Category: Games
Rovio, the maker of the iTunes Store #1 hit, Angry Birds has posted the latest teaser for their next rendition of the Angry Birds franchise, Angry Birds Space. The quote “In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Squeal…” is emblazoned on the page when you go to the website meant for the game itself. Teaser three, shown in the photo above has the usual Angry Birds pig in a Face on Mars like moon scape type scene. With the announcement coming…
Spectre Media announced that they will be introducing a new iOS based Starship Troopers game, done in cooperation with the movie house, Sony Pictures. The game will be announced at the Game Developers Conderence going on this week in San Francisco, Ca. The game will be released sometime later this summer with the timing of the release coinciding with the release of the new Starship Troopers movie also due out this year. This will be the dirst time the Starship…
For many of us, Super Mario Brothers was one of the first Nintendo games or Famicon games we owned. That was the epitome of the 1990’s gaming scene and had only one aspect to the game. Now there is a new Super Mario Brothers game, Mari0 which introduces a host of elements including portal gun mechanics. The open source game is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh and the complete source code is also available. Some of the new features…
A game originally found on Commodore 64 and Vic 20 computers in the 1980’s is now available for the iPhone. Grid Runner has been re-formatted by the original author of the game, Llamasoft Ltd., to the 1980’s coin-operated arcade style of play. Produced with high quality graphics of the iPhone, the game has a glossy arcade look to it and really could be in any arcade of the current generation. The game itself has two modes, novice and expert. The…
Civilization V Campaign Edition, one of Aspyr‘s most popular new games for the Macintosh is now having issues updating in the Mac App Store. At this point, the issues have so far only affected those users running the Mac OS X Lion operating system. Aspyr Technical Support released a work around for the issue: We have a POTENTIAL workaround for getting the latest Civilization V patch from the App Store. While this workaround works for most users, we have seen…
A new trailer on you tube this shows a well known NASA clip from the moon walks of the 1970’s, in which one of the astronauts is preparing to launch a bird and the other one guiding him. It is a hilarious intro for the global announcement of the App coming on March 8th at 10am EST.
Don’t Run With a Plasma Sword (DRWAPS for short) is a high paced action game in which you are out to save the world from the alien invaders. You jump, slide, dive and run through the levels, gathering stars, killing the aliens, and avoiding the pitfalls of running on a path which is not conducive to running. While this game is not only addicting and invigorating, the sounds from the game make it as thrilling as any B science fiction…
Rovio, the makers of what is perhaps the most popular game of all time, Angry Birds are not happy just going places like Rio. Now they are going into Space. With an announcement on the Rovio news blog, Rovio says “We’re going to announce more information in early March, and on March 22nd we will launch simultaneously in mobile gaming, animation, retail, and publishing. Not only is this a first for us as an integrated entertainment company, but the first…
The original Eamon Beginners Cave has been updated to display the users stats on the page at all times. The original modification was implemented in 1985 and never released. So I went back this week and fixed the mod and am now releasing the New Beginners Cave for public beta. While the program is nearly 100% ready to go, there may still a few glitches along the way. If you find any issues with the program let me know. You…
Back in the 1970’s when I was first starting out with computer programming, there was one game that was on nearly every system that I had access to. That one game was Adventure. Originally written based on a trip to Mammoth Cave, William Crowther wrote the Colossal Caves Adventure specifically for his kids. However, it soon grew wings and went beyond the confines of his home out into nearly every computer in the world. The program was even produced by…
Program: Pinball Arcade Version: 1.0.8 Size: 17.5 MB Language: English Seller: FarSight Studios URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade-free/id497189134?mt=8 After months of being hyped by many in the media, the biggest bust of the year must be Pinball Arcade by Farsight Studios. I was totally looking forward to playing some of the pinball games from over the years that have long left arcades everywhere for pinball graveyards. However, one should have been forewarned by the name of the publisher, which leads right into the…
Egan Ford, creator and curator of the Apple ][ Game Server and the Apple ][ Disk Server has created mobile versions of the website. This allows those users with iPhones to use the iOS based device to load their Apple ][ computer with games or disks directly from the Internet. The mobile version of the Apple ][ Game Server is at: http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/mobile.html The Apple ][ Disk Server mobile version is currently being built and will be available soon. now…
While there are many agencies and groups which take a hard line against any kind of piracy, including the SBA, RIAA, amond others, there seems to be one company now that actually thinks it is a good thing to some extent. Rovio, the maker of the popular game Angry Birds seems to be taking a page from the MS-Dos 1.0 book and saying that the piracy is actually growing their business more than it is hurting it. According to Rovio…
The High Definition version of the popular game Angry Birds has been updated. Version 2.0.2 includes some minor improvements in the performance of the program. This version was produced specifically for the iPad and now comes in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese , and Spanish. Angry Birds HD is a $4.99 download from the Apple iTunes Store and requires at lead iOS version 3.2. The game can be can be found at: http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/angry-birds-hd/id364234221?l=en&mt=8
GAMEVIl got this game absolutely right. Old school video game baseball comes to the iPad and iPhone. Everything about this game reminds me of the days of the Nintendo Famicon or NES as it is called in the rest of the world outside of Japan. The style of characters in the game remind you of those old time games and the way that baseball was played. We downloaded the App, and even though there are options for more G-Points,we chose…
Program: Namco Arcade Platform iPad and iPhone URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/namco-arcade/id465606050?mt=8 Price: Free (Somewhat) NamcoBandai Games has released their entry into the realm of vintage gaming on the iPhone and iPad, Namco Arcade. Sadly, this is as far as the excitement went. While many of us who lived in the arcades in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the quarters we plunked into the machines were for real play on real machines. We certainly were not willing then nor now to buy…
For those iPhone and iPad users lucky enough to have downloaded iMame prior to its being pulled on the 23rd of December, 2011, there is a nifty new instruction set available on the Internet for adding more ROMs. iMame came with 10 ROMs but none of them were particulaly exciting from the aspect of the average gamer. The one thing that was exciting was the fact that MAME had made it into the Apple App store. This has been rectified…
Push Panic!, the game that brings new meaning to the columns theme is available as a free download. The program which drops multi-colored boxes as you do your best to explode them, is not just a challenge, it is also addicting. Your objective is to explode as many boxes as you can, keeping the boxes below a red line. The more boxes you “link” together in the explosions, the higher the score. Push Panic! works on both the iPhone and…
Frank Kunze has posted about a dozen new screen shots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog. The screenshots show a great deal of progress on the latest rendition of the Eamon franchise and gives both beta testers and users an idea of what to expect of the new version. Eamon Deluxe 5.0 will be the first truly cross platform version of the interactive fiction system. This has heightened users anticipation of the product along with the occasional shots of…
The Donut Games free game of the week this week is Monkey Flight, a delightfully entertaining game which will keep you going for hours. The game now has 60 levels in the challenge section of the game, making for even more fun. This game is one you must get! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311768443&mt=8
