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BlueStacks announces Android-based gaming console and subscription service

Posted May 9, 2013 - 4:27 pm

A new competitor, BlueStacks, wants to bring subscription-based Android gaming to your TV with yet another cheaply priced console.
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$99 Ouya game console delayed until late June

Posted May 9, 2013 - 3:49 pm

If you weren't one of the early backers of Ouya's $100 Android game console, you'll have to wait a little bit longer to get one.
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Get zapped while playing video games

Posted May 1, 2013 - 9:59 am

Project showcases small electric jolts as a way to give feedback for gamers.
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Squee alert: New Grand Theft Auto V trailer hits the Web

Posted April 30, 2013 - 11:18 am

Newest trailer gives bios of three main characters for year's hottest video game.
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Star Trek's holodeck gets closer to reality

Posted April 29, 2013 - 4:09 pm

Microsoft concept shows living room surrounded by projections escaping the TV screen. Very cool.
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Free Game Friday: Dinosaurs, dolphins and unicorns

Posted April 26, 2013 - 7:54 am

Beat up the sun and date a dinosaur in this week's free games.
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Researchers use Tetris to treat lazy eye, give patients an excuse to play a game

Posted April 24, 2013 - 8:34 pm

As it turns out, the falling blocks of Tetris can double as a treatment for adult amblyopia, otherwise known as "lazy eye." Researchers at the McGill University of Montreal are testing the 80s puzzler as an alternative to using more conventional treatments for the disorder.
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What the 'console-ification' of PCs means for gamers

Posted April 23, 2013 - 2:10 pm

Simple, streamlined, and cheap: The words once used to describe the strengths of console gaming may soon apply to PC gaming, too.
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Have you ever seen Pong played on a skyscraper? Now you have

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:40 am

Drexel University has its own classic game project to challenge MITris, only this one is much bigger.
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Geek weapons: Guy builds Minecraft Diamond Sword

Posted April 23, 2013 - 10:11 am

Can a bunch of blocks make a dangerous weapon? Sure, if you're this guy.
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What I'm Playing: Ninjas that farm, and fish that skip

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:07 pm

Today we're skipping fish with time traveling ninjas.
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Free Game Friday: Two things at once

Posted April 19, 2013 - 7:24 am

This week, multi-genre games and other pleasantly complicated entertainment.
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Nintendo game purchased at Goodwill for eight bucks is a $15,000 collectors' find

Posted April 18, 2013 - 9:27 am

Thank God for hoarders. An $8 purchase of a 1987 NES game may be worth $15k on eBay.
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The best tower defense games on Android

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:09 pm

Build those towers and stop those creeps where they stand! These tower defense games are sure to please your inner strategist.
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EA's shuttered Facebook games a cautionary tale for online-only play

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:24 am

With EA planning to retire three Facebook games this June, gamers should be wary about getting attached to anything that's online-only.
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How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:19 am

'E.T.' is the most reviled game in history, but a group of dedicated fans hacked its ROM, and turned the title around.
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90-year-old grandmother loves virtual reality system

Posted April 15, 2013 - 2:54 pm

You're never too old to experience virtual reality. Just ask this 90-year-old woman who tried out the Oculus Rift system.
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Free Game Friday: Play as Tim Schafer

Posted April 12, 2013 - 7:41 am

Play as a Famous Game Developer or a swarm of bees in this week's games.
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The Xbox 720 (Durango) rumors keep flowing

Posted April 9, 2013 - 8:30 am

Today we have rumors about the next Xbox's reveal date, pricing, internals, and more!
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This DOS emulator brings your favorite classic games to the Raspberry Pi

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:28 am

The magnificent Raspberry Pi mini-computer has inspired a lot of geeks to come up with practical and interesting uses, many of which take us back to yesteryear to relive nerd fantasies of the past.
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Free Game Friday: Expect the unexpected

Posted April 5, 2013 - 7:22 am

From unexpected genre mashups to games where everything changes every 10 seconds, this week's free games are about not doing what you expect them to do.
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Friday Fun: William Shatner takes on the Gorn (again)

Posted March 29, 2013 - 11:07 am

Let's all appreciate the genius that is William Shatner, shall we?
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Watches that were smart before there were smart watches

Posted March 28, 2013 - 11:21 am

Believe it or not, some watches were smart, in their own ways, well before the Pebble was kickstarted or the iWatch rumored
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AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'

Posted March 25, 2013 - 11:31 pm

Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.
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Squee alert: Asassin's Creed 4 Black Flag gameplay trailer hits the Web

Posted March 25, 2013 - 1:42 pm

Shark punching! And pirates! Oh yeah, also assassins and stuff. Check.
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