629 articles on Gaming

  • Even More Wonder Boy Games to Wii Virtual Console
    Nobody remembers anymore that Wii even has a Virtual Console service, but even as it lies on its deathbed Sega can still find more games in the Wonder Boy series to release for it at exaggerated prices.
    05.10.12
  • What Is a Virtual Network? It's Not What You Think It Is
    Steve Herrod envisions a world where we create entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade, VMware has helped the world's businesses move their computing applications onto virtual servers, machines that exist only as software, and now, Herrod and company are working to expand the world of virtual computing, so that applications run atop not only virtual servers but completely virtual networks.
    05.09.12
  • GeekDad Interview: Starhawk Developer Dylan Jobe
    After a long wait, Starhawk releases this week. The game, a third person shooter and spiritual successor to the game Warhawk, features a rich single player campaign and a deep multiplayer experience. To find out more about the game, we talked to Dylan Jobe, president of Lightbox Interactive, who developed Starhawk for the Playstation 3. Read on to find out more about the game's inspiration, why it's the best shooter for younger players, and what Starhawk feature is the best addition to any shooter game in years.
    05.09.12
  • Cathedral Uses PlayStation Game in Worship Service
    Following a positive response to the live videogame theater event, and the subsequent TEDx talk I've been invited to bring a video-game element to an Exeter Cathedral service. The service will make use of the PlayStation 3 game, Flower. The plan is that it will be played collaboratively by the congregation while the game¿s music will form the background for other elements of the service. The controller will be passed around while other parts of the worship continue, and then brought to a conclusion as the first level of the game is completed.
    05.09.12
  • Safe in Its Shell
    Users howled when Microsoft tried to lock down Windows. Now Apple is upping its own security -- and everyone loves it.
    05.07.12
  • XBLA and PSN Retail Packs Help Overcome the Online Hurdle
    Technology can bring people together and make our world more connected. However, if we are not careful about our assumptions, it can also lead to us inhabiting very different realities. For instance, it's easy to think that everyone who owns a videogame console is online and downloading games directly from the Internet. While this may be true for the majority of tech-savvy GeekDads there are plenty of people who have never, and will not any time soon, go the extra mile of connecting their Xbox or PlayStation 3.
    05.05.12
  • Windows Phone Marketplace Launches in 22 Countries
    Building a strong and thriving app ecosystem is difficult, but Microsoft is taking the task of expanding Windows Phone Marketplace seriously. In a blog post on Thursday, the company announced that Marketplace has launched in 22 new countries.
    05.03.12
  • Microsoft's Biggest Cloud Deployment: Make or Break?
    It's strange how little the ground shook when behemoth Microsoft announced its biggest cloud deployment, in India. What¿s missing from the storyline? How such a large installation will take place. What are the realities and challenges behind ¿the largest cloud deployment ever¿? Victor Cruz reports.
    05.02.12
  • Behind the Carnage of Prototype 2 with Radical Entertainment's Dave Fracchia
    I was fortunate to be able to stretch my journalistic tentacles over to Radical Entertainment and ensnare the talented mind of Dave Fracchia, VP. of Technology at Radical Entertainment. If you're not a video game geek, Radical Entertainment is the developer of Prototype 2, the action-adventure sandbox game that we've all been waiting for -- impatiently. I met Dave at Activision's press event at Pax Primein Seattle, and it was there that I experienced Prototype 2 for the first time. I say experienced, because this is arguably one of the most intense, character-empowered, feature-laden, most virtuoso action sandbox games ever created.
    05.02.12
  • Microsoft + Nook: It Just Got (More) Interesting ...
    You think markets are efficient? Check this out: Barnes & Noble stock opened 2012 at $14.75 per share and falling fast; by January 5, the opening price was just $9.50. At that price, the entire company was worth just $550 million, and there was a very real fear that the entire company could go to zero, following in the footsteps of Blockbuster and other real-world retailers selling content more easily bought online. Today, of course, all that has changed.
    04.30.12
  • Microsoft Finds a New Nook in E-Books
    Microsoft announced Monday that it is investing $300 million in the Nook, the Barnes & Noble e-reader that is the closest competitor to Amazon's Kindle. The investment gives Microsoft a 17.6 percent stake in a new entity valued, based on the infusion, at $1.7 billion.
    04.30.12
  • Boy Discovers Gameboy Micro, Convinces Classmates It's the Next 3DS
    My youngest son had spotted a Gameboy Micro in a second hand shop window a few months ago and was convinced that it was the next new handheld device from Nintendo. He even came up with a whole hand-drawn comic strip conspiracy story about how the new device had fallen into the hands of the shop and why it was so reasonably priced -- a tale to equal even the leaked iPhone 4 from last year.
    04.28.12
  • Nintendo to Sell New Super Mario 2 and Others Digitally
    Nintendo will sell New Super Mario Bros 2. and other games for 3DS and Wii U as both direct downloads and physical packages beginning in August, company president Satoru Iwata said in a financial briefing Friday.
    04.27.12
  • Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World's Most Misunderstood Cloud
    In this, the age of cloud computing, Amazon's service is so popular, it now runs about one percent of the entire internet, according to research from independent outfit DeepField Networks. Another study from research outfit 451Group indicates that a similar service from the Texas-based Rackspace has gained a significant foothold as well, and other cloud services, such as the Saleforce-owned Heroku, have at least gained a significant mindshare among the net's leading developers. But despite some strong reviews from those who have actually used it, Microsoft Azure -- more than two years after its debut -- is still on the edge of the conversation.
    04.27.12
  • Android Gaming Tablet Looks Remarkably Similar to Sony PSP
    The wonderful thing about Android is that it can be installed on almost any device. But the bad thing about Android is that it can land in hardware of questionable pedigree -- like a portable gaming system that looks remarkably similar to the product of another company.
    04.25.12
  • Apple = Sony? Don't You Believe It
    Forrester CEO George Colony has written a controversial blog post provocatively titled "Apple = Sony" in which he argues that now that Steve Jobs is dead, Apple is coasting on fumes and will begin its inevitable decline within the next two to four years. Much of Colony's argument comes down to this assertion: that there is no longer a 'singular charismatic leader' at Apple. When it comes to reality distortion fields, Tim Cook may be no Steve Jobs, but much of what Colony says about the vacuum of leadership at Cupertino is completely untrue. In fact, Apple's arguably in better shape now than it ever was when Jobs was at the helm.
    04.25.12


 

 

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