alve has now published its first set of stats detailing which software is installed on the computers of those using its Steam client. While Flash, Acrobat and Firefox dominate the listings, BitTorrent clients also make a significant appearance. uTorrent is installed on almost as many systems as iTunes!
Ever since Doctor Who redesigned the interior of the Doctor's time machine, the TARDIS, we've all been dying to see more of the inside. And next week, a new game will let us explore every inch, including a never-before-mentioned drawing-room!
Dummy returns after the great success of the original game! Now with over 110 new levels and 50 skins to unlock!
Super addicting puzzle game
Use mines, guns, trampolines, spikes and sparky to cause as much damage to a crash test dummy. Oh, there's also a duck.
She's a keeper.
They're games, but they're also parodies of games. Sweet!
As of July, FarmVille was hosting the digital homesteads of 61 million users. But you probably know all that already. What we're going to examine is why Zynga and FarmVille got that large, why they will continue to grow, and how they have changed the face of gaming.
Ever wanted to play Halo Atari 2600 style? Now you can, crazy mod.
Nicky Haik was stuck at home sick for a week when he was 13. Out of boredom, he started playing WoW. Over the next five years, he spent somewhere between 175 and 200 solid days (4,000+ hours), playing the game. At 18 he finally decided it was time to quit, and did so earlier this month in extraordinary fashion.
Did you know that there are interactive games on YouTube? Here are five of the best.
Playdom, a startup who has competed with Zynga in the online social gaming market, is being acquired by The Walt Disney Co. The acquisition will let Disney create new games based on its vault of characters from "Toy Story" to the comic book superheroes from Marvel. Will social games become a new promotional vehicle for blockbuster films?
A new feature allowing all Facebook users to instantly vote and comment on their favorite puzzle types. Pic-a-Pix is my favorite type of puzzle, and now I can easily share my thoughts or recommend it to my Facebook friends.
Attention Second Lifers: Are you afraid, even in your fantasy worlds, of new experiences? Your avatar might be a candidate, then, for a psychotropic drug called, Virta-Flaneurazine, designed to treat Wanderlust Deficit Disorder — in other words, Internet addiction.
In many ways, reviewing FrontierVille presents the same challenge to a video games critic as reviewing a massively multiplayer online game: it's an ever-changing game that you can't win where most of the gameplay experience rests on interactions with other players. Whereas MMOs are at least seen as games worthy of the reviews section...
It's one thing to say "hey, world, I could make a kick ass video game" and quite another to actually go and make the thing. The web-based Stencyl is one of many companies who attempts to make that easier for the amateur developer, and the company recently told us about a slew of improvements coming to Stencyl, including support for Flash.