GDC Play has announced a new award for their 2013 show, “Best in Play.” GDC has been around for years, but the organizers behind the show decided to create a separate expo for emerging and independent game developers, which they called GDC Play. GDC Play will be held on Tuesday, March 26 – Thursday, March 28 at Moscone Center during the 2013 Game Developers Conference. The “Best in Play” awa...
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Have a favorite MMO? Want to tell the world about it? Well now you can vote for your favorite MMO thanks to MMOFacts.com and their sponsor GameGenetics. Players and judges can start voting to determine the winner of this major award at http://www.mmooftheyear.com. The influence and reach of the award is outstanding, with hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe and tens of thousand...
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GamerPrint just announced an exclusive collection of posters inspired by Final Fantasy VII. The posters display a few locations from the game, including Midgar, Cosmo Canyon, and Rocket Town. Now you can finally take those other gaming posters down, and it’s about time. You have a SEGA Genesis poster hanging up, which just looks silly. You need to work on your interior decorating skills. If we’re ...
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Lenovo is to produce a Chromebook set for school use called the ThinkPad X131e. A Chromebook is a laptop running on Google’s operating system Chrome. The Chrome OS is a browser-based operating system, but like Android (also made by Google), runs Linux in the background. The software all runs in the cloud of the web, with websites, and web apps. It won’t run PC games, Photoshop, or even...
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Cello Fortress is a game that is in my opinion revolutionary, it has four player co-op whom take control of tanks trying to destroy cannons and the cannons are controlled by another player but they don’t use a controller. They use a cello and the cello affects the cannons to destroy the tanks. Here is a quote from the website “A cellist defends a fortress by improvising on his cello. Melodies cont...
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Apple, the developers of the famous iPod and iPad, shares are close to dropping below the $500 mark. Premarket trading trends show that Apple shares have dropped nearly three percent and are sitting at around $504.25. The orders for the newest smartphone put out by Apple, the iPhone 5, have been cut in half due to the low demand for them. Just weeks after UBS analysy Steven Milunovich cut his iPho...
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Konami is working with Come Round to offer 250 UK gamers the chance to receive their pre-ordered copy of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance a week before everyone else. That is sort of exciting. Sort of. More importantly, they also have a chance to meet Hideo Kojima. Now that is actually interesting. Gamers who agree to host a party on February 16th will be entered into a contest with winners randomly...
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The parent company of Xbox360Achievements.org and PS3Trophies.org, Connected Media Solutions Ltd – is excited to reveal the company’s online systems have had another stellar year of viewer expansion for a sixth consecutive year running, recording 4.1 million monthly unique users in the New Year across the board – It was an increase of over 700,000 users compared to 2011. Xbox 360 Achievemen...
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Festival Teaches Game Design Games Britannia, last year’s recipient of the “Best University/Educational Initiative” honor at last year’s TIGA Games Industry Awards, is set to kick off its second iteration this month in South Yorkshire. On January 23rd and 24th Sheffield Hallam University will host a 24-hour game development and workshop marathon aimed at teaching students of all ages how to des...
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PC gamers rejoice, tablet leader Agawi and Marvell are working together to show off console-quality games streamed to the ARMADA 1500-based Android smart device. The ARMADA 1500 is capable of state-of-the-art video performance and is able to be built into any smart TV. Providing game publishers and retailers to deliver their own cloud gaming to their customers directly. Now owners of Android powe...
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