Rovio made an announcement today regarding the company's holiday season success. We knew that the 2012 holiday shopping season was going to be a big one for mobile devices -- smartphones and tablets were the IT thing to have under your tree on December 25th and Rovio perhaps has lended some credence to that perception. The Finnish game maker started off by
Recently a number of older games have been making their way to mobile devices via the Android platform. Earlier this year we saw Activision launch a suite of 80's games, but now the company has struck again with a stand-alone version of the iconic Atari game Pitfall, albeit four months after debuting on iOS devices. Activision chose to release the
Rovio is celebrating the third birthday, or 'Birdday', of it's ground-breaking Angry Birds game today. As part of the celebration the company released an update, bringing the app to version 3.0, and adding thirty new levels of pig-bashing fun. The game from the Finland-based company is certainly not showing it's age, as it continues to hover near the top of mobile download charts.
Nostalgia is big business these days and perhaps there is no bigger tech nostalgia field than old games and gaming systems. If you were smarter than me and didn't give away your original Atari and all of the games then you may be able make some money off of these devices. There is no better example than a current Ebay
Some of you, who are at least as old as I am, remember when playing a video game meant using a joystick. When I was younger, I spent a lot of time playing video games on various consoles. While it wasn't the same experience as using the joystick that came with the earliest video game consoles, (or the ones in
MSI Computer Corp designs, manufactures, and markets awesome computers, laptops, notebooks, mainboards, graphics cards, and more. As a gamer, I'd consider MSI next time I'm in the market for a great “gaming machine”. They recently released their GX60 which is gaming notebook that has a SteelSeries gaming keyboard. You can check out MSI at CES 2013. The MSI suites will
It's not yet “Facebook official”, but it looks like game maker Zynga and the social media website Facebook have talked about changing their relationship with each other. The two have been together for years, and I never expected them to consider revising their partnership. However, it seems that they have had “a talk”. The two companies have reached a new