Something About This New Cross-Platform Game Doesn't Sound New To Me...
Bubble Witch Saga Pops In On the Future of Cross-Platform Social Gaming
Today players of King.com's popular Bubble Witch Saga can continue their Facebook-based quest on the iPhone and iPad. To some a free-to-play puzzle game that seamlessly synchronizes between Facebook and smartphone might not sound like that big of a deal. To others it's another step on the path towards a future of…
Finally! True Cross-Platform Gaming with Crazy Fairy Tale Characters
A Little Something Special for the Shadowrun Fans in the Audience
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Culled from the video from this morning's Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter post, it's time to put the sins of Shadowrun games past behind us. Watching the executive producer of 2007's horrid first-person shooter get pelted with random objects a few thousand times should do the trick.
How DUST 514 and EVE Online Bridge the Gap Between PC and PlayStation 3
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In CCP's DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is.
There Are No Words to Describe Cross-Platform Mobile Scrabble
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Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA's live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android, and Facebook. You're probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on.
Paulina Bozek Looking To Multiplatform Social Gaming
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SingStar director Paulina Bozek jumped ship from Sony to Atari/Infogrames back in September. What has she been up to?
Why We Can't Swap Echochrome Levels Cross-Platform
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Newsweek's N'Gai Croal has an idea: enabling user-generated content across asymmetrical platforms through extensible markup language.