The NPD group recently released information leading researchers to believe that the gaming market is shrinking. With sales in 2010 being announced at $18.58 billion, down from $19.66 billion in 2009, which was a decrease from $21.4 billion in 2008. When divided up, this is a 6% decrease in software sales and 13% drop in [...]
Sony is planning to take Geogre Hotz and his group of coders, FAIL0VEFLOW to court regarding the recently hacked PlayStation 3. The group recently found the master key and published it online, which has allowed groups to release custom firmware allowing pirated games and custom software to be created for the system. Sony is not [...]
The two companies Intel and Nvidia are joining forces with each other to share their technology. Intel is paying Nvidia $1.5 billion to gain access to their patent portfolio about graphics processing and Nvidia will also gain access to Intel’s vast patent portfolio. It has been well publicized that the two companies have never been [...]
Kinect, currently for the Xbox 360 platform, will eventually be moved by its owner, Microsoft, to the Windows PC environment, as said by CEO Steve Ballmer. The Xbox version was launched in November and sold over 2.5 million in the 1st month on the market. The system is different from Nintendo Wii in that the [...]
Microsoft announced that their Kinect motion sensor has sold 8 million devices during its first 2 months on the market. The announcement was mad at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The product was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of November. It is a controller free gaming platform, which lets [...]
‘Talking Friends’ applications for Android, iPad and iPhone users have been a growing trend in the past few months, particularly amongst children. Roby the Robot, Rex the Dinosaur, and Harry the Hedgehog are just some of the ‘Talking Friends’ that are now household names. The apps are 3D, animated characters. Users can interact with the [...]
Internet web game developed Zynga has released another blockbuster to their already impressive lineup. Although slightly delayed (originally meant to be released in November) the late release hardly seemed to affect its success. CityVille was recently released to extremely warm welcome of Zynga’s fans, producing 290,000 happy players within 24 hours of its release. This [...]
Zynga, the social network games developer of games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille, will not be put up for sale but would more likely be floated on the stock market, its co-founder and chief executive, Mark Pincus, has said. The company is less than three years old but its most popular game, FarmVille, has [...]
The success story of 2010 is Rovio, the game designer that has gone from little league to major league in under a year. The application that has caused such a stir is called Angry Birds. It is a game application that can be downloaded onto iPhone and Android. The game consists of hurling balls in [...]
Xbox fans have purchased 2.5 million Kinect units in the first 25 days since the release of the motion-detecting device used in conjunction with the 360 console. Microsoft, makers of the device and the popular games console, has pointed out that the company intends to “expedite production and shipments of Kinect to restock shelves as [...]
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