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Google Play this morning announced that it had its 25th billion download (and they’re only counting Apps). In celebration Google is offering a bunch of apps and games on sale for just $0.25 over the next five days. Seems like a good time to stock up, thanks Google.
For the holiday weekend, we wanted to provide you with some more ways to have fun. The following sites allow you to play and download classic and retro games, such as DOS games, classic adventure games, and old console games.
If those Angry Birds are leaving you feeling hollow inside, it might be time to rev up the App Store time machine and delve back into the games of yesteryear. So many classics have been ported to iOS — you just need to know where to look.
This week Verizon and Exent have brought a new all-you-can-play gaming plan to its Android users, launching a subscription-based service called GameTanium that provides avid mobile gamers with access to over 150 titles for a flat rate of $5.99 each month. The new service is a first for smartphone platforms, but with most games selling for a dollar a piece is a subscription-based service a solid investment?
New games with their fancy textures, 3D modeling, and immersive environments have their charm, sure, but what if you crave some old-school arcade gaming? Read on to see how you can turn your computer into an virtual arcade cabinet.
Vintage games ran on hardware significantly less powerful than that found in modern desktop computers. With the right software, a joystick or two (if you want to make experience feel more authentic), and a little digging online to find your favorite games, it’s easy to play the arcade hits of your childhood.
It’s easy to write off our gaming addiction as a waste of time. But game designer Jane McGonigal argues the exact opposite; that games can actually extend our life expectancy. And she has the data to support it.
McGonial, who in a previous TED Talk advocated that the world collectively play 21 billion hours of games per week, started her presentation at TED Global on Thursday by citing a widely-circulated study of the most common regrets of people on their death beds.
She then detailed how games address all of them, drawing on her personal experience of suffering a serious concussion that left her unable to do most of the things she loved, like playing video games, reading, writing and caffeine. That left her deeply depressed, to the point where she said “I am either going to kill myself, or I’m going to turn this into a game.”
Although we managed to get our mitts on the Wii U and updated GamePad here at E3 following Nintendo's keynote, the recently unveiled Pro Controller turned out to be harder to find. We were thankfully able to visit the company's amusement park massive booth on the show floor where we discovered the wireless peripheral, along with a GamePad, tethered to a demo of the upcoming title, Rayman Legends. Join us past the break for our initial impressions in text and on camera.
A San Francisco startup called Grantoo bets it can make a killing on millennials' addiction to playing online games.
On the site, students play customized, branded games like virtual Scrabble and poker for cash prizes between $75 and $5,000. And here's the kicker: They can put that prize money toward paying off debt.
Co-founder Dimitri Sillam told BI the concept came to him around college when he realized how easily his friends wasted hours playing games such as "Farmville" and "Angry Birds," but still mooched off Mom and Dad.
"Everyone was playing games every day, but struggling to pay for tuition," he said. "Meanwhile, in the hallway, there was always some guy from a big bank trying to turn us into customers."
Last September, YouTube began offering new tools that allowed users to convert their uploaded 2D videos into 3D videos with just a click. That feature, which has been in beta testing, was available only to YouTube creators at the time. Today, YouTube is rolling out the beta to all of YouTube’s users – creators and viewers alike – by offering the option to automatically convert short-form videos that were uploaded in 1080p to 3D.
In other words, viewers no longer have to wait on YouTube creators to convert their videos into 3D – you can now do it yourself.
Unless it was created by master builder Joerg Sprave, it's rare for a slingshot to be of any real interest. But even though we're pretty sick of hearing about Angry Birds, this slingshot controller for the game is kind of neat.
It's built around an mbed microcontroller which translates the angle of the slingshot and the force on the elastic to mouse movements. So pinching on the sling and pulling it back is like clicking on the slingshot in the game and dragging your mouse's cursor back.
