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25 May 2009Swedish-developed Ghostwire will let you use the DSi’s camera to hunt ghosts in the real world through augmented-reality gaming, developer A Different Game announced today. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; In the adventure title, gamers will use the DSi as a portal to the astral plane to find and collect ghosts that exist all around them. The [...]
In: Gaming News|iPhone|Music
22 May 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; So iPhone games have, to date, been largely disappointing. Let’s forget iPhone games for a minute, then, at look at an iPhone synth that lets you create your own 8-bit soundtracks. This is 8bitone, by Japanese devs Yudo, and it lets you arrange your own chiptune soundtracks on the fly. It’s not [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
22 May 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Designer Thomas “Akutou” Pereira likes him some video game ladies. And some vector art. Combine the two and, yes, you see where this is going. While there’s plenty of great stuff on Pereira’s website – we’re suckers for anything and everything Kurt Russell – it’s the Jill, Gum and Sheva pics that [...]
In: Gaming News|Indie
22 May 2009Similar to Joakim’s The Legend of Princess, Ivory Springs is an incomplete project that is short on length but packs enough content to entertain for about half an hour or so. The game is an enjoyable exploration platformer which features great background art and sprite designs, a catchy soundtrack, directional shooting, Mega Man-type slides, hidden [...]
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22 May 2009To go along with the new trailer, EA and DICE also released this morning some new screens for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
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22 May 2009With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters’ Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they’ve got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it. The award for largest playable area in a console game was awarded to Fuel developer Asobo Studios. Guinness World Records presented the developer with a [...]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
22 May 2009Just announced by Nintendo for a late August release: Metroid Prime Trilogy, a three-pack set bringing together the first two GameCube Metroid chapters remade with true widescreen and Wii-mote control support, alongside Corruption, the third game in the series already available on Wii, for the cost of one game. Keep your eyes on the Prime [...]
Sight, sound and smell. Gaming has the first two covered — and maybe soon the third as well. Then again, maybe not. In the UK, the Ministry of Defense is part-funding a project that releases foul smells during training vids so soldiers can learn to smell trouble. According to the MailOnline, this tech “is expected [...]
In: Casual|Gaming News|Web
21 May 2009Breakout Panic is an arcade game that plays like all other Breakout clones, but in GameDesign’s version you are pressured to destroy all blocks as quickly as you can. Blocks are pushed downwards continuously, and the game ends immediately if you run out of balls to use or allow any block to cross the dashed [...]