Thursday - June 4, 2009
"SimCity," originally released by Maxis 20 years ago, was the matriarch of a gaming dynasty, giving rise to an impressive sprawl of spinoffs and sequels. The main series hit its true stride with "SimCity 3000," and related "Sim" titles like "SimAnt," "SimEarth," and "SimTower" achieved varying degrees of success. However, the real breakout of the bunch -- the "Frasier" to "SimCity's" "Cheers" -- has been "The Sims," which this week released its third edition. In addition to PC and Mac versions, "The Sims 3" is also available for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Monday - June 1, 2009
For some developers, working for a multibillion dollar game powerhouse with lots of resources would be a heavenly prospect. That wasn't the case, though, for Zachary Waibel. Waibel is the founder and president of Tricky Software, of Menlo Park, Calif., a maker of games like "Armado" and "Spore Origins" for Macintosh and Windows computers, as well as devices like the iPhone and iPod.
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Wednesday - May 27, 2009
Maybe it's neat, childish, lucky, ambitious and insane -- just depends on what traits gamers choose for their neighborhood of virtual playthings in "The Sims 3," Electronic Arts and Maxis' popular life-simulating game for the PC and Mac. Executive producer Ben Bell said it will focus more on social behavior than ever before.
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Thursday - May 7, 2009
Depending on who you're playing with -- and what deck of questions you're playing with -- a game of real, in-the-flesh "Trivial Pursuit" can be many things: a relaxing way to spend a night in with friends, perhaps, or an abject lesson in intellectual humility. It can also be a fine way to drift into a coma if you're playing with someone who clearly doesn't know the answer but just won't give up pondering the question.
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Tuesday - May 5, 2009
Apple has apparently recruited one of Microsoft's top Xbox execs: Richard Teversham, Redmond's senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox in Europe.
Both Microsoft and Apple have been tightlipped about the 15-year Microsoft veteran's move to Apple; however, Apple has acknowledged that Teversham will assume an "education-based" role at the company.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Nintendo has owned the portable video game market -- first with the Game Boy, now with the DS -- for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. However, it's become impossible to ignore the new kid on the block: Apple's iPhone, whose game library has quickly overwhelmed Nintendo's. There are now more than 9,000 iPhone games available at Apple's App Store.
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Thursday - April 9, 2009
The first-person shooter game genre has done relatively well for itself in the nearly two decades it's been around. From "Doom" to "Duke Nukem 3D" to "Half Life" to "Crysis," it seems that any action-oriented game that involves shooting at mutants, aliens or other ugly entities falls into either the FPS category or its close cousin, the third-person shooter.
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Thursday - March 19, 2009
Before last week, the last time I'd played "The Oregon Trail," I was staring at a green-screened Apple II in an elementary school computer lab. I believe George Bush the Elder still held office. As it turns out, the game has soldiered on through several versions over the years.
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Thursday - March 19, 2009
This week, the gaming industry saw a challenger in the portable gaming market grow more powerful, and its name is iPhone. The platform's upcoming 3.0 software, which Apple previewed, includes new ways for game makers to make money, which may attract even more developers with even more serious offerings.
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Friday - February 6, 2009
Hard news has been scarce in the Apple-focused blogosphere this week -- time to come up for air? -- but there's still plenty of interesting chatter. In some of the more interesting recent threads: Apple has apparently run into a supply chain issue that's delayed the delivery of its new aluminum unibody 17-inch MacBook Pros, and Rapid Repair is Frankenstein-izing iPods with 240 GB hard drives.
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