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  • 03 May 2012

  • Opinion: Samsung Galaxy S III: Watch Live Video Feed of the Announcement

    The hotly anticipated next generation Samsung Galaxy phone will make its debut today at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET in London. Not in the UK? No worries, you can watch the announcement unfold on a livestream hosted on Samsung Mobile’s Facebook page. PCWorld’s sibling publication from across the pond, PC Advisor, is at the event and will have a live blog hosted on PCWorld.

  • Opinion: $99 Subsidized Xbox 360 Would Widen Battle for Living Room

    Microsoft could soon offer a subsidized Xbox 360 for $99 along with a two-year contract for Xbox Live Gold in an attempt to popularize the Xbox as the main digital hub in living rooms across the U.S., according to an online report. As early as next week, Microsoft may start offering a 4GB Xbox 360 with Kinect sensor plus a two-year commitment to pay $15 per month for Xbox Live Gold, giving you access to the console's online services.

  • 02 May 2012

  • Opinion: EA Selling Rock Band iOS Game for $5, Despite Looming Expiration Date

    Electronic Arts is apparently looking to cement its “Worst Company in America” status by pulling the plug soon on Rock Band for iOS, a game that remains on sale for $5.

  • Opinion: Why You Should Play The Walking Dead: Episode One

    I can’t stand zombies. Zombie movies are boring, and games with zombie antagonists are a dime a dozen. Between Plants vs. Zombies and Left 4 Dead, I think we’ve hit our zombie quota for the foreseeable future. I’m ready for something new.

  • 01 May 2012

  • Opinion: MITris: You Too Can Turn a Building Into a Giant Tetris Game

    Which is better, the MIT Tetris building, or the Space Invaders art installation in Manchester? Both are pretty cool, but the MIT team just pulled ahead by issuing the source code of the big hack.

  • Opinion: Kickstarter Funding Request Exposed as Scam

    Thanks to the detectives on several online communities, including Reddit, Something Awful, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a scam to exploit Kickstarter, the crowd-funding website, has been unveiled.

  • Opinion: Monster Wars for iPhone and iPad

    When being a do-gooder grows boring, why not switch teams? That’s the route Liv Games takes with Monster Wars, an evil-themed sequel to the developer’s popular tower defense game Legendary Wars.

  • 30 April 2012

  • Opinion: Angry Birds Space Rockets to 50 Million Downloads in 35 Days

    Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous record-holder, Draw Something.

  • 27 April 2012

  • Opinion: Want Free Games--Fast? Get Game Downloader

    So, you want to play a game and kill a few minutes or hours. But you don't want to spend any money, or install Steam (which can be a bit of a resource hog). You have two choices: Either play something in your browser, or grab one of the many fun and free Indie games offered on the Web. If the latter sounds more attractive, Game Downloader is a free and lightweight application that can help you find and legally download fun, free games.

  • Opinion: Borderlands 2 Hands-On Preview

    In the spring of 2012 we sent Game On correspondent Alex Rubens on a sucide mission to PAX East in Boston. Not only did he manage to make it back alive, he also played some games while he was there. These are his stories.

  • Opinion: Zerg Rush: Google's Starcraft-flavored Easter Egg

    If you're sitting at work bored out of your mind right now try typing in "zerg rush" to Google search and play a fun point-and-shoot that sure beats filling out TPS reports on a Friday. The term Zerg is a nod to the enemy alien species from the video game Starcraft by Blizzard Entertainment. In Google's version your search results are quickly overtaken by a falling wave of Google-colored O's--zerglings capable of destroying your little blue links. To combat your enemy you must click furiously over each enemy zergling to destroy it and stop the onslaught.

  • Opinion: Free Friday: A Typing Game That Teaches it Wrong and an Abbreviated Mario Brothers.

    This week we've got three titles made in 48 hours for the most recent Ludum Dare gamejam, including a typing game that teaches you to be a bad speller and a condensed version of the original Super Mario.

  • 24 April 2012

  • Opinion: Diablo III Beta Impressions

    I had a chance to sit down with the Diablo III beta during the open beta stress test period last weekend. With less than a month till the game's May 15th release we're starting to get a real sense of how the game and in particular the five available character classes will feel to play.

  • Opinion: Triple Town for iPhone and iPad

    A deceptive little beast of a puzzler, Triple Town lures you close and sinks its teeth in before demanding you feed it more of your hard-earned cash. This clever hybrid of match-three puzzles and settlement planning gameplay from Spry Fox is insidiously addictive, but poorly conceived micro-transactions soon suck all the joy out of the experience.

  • 23 April 2012

  • Opinion: MIT Building Becomes Playable Tetris Board, And It Looks Amazing

    Any self-respecting modder will at some point need to hack something on a grand scale. A group at MIT took the grand scale term quite literally, though, by turning a building into their playground.

  • Opinion: Orcs Must Die 2 Hands-On Preview

    After the surprise success of Orcs Must Die last year, Robot Entertainment has been hard at work on making a sequel that could live up to the high bar that they have set for themselves. They’ve gone through and tweaked some gameplay elements to work better and added cooperative play with a new character, so that you can murder orcs with a friend!

  • Opinion: Games With A Cause (And Not Much Else)

    Earlier this month we saw the launch of the beta for SuperBetter, an online game that promises to help you recover from injuries faster or raise your general level of health through daily “quests” and other game-related activities. SuperBetter is the brainchild of Jane McGonigal, the author of Reality is Broken, and one of the leading advocates behind the Games for Change movement. But SuperBetter and Games for Change in general have a dirty secret: they’re not very fun.

  • 21 April 2012

  • Opinion: Nintendo Scores Patent for Software Emulator: ROM Geeks Snicker, Smartphones Shrug

    If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you have at least some familiarity with video game emulators (which are legal), and ROMS (which are not quite legal). They've been around for years. But much like Columbus discovering America despite a presence of natives, Nintendo can now take credit for something that others had been doing for long time.

  • 20 April 2012

  • Opinion: Final Fantasy VIIs Midgar Gets Completely Reconstructed in Minecraft

    This week’s incredible Minecraft build is a full reconstruction of Midgar, the capital city of the Final Fantasy VII’s World Map. And when I say it's been completely reconstructed, I mean completely reconstructed.

  • Opinion: Free Friday: I Saw Her Standing There, SCP Containment Breach and More

    This week's roundup of free games is all about life or death situations with dangerous and deadly games about zombies, mysterious monsters and editing a newspaper in an Orwellian country.

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