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Angry Birds RIO Beach Volley Release Date Today!

Chris Burns, May 13th 2011 Discuss [4]

Angry Birds RIO's first official update is being rolled out today to Android and iPhone (and iPad, iPod Touch, whatever other iOS device you've got to play it on) in the form of an awesome beach party! The RIO story continues as the Angry Birds gang (with Blu and Jewel from the RIO movie in tow) have defeated their foe Nigel for the first time at the end of the second act of Angry Birds RIO: Jungle Escape. The chase continues to the water in Beach Volley, a set of levels where those little monkey bad guys (aka Common Marmosets, if you want to know the species,) are again plaguing you with towers galore. Pop them as fast as you can! Read The Full Story

Angry Birds Rio To Get New Levels With Beach Volley Update

Rue Liu, May 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you've already busted through all the levels of Angry Birds Rio and you're not planning on getting the recently announced Samsung Infuse 4G for that pre-loaded exclusive Angry Birds level, then you'll be glad to know an update is on its way. The update is called Beach Volley, bringing new levels as well as bringing the birds to the beach. Read The Full Story

L.A. Noire’s Rockstar Teams Up With L.A. Times For Interactive 1947 Crime Map

Rue Liu, May 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Rockstar Games is the company behind the notorious Grand Theft Auto and last year's western shooter, Red Dead Redemption. But in less than two weeks, they will be unleashing a whole new crime solving game based in 1940s Los Angeles, called L.A. Noire. And leading up to that, they've teamed up with L.A. Times to release a interactive map of all the crimes that took place in 1947. Read The Full Story

How To Transfer Angry Birds Progress From One Device To Another, No Rooting And Free

Rue Liu, May 4th 2011 Discuss [8]

Remember early last month we mentioned that Angry Birds maker Rovio had tweeted they were working on making game syncing possible in the very near future? And by that I mean that Angry Birds games can soon be synced across all platforms such that when you switch devices you don't have to lose all your progress. Well, if you've recently upgraded to a new device and can't wait any longer for Rovio to get back to us, there is a whole other solution that's simple, free, and doesn't require rooting. Read The Full Story

Redbox Kiosks To Start Offering Game Rentals In June

Rue Liu, Apr 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Coming this summer, those red kiosks that seem to guard the entries of every pharmacy and grocery store across the nation will begin offering game rentals on top of their current DVD movie rental service. Redbox announced today that it will fully deploy game rentals at its kiosks starting in June. It had began experimenting with the model in limited regions last year. Read The Full Story

Google seeking manager for Games at Google division

Shane McGlaun, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [0]

I will admit in the days before smartphones that I thought mobile gaming wasn't that great. Before my iPhone I used a Razer and you could hardly play games on the device and the ones that were offered were boring and had graphics that reminded me of an 80's Atari and not in a good way. The iPhone launched and showed us all that gaming on a smartphone could be very fun and then Android came along and gamers found another OS that was good for gaming in later builds. Read The Full Story

Portal 2 Craziness Around the Web

Samia Perkins, Apr 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you were not aware, aka perhaps you were still hiding under a rock somewhere, Portal 2 launched today. Yes, Portal 2, with both the original single-player mode and the co-op mode where you’re controlling two robots for the greater good of trans-dimensional cruising. There has been just a little bit of excitement leading up to the launch, and all kinds of craziness popping up around the web regarding the game. Legos, aliens, and disappointments. Pity the poor college students who couldn't afford to buy the game. See our favorites after the cut. Read The Full Story

IGDA fears Amazon Appstore policies for game devs

Shane McGlaun, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

If a developer wants to sell a game on the Amazon Appstore they have some pretty tough decision to make. The Amazon Appstore has a good reach with consumers even if it just launched this year. The problem is that according to the IGDA, a game industry body, Amazon can change how they pay the developer for their game without getting the developers permission. Read The Full Story

Angry Birds For Windows Phone 7 Launching May 25th

Rue Liu, Apr 13th 2011 Discuss [4]

We had just mentioned that Rovio is working on a project to allow the Angry Birds game to sync across all platforms, and now we can definitively add to that the Windows Phone 7 platform. Despite some bad blood between Microsoft and Rovio previously, the two companies have reconciled and promised an Angry Birds version to hit WP7 very soon. Today, Microsoft confirmed the game will be arriving on May 25th. Read The Full Story

Angry Birds To Get Game Syncing Across All Platforms

Rue Liu, Apr 13th 2011 Discuss [2]

Angry Birds parent company Rovio announced via Twitter today that they are in the works to make the hugely popular game sync-able across all platforms. This is awesome news for all you Angry Birds addicts out there because this means you no longer have to start the game from scratch if you switch devices. Read The Full Story

Indy Game Creator Smashes Pirates with Ease

Chris Burns, Apr 13th 2011 Discuss [3]

Let's begin by explaining what this indy game creator's product is: GMod, aka Garry's Mod. There's a game called Half Life 2, it's a first person shooter that you play on the PC. What our homie Garry Newman has done here is to create a mod that turns the game into a sandbox game in which there are no predefined aims or goals, only allows the user to create their own worlds inside the constraints of the Half Life 2 environment. Basically this means you can do anything, and invite your friends to join in. What Newman has done to smash all pirates of this particular for-sale modification of the game is to insert an error that occurs only when pirates attempt to use an unpaid-for version of the game. Read The Full Story

Minecraft Made a Cool $33 Million

Kevin Fubar, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

Minecraft was developed in 2009 by Markus “Notch” Persson, a Swedish programmer. It's a browser based 3D game with graphics on par with 1996, but that didn't stop it from becoming the underground hit throughout last year. It spread throughout the internet, garnering Persson's company around ten bucks a pop for each purchase. That's not much, but just today Minecraft's website reports 1837252 have purchased the game. Read The Full Story