Tag archive: Play

According to an article published in USA Today, more theaters and performing groups within the United States are reserving seats for Twitter users to live-tweet about the performance. Theaters and concert halls participating in the new trend include Raleigh’s Carolina Ballet, Connecticut’s Norma Terris Theater, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Opera and the the Indianapolis Symphony. Twitter users that are attending a performance… Read More

It looks like Sony has taken note of Microsoft's annual “Summer of Arcade” program and likes what it sees. Starting next week on August 9 we have the launch of the PlayStation Network PLAY series, a press release reveals. The games won't actually start coming until later this month, but you'll be able to put down your pre-orders on Tuesday. The four games are Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition (August… Read More

Recent surveys conducted by What They Play finds that parents are more concerned about the impact of video games on their children than the impacts of alcohol and pornography. The online polls, conducted in April and August, also found that parents are generally more accepting of violence in video games than with sexual content. "These poll results demonstrate that parents are as apprehensive about their children's media diets… Read More

Video game franchises like Madden Football, FIFA Soccer and Tiger Woods PGA Tour may be building blocks of EA’s sports video game empire, but the company will tweak the tried-and-true formula for these mainstay titles when it brings them to the Nintendo Wii for 2008. EA announced on Thursday that five of its popular sporting titles would fall into the newly created “All-Play” line on the Wii, a label created for… Read More

A new survey conducted by Information Solutions Group and commissioned by casual games publisher PopCap Games finds that over 9 out of 10 adult “family gamers” believe casual computer and video games provide an opporunity to “bond, or better relate to” their children and/or grandchildren, and that some 70 percent of adult respondents said they thought the casual games offered educational benefits. “Casual… Read More

Nintendo has finally unleashed Wii Play on the North American market, following strong launched in Europe and Japan. Like Wii Sports (bundled with Wii consoles here in the U.S.), Wii Play is a collection of nine simple games designed to offer hours of entertainment to gamers of all ages. To emphasize the multiplayer nature of the Wii console, Wii Play comes packaged with a Wii Remote—a shortage of Wii Remotes has been cited by some… Read More

What is VoIP VoIP is one of those mysterious acronyms that almost everyone has seen by now. If you've read or watched TV ads for Vonage or any of the other mushrooming broadband telephone services, or read about eBay's acquisition of Skype, you're familiar with it. You might have experienced it without even knowing it. VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, a way of having a phone conversation over the Internet by… Read More

The new Logitech Play Link wireless extension offers one-step wireless. Consumers just plug it in and play online games on their PlayStation2, Xbox and PC game networks, even if their Internetconnection is on the other side of the house. With the Logitech Play Link wireless extension, there is no need for expensive, complicated wireless networks, no software to configure, and no drilling through walls or running cables under carpets. Instead,… Read More

The new program, the first of its kind, is part of a partnership with Ready To Play, the premier company specializing in the conversion of audio CDs to digital format and loading MP3 players. The service will be available at Cambridge SoundWorks' retail locations in New England and the San Francisco Bay area, and nationally via www.cambridgesoundworks.com. “With the introduction of fantastic, high capacity portable audio… Read More