Nintendo says it's finally going to get with the program and release an honest-to-goodness online gaming service, dubbed "Nintendo Network," that'll cover both the Wii U and 3DS. Hooray, I think.
Remember what Charles Ingalls used to call daughter Laura on Little House on the Prairie? That’s right, “Half Pint.” Those two words popped into my brainpan when I got a look at Alienware’s new X51, something it calls its “smallest gaming desktop ever.”
The Techland crew presses on with our favorite gadgets and holiday gift ideas of 2011. On Tuesday, Graeme likened this feature series to a procession of reindeer, but as the group’s token Jewish guy, I’m considering it a set of candles in the Hanukkah menorah, of which my list is the third. The presence of eight favorite gadgets on this list is totally coincidental. I digress. Onward!
OnLive aims to put no-compromises gaming at your fingertips on devices of all sorts. In June of 2010, the company released versions for Windows PCs and Macs. Later that year, it introduced a $99 “MicroConsole” the size of a slice of pound cake that put the service on HDTVs. And now it’s announcing apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets.
I’m only at the 25-hour mark, which in most games would be sufficient, but in Skyrim is barely enough to time to get to the meat of the main plot while indulging in the game’s many side quests. But over the last week, I’ve played enough to learn a thing or two about this epic fantasy RPG. Here’s what wisdom I’ve come up with so far:
Steve Jobs was many things, but if we’re being honest, a gamer wasn’t one of them. It was a running a joke in enthusiast gamer circles, that until the iPhone came along, the Mac was where games went to die. Oh, you can dredge up the odd games-related interview here and there, where some diehard Apple enthusiast [...]
Make no mistake about it: The timing of this is completely intentional. Facebook took to its blog to announce that it was giving its already successful gaming interface a facelift in the wake of Google’s own announcement that it was implementing games on Google+.
WTB one ticket to World Joyland.
Do kids ever really outgrow their gaming controllers and headsets? Apparently not, according to a new study that finds the average gamer has long surpassed puberty and is, in fact, 37 years old.
If you thought leisure activities were safe from a robot takeover, you might want to watch OptoFidelity’s robot play Angry Birds.
For humans, associating with video game characters is second-nature. I ducked. I jumped. I fell off a cliff and died.
