True Games and Petroglyph are testing out the servers for their stone-based online strategy game Mytheon this Monday, with participants earning forum avatars, in-game items, and priority access to the upcoming closed beta test. Mytheon is an online strategy game in which players collect and trade power stones containing troops and spells to use in battle against their opponents
Even though Tecmo Koei America seems happy to market the fact that Dead or Alive: Paradise is called “cheesy” and “creepy,” the game’s director says it isn’t softcore porn, but a game trying to show that women are “beautiful characters.” “From our perspective, we’re trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus,” says Yoshinori Ueda, sounding like a bachelor whose girlfriend found the porn stash. “We want our characters to be beautiful. The DOA characters are strong and that they look the way they do is based on trying to bring out the beauty of women.” See! A game about getting bikini babes to pose for your camera, that’s not about depositing images in your spank bank, that’s about bringing out the beauty of women. It’s a beautiful game! Why is Tecmo to blame for your dirty minds
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I just read a cool article over at PCPro about 5 GPS-based games you can play with your BlackBerry. While most of the newer devices have GPS, the ones that don’t can use cell-tower triangulation which in urban centers is just as reliable. 1
It wasn’t that long ago we heard rumors of BIS 3.0 and 3.1 coming our way soon and bringing with it, a bunch of highly anticipated changes. This time around, we’re hearing from BBLeaks that there are a few more additions we can expect as well. Support For OpenOffice Documents – Presentations, Text documents and spreadsheets Support for WMA (Windows Media Audio) Support for OpenOffice is interesting to see. Not quite sure how much market space OpenOffice has for users but I’ve used it on occassion and can see why RIM would be adding it
The last we heard the Nexus One was navigating its way through the FCC and Verizon was targeting a “Spring 2010″ launch.
You know that webOS 1.4 update for Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus that we’ve been talking about since January? The one with video recording and Flash 10 beta and some other stuff
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As mobile platform makers grant more and more system functionality to their browsers, the once distinct lines between native applications and web applications are beginning to blur. Over the past few months, HTML5 and other advances in web technology have allowed developers on various platforms to access to GPS coordinates, accelerometer data, and more
