Posts Tagged ‘gaming’
LG TAPPED TO INTRODUCE CAPCOM’S STREET FIGHTER IV ON UPCOMING HD SMARTPHONES
September 19th, 2011 by Dave@LGUK
LG Electronics announced today that it has entered into an exclusive deal with CAPCOM, Japan’s legendary game developer known for creating multi-million selling franchises. The agreement gives LG exclusive rights to Street Fighter IV on its first HD Android smartphone for three months after its launch.
The Street Fighter series, which debuted in 1987, is found on millions of game consoles and in arcades all over the word but has never before been offered on the Android platform. Street Fighter IV will make its Android smartphone debut on LG’s global apps site in the fourth quarter.
“We are honored to...
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Nintendo step up their game with the Wii U
June 8th, 2011 by Dave@LGUK
I have incredibly fond memories of my NES. It was my first games console and if I say so myself I was awesome at Duck Hunt – especially when compared to my brother who cheated and held the light gun up against the TV screen!
Four generations of games consoles later and Nintendo released a game changer with the Wii, bringing motion sensitive gaming to a mass market with the wireless Wii remote. The Wii has been an unequivocal success, to date outselling its two main competitors, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3. However there are a group of hardcore...
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Welcome to Paradise Island
May 20th, 2011 by Dave@LGUK
I have always been a bit of a gamer, not to the point when it takes over my life, but still pretty serious. That said there are some games that have taken up too much of my time, starting with Super Mario Brothers, through the entire Resident Evil series right up to my recent Angry Birds Addiction. But none have created an obsession like Rollercoaster Tycoon. If you were to cumulatively calculate the amount of time I spent building my own theme parks you would be measuring this time in weeks, if not months. This addiction to strategy simulation games...
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Fun and games at the LG Optimus 2X gaming evening
April 21st, 2011 by Dave@LGUK
Nothing beats an evening in with some good company, quality gaming and plenty of pizza and beer. And when we were racking our brains to decide the best way to show off the speed of the recently launched LG Optimus 2X dual-core phone to a handful of selected journalists and bloggers we settled upon gaming (with the obligatory pizza and beer).
Held at the LG One offices on London’s sunny Soho Square the journalists and bloggers were greeted with nachos and dips alongside half a dozen LG Optimus 2X handsets to try out for themselves. Mick and Andy from our mobile...
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Enjoy HDTV, gaming and multimedia content with the M2362D monitor
February 24th, 2010 by Dave@LGUK
A recent study by Brand Republic showed that one in seven 18-24 year olds watch no live television. This is not surprising considering that TV on demand is so readily available. On demand TV is referred to as ‘lean forward TV’ in marketing, as when sat at a computer you naturally lean forwards, where as conventional TV watching is referred to as ‘lean back TV’ as, rather obviously, it is viewed as a more relaxing pastime.
Watching TV is meant to be a relaxing past time, but leaning forward hunched over a 13inch monitor watching the latest episode of Eastenders seems...
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Cryptozoo: Bringing weird wildlife to the streets
June 16th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
Cryptozoo is a "secret world of strange and fast-moving creatures", it is also a social networking and real-world game designed by Jane McGonigal for the American Heart Association. The game is part of an AHA initiative in collaboration with the Institute for the Future to "re-invent physical activity with the help of online games and social media".
CryptoZoo is about inventing the future of physical activity, about making play and gaming a bigger part of how we take care of ourselves.
CrytpoZoo is a proof-of-concept game, a way for us to show what physical activity could (and we think, should) be like...
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Retro gaming to wear!
April 17th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
OK, it's Friday on a four day week and the day got away from me a bit so I'm afraid the piece of literary genius I was intending to bring to you today will have to wait, but in it's place, I just have to share this with you.
This is totally BRILLIANT! It's an idea I wish I'd had first and I'm definitely going to spend the weekend trying to decide on what my skirt will look like.*
* assuming I actually get around to buying the necessary materials - and indeed sowing machine - required!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you......
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Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG
January 9th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
.. is the title of a very interesting 're-version' of a talk given at the Let’s Change the Game conference last month by Dan Hon of Six to Start.
It's well worth a read if your interested in Alternate Reality Games or gaming generally - or even if you're not. I'm not really a proper gamer, definitely not an online gamer, at all; in 2007 I became a Widow of Warcraft and tried to get into Second Life (more dress shops than WOW) to give me a similar interest rather than lonely nights on the sofa. I soon realised the way...
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It’s not the size that matters…
May 13th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Yesterday I came across this terrifying 'fooz'ball table from AirWorks Inflatables:
Terrifying for me because I have enough trouble playing on a standard table but also because I can imagine the havoc created were we to actually get one in our office! Fortunately there is only one of these giant tables in existence at the moment; built for beer promotion during the recent European Champions League finals.in
It also reminds me of another beer advert which suggested 'You do the football, we'll do the beer' - I'll buy the beer if I need to but please do not make any more of...
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Special Edition Halo 3 Xbox 360
October 4th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
Microsoft has released a special edition Halo 3 Xbox 360 to go along with the spectacularly well selling Halo 3. Will anyone actually buy one I wonder? The original Xbox 360 visually, is a well designed games machine and in my opinion looks a lot better than the Playstation 3 which is rather clunky and tends to look a lot better in pictures than it does sitting under your TV.
The Spartan green and gold Halo 3 special edition 360 is fine and actually looks pretty good. The futuristic detailing sits well with the Master Chief’s military green although I’m...
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