Crytek’s Gface hits beta, wants you to stream your games, life
Facebook games just not doing it for you anymore? Than put on your gameface — or log into it, rather. Gface is an upcoming social network, powered by Crytek, that seems to be gunning for OnLive (or maybe Gaikai )’s cloud gaming foothold.
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Crytek’s Gface hits beta, wants you to stream your games, life
Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup
A new mobile gaming startup that’s yet to release a single game isn’t the sort of thing we’d normally cover ’round here, but the story behind Los Angeles-based Innovative Leisure is anything but ordinary. The man behind the company is the co-creator of the Xbox, Seamus Blackley, and he’s brought with him eleven industry veterans that he calls “the dream team from Atari,” including the likes of Van Burnham, Ed Logg, Rich Adam, Tim Skelly, Owen Rubin, and Ed Rotberg. While those names may not be familiar to everyone, you’ll surely recognize some of the games they were responsible for: Asteroids , Centipede , Gauntlet , Missile Command , Battlezone , S.T.U.N
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Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options
Aching for more details on Nintendo’s elusive Wii U console? Let Satoru Iwata scratch your itch — quarterly reports aren’t just for reporting losses and announcing new networks, after all
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Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options
Next Xbox console to be six times more powerful, headed for fall 2013 release?
Xbox 720, Xbox Loop — whatever Microsoft ends up calling it, that hot rod of a console looks to be on deck for a late fall 2013 release. According to IGN’s sources, this successor to the Redmond gaming throne is purported to pack a GPU based on AMD’s 6000 series of chips and will boast silicon circuitry that catapults its performance past Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U by 20 percent.
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Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors
Normally the holidays are good to video game sales. This year, though, not so much.
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Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors
OnLive Viewer comes to Google TV, full gameplay capability coming soon
If you aren’t content streaming video games to your PC, MicroConsole , Android device or iPad , you’re about to get another option: Google TV.
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Gaikai partners with LG to power Smart TV gaming service
Sure, OnLive’s got some mean video game (and d esktop ) streaming chops, but to use it you’ll need a computer, MicroConsole or at the very least, a tablet .
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Sony racks up over 6.5 million in PlayStation sales over holiday season
Looks like Sony is reaping the benefits of strong holiday sales for its range of consoles coming under the PlayStation umbrella. After introducing the PS Vita early in December, the company managed to shift about 500,000 units in its own backyard, while ageing predecessor, the PSP , continued to sell 1.6 million units worldwide. Not to be outdone, the PS3 nearly broached the 4 million mark, bringing Sony closer to its fiscal year-end goal of 15 million for the five-year old gaming powerhouse.
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LG Cinema Screen LCD HDTVs slice bezel to 1mm, let two players share one TV
LG has been pushing its flavor of 3DTV as Cinema 3D, and now it has slipped the theater related nomenclature onto another feature, the 1mm thin LCD bezels it has dubbed “Cinema Screen”. It claims this move brings the experience closer to the theater, but that’s not the only new feature for 2012. LG announced it will offer Dual Play, where it uses polarized glasses to let two different players see only their perspective on the full screen at once in games that support it.
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LG Cinema Screen LCD HDTVs slice bezel to 1mm, let two players share one TV
P.S. it’s not a Vita: Yinlips’ Android-based YDPG18
Don’t call it a KIRF — it’s a Yinlips “Android Smart Game Player.” Which is to say, it’s an Xperia Play -like experience wrapped in PS Vita clothing. So basically, yeah, it’s a KIRF. This form factor doppleganger hails from China and lacks the internal quad-core pizazz of the Sony next generation handheld it purports to be
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P.S. it’s not a Vita: Yinlips’ Android-based YDPG18