Gaming

Crazy usage stats from Ngmoco

Ah, ngmoco. You wacky purveyors of “freemium” games. I love you so. If you have any doubts, check out my account. Oh yes. See? I’m there. Playing two different versions of We Rule on my phone, and a version on the iPad. Don’t even get me started on the Godfinger! Good heavens.

Turns out I’m [...]

WWDC 2010: Insurrection 2035 impressions

Ever since the iPhone was introduced, we’ve been looking for a good location-based MMO — a game that could rely on location information direct from the iPhone to let many different players interact with each other on a grand scale. There have been a few contenders so far (MyTown is definitely the most successful to [...]

Steam for Mac: Uses OpenGL, Intel-only, 10.5 or higher

Details have emerged regarding Valve’s release of its Steam games platform for the Mac. Forum sleuths at Steam’s site have put together a list entitled ” forthcoming release of Steam for OS X.

Among the more interesting details:

– Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher
– Intel-only
– Source games require 10.5.8 or 10.6.3 or higher, and are [...]

Street Fighter for iPhone adding new character for free

Our friends over at Joystiq have uncovered some video of Street Fighter for iPhone game from Capcom. Camy is going to bring her camouflaged legs to the fighting game, and she’s coming for free — Capcom is going to include the character in a soon-to-be-released update to the game.

Obviously a free character is great and [...]

Enter to win a Fallen Earth item from TUAW

as we announced at GDC, not only have they Rogers Navigator, powered by TeleNav. For $4.99 a month Rogers’ iPhone customers get a full featured turn-by-turn solution with spoken instructions.

The app includes real time traffic alerts and rerouting, online pre-planning with the ability to send destinations from the web to your iPhone, iPod integration and [...]