh is the highest prize for individual event." An old NASSCOM report pegs the Indian gaming industry at 800 million dollars...
07:34 AM, Apr 08, 2012
If you were playing video games in the 1980s, you probably remember flinging your Nintendo controller across the room after the original Ninja Gaiden sliced and diced you into mouth-frothing aggravation. Too young for that? How about when the 2004 series reboot on the original XBox took you about five hours just to get the mechanics down? The legendarily difficult Ninja Gaiden games have always demanded patience and a deft...
01:47 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New York: Microsoft says it's not coming out with a new Xbox gaming console anytime soon. Some video game players had hoped that Microsoft Corp. would unveil an upgrade at the E3 Expo in June, a big, yearly video game conference in Los Angeles where game makers show off new wares and titles. Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it won't be discussing new Xbox hardware at the event. Rather, it...
11:00 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: BenQ India has announced the launch of XL2420T and XL2420TX gaming monitors. Built with 120Hz, 2ms GTG response time and 12M:1 dynamic contrast ratio, the XL Series models are said to possess exclusive features to provide FPS (Fire-person shooting) gamers with the ultimate sense of ease and control. It is claimed to come engineered with a color engine technology that allows gamers to brighten the image display without...
02:25 PM, Mar 15, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc's faster and sharper-looking new iPad is drawing the notice of the traditional video game industry, as developers are envisioning games for it that have more in common with the visceral 3D shooter Call of Duty than FarmVille. The company is also setting itself up to take on Microsoft and Sony on their home turf of game consoles. From Electronic Arts to Crysis developers Crytek, industry executives...
12:40 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: EA (Electronics Arts), a known mobile game developer, plans to release a game based on famous cartoon series the 'Simpsons' for Apple's iPad and iPhone devices in the coming weeks. According to report by CNET, the game - called 'The Simpsons: Tapped Out' - will be given away for free, but players will have the option to buy virtual currency, or in this case, "doughnuts," that can speed...
01:22 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Role playing games or RPGs, as we call them, have become quite popular on Android and especially with the increase in the graphic and processing qualities of the device. Gun Bro's is a great example of this coming from Glu Mobile a popular application developer. This game is a story of the fight between the TOOL (Tyrannical Oppressors of Life) and the FRAGGED (Freakishly Rugged Advanced Genetics Galactic Enforcement Division)...
02:11 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Taiwan: A man from Taiwan was found dead after playing a computer game for 23 hours at an internet cafe. Police found the body of 23-year-old Chen Rong-Yu slumped in a chair at the cafe in the Taipei area with his hands stretched out towards the keyboard and mouse, the Herald Sun reported. Cafe employees say Rong-Yu walked in late on Tuesday and sat down at a corner computer terminal....
03:41 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington: A new video game has gotten its hooks into Brian Kealer, a 26-year-old San Francisco software engineer. He's not killing birds or using his vocabulary to impress his friends. No, Kealer is after real prizes, like the iPad2 he just scored. And he's playing with his bank account. At least once every day, Kealer signs into SaveUp.com, a new financial website, and does some financial activity that wins him...
12:02 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Chennai: Home to many IT companies, Chennai is slowly becoming a hub in providing support for gaming and android based technologies besides witnessing a new trend in supporting Computer Aided Design (CAD). "Chennai is basically a very strong market for software support, particularly in the area of medical transcription and financial system. But, now we find it is slowly becoming a preferred place for supporting android and gaming technologies," a...
02:03 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Toronto: It took seven months, but Research In Motion has finally delivered on a promise made by co-founder Mike Lazaridis. Angry Birds is available on RIM's PlayBook tablet. The widely popular game, where birds destroy the pigs who stole their eggs with the help of a slingshot, has long been available on Apple and Android-based devices. But its absence had become symbol of the relative dearth of consumer-friendly applications available...
06:48 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Helsinki: Finnish gaming firm Rovio, creator of "Angry Birds," the world's most popular computer game, is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2013, Finnish weekly Tekniikka&Talous reported on Friday. Rovio's marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka told the paper the aim is to build the company into a media firm which would have a market capitalisation similar to that of Walt Disney Co, whose shares are...
01:12 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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