The following are what most humans would call “great experiences”: eating gelato on a hot summer’s day, riding a tandem bike with Anthony Hopkins, or, in the case of Sony executive Tim Schaaff, having your life’s work nearly destroyed by a band of hackers .
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Sony exec says PSN hack was ‘a great experience,’ apparently means it
Need more stuff to attach to your smartphone? Good news: Ten One Design managed to shrink down those stick-on iPad joysticks we played with back at CES , bringing the Fling’s screen-cluttering gaming action to the iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices.
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Ten One Design’s iPad joysticks set to have a mini Fling with your smartphone
Some may agree that over the years, augmented reality’s been slowly losing its appeal given its sometimes laggy and unreliable performance — most implementations require a weird marker to be in clear sight, and the graphics rendering speed on your handheld device would rely on your slow and steady hands.
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Sony SmartAR delivers high-speed markerless augmented reality, blows minds (video)
Coverage of Eedoo’s eBox has thus far largely focused on the China-only game console’s similarity to Microsoft’s Kinect .
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Lenovo-funded eBox gaming console renamed iSec, still can’t shake Kinect comparisons
I once saw a humorous experiment where a rubber hand was put in front of a test subject, and the subject watched the fake hand being brushed with a feather while their own hand was brushed with a similar feather in exactly the same way.
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Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
Racing games tend to aim for one of two markets: those of us who like our racing fast, easy to play, and unrealistic, and those who like something that’s as close to the real thing as possible.
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Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed straddles sim, arcade genres
Developers provide an insightful window into the challenges that come with virtualization. They’re not the same as IT, and those differences highlight some important issues to consider when figuring out how business critical applications are deployed in a virtualized environment. Why
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Why Developers Matter in Your Virtualization Strategy
Whoa! It’s a huge day for the big-name mobile games. Just a little while ago, the universally known Doodle Jump got its long-awaited multiplayer update
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Tap Tap Revenge Now Available For Android
Do you enjoy the produce-slashing action that Fruit Ninja affords, but feel constrained by the meager display capabilities of handheld devices? Well, some German students from FH Wedel University of Applied Sciences have created a VR version of the game to make your dreams of having more massive melons fly at your face come true
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German students make life-sized VR Fruit Ninja, declare war on digital produce (video)
Sending miniature warriors — cavalry, spearmen, archers, dwarves and giants — into pretend battles has a long tradition, and there are already plenty of ways to do so on your iDevice. We looked at Ex Illis a while back, which used your iPhone as a scorekeeper for your physical miniatures, and there is no shortage of Risk and Stratego games in the App Store.
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App Review: Viking Lords is good fun, but could be "borrowing" too much
After seeing this interesting-looking game on Indie Games , I thought I’d give it a shot. The colorful, 80s-arcade graphics, minimal controls, and randomly generated gameplay suggested a retro-themed good time. And I wasn’t disappointed.
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iOS Game Review: Forget-Me-Not
Less than two weeks after Visa’s announcement that it was launching its own peer-to-peer digital payment system, American Express is getting in on the game as well. The credit card company today unveiled Serve , its new digital payment and commerce platform. Users will be able to send or receive money from their Serve account, which can be funded by a bank account, debit or credit card, or by money from another Serve account
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A Challenge to PayPal? American Express Launches Digital Payments
Randy Pitchford said Duke’s delay stems from inaccurate predictions about the amount of time it takes to finish certain tasks within the game.
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Pitchford: Here’s Why Duke is Delayed Again
Two popular games on iOS have found their way to the Mac App Store recently. First up, Samurai II: Vengeance was recognized as a TUAW Daily App a while back, and it’s still a great game with solid action gameplay, a great graphical look, and plenty of polish. Those features have all made it to the official Mac App store release , and for US$13.99, you can play the game on a big screen at 60 FPS with actual buttons (probably a keyboard and mouse)
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Samurai II and Supermarket Mania now on Mac App Store
This week’s One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago.
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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest
Ars recently sat down with some of the minds behind the best-selling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP at Capy Games’ downtown Toronto studio to discuss how the game came to be, what it was like dealing with the early hype, and why the game just might change the iOS landscape for the better.
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Sword & Sworcery Is Hauntingly Beautiful iPad Fun
Have you ever been sittin’ there, playin’ an iPhone game, thinking to yourself, “Man! This is a cool game and all, but I really wish I didn’t have to use my hands so much. If only I could play using nothing but my mouth!” No? Yeah, me neither.
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Pah! The iPhone game you play with your mouth.
Hidden behind one of the corniest names we’ve ever seen (possibly intentionally so) Sword and Sorcery EP [ iTunes Link ] may just be one of the most unique games of the year. All it takes is one good look at the game and it’s powerful tone to understand that this is about as far from Cut the Rope as you can possibly get. Today we’ll get to put our grimy mitts on the full game
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Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP Now Available on iPad
According to a press release sent to us by Valve, the company will be switching to the SILK voice codec for providing in-game chat and communication options to its customers. In keeping with its recent attitude towards the Mac gaming community, the upgraded service will be offered to Mac and PC gamers alike.
Halcyon is a game for the iPad by Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg that’s part music game and part puzzler. You’ve got little triangles coming down either side of the screen on various strings, and your goal as the player is to match those up by drawing lines across the strings in the right places. As you play across the strings, the game creates a sort of arrhythmic, atmospheric music that’s pretty fascinating, and the triangles show up faster, making things get pretty complicated
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TUAW’s Daily App: Halcyon
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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
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On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
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Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
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