Posts Tagged with ‘gaming’

Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they started with 100 and eventually reached 400 publishers). While absolutely anyone with a Yahoo account could submit stories from the supported publishers and vote them up or down, it was not possible to submit a story if it did not originate from one of those supported publishers.
The main incentive for publishers was that every day some [...]

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

Though I would hardly call it a vice nowadays, gaming is very much an active hobby of mine. For some time, the golden tubes that carry our internet have been clogged with nothing but praises for Nintendo's dream console, the game machine that is helping all demographics realize their inner "casual" gamers. Maybe I'm just a skeptic, but I'm failing to realize how that little angular piece of whiteness that is selling for outrageous prices both on eBay [...]

Over the weekend, Om Malik (of GigaOM fame) laid bare some information that most any avid gamer might enjoy. He spoke of a brief encounter with Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) at a holiday party, at which point he learned of the imminent public release of Rupture, a startup more than a year in the making.
A startup whose purpose is to connect “game fiends in a social sort of way.”
Which got me thinking. And not about Rupture, actually. [...]

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some online game for three days straight. According to the news a 30 year old man evidently died of exhaustion, but the particular game was not [...]

Wikia is currently home to a great number of popular video gaming communities like Starcraft, Final Fantasy and Halo. Wikia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales demonstrated the new Wikia/Playxpert in-game toolbar at Wikimania Taipei last week. The toolbar allows users to search, read and contribute to Wikia's gaming community from inside the games. The new Wikia - PlayXpert toolbar also features iTunes, Facebook, Google widgets and other integrated features. Wikia has found another way to engage, retain and grow communities and content via simple collaboration.
Wikia [...]

Let's face it. Great inventions will always have their fair share of clones, replicas and variations. Yes, this means that I am calling Digg a great invention and, yes, it means that there are a lot of digg clones.
Many of those Digg clones attempt to be exactly that… a copy of Digg with minor changes. The problem with this is that Digg has already created it's vast community, which is loyal and most likely unwilling to trade to another [...]

A new community was launched recently that allows users to rate and review anyone they know. SoWeSay is a networking tool approaching community from a different perspective and where users can obtain feedback through "SayWhat", a method for polling other users on topical issues.
According to a PRWeb press release, SoWeSay is a unique community for fostering honest, unsolicited feedback from the personal feedback and perceptions of other users. The site provides several ways of obtaining feedback and a way of sharing [...]

Technology seems to be knocking at the door of “separate reality” as programmers and engineers push the envelope towards human integration and interactivity. Nowhere is this clearer than in the gaming industry, as one after another programmers scratch at the edges of human emotion and enjoyment.
Peter Molyneux is setting out to put love into the next version of Fable. In this version of the ever popular RPG, Molyneux sees love as the key element that has been missing in [...]