The lack of top notch apps in Palm’s webOS platform has proved to be a bitter disappointment to Palm Pre and Pixi users, with UK users being hit particularly hard (the Brit App Catalogue is a pale shadow of the US one, with just 2,800 apps on offer and many of them pretty unexciting).
When it comes to playing back audio on laptops, the sound quality is – at best - pretty shonky, but MSI is hoping to hook in audiophiles with its beefy new GX660 laptop which promises a veritable orgy of aural pleasure.
Old school gamers packing iPhones should get ready to whoop at the news that Civilization Revolution, a remake of the old Civilisation classic – has been shunted into the App Store and is currently available for free.
New figures released by the PC Gaming Alliance reveal that far from being on the ropes, PC gaming remains very much alive, with shipping volumes for the platform being twice the size of the combined amounts of all the major consoles last year.
Although Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has said that the new Kindle eReader experience is sharply focussed on reading books, the company seems happy to serve up a few distractions on its innovative device, with two free games now being announced.
Seventeen years after launching, Britain’s first ever magazine dedicated to PC gaming is to close its doors for good.
NASA has released a trailer for their new 3-D game set on the Moon called, “Moonbase Alpha”.
Microsoft has officially announced Project Kinect, their new motion-sensor peripheral for the Xbox 360.
Formerly known as Project Natal, the Kinect is the revolutionary control system for video games using a camera, motion-sensors, microphones and advanced software to allow Xbox 360 owners to play games without having to plug in traditional control pads.
Perhaps mindful of the flak that Apple has taken for its sometimes arbitrary and moralistic app approval process, Jobs has weighed in to say their AppStore is, “the most vibrant app store on the planet,” with around “15,000 submissions a week in up to 30 different languages.”
If you fancy some car-jacking, gun blasting, tyre burning adventure on your iPhone but the wallet is a little light, then head off to the AppStore and bag yourself a free copy of GTA: Chinatown Wars Lite.
Dominos Pizza has decided to grab a piece of the location-based social gaming pie by using Foursquare to encourage users to check-in at its outlets.
Paying tribute to the 30th anniversary of the arcade game classic PAC-MAN, Google have put up their first-ever playable Google doodle on the search homepage.
We’ve been fans of eBoy’s fabulously pixellated graphics for years, and the iconic graphics have inspired artists and imitators the world over.
Enthusiastically billed as, “the most adrenaline pumping 3D street racer ever on a handheld platform,” Raging Thunder 2 certainly looks to be a high speed treat, serving up super slick graphics and snappy gameplay.
Awarded a generous 4.7 out of 5 in AndroidTapp.com’s review, the reviewer frothed that the game was, “fun, challenging and addictive,” offering “amazing graphics, sound and smooth game play.”
It’s a Friday (woot!), so what better time for a great work distraction like a witty video showing New York being invaded by 8 bit gaming characters?
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