Posts Tagged with ‘online-gaming’

A Look At Doof: A Flash-Based ‘Social’ Gaming Site

Paul Glazowski

Multiplayer gaming on the Internet – or social gaming, if we’re talkin’ two-oh lingo – is nothing new. It’s been done for, well, many, many years. I believe Yahoo! was the first portal of any significant stature to debut a venue for just such entertainments, way back in the days when dial-up still ruled the tubes.
So when Profy got a message recently from the makers of a social gaming network, asking us to test what they had developed, I [...]

Fable 2 Sends Love

Phil Butler

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 [...]

Miniclip - Pennies from Arthur

Phil Butler

Quickly Calculate The Value Of 34 million Cents!
Miniclip.com announced yesterday the launch of a new game based on "Arthur and the Invisibles", the highly anticipated animation movie scheduled for release in February in the UK. The new game was developed and placed by digital agency Grapevine and is called "Loot Out". Arthur fans can help the animated hero collect treasure in order to save the land of the invisibles.
"We know kids are eagerly awaiting the wild adventures of [...]

Welcoming the Burning Crusade to the World

Paul Glazowski

European and North American gamers, have we got a bit of cheery news for you. Blizzard, the collection of geniuses behind the wildly popular World of Warcraft epic, have unleashed Burning Crusade, one of the most anticipated expansion packs to any game in history, upon our worlds. Yep, worlds. We’ve got two of ‘em. Real and unreal. One’s got warlocks and all that type; the other one’s got you in it. Nifty, eh?
If you were one of the first to [...]