According to a DARPA request for proposal, the US pentagon planned to spend over $32 million to develop “fun to play” computer games that can help them refining the way weapons systems are tested so as to ensure they are free from software errors, security bugs, as per the Department of Defense. The goal is to create puzzles that are “intuitively understandable...
Microsoft updates the world with mentioning that the company is aware of the color space issue w/ some Xbox video apps and is working on its fixture. The company last updated about Xbox 360 to its users in December brought with a problem with color output for some. The company’s Xbox division, Director of Programming, Larry Hyrb, tweeted about the issue. The problem might be looks smaller in nature, but it looks company wondered it that it’s important enough to address. The new dashboard released in December to upgrade the service...
PC gamers from now on need not to worry as Intel wants to give overclockers some peace of mind with its new Performance Tuning Plan. The Performance Tuning Protection Plan being offered by Intel is a chance for you to experiment with the overclocking features of your processor without the worries of what will happen if you push the processor too far. The Plan allows...
The BMW Group subsidiary Designworks USA and Thermaltake has reached to the next level of their collaboration with their Level 10 M Mouse, which is aimed to be launched in spring 2012. Designworks, the design consultancy, works as a Think Tank of BMW Group works for many industries from time-to-time with only one aim, to transfer design with the most innovative,...
International Game Technology confirmed that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Double Down Interactive LLC, a leading online social gaming company and developer of the popular Facebook’s DoubleDown casino. DoubleDown Casino currently has 4.7 million monthly active users, up from 3.3 million it is having in October 2011. It is considered as world’s...
A survey of 714 Japanese who either owned or were interested in portable gaming device, confirmed that their maximum interest is in PlayStation Vita gaming device. The survey was a private internet-based questionnaire that was conducted between 22nd and 26th December 2011 by the members of the CLUB BBQ, located in Japan. The audience surveyed was 57.0% male, with 30.0% in their twenties, 49.9% in their thirties, and 20.2% in their forties. Over 83% of them said they owned a Nintendo DS, and 48.9% said they owned a PSP. Slightly over 16%...
Good news for Call of Duty fans as game maker Activision Blizzard has finally launched an iPhone mobile app for the game, report confirmed. With the app, the game fans can now engage with the game more for Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3. “We’ve always viewed mobile as a big part of the mission of Call of Duty Elite,” said Chacko Sonny of Beachhead...
Zygna, social network game development company, announced that it hired Barry Cottle as EVP, Business and Corporate Development. Before joining Zynga, Barry works with Electronic Arts interactive where he works on the position of EVP and led the EA’s mobile, social and casual online games strategy. Zynga, already hired quite a few senior leaders out of its rival...
Google and OnLive joined hand and proudly announced that the cloud-gaming service will be coming to the Google TV platform. GoogleTV, as a product we know is streaming a tremendous among of what they call it as “linear media”, media such as video, movies, and music and the addition with OnLive, it brings the Internet-enabled TVs into the realm of interactive...
According to Kazuo Hirari, Sony Representative CEO and Executive Deputy President, the next generation of Sony’s Playstation console, PS 4, will not be seen at E3 Videogame Entertainment Trade Show. With the confirmation made by Hirari that there will be no such announcements about the PlayStation 4 during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, as per Wall...
