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The only fitting response to Nintendo ragging on smartphone gaming is to release an N64 emulator on Android, isn’t it? Yongzh has recently released N64oid on the Android Market, complete with transparent on-screen controls (with the option to use the accelerometer as the analog stick for tilt control), or you can configure hardware controls, ideal…
Back in 1991, there was a video game called Another World (or Out of This World as it was known when it was released in the US) that revolutionized the gaming industry with its cinematic effects, graphics, and cut scenes. At the time, games have yet to reach a maturity that Another World did as…
A couple of weeks ago, NBA Jam was released and it literally blew my socks off. Seriously – I have no idea where the socks I was wearing that day went and they were my lucky rainbow socks with individual toes. That’s besides the point as another big name sports game has made the jump…
Nintendo recently launched their 3DS mobile gaming system in Japan and it’s due to hit American shores quite soon. It’s the successor to the wildly popular DS and DSi, both of which introduced gamers to a new way of enjoying games thanks to the two screens, one of which being touch enabled. Satoru Iwata, the…
I can vividly remember my Amiga days. Bitmap Brothers was super-respectable name in the gaming business. Pretty much all of their games were rock solid, providing tons of hours of entertainment for the truly yours. Speedball 2 was on that list too, and boy am I glad to see it being re-done for the iPhone…
A company called Tap Me wants to revolutionize in-game advertising and they may be onto something. Instead of making us watch some stupid video or show us a banner in the top corner, they have something better in mind. Their idea is to serve less intrusive ads to gamers, while providing advertisers with better context…
Ever since Infinity Blade was released last December, Epic promised the game would receive a regular dose of updates. One of the updates they promised was one that would allow players to fight one another in grueling duels to the death. An update was released in late December that added a number of new weapons,…
Firemint is not a typical iPhone game developer/publisher. They don’t have tons of titles in the AppStore, quite the contrary. However their games — Flight Control and Real Racing series — are played by millions, so we were delighted to learn the third Firemint title is coming soon. Called Agent Squeek it is already touted…
Glu Mobile is bringing Atari’s popular Deer Hunter franchise to another mobile platform – Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. If you’ve played the game on some other device (i.e. iPhone or some Android-powered smartphone), you know what to expect – awesome graphics with realistic 3D visuals, different types of animals with true-to-life senses and behaviors, and…
Sony Ericsson unveiled the Xperia Play at Mobile World Congress last month but the company showed it off for the first time in the United States at the Game Developers Conference and said that the device will be capable of using Havok gaming tools in order to try and push smartphone gaming to the boundaries.…