Saturday - May 10, 2008
There are some games that play well when you are alone, and there are some that beg for another player before any fun can be had. EA Mobile's "Scrabble" nicely falls into the former category, while its version of "Yahtzee" for the iPod is smack in the middle of the latter. In "Yahtzee," you roll five dice up to three times and attempt to match one of 13 scoring categories. You can keep any of the dice and roll the remaining if you want. After your third roll, you decide which category to take your score from. Use up all the categories, and the game ends with the player having the highest score winning.
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Wednesday - April 9, 2008
I recently spent around a dozen hours on airplanes and in airports with my family. Before we took off, I stocked my iPod classic with a couple of new games -- "The Sims Bowling" and "Texas Hold 'Em." "Texas Hold 'Em" is a poker game for iPods of recent vintage. Unfortunately, it's also one of the least enjoyable iPod games I have purchased to date.
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Thursday - April 3, 2008
Maybe bad news sells. A dormant market for real estate hasn't stopped a new homebuilding game from being a hot download in the computer world. "Build-a-lot" takes a player through a series of homebuilding challenges, juggling everything from cash flow to supplies to the ever-present demands of the local mayor.
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Saturday - March 29, 2008
My sister-in-law, Mary, thinks she is God's gift to Scrabble tiles. No kidding: This woman believes she can divine key tiles from the bag so that she can create killer words. She plays as if the existence of mankind depends on it. Playing Scrabble against her is both nerve-racking and satisfying.
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
As you surely know, last week was spring break for most schoolkids. In our family, that means at least a dozen hours spent on airplanes and in airports. So before we took off, I stocked my iPod Classic with a couple of new games -- "The Sims Bowling" -- reviewed here -- and "Texas Hold 'em."
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Thursday - March 13, 2008
The iPhone is already shaking up the wireless industry. The video game industry may be next. Following Apple's move to open the device to outside programmers, some of the top developers and publishers are already making games for it. The iPhone's high-tech hardware and Apple's plans to distribute software for it over iTunes give it a lot of potential as a game machine, they say.
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Wednesday - March 12, 2008
Is Apple finally getting serious about games? Could be. When Apple unveiled its platform for letting outside developers create software for the iPhone and iPod touch last week, some of the first programs shown were games from Electronic Arts and Sega. More game developers seem likely to hop on the Apple cart, since the iPhone and its cousin the iPod touch are both tremendously popular.
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Wednesday - February 20, 2008
It's been nearly three years since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Mac computers would sport Intel processors. In that time, however, the number of games ported for Mac computers continues at a relative trickle, with only six to eight top-tier games coming out in a given year.
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Sunday - February 10, 2008
Game developers are slowly warming to the idea of producing more games for the Mac platform. Presently, it's possible to find a handful of famous titles from top-tier game makers. However, if you're looking for intense, graphics-heavy games -- the type of games best played on top-of-the-line machines -- you're mostly out of luck.
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Saturday - February 9, 2008
For a lot of hardcore gamers, the phrase "gaming on a Mac" is an oxymoron. As recently as a year ago, if you took a look around a typical game shop, and you may have walked out thinking that despite the many whiz-bang features built into the Mac and its OS X operating systems, not to mention the beauty of Apple monitors, true gaming can only happen on a PC.
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Tuesday - January 15, 2008
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made big news Tuesday, taking advantage of the Macworld keynote spotlight to announce of his company's latest hardware offerings, including a wireless hard drive backup system and an incredibly skinny laptop computer. However, Macworld is much more than Jobs' 90-minute speech.
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