We didn’t get a chance to go in-depth with Driver San Francisco during E3 last week, but the floor buzz on the driving action game was pretty good. The Driver series was an early pioneer in open-world game design, and was among the first to showcase jump-in, jump-out carjacking mechanics.
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Today, the court found in favor of YouTube in regard to its spat with Viacom over claims of copyright infringement.
In March 2007, Viacom slapped YouTube with a $1 billion lawsuit claiming that YouTube had made 160,000 unauthorized clips available to the public as well as encouraging its users to commit copyright infringement. YouTube …
Starting with Superman #700 – released today – DC Comics’ Man of Steel will give up the jetset lifestyle to walk across America and try and reconnect with humanity, thanks to the efforts of new writer J. Michael Straczynski. But if you’re wondering what makes that any different from his many other attempts to get in touch with humanity, …
While the summer months tend to be a wasteland for new packaged games, it’s been a booming time for digitally distributed ones. Last year saw Shadow Complex and Battlefield 1943 hit XBL and PSN, where they became big hits in the process.
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The latest hopeful for summer success is …
Everybody’s favorite war strategy board game is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for $10. This isn’t just your ordinary Risk, though. Risk: Factions lets you command one of five “fanatical” factions. Choose from cats, robots, zombies, yetis, or humans and try your hand in single-player mode and then take it online or over a local …
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Photos From The Set Of Transformers 3 [via GeekTyrant]
iOS 4 On iPhone 3G: Much Ado About Nothing [via The Apple Blog]
AT&T Won’t Have More iPhone 4s Until June 29 [via Gizmodo]
Skype Opens Up SkypeKit SDK To All Devices And …
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Chances are, you’ve already beaten Rockstar’s western opus already and are running down new outfits to become a stylin’, sharp-shooting gentleman of the Old West. In case you’re hankering for new stuff to do, the new Outlaws To The End DLC pack delivers a …
An interesting thing happened when I got back from E3 and sat down to talk with Lev about what’s been going on while he was out on book leave. I told him my initial impressions of Kinect and Move and more or less pooh-poohed Kinect for its piss-poor showing at E3. I specifically mentioned the Forza demo I stood through where I …
Recently I went away on a 3-week trip. It was the kind of trip where two days out of three you’re getting on a plane and going somewhere else. Usually when I go on such trips I take the precaution of buying some insanely addictive iPhone game in advance.
I’ve gone down this road with GeoDefense and GeoDefense Swarm. I’ve done Enigmo …
Marvel Studios has given another glimpse into its post-Avengers plans with the news that writers have been hired to script a movie based on Doctor Strange, the company’s premier magic-based character. According to Deadline Hollywood, Marvel has signed Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, the writers behind the now-shooting Conan movie …
Google’s web-based communications platform, Google Voice, is now available for everyone and anyone after a year’s worth of testing and tweaking. If you’re unfamiliar with what GV is and what it does, fret not; Google has a video for that. In a nutshell: a Google Voice number rings all your linked phones, has voicemail that looks …
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 …
