Tag: games
Evesham launches Cosmos Gaming PCs
Evesham seems pretty keen on targeting gamers of late, firstly introducing the OXEGEN range of gaming PCs, and now unveiling their Cosmos range. These Cosmos PCs include the 8800 Ultra or 8800 UltrasSLI NVIDIA GPUs, delivering full DX10, and…
Indulge your bubble-wrap popping tendencies with Bandai's Mugen Puchi Puchi
Hands up who enjoys popping bubble-wrap? Oh hai, all of you? Thought so. The past-time which is only just eclipsed by folding tent rods up, and scraping burnt bits off toast over the sink has just been made into a little electronic gizmo, which lucky OCD-ridden Japanese can get from Bandai when it launches shortly.
Like a game of Russian Roulette, every 100 squeezes of the air bubbles produces a random noise like the sound of a fart, or a woman ‘moaning in ecstasy’. Fear not commuters, as if you simply must pop the electronic bubble-wrap on the train,..
Liveblog: Nokia's Go Play music launch in London
Nokia is hosting an event today called Go Play, which looks set to see the debut of the company’s rumoured digital music store, which would be a direct iTunes competitor. Its new N-Gage mobile games platform (as opposed to the old N-Gage games phones) is also set to feature.
I’m liveblogging the event in full: see below for the latest couple of entries, and click on the link below for the full liveblog in chronological order.
Computer games can help adults bond with their kids, casual gaming survey reveals
According to a recent worldwide casual gaming survey, 70% of family members have seen educational benefits of their children and grandchildren playing computer games, while a whopping 92% say that casual games provide an opportunity for them to bond with them.
PopCap Games commissioned the survey and found some other interesting statistics that suggest not all video games are bad, either educationally or in terms of isolating kids.
Casual games provided the following observed benefits: improved hand-eye coordination and mental dexterity (68%), improved learning, such as pattern recognition and spelling (60%), mental workouts/cognitive exercises (51%), strengthened memory (48%), stress relief and relaxation (44%), and confidence building/affirmation (37%).
New OS X iPods rumoured… but is Apple planning a handheld games device?
Well-connected blog AppleInsider has a story claiming that next month will see the launch of Apple’s next-gen iPods, running an embedded version of Mac OS X.
Bop It updated for the download generation
The highly addictive and frustrating game, Bop It!, has had a makeover for the download generation, to become… Bop It Download!
It features the same gameplay as before, but now allows you to replace that irritating bloke that shouts and screams at you when you “pull it” when you should’ve “twisted it” with your own sounds.
Is EA bottling out of Mac games?
One of the big stories of Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference back in June was that EA would bring out its major games on the Mac.
However, two months on and it seems as if Electronic Arts may have gone a little cold on the idea.
Madden NFL 08 came out on most devices, but was a no-show on the Mac.
Hack allows Nintendo DS games to be played on the Sony PSP
Modders have been lifting their game recently – the past week has shown a NES emulator on the iPhone, a 360 mod which allowed the Wiimote to be used when playing Halo 2, and of course the Optimus Prime Transformers PC case mod which pleased me to the point of almost commissioning someone to create one for me. Oh, ok, a Megatron PC case mod, but still….
This week's Top 5 Facebook applications: Gaming
A change of tack this week for our Facebook app roundup. Instead of picking random new apps, I’m going to focus on a specific area every week.
Computer discovers perfect game of draughts: it's a draw
In a tale reminiscent of “WarGames“, a computer has finally played out the 500 billion possible positions in the game of draughts (checkers). It only took Chinook 18 years to do so.
Now, computer scientists at the University of Alberta say that they have “solved” the game.
Guess what? Perfect play on both sides leads to a draw. Sounds a bit like tic-tac-toe to me – or perhaps “Global Thermonuclear War”.
