If you’re a fan of Atari’s vintage arcade games and games for the Atari 2600 video game console – titles like Asteroids, Tempest, Missile Command and Centipede – make sure to stop by the App Store this weekend and download Atari’s Greatest Hits. It’s free to unlock all 99 games included in this collection through the end of the day today – September 1, 2012.
Atari’s Greatest Hits combine recreations of Atari’s stand-up, coin-op video games from the 1970s and 1980s along with recreations of cartridges originally developed to work on its legendary Atari 2600 home video game console.
Normally Atari’s Greatest Hits comes only with Missile Command unlocked; the rest of the games must be acquired using In-App Purchases in packs or by unlocking the entire collection for $9.99. But thanks to a deal with Appoday, the entire package is free until the end of the day.
If you find the on-screen controls frustrating, you can consider a couple of alternatives: the iCade, a popular mini arcade game cabinet for your iPad sold by ThinkGeek, or the officially-branded Atari Arcade – Duo Powered joystick interface made by Discovery Bay Games, which I’ve seen on the shelves of my local Apple Store.
Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.
This is a different complaint than the lawsuit Apple just won.
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow.
It’s important to realize that with this build you can’t add or reauthorize any accounts. If you delete an account or de-authorize an existing account you will not be able to add it again until the final version comes out.
Amazing that these developers are still trying to improve their apps and Twitter can’t release an update for their piece of shit app.
But at some local restaurants, the hospitality appears to be wearing thin. At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Québecois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the “Queeb tax.”
It’s not just Vermont. Quebecers are notoriously bad tippers, even in Canada. Slap the tax on them.
In a sad and surprising Friday announcement, Paragon Studios community manager Andy Belford announced Friday that his company will be shutting its doors and with it, the City of Heroes online role playing game will cease:
“Effective immediately, all development on City of Heroes will cease and we will begin preparations to sunset the world’s first, and best, Super Hero MMORPG before the end of the year. As part of this, all recurring subscription billing and Paragon Market purchasing will be discontinued effective immediately. We will have more information regarding a detailed timeline for the cessation of services and what you can expect in game in the coming weeks.”
City of Heroes has been around for Windows PCs since 2004, though in 2008, its developers contracted TransGaming to develop an OS X version as well. It’s a massively multiplayer online role playing game set in a world populated by costumed superheroes and supervillains.
Belford cited “a realignment of company focus and publishing support” as the reason for Paragon’s closure. Paragon and City of Heroes are owned by NCSoft, which recently released the hotly anticipated PC MMO Guild Wars 2.
The news comes as a shock to many City of Heroes fans.
Ngmoco has laid off up to 20 people from the team at Freeverse, a Mac and iOS developer it acquired in February 2010.
The report comes from an anonymous source cited by TechCrunch, but layoffs were confirmed by a statement released by the vice president of studios for Ngmoco, which acquired Freeverse before it itself was acquired by Japanese mobile game company DeNA.
Freeverse was long associated with the independent Mac game market, having produced beloved titles like Burning Monkey Solitaire, WingNuts, Big Bang Brain Games and many more. The company leapt into the iOS gaming market with the advent of the App Store and were one of the App Store’s early success stories, earning high praise (and lots of money) with early releases.
Last week, company co-founders and brothers Ian and Colin Lynch Smith e-mailed friends and colleagues to let them know they had left the company.
Work on several projects continues among the remaining staff members, and the studio is now run by Nathan Camarillo, most recently an executive producer at Freeverse, whose resume also includes stints at Crytek and Electronic Arts.
What a patent and legal system should aim to prevent is theft by copying, such as stealing the technology of a competitor’s product, or creating such a conscious, copycat duplication that one product can be confused with another, thus letting the profits of an originator be taken by an imitator. Samsung did not do this.
Did Charles not see the same trial the rest of us saw? That is exactly what Samsung did. Documents from Samsung’s own executives proved that’s what they did and the jury said that’s what Samsung did.
