Archive for June, 2011
EA to buy PopCap for 1 billion$?
7The video game giant Electronic Arts is set to acquire the casual game studio PopCap Games, the company behind such big hits such as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled. Some sources say that the negotiable price is over $1 billion.
EA has been moving forward to move into the casual gaming market, which is an untapped market with a great potential for revenue. It’s no doubt that games such as Angry birds or Plants vs. Zombies have the industry’s biggest return on investment as opposed to big budged titles such as Call of Duty. PopCap’s flagship game Bejeweled has sold more than 50 million units More >
Driverless cars, now legal in the State of Nevada
10Yup, the future’s already here. It’s not the retro-futuristic vision of flying cars or robot servants the past predicted, but driverless cars are well on its way to a wider adoption.
A while ago, Google (among many other multinationals) started test-driving these cars that drive by themselves, without any human input, at decent speeds. They are aware of obstacles, speed limits and traffic signs, and will automatically adjust to avoid any accidents. Here’s one of those test drives:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfcOvoQiX8 (more…)
Free indie game highlight: Proun
1510 months ago
by icechen1
in Free Game Highlight
Proun is a indie game for PC just released today. Not just another racing game, Proun takes you into a weird and strange new world of abstract geometric shapes. You must beat your opponents and avoid obstacles on the track by rotating your “ball” on the cable to which you are attached. It’s difficult to explain in words, but take a look at me playing one of the maps:
The indie game comes in three gamemodes: championship, single race and time trial. Pretty basic, every racing games these days comes with it. However, the unique game-play really set this game apart from other racing games. An More >
The Top 10 Car Alarms Of 2011
911 months ago
by Visiting Writer
in General
Checking out car alarms in such a varied market can be a difficult task. However, they are extremely beneficial for many reasons. They protect a valuable investment. They can even lower your insurance costs. So what are the qualities that make an alarm the best alarm? Which alarms are considered the best on the market?
There are many companies with the reputation of designing the best that car alarms have to offer. These companies include features like remote start, keyless entry and trunk release with their full service alarm kits. Also, on top of the included features, the car alarm must be More >
Free game highlight: Bring Microsoft Pinball to Windows Vista or Win7!
1611 months ago
It’s nostalgia time! Remember the Microsoft Space Cadet 3D Pinball game that comes pre-packaged with every installation of Windows up to XP? Most people who often use a computer must have played it at least once in the last ten years or so.
Sadly, the beloved Pinball is no longer included with Windows Vista and 7 for unknown reasons. Does this mean there is no way to play that game on recent computers anymore? (more…)
Defining your target consumer
1611 months ago
Who is going to buy your product? Not “who” specifically (we all know you’re going to be able to convince your family and friends to partake of your wares), but what kind of person is going to be interested in what you have to sell? Or more simply put, who is your target customer?
By focusing in on a type of customer, you are going to be able to better market your product. A simple example is if you’re selling hearing aids, you’ll want to target more elderly couples. Sure, you may have a middle-aged person, or maybe a few teens, but your target market would me senior citizens. That being More >
Can MyCube really change the social media scene?
8Facebook and Twitter currently dominate the social media scene for years now, but there are hundreds, if not thousands, more social networks out there; some are blatant ripoffs, and some are excellent services that deserves more users.
One of the newer social networks in the mix is MyCube, which curiously enough gives users the ability to monetize their “digital life”, meaning the ability to sell services and goods to contacts. It could be used, for example, to buy albums from your favorite groups effortlessly.
The currency is rather appropriately called “Cubes” and its functionality will be More >
Niche Blogging: A way for your passion to make money online
1511 months ago
by Visiting Writer
in Internet
The internet has changed the entire world in every field of life. The commercial world is not untouched from it .The blog is just a website or part of the website used to post certain specific information. There are two kinds of blog the first one is the personal one and the second on is niche blog. The Niche blogging is the quite different from personal blogging. The personal blog just shows how you feel about the particular subject or what is your personal opinion on that topic?
The niche blog are always with specific purpose and topic in the mind of the writer. To More >
Google and Twitter roll out buttons for your website, blog
16A few days ago, both Google and Twitter released customizable versions of their +1 button and the Follow button, respectively.
We talked about how you can now “+1″ search results you find useful on Google a while ago, but Google just recently rolled out its embedded version of the new +1 button. Users can now recommend content to their friends, and your recommendations will be shows to friends(if enabled), as well as customizing your friend’s search queries to show the most relevant results.
You can check out one of the +1 buttons on the left sidebar on this very article!
SonyPictures.com hacked, username/password leaked
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It's PSN all over again?
Think you’ve seen the last of the Sony debacle? Just today, another Sony site has been broken into and the personal information of its users have been released online and by torrent.
This time, a group of hackers called LulzSecurity compromised the security of more than 1 million users that have an account on SonyPictures.com. They claim to accomplish by using a simple SQL injection, which is a sign of severely poor security measures taken by Sony. Along with the personal information of users released, 75.000 music codes and 3,5 million music coupons have also found More >
