You know what Sunday without football is? Just another miserable 24 hours before Monday. With the worrisome breakdown of talks between the NFL owners and players leading to a lockout, football fans must contend with the worst-case scenario: there may be no football this fall.
It’s a grim possibility. Hell, even a lifelong nerd like me …
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Steam is a popular gaming service for PCs with over 30 million player accounts worldwide, but it’s missing out on the huge audience that prefers video game consoles and gaming in the living room.
That may change with a couple of new efforts from Valve, which …
Funny story: When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 back in the fall, the splash page on its website featured a bunch of icons for apps that’d be available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
One of those icons was the Angry Birds logo.
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, swiftly responded via Twitter:
“We have NOT committed to
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Mobile apps usually aim to entertain, inform or help us be productive. All in all, they usually don’t incite the Internet into political debate. But people have a lot to say about the pending iOS release of Owlchemy Labs’ instantly infamous game, Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration.
Owlchemy Labs would have to be beyond clueless to …
Cheating at video games. It’s one of the few, purely victimless crimes left on the planet. Unless you cheat at multiplayer games—that’s more of a crime against a faceless victim you’ll hopefully never run into.
At any rate, GamesRadar.com is chock full of video game tips, guides, cheats and walkthroughs, but we can all agree that …
Zynga, the company behind wildly popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, has announced that CityVille will be rolling out “in the coming weeks.”
(More on Techland: Rumor: Zynga Prepping ‘CityVille’ Social Game?)
Zynga is calling CityVille its “most social game to date.” You’ll be able to build your own city …
Who doesn’t love lists? Certainly not this guy!
If you have an iPhone and have been itching for something new to play on your next cab ride, road trip, or bicycle ride, do we have a list for you! After hours and hours of focus group testing, we’ve compiled a list of 18 games that are worth the bandwidth and/or your hard earned …
Even if you’ve never played Zynga’s more popular titles such as Mafia Wars or FarmVille, you’ve probably heard of them, especially if you’re on Facebook. Ever seen one of those cryptic status updates from someone else’s feed? “Karen saved a baby duck!” Well, hooray for Karen.
Games.com apparently stumbled upon an …
RISK Factions is available from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for $10. It’s pretty much a must-download for RISK fans, and other strategy board game fans might find it to be a worthwhile purchase as well.
You can play using standard RISK rules or you can infuse certain objective-based elements into the game. For instance, each player can …
Oh my, this looks nice. Developer Grant Skinner has created Androideroids, which is basically a version of Asteroids with support for up to eight players over a local network. Players use their Android phones to control their space ships and can shoot each other along with the asteroids.
The coolest part is that the entire game plays …
Tiger may not be playing his best golf lately (it’s almost as though he’s distracted by something!) but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be getting the latest installment of EA Sports’ PGA Tour series this year.
Available today for Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 features a new Ryder Cup mode, some new …
Finally! Tiger Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts now have access to the prestigious Video Games Belt Loop and Video Games Academics Pin. Awards for playing video games? Sort of!
To get the belt loop, you must do the following:
1. Explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games. Check your video games to be …
