In just a few days, on November 8th, Rovio will launch what will perhaps be their most ambitious game so far - a mashup of Angry Birds and Star Wars, the Lucas Films franchise recently purchased by Disney. They have been relentlessly teasing the new game over the past month, starting with simple video clips of the original 1977 movie and then
Rovio began talking about their latest Angry Birds game several weeks ago. Since then they have slowly teased the game out, first with a video that provided little clue of what was in store, then with one that finally displayed some game play and featured Luke and Leia. Today the Finnish game studio has pushed out their latest offering and
Here is the most awesome pumpkin that I have seen this Halloween! Nathan at the HaHaBird blog has created Pumpktris.The result is a pumpkin that you can actually play a modified version of the classic video game Tetris on. It involves LED lights that are connected on a matrix, some soldering, lots of wire cutting, drilling holes for the LED
This November, there could be a GameStop Kids store popping up in a mall near you! GameStop is going to be opening around 80 of these stores, all across the United States, for a limited time. This isn't too different from what Microsoft is doing this holiday season. Both companies are opening temporary stores for the holiday season that will
If you miss the good old days of Nintendo and want to recreate that feeling from your youth then there is some good news for you. iCade has created and released a wireless game controller for Android and iOS devices that has that old-style look and feel. In fact, the controller bears a striking resemblance to those old NES and
Rovio Entertainment is getting ready to release Angry Birds Star Wars. It is going to be available on November 8, 2012. I'm beginning to think that Star Wars is the “bacon” of geekdom. Everything tastes better with bacon. Adding just a little bit of Star Wars, to just about anything, can only enhance it. If you like Angry Birds, then
Zynga recently released a “preliminary financial results” report that isn't a happy one. In short, the company said it is expecting to earn quite a bit less this quarter than it did last quarter. That's never good news for a company, and is the opposite of what investors want to hear. I'm not actually surprised by this news, though, because