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Now You Can Play Dead Rising 2 in Your Web Browser

Mike Fahey — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:20:00 EST

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Capcom has teamed up with those magical people at Gaikai to deliver a 30 minute timed demo of Dead Rising 2 that runs in your Java-enabled web browser. Ain't technology a thing? More »

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is More Than Meets the iPad

Mike Fahey — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:20:00 EDT

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Activision may be handling the official movie tie-in games for Transformers: Dark of the Moon as far as consoles and handhelds are concerned, but the iPhone, iPad, and Java/BREW version is all EA Mobile. More »

Behold The Zelda-Riffic Joy Of Spiral Knights

Mike Fahey — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:00:00 EDT

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Earlier this week I told you about Spiral Knights, the upcoming free-to-play online space dungeon crawler from the creators of Puzzle Pirates. Now watch me play through the game's Training Grounds and, if you're lucky, try it out yourself. More »

Phones Everywhere Getting 1988's Splatterhouse

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST

Splatterhouse is getting a bloody, modern remake later this month, but that's a gamble. The classic 1988 arcade Splatterhouse? We all know that's a fantastic game, and now you can play it on your phone. More »

Be A Ghost In Multiplayer Mobile Pac-Man

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:40:00 EST

Namco Bandai continue to shake the last few power pills from Pac-Man's pockets, but the new mobile version of the venerable franchise does come with a cool new feature - multiplayer. More »

Minimalist Java Games Contest Gets A Bit Premature

Stuart Houghton — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:20:00 EST

The Java4K 2009 contest will find the best Java game written in 4K in the year of 2009. It's that simple. Oh, wait... you can enter it now in 2008. Crazy! More »

Mobile Games Market Has 'Flatlined' - Experts

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:20:00 EST

Now hang on a minute. It doesn't seem like five minutes since some gaggle of market pundits were proclaiming that the iPhone had turned the mobile games market inside out and pointing at developers rolling around in pits of cash like Scrooge McDuck. More »

Nokia Seeks Out Gaming Innovation, Has Cash

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Sturgeon's Law states that "Ninety percent of everything is crap". I don't think I am being too controversial by suggesting that if Theodore Sturgeon had ever encountered mobile phone games he would have revised upwards. More »

Perilar - Ultima-esque Turn-based iPhone RPG

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:30:00 EDT

!'ve said it before (although possibly not in public) and I'll say it again - turn-based games are a natural fit for mobile gaming. Any gaming device that you have to slip quickly in your pocket in case you get mugged demands a stable of games that you can take at whatever pace you like. More »

Game Construction, The Newtoon Way

simonc — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:00:27 EST

Former Edge editor Margaret Robertson has been musing on the nature of play in her Lookspring weblog, and has particularly been focusing on Newtoon, a Java-based play tool by Soda Play that "...lets you make little 2D physics-based games entirely out of balls and springs." More »