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85% Of New iOS Gamers Quit After One Day

On October 20, 2012, In Tips, Tricks and How-To, By T2Rman

85% Of New iOS Gamers Quit After One Day
Most people will download almost any iOS game, no matter how silly it looks, as long as it's free. They just won't stick around for more than one day. A new study on user engagement in free-to-play social games discovered that 85% of new players in the …
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Apple iOS 6 Maps and eight alternatives (115+ screenshot gallery)
Summary: Apple's new iOS 6 Maps application and service is an upgrade for most folks, but there are many others who are not that happy with it. Here's a look at typical screens on Apple Maps and eight good alternatives for iOS 6 users. Matthew Miller …
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Nokia CEO says carriers will come crawling to Windows Phone 8 any day now
iOS 6 review: Refining the world's most refined mobile OS September 19, 2012 at 12:00pm; Motorola ATRIX HD review: Motorola finally got one right July 20, 2012 at 11:35am; How to add a $ 300 million feature to any smartphone July 11, 2012 at 10:55am …
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VegasTowers Transforms Over 50,000 iPad and iPhone Gamers a Day into Las Vegas Resort Developers in Exciting, Realistic and Challenging Free App

On July 12, 2012, In General Discussion, By T2Rman


Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

Gamers seeking the excitement, thrill and challenge of Las Vegas tower building simulation can download the wildly popular VegasTowers app for iPad or iPhone, and join over 50,000 active gamers vying each day to be the next big real estate superstar on the Vegas Strip.

Facing real-time competition and enjoying a broad range of special features, VegasTowers gamers face the challenge of attracting thousands of visitors and earning lucrative revenues by building a successful Las Vegas resort from the ground up, and then skilfully managing hundreds of hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues and more. Along the way, gamers need to constantly optimise and refine their development, or risk falling behind.

Special features of this unique iPad city building game include: a stunningly detailed simulation engine that allows gamers to zoom in and find out where visitors are heading and what theyre saying; over 80 unique types of buildings to create, such as penthouse suites, casinos, restaurants, nighclubs, rooftop helipads and more; over 100 challenging and fun objectives to complete; in-game chatting with competitors; realistic management functions like monitoring noise control and staff productivity; an array of detailed statistics and reports; and access to a constantly-updated online reference to help gamers optimize their development as they reach for the top.

Designed by SiuYiu Ltd. and available as a free app, VegasTowers is a runaway success with over one million app store downloads since its launch just six months ago an average of over 5000 downloads per day. Reviews have been equally as impressive, with an average of 4.5 stars (out of 5) from over 7000 gamers. VegasTowers was ranked in the top three free iPad games in the US, and was the top ranked free iPad game in Canada and Hong Kong.

VegasTowers is a fun and challenging iPad simulation and strategy game, commented SiuYiu Ltd. developers Kathy Fung and Luxiou Chen. And to keep things constantly energized, were releasing one update per month. For instance, our most recent release included cooler hotel suites such as the MGM Grand-inspired SkyLoft that is exclusive to the 100th floor, and more ways for players to interact with each other through their friends list and the global rankings.

VegasTowers is available as a free download at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vegastowers-hd/id401112033?mt=8.

Trailers, screenshots and more app information can be found at http://staging.vegastowersgame.com/VTG/.

For more information or media inquiries, contact Kathy Fung at info(at)siuyiu(dot)me.

About SiuYiu Limited

VegasTowers was created by San Franscisco-based indie iOS developers Kathy Fung and Luxiou Chen. Kathy was a graphics programmer for Xbox360 and PS3 games for eight years before becoming an independent developer of iOS games. Her previous iOS titles include Freeverses CastleCraft. Luxiou Chen founded a Y-Combinator startup that was sold to MySpace. He also worked as a professional poker player before joining Kathy on the development of VegasTowers.

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AstroPlasm Transports Gamers to an Alternate Dimension With Futuristic Air Hockey in the Newly Launched iPad Game From Subspark Entertainment

On July 7, 2012, In General Discussion, By T2Rman


Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) March 20, 2012

In a neon lit cafe far, far, away virtual competitors from around the galaxy are watching the tension build as they compete on the air puck tables – air hockey in an alternate dimension – to determine the ultimate player. Gamers can roam the cafe and challenge individual inhabitants or match-up with a friend in multiplayer mode in this fast paced game of co-ordination and skill.

Taking to the table from a 3D first person perspective, gamers must use the iPad touch screen to hold their virtual paddle and serve, hit and defend the puck across the table. Points are scored whenever a player succeeds in getting the puck past their opponents paddle, the aim of the game being to score the most points to win the match. In-game opponents offer a variety of artificial intelligence, playing styles and personalities, often interacting with outrageous verbal comments during a match.

To become the AstroPlasm champion players must beat all of these characters in one of four different game modes; regular, twin-puck, magnetron and survivor – featuring exploding pucks, magnetized laser barriers and ever-increasing puck speeds respectively. Upgrades can be obtained from the in-game bar, providing users with faster pucks and alternative paddles offering greater curve, shot angle and precision, while match statistics are recorded to give users a perspective on the strength and weaknesses of their challenges so far.

Rated 12+ AstroPlasm offers an addictive, fast paced and tension filled challenge for all iPad gamers. An intuitive tutorial ensures a pick-up-and-play experience while the wealth of game modes, multiplayer and charmingly quirky – yet highly polished – game environment ensure a long lasting challenge.

AstroPlasm is the ultimate air hockey style game for the iPad that literally transports users to another dimension. commented Paul Wilkinson of Subspark Entertainment. Our aim was to create an in-game environment and opponents with real personality, and when engaged in a match you really want to beat these guys.

AstroPlasm, experience air hockey like you’ve never before. Jump into another dimension and climb your way to championhood with wild and whacky personalities and an unforgettable soundtrack.

Available now in the App Store for iPad at: http://itunes.apple.com/app/astroplