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GDC 10: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Preview Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 2:44AMLara Croft and the Guardian of Light (PC) Raiding ruins from a different perspective.
GDC 10: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Preview Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 1:44AMThe recently announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light may not be what you expected for an adventure starring one of gaming's most recognizable figures. Crystal Dynamics is building this game for release on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and to PCs, offering an experience different enough to not carry the Tomb Raider name. Will it be any good? Based on the demo shown off at GDC ...
iMusic Puzzle and Paper Boat Race Announced for iPhone and iPod Touch Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 4:24PMAfter Best-selling games, Drums Challenge and DJ Nights, MusiGames presents new titles at Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Medal of Honor Timeline Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:05PMIn anticipation of Electronic Arts' upcoming reboot of their Medal of Honor series for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, we take a look at the entire history of the popular shooter franchise, which has seen a dozen games in the ten years it's been around.
Z-Bowl Family Entertainment Center To Offer State-of-the-Art Debit Card Services Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:00PMMarch 8, 2010 — Tired of standing in line at the old arcade feeding your dollar bills into the token machine only to have it jam? At the new Z-Bowl Family Entertainment Center , jammed token machines and coin-operated games are history.
Delivering a knockout: America's best sports towns Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:52PMSome sports teams and events are so intricately linked to their town that the two seem inseparable. They live and breathe sports, and also happen to be some of the most fascinating places to visit. Here, our road warrior sports writers and columnists give us a small glimpse into a few of America's best sports towns.
New iPhone Game: Super Newtronic Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:36PMPhantom EFX has released a physics game Super Newtronic. Combining Sir Newton's physics with mesmerizing electronic sights and sounds and revolutionary controls, Super Newtronic is a new and addictive app for the iPhone and iPod touch that is available ...
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:20PMSonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is an enjoyable game with some innovative tracks and a nice chunk of fanservice for Sega faithfuls, but it isn't enough to bump rival Mario off the go-kart throne. It also isn't enough to re-establish Sonic as a relevant character.
Addicting Puzzle-Arcade Gameplay Meets Classic Physics in Super Newtronic Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:38PMSuper Newtronic (iPhone) Have fun with physics.
Coming up Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 8:44AMRight Now A scholarship of up to $500 is being offered by the Rockaway Valley Garden Club (RVGC) to a graduating senior who attends Boonton High School or Mountain Lakes High School.
New York Yankees Team Report Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 3:34AMThe Yankees again enjoyed a day away from the ballpark as part of manager Joe Girardi's new tradition, and it was a hit with newcomers and veterans who enjoyed last season's pool hall tournament.
American League Team Notes Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 3:32AMal notes
Hughes wins round one Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 2:12AMTAMPA, Fla. — When the words left his mouth, Phil Hughes knew they sounded like a lie. He has nothing to prove in the minor leagues, doesn't want to fall back into the bullpen, and his primary competition for the fifth spot in the Yankees' rotation is the guy who sits three lockers away and pitched immediately after him on Friday.
Chamberlain hit around as Yankees' fifth-starter battle begins Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:26PMTAMPA, FLA. — When the words left his mouth, Phil Hughes knew they sounded like a lie.
Vector Tanks Extreme Review Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 9:08PMVector Tanks Extreme (iPhone) 21st century Battlezone.
News: Joe Danger heading to PS3 first Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:19AMPC and 360 may follow. Hello Games has announced that it will release Joe Danger first on PS3. The downloadable side-scrolling bike game is due out this spring, and the you can check out an Joe Danger hands-on, new screenshots and the latest trailer elsewhere on the site. "We're totally focused on getting the PS3 version out there right now," Hello Games' Sean Murray told Eurogamer, although PC ...
Grasshopper to dabble with PSN/XBLA Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 3:57AMSuda 51 moots downloadable games
EA picks up Deathspank Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 3:42AMEA support more of the LucasArts luminaries
News: EA to publish Shank and DeathSpank Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 2:39AMIndie downloadables due this year. EA Partners has signed up DeathSpank and Shank for release on multiple download platforms this year. DeathSpank is due out for PS3 and Xbox 360 this year. There's no word on a PC version any more, which is a shame. However, the game's described as an epic adventure game that features loot, puzzle-solving, wit, loot, action and loot. It's being put together by ...
Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition Preview Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:58AMZeno Clash originally reared its head in April of 2009 as a downloadable game on Steam. Built off the Source Engine, it wowed many a gamer and critic with its unique first-person "brawler" gameplay. It went on to become a finalist in the "Excellence in Visual Art" category at the 2009 Independent Games Festival competition, but lost out to the equally visually stunning Machinarium. Fast-forward ...
Review: 'Endless Ocean: Blue World' a tranquil winner Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:29AMIt's nice to see "Endless Ocean" get a deserved sequel to improve on its shortcomings. An actual plot has been injected into this game, some better characters have been added, and an overall improved diving experience gives the sequel a fresh perspective.
Nintendo Wii Review: Data East Arcade Classics Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:07PMAfter playing through this collection, I'm more included to believe the "Data" part of the title than the "Classics" bit.
Gamer Memories: To Sid Meier, With Love Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 8:27PMSid Meier's Civilization Revolution (PS3) A game launches an entire career.
Review: Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:59PMSmooth controls and a bunch of awesome tracks make this an exciting kart racer.
Ubisoft announces Pure Futbol and Shaun White Skateboarding Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:58PMUbisoft is increasing its presence in the sports gaming field, as the publisher announced two new games today--a soccer sim called Pure Futbol and a skateboarding game starring snowboard star Shaun White.
'CarneyVale: Showtime' Seals Distribution Contract with Microsoft's Games for Windows Live Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 5:48AMSingapore, Mar 4, 2010 - (ACN Newswire) - Singapore games are kicking off the Year of the Tiger on a high note as CarneyVale: Showtime becomes the first Singapore game to close a distribution contract with Microsoft's Games for Windows-LIVE on the PC platform.
“Topdog” fails to hit the top Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 4:05AMIt’s strangely fitting that the two brothers who occupy the stage in “Topdog/Underdog” are obsessed with three-card monte, because the production of the play shares some of the game’s characteristics: there are a lot of complicated tricks, illusions and flourishes, but in the end, you just feel gypped.
Jenkinson's to hold job fair for summer employment Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:24AMPOINT PLEASANT BEACH — Jenkinson's Boardwalk is scheduled to host a job fair on Sunday to hire workers for the summer, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development said.
Lights going out on laser tag Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:23AMAfter more than five years in business, it’s “game over” forMotionZ laser-tag in the Santa Maria Town Center mall.
'Sprint Cars' fails to get the checkered flag Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:15PMThe enormously successful advent of $10-$20 downloadable games left doubts that games like "World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars" -- a retail product that shares shelf space with $60 games but costs $20 out of the gate -- would ever have a place on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
Meet the New Boss, Certainly not the same as the old boss Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 10:46PMDerek Jeter to follow in Michael Jordan’s footsteps? While Jordan had to go back to NC for possible ownership (no Bulls ownership for him), could Derek be angling for part-ownership of the Yanks? An intriguing possibility. Check out Kevin Kernan’s column in today’s NY Post. Which reminds me of a quote once given by the Yankee Clipper [...]
The Mana Bar Opens Saturday March 20 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 8:42PMBooze, geeks and video games. Is there anything more appealing for the likes of us? If you live in Queensland (or fancy a bit of a roadtrip up the Sunshine State), bookmark the weekend of March 20, because that’s the official opening date for The Mana Bar . (more…)
This Week in Imports Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 7:43PMSgt. Frog RPG, .hack//Link and Bioshokku Tsu lead the way in Japan this week.
Chamberlain has bullpen session pushed back Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:23PMTAMPA, FLA. — New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain had his bullpen session Tuesday pushed back by at least one day because of flulike symptoms.
