Tag archive: Tetris

Sure, 2011 is in the rearview mirror, but that doesn't mean we're done looking back on the year. Sony recently its list of the year's top-selling games and downloads on the PlayStation Network, and the titles on that list might surprise you — mainly because most of them weren't released in 2011. There are actually two lists covering 2011′s top downloads: one for full downloadable games and one for downloads of… Read More

If there were ever a book might not need a video game version, it’s The Great Gatsby. Nonetheless, an NES version of Nick Carraway’s dramatic search for mystery-shrouded Jay Gatsby has surfaced. Suffice it to say that the real emotion behind the novel can’t quite be communicated in the limited amount of pixels the game uses, but it’s sure a good Tetris-alternative when it comes to killing time. The game is now available online, but was… Read More

With a game as successful as Angry Birds, it's only a matter of time before it begins popping up everywhere. That time is soon. At the Social Gaming Summit in London, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka has made several comments about the future of the casual game. Birds is coming to the PSN, Wii, and Xbox 360 in the near future–possibly with a multiplayer mode, reports Pocket Gamer. Here are some things Rovio said at the Summit… Read More

With the first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops presently smashing through sales records, video games may seem like the last place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers would turn to for solace. But according to a recent study by Oxford University, a piece of video game history might just help those afflicted with PTSD better cope with the condition's symptoms. The study, which appears in the science journal PLoS ONE, finds… Read More

Tetris is the best-selling mobile game of all time, with more than 100 million paid downloads on cell phones around the world. That's according to the companies behind the 25-year-old game, which plan to formally announce the milestone on Thursday. Created by a Soviet programmer in 1984, Tetris rode to popularity on the Game Boy in 1989. Millions of people have continued to play it since, on gaming consoles and over the Web, as well as on… Read More

Consumers have been complaining about the problems associated with DRM technology on their music files: songs can't be transferred between devices, shared with friends, backed up easily, and (in some cases) quick working altogether because an online music service decided to call it quits. Verizon Wireless has apparently listened, and has joined the DRM-free bandwagon in announcing more than 5 million MP3 tracks are now available from… Read More

PDA pioneer Palm has been on the ropes for a few years, seemingly unable to gather momentum behind its efforts to repossess and renovate the Palm OS and then introducing (but never shipping) the Foleo companion device…which, somewhat ironically, went over like a lead balloon just before so-called "nettops" became all the rage. Now, Palm is bootstrapping itself into the current mobile rage, opening the Palm Software… Read More

 The Boy Scout motto – “Be Prepared” – may call to mind images of knives, flints and rope, but these days, a cell phone can be as helpful in averting a disaster as any of those items. That is, if the battery isn’t dead. Unlike creating fire or finding shelter, there aren’t novel ways of recharging a phone in the middle of nowhere, but Iogear aims to change that with its new GearJuice Rescue Charger,… Read More

After moving from concept to public beta testing through the First Access program in February, Nokia’s N-Gage gaming service for its mobile phones finally launched officially on Monday. It includes a marketplace of made-for-mobile games for download, the N-Gage Mobile Arena for multiplayer gaming, plus message boards and live chat for discussing games and setting up tournaments. Initially, only six games will be available for… Read More

The digital music battle just got a lot more interesting. Granted, the Apple and AT&T partnership isn't particularly strong. (AT&T is basically a new company with an old name and the relationship is really with Cingular, one of the least-liked of the carriers.) But on the other hand, when it comes to power in their respective areas, Apple and AT&T are unmatched in terms of scale and market share. Then again, RealNetworks… Read More

Video game publisher THQ announced today the release of a new Tetris game for the Xbox 360. This game, titled Tetris Evolution, is priced at $30 and is the latest title in a franchise which began when the first Tetris game appeared on PCs in 1985. Since then, the game has released across nearly every game system and sold more than 70 million units worldwide. Tetris Evolution, according to THQ, offers a variety of new modes and features, in… Read More

The winners of the 2007 Game Developers Choice Awards have been announced (if not posted on the awards' Web site yet), and the big winner this year is the first-person shooter Gears of War, from Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios. Gears of War took home honors for technology and visual arts, as well as the coveted "best game" award. However, other video game developers weren't exactly left in the cold. Clover… Read More

Remember back in the old days when television was universally decried as being bad for the eyes, and complicated diagrams were published in lifestyle magazines about how far away one should sit from the living room television to be “safe?” (Hint: I think it was on the order of 10 feet for a 24-inch CRT color television.) Well, now we're finding that some video games may actually improve childrens' health, and now a… Read More

At a special press event today in San Francisco, Apple Computer rolled out a complete refresh to its iPod line of personal media players—including new iPods, nanos, and shuffles in aluminum casings as well as new colors— and introduced a new version of its iTunes software. Oh, and one more thing: the company is now offering digital movies for sale via iTunes. First, the new iPods. Apple will roll out a new edition of the iPod… Read More

Just last year, Blizzard Entertainment crowed that it's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft had topped one million subscribers. Now, according to the New York Times, World of Warcraft has reached another milestone: some 7 million players worldwide, putting the company on track to pull in more than $1 billion in 2006 alone. Most WoW subscribers pay about $14 a month to participate in the game.… Read More