Below is an interview with David Helgason of Unity Technologies. Unity is a game development tool that works with multiple platforms, including the Wii and iPhone. The company recently releases a free-to-use version of their software. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? What do you do at...
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Microsoft has decided to offer up some competition to the likes of Steam, Direct2Drive, and GamersGate by introducing its own digital game distribution service called Games on Demand for Windows. The name is a mouthful and it will only support Live-enabled games, but is Microsoft’s bid to start earning money from the lucrative...
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Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. There's one thing (and one thing only) that we know about House, MD . He seriously loves nearly killing people before saving them. Well, that,...
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The folks at ABI Research have done up a nice summary of the status of mobile WiMAX globally, saying that they expect the total number of subscribers to be at around two million come January. Overall it's not the most optimistic picture, with many service rollouts falling short of their projected aims both...
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Supposed “mind reading” video game controllers are as old as home consoles. Take the Atari Mindlink, an unreleased controller for the Atari 2600 originally slated for 1984. It promised the ability to completely eliminate the hardware between your gaming and your mind: just think of making Pac-Man gobble that power pellet and your...
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Whenever we test out a gaming laptop we get tons of requests from potential buyers about the computer and how it plays certain games. Of these the most asked-for one is almost always Grand Theft Auto IV, but lately some people have been asking for Modern Warfare 2 as well. While testing out...
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Finding the gift is no easy task. If the person you are buying for is a gamer then you know that you’ll at least be able to find something, but the trick is finding the right something. This year, forget the gift certificate and find the right game for your friend or loved...
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A French publisher Gameloft has slashed price points of half a dozen iPhone games as part of their Thanksgiving sale. Six iPhone games have been reduced to just 99 cents, including triple-A titles like Brothers in Arms – Hours of Heroes. Gameloft did not specify for how long the discounts will apply, but...
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The elusive Pandora handheld and the Phantom gaming system have a lot in common. Thankfully, there's one critical difference, and that's the fact that the dutiful souls behind what's sure to become the world's next favorite pocket gizmo actually have some proof that mass production is tantalizingly near. The latest update has quite...
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Not only are we still waiting for the TV Guide Channel that Japanese Wii users have been indulging in for the better part of two years, but now Variety is reporting that Nintendo has teamed up with a dozen corporate partners to tease us with a Japanese pay-per-view service for the console. Premiering...
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