Zuckerberg Vs. Obama, Bill Gates Speaks, Amazon Prime Price, Pi Day [Tech News Digest]
Zuckerberg has words with Obama, Gates expresses his opinions, Amazon Prime goes up in price, Microsoft ditches Xbox contracts, Facebook gives Pages a makeover, and 3/14 is Pi Day.
Internet Bill Of Rights, ASUS Chromebox, iOS 7.1, Between Two Ferns [Tech News Digest]
The Internet needs bill of rights, Xbox Live suffers Titanfall outage, ASUS Chromebox sells well on Amazon, Neil Young's PonoPlayer is Kickstarter hit, Apple releases iOS 7.1, and Barack Obama appears on Between Two Ferns.
Playing Video Games Will Make You A Better Person. Here's How
If you can get through these negative aspects of the video game world, you just might come out on the other side infinitely better for it.
The Xbox Brand Grows: Wordament Is Now On Android
Microsoft has now released Wordament on the Google Play Store. It is the first of Microsoft's Android games to fully integrate Xbox Live achievements, allowing players to up their gamerscore from their Android device.
Who Is Gabe Newell And Why Do Gamers Care?
In every area of technology, we have figureheads. For the desktop, laptop, and now even smartphones, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs should both be names that ring bells. For our internet and social networking, someone like Mark Zuckerburg is viewed as the key example. For many years now, and especially for those of us with personal computers, gaming has been represented very well by a man named Gabe Newell.
Xbox Live Indie Games: Must-Play Titles That Won't Break The Bank
Xbox Live Indie Games are the product of hobby and folly, providing anyone with an idea and some programming skills with a chance to make and release a game. The platform went live in late 2008 when the first indie games were released. Since then the number of titles has surpassed 2,000, and despite all the terrible Minecraft clones and avatar games there are some quality titles to be found. Unfortunately, Xbox Live Indie Games won't be around forever, so here are my must-play titles before time runs out.
Save Yourself The Lines And Buy Great Digital Gifts With These Services
If a friend's big event has crept up on you, you may have just found yourself in the market for buying a last-minute digital gift, which you know will arrive in time for their celebrations. But what present will you get? And how? These days, buying virtual gifts for your friends and family is actually more common than you might think.
Action/Strategy Intensity Makes Extraction: Project Outbreak For Windows Phone Unmissable
Those pesky zombies – even when they’re not described as such, have become the de facto earthbound opponent in many video games, and that’s the case in Extraction: Project Outbreak for Windows Phone in which a bunch of "bio-engineered weapons" have gone rogue and escaped. The result is that you take charge of a military contractor who drops in to exterminate the zombies, in a sort of action/strategy game combo.
Collect Little Acorns And Unlock Xbox Live Achievements On Windows Phone
As aims of games go, this one is pretty noble – guide Mr Nibbles through 80 different levels to collect nuts and fruit to put away for winter, thereby providing the family of squirrels with enough food. Spread across four years – with four seasons in each – this is a particularly long game for a mobile platform.
How Xbox Live Users Can Benefit From A Windows Phone
If you’re a fan of mobile gaming and also own an Xbox 360 console, you might well be aware of Xbox Live, Microsoft’s digital delivery service that also supports multiplayer and most importantly allows you to unlock achievements in particular games and improve your Gamerscore. Some say that it has redefined gaming.
10 Of The Best Xbox 360 Games You Must Play [MUO Gaming]
At this time of year more than any other there will be a host of new console owners getting to grips with their system. And after they get bored of the games bought alongside their console of choice, they'll need to know which titles to get next. Which is where this article comes in: what follows are the 10 best games money can buy for the Xbox 360.
5 Ways In Which Xbox Live Has Changed Gaming – For Better Or Worse [Opinion]
It's difficult to remember a time when games consoles didn't connect to the Internet. I'm now so used to online features being an integral part of the gaming experience, that it's easy to forget that this wasn't the case just a decade ago. A decade is how long Xbox Live has been with us, with Microsoft launching the service in 2002. At that stage in time PC gamers had been playing online for many years, and the Xbox wasn't even the first console to feature Internet connectivity.
Armed! Futuristic Real Time Strategy for Windows Phone 7
Gaming for Windows Phone is an interesting experience. While there are a whole host of great independent titles that don’t have Xbox Live integration, those that do are the ones that tend to be the most popular – for obvious reasons. One game that remains fascinating despite the lack of Xbox Live integration, however, is Armed!, a sci-fi themed RTS with three modes of play and an armada of futuristic weaponry.