Archive for the ‘Apps & Games’ Category

Redakai Cards: The Newest CCG On The Block

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What is it about CCGs that is so dang fun? Seriously, pick your poison: Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Yugioh, or even the hybrid CCG/Transforming marble game Bakugan… we’ve been playing these things for over a decade, and they never stop being amusing. If you have been known to throw-down the cards from time to time, [...]

14 Year Old Dethrones Angry Birds

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You probably noticed there’s a new #1 free app on the app store. Bubble Ball dethroned the seemingly invincible Angry Birds Seasons on Jan 17th. What kind of massive media giant was able to conquer a multi-million dollar business like Rovio in the rankings? A 14 year old 8th grade boy and his mother. Robert [...]

Flight Control HD coming to the Mac App Store

Let’s just hope that it won’t cost that much more than the iPhone version… People look to iOS app store a cheap way of getting great apps. Once the Mac App Store is out, people are going to think the same way. Therefore, applications in the Mac App Store better be cheap.

3 Great iPhone Games

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The iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are all amazing gaming platforms.  Apple is trying to push the devices even further ahead with Game Center.  In case you’ve been living under a rock, Game Center is Apple’s gaming social network for iOS that lets you play games and compare achievements with friends.  If you have an iDevice, [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops dedicated servers

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One of the biggest complaints PC gamers had about Modern Warfare 2 was the lack of dedicated servers. Treyarch obviously took this hint and is using Gameservers.com in order to bring these dedicated servers to PC gamers. While dedicated servers are great, they do come at a price.

Flight Control surpasses 3 million sales

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What’s that? You’ve never heard of Flight Control? Well, go buy it. Firemint last night has announced that they have had over 3 million sales of Flight Control, one of the simplest and more interesting games that are available for iOS. Firemint also mentions an update that will be out very soon that takes advantage [...]

Fruit Ninja quick review

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Fruit Ninja is a new game by half brick studios that is in the same vain as doodle jump or canabalt in the sense that it is a high score fest. First off, this game is not what what you expect it to be (with a name like “Fruit Ninja” what can you possibly expect?) [...]

[How-To] Host Hacked MW2 Servers (PC) – 1.0.195 Compatible

There are more and more people who are hosting hacked servers. There are tons of positives as to playing on one. The more people who host one, the more people who can enjoy Modern Warfare 2 more. This has all been tested with the latest version of Modern Warfare 2 (1.0.195).

IPhone as a gaming device?

iPad apps, iPhone apps, and soon to come, apps made for the (assumed much faster) iPhone 4G. It’s getting out little of hand. What was once  an easy device to make apps for has, in turn, become hell for app developers.  It was okay when Apple only had 3 devices out with similar capabilities. But [...]

Why Gaming on the Mac Will Never Be (& Steam for Mac Sucks)

Now that Steam is officially available for Mac OS X, people are flocking to give Portal a try. But here’s the thing: PERFORMANCE BLOWS. It doesn’t take a  genius to figure that one out. But why? What makes it so bad?