Video games: ' Aliens vs. Predator '; 'Sprint Cars '; 'P.B. Winterbottom' Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:01PMAliens vs. Predator
Guerrilla Gardening for Gamers Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:52PM"The Earth laughs in flowers." —Ralph Waldo Emerson In most videogames , plant life is merely party of the scenery—which is why I was surprised to find that in the new action shooter game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , players can actually knock down trees to clear the way for tanks. It's not quite the model of conservation the Sierra Club has in mind, but at the very least it reminds us that ...
Backbreaker Preview Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 3:50PMOn the surface, Backbreaker might not appear to be more than just another arcade-style football video game in the vein of NFL Blitz -- sans any licensed NFL teams, logos or stadiums -- but it's actually approaching the genre from an interesting and refreshing new angle.Backbreaker's most notable feature that distinguishes it from Blitz and Madden is the fact that it doesn't rely on motion ...
Red Steel 2 – hands-on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 3:33PMConsider our expectations slashed. Red Steel 2 takes what you thought you knew and carves it up. Travelling to Paris to stink up Ubisoft’s offices with a MotionPlus-enabled sweat, our three-hour playtest reveals a game quite unlike its forebear.
IGF Finalist Limbo Heading To XBLA Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:48PMAlmost three and a half years since it first teased Limbo with a small Flash video, developer Playdead is finally ready to reveal more about its plans for the black and white platformer. The studio says it will release the game, a 2010 IGF finalist for the Technical Excellence and Excellence in Visual Art categories, through Xbox Live Arcade this summer. "The reason for the 'radio silence' is ...
U.S. Army's newest virtual training device in Europe brings reality to virtual worlds Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:42PMGRAFENWOEHR, Germany | The U.S. Army's newest virtual training device is open for business to U.S. Army Europe Soldiers at the Grafenwoehr Training Area. ...
Apple vs. Google: The smartphone smackdown Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:39PMHere come the lawyers. Could the future of mobile personal computing hang in the balance?
News: MotoGP 09/10 demo tomorrow Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:39AMValentino's day. Capcom has announced that it will release a demo for bike racer MotoGP 09/10 on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on Thursday 4th March. That's tomorrow! The demo will include previews of three game modes - Championsip, Time Trial and Arcade. Arcade "awards time extensions for executing skilful manoeuvres", it says here. The game proper is out on 19th March for Xbox 360 and PS3 ...
O'Connor: Joe Girardi gets toughness from parents Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:09PMThe Yankee manager's mom battled cancer for six years and his dad is a long-suffering Alzheimer's victim who was a bricklayer, salesman, bartender and restaurant owner providing for five children and a family built around the value of an honest day's work.
O'Connor: Joe Girardi gets toughness from parents Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:02PMTAMPA, Fla. — Joe Girardi’s toughness is not defined by the state trooper buzz cut or the dockworker arms, but by the man and woman who raised him to weather life’s thunderous storms.
Great Wolf Resorts Announces Filing of Form 10-K and Definitive 2009 Financial Results Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 8:10PMGreat Wolf Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: WOLF), North Americas leading family of indoor waterpark resorts, today announced that the Company has filed ...
Great Wolf Resorts Announces Filing of Form 10-K and Definitive 2009 Financial Results Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 8:00PMMADISON, Wis.----Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. , North America’s leading family of indoor waterpark resorts, today announced that the Company has filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
Crime › 3 men, brandishing baseball bats, rob Oita game parlor Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 5:56PMThree men burst into an arcade in Oita City on Tuesday and hit a staff member and customers with baseball bats before making off with…
First Tecmo Bowl Throwback Details Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 5:42PMTecmo Bowl Throwback (PS3) The SNES classic returns, now with hotter cheerleaders.
IMPRESSIONS: Metal Torrent Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 11:35AMBullet hell from Nintendo? Yes, thanks to DSiWare.
With The Adafruit Monochron Kit You Can Build A Competitive Clock Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 10:26PMAdafruit’s Monochron kit lets you build custom clocks. You can use and abuse its animated display for whatever evil setups you can imagine, but my favourite is the retro arcade game based animation in this video. (more…)