735 articles on Gaming

  • Nokia Fires 10K, Looks to Undercut Cheap Android Phones
    Nokia says it's cutting 10,000 jobs and expects its second quarter to be worse than the first. This is bad news for Microsoft, which has teamed with the company formerly known as the world's largest cell phone maker in hopes of finally capturing a piece of the mobile market.
    06.14.12
  • Heavy Rain's David Cage Goes Beyond Typical Game Stories
    Heavy Rain followed the intertwining stories of an ensemble cast played by relatively unknown actors. For Beyond's story, which will be tightly focused on a single main character over the course of her life, Cage wanted someone of exceptional talent.
    06.13.12
  • Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
    Inside a data center in San Jose, California, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction. In other words, Dropbox is indicative of the web's leading services.
    06.13.12
  • Demon's Score Brings Back That Old iNiS Rhythm
    LOS ANGELES -- Tucked into a corner of the Electronic Entertainment Expo show floor last week, almost invisible, was a game that represents something a small fan base has been begging for for years.
    06.12.12
  • Skylanders Giants Amazon Pre-Orders Reveal Wii U Version
    What with all the Skylanders Giants E3 news the last few days it took me a little while to realize that Giants has just popped up on Amazon. As with all things Skylanders it pays to get in early so I've put in my pre-order today. I thought a quick heads up might be appreciated for GeekDad readers as well.
    06.12.12
  • Create and Share Your Own Browser Games With Gameglobe
    I was impressed by Gameglobe's level creation tools, and I have no doubt that users are going to pile on and fill the game with great content, but by far the smartest thing it does is made possible thanks to the fact that it's a browser game.
    06.12.12
  • Hands On the New Nintendo Wii U at E3
    I was at E3 last week to check out their new console, the Wii U. The Wii U consists of a new console and a GamePad, the new controller sporting an independent screen. All the Wii U promotional videos talk about the Wii U GamePad being revolutionary to gameplay. In fact, Nintendo introduced a new term for it, "asymmetric gameplay." The hypothesis is that the GamePad will give the gamer an opportunity to face somewhere else than direct at the TV, a first in the console gaming world.
    06.12.12
  • Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
    Who says Microsoft doesn¿t listen? After developers complained that the free version of Microsoft¿s new Visual Studio programming kit would only let them build Windows applications if they use Microsoft¿s new touch-happy Metro interface, the software giant has changed its tune. The company will now offer a free version of Visual Studio that lets them build ordinary Windows desktop applications as well.
    06.11.12
  • Linus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn't Destroy Linux
    Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But Linux founder Linus Torvalds believes that the complaints are overblown. The bigger issue, he says, is that Secure Boot can be hacked.
    06.11.12
  • What Does All The E3 Skylanders Giants News Mean?
    At the end of E3, once I'd had time to process most of the Skylanders Giants news, I took some time to reflect on how things are shaping up for families. While it's not prefect I think there is enough value for existing and new Skylanders players in Giants.
    06.11.12
  • Microsoft Sorry for Gaffe That Gives New Meaning to Norwegian Wood
    The precarious tightrope walk otherwise known as "turning a Microsoft developer event into something fun" has claimed a victim. This time, it's a Scandanavian Microsoft contractor who just couldn't find a good rhyme for the word genius in putting together a little dance number at the software giant's Norwegian Developer's Conference, held in Oslo this past week.
    06.10.12
  • Last Minute, Low Cost GeekDad Gift Ideas
    Just because your dad deserves the very best doesn't mean you have to break the bank on his Father's Day gift. And with the first ever National GeekDad Day merely a week away, the time for picking a present draws short.
    06.09.12
  • GeekDad Community: The Best Geek Arguments
    Over at the GeekDad Community site that we have been running in beta for a couple of months now there have been some great discussions and even text-based games going on in the forums.
    06.08.12
  • E3, Irrelevant? Tell That to the Fans
    E3 will always be relevant, because gamers will always care. Especially the millions of hardcore gamers, who spend serious bank on their hobby and await gaming news with bated breath.
    06.07.12
  • Red Hat: Yes, Windows 8 Machines Will Run Linux
    Red Hat has moved to ease fears that the new secure boot mechanism included Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system will make it overly difficult to also install Linux on Windows 8 machines.
    06.07.12


 

 

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