Samsung confirmed that it will immediately sue Apple if the latter releases products using advanced long-term evolution (LTE) mobile technology. LTE has been emerging as the top standard in the global mobile industry. According to data from Thomson-Reuters, Nokia ranked top with 18.9 percent in terms of the number of LTE patents, followed by Qualcomm with 12.5 percent, Samsung Electronics with 12.2 percent and Ericsson with 11.6 percent.
About 10 million pounds of syrup was stored at the site, at a value of more than $30-million.Anne-Marie Granger Godbout, executive director of the federation, said the organization is still trying to determine how much is missing and declined to offer an estimate. But a spokesman from the Sureté du Québec said the loss was significant.
If you’re a fan of the “4X” genre of computer strategy game, rejoice. Amplitude has released a Macintosh version of its recently-introduced “Endless Space,” now available for download through Steam for $29.99.
In Endless Space, you assume leadership of one of eight spacefaring civilizations, using your skills and your civilization’s abilities to gain control. You can try to manage efforts using diplomacy and trade, find resources to exploit, discover artifacts, develop technology and deploy massive armadas to crush your enemies if you choose.
The game features hundreds of star systems to explore, hire heroes to lead your fleets or become system governors, customize ship configurations, and much more in turn-based gameplay that you can play by yourself or with up to seven other players.
Endless Space echoes the gameplay of games like Masters of Orion, Civilization V and others, in which you must build a mighty empire among the stars by exploring, expanding, exploiting and exterminating your opponents (hence, the “4X” designation).
Pangea Software has announced the release of a new iOS game called “Nanosaur 2: Battle.” It’s a 3D flying game focused on an old favorite from the Pangea back catalog: a time-traveling pterodactyl, and it’s free to download.
Nanosaur 2: Battle lets you challenge up to three other players in multiplayer combat using Game Center’s auto-matching functionality to find other opponents to play, around the world. The game sports voice chat functionality so you can talk to your opponents as you try to shoot them down using a variety of different weapons.
Nanosaur 2: Battle also works with Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, so you can play against players who use that game and are looking for multiplayer challenge. Nanosaur 2 is a pay-to-download game that features a full single-player campaign as well.
The game supports AirPlay, so you can view the game on an HDTV connected using an Apple TV.
Pangea president Brian Greenstone said the success of an earlier free download game, Air Wings, means that he expects “most if not all” of Pangea’s games to be free going forward.
Earlier this year, I made a few bold CAPScalls. Of course, as with many moves one might consider “bold,” you can find yourself boldly wrong.I put red-thumb, underperform calls on Apple and Netflix, two stocks that have long been among individual investors’ favorites. This was despite the fact that I had previously called out both stocks with “outperform” ratings in the Motley Fool’s CAPS database for years.
For some inexplicable reason, dessert has never been seen as a man’s game. Yeah, we’ll eat it, but baking never seemed to be nearly as manly as tossing a steak on the grill. If you’re ready to put your ego aside (at least partially) here are some desserts you could whip up that have a bit of macho in them.
“Chocolate-Dipped Beer Marshmallows”? “Bourbon Marshmallow Bacon S’mores”? “Beeramisu”? Well, there goes my diet. But “….for dudes”? I know lots of woman who will happily eat these.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been participating in active discussions to address patent issues relating to the two companies, “keeping the lines of communication open” as patent battles between Apple on one side and Google and its Android hardware partners on the other side continue to rage.
Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Fire is sold out, and that in just nine months, Kindle Fire has captured 22% of tablet sales in the U.S.
The mainstream press is jumping all over this pile of shit like it’s real news.
First, if a company announces that it sold out of one of its best selling products, it stopped production. Which means Amazon issued a press release saying it stopped production of the Kindle Fire. OF COURSE YOU’RE GOING TO SELL OUT!
Second, how can Amazon claim it has 22 percent market share when it has yet to share any sales numbers. Amazon will not say how many Kindle Fire tablets it actually sold.
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