Tag Archives: Gaming

Gametap is Live!

Turner Broadcasting System’s several-years-in-the-making broadband gaming service which I blogged about a few months back has launched to the public today. Joystiq has coverage here, and Kotaku points out a set of viral faux-blogs intended to bring consumers into the … Continue reading

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Official GTA Liberty City Stories Web Site Launches

Oh my my. Rockstar Games has launched a website dedicated to what looks to be the PSP killer app – Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The site has an amusing backstory for the pending Playstation Portable title, including a … Continue reading

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Ads in games, ads not in games

Video game advertising company Massive recently signed a deal with Vivendi to integrate ‘live’ advertisements within their titles. The first title was the strategy-shooter SWAT4. As one might expect, gamers took about two seconds to find a way to block … Continue reading

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Coke downloads for Wipeout Pure

Coca-Cola is creating custom content for the PSP game Wipeout Pure, available only to users in Japan as of now. The content will include new ships, courses, menu graphics etc. This is, AFAIK, the first time a sponsor has developed … Continue reading

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SOCOM PSP Hits November

Gamespot’s cobbled together quite a collection of interesting details about SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo for the PSP. The handheld version of the shooter, set to hit stores on Nov. 8, will feature WiFi multiplayer mode, data syncing with … Continue reading

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GTA: Liberty City Stories First Look

PSM has an in-depth look at GTA: Liberty City Stories for the Playstation Portable and boy is it juicy. I think this may be the killer PSP app to date. Guns? Check. Carjacking? Check. A fully realized 3D world in … Continue reading

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Creating the Xbox 360’s Interface

Design Interact has a fascinating story up that talks about the two-year process of designing the Xbox 360′s user interface. The process included Microsoft designing their own Flash-like animation tool, working with design firm AKOA and narrowing ten ideas down … Continue reading

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Xbox 360 gonna have a qwerty controller?

Update: This image came from a demo Microsoft did in Spain, showing off this detachable QWERTY keyboard for the controller, plus lots of other goodies. LINK This might make the whole Media Center Extender experience built-into the Xbox 360 a … Continue reading

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Jason Dunn got a peek at the XBox 360 the other day and reported about it on his site. To reduce it to some key bullets: MCE 2005 Rollup 2 will be the name for the MCE update currently codenamed … Continue reading

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Turner Announces GameTap Broadband Service

Woooo doggy! My employer, Turner Broadcasting, took the wraps off a project which has been in the works for around two years, the broadband gaming service dubbed GameTap. Following the model which has created robust businesses from archival content like … Continue reading

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