Six iPhone Games We Can't Wait To Play
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone/iPod touch apps store is slated to roll out this Friday, July 11. Games are some of the most antic [..]
Play Drums With Animal On Your iPhone [IPhone Games] There is now an iPhone game that allows you to play drums against Animal from The Muppet Show. Truly we live in an age of wonders. Walt Disney has released The Muppets Animal Drummer on the iTunes App Store, allowing players to rock out with the world's greatest practition [..]
Indie iPhone games marked down to 99 cents for Child's Play The latest indie gaming charity drive allows you to simultaneously be stingy and charitable: six popular iPhone games have been discounted to 99 cents each through December 31, with one third of that lowered price (after Apple's [..]
2K Play Brings Indie Games To Live Arcade [Independent Games] Forget Xbox Live Indie Games. 2K Games is bringing independent titles to Xbox Live Arcade directly, with The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and Axel & Pixel due out this fall. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and Axel & Pixel are two games you wouldn't expect [..]
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More People Now Play Music Games Than Sports Games [Rock Band] According to a report by market researchers Odyssey, music games have now overtaken sports titles as the second-most played genre/category in video games. While 62% of surveyed gamers said they played sports games in 2005, that figure was down to only 50% in 2008. Whi [..]
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'Performative Play': Games and the 'Real World' [Serious Games] Ian Bogost has an interesting essay up on Gamasutra, this one on the performative aspects of video games. The beloved word of anthropologists and linguists the world over, the concept of something being 'performative' is when something has the ability to do something itself when it is thrown out in t [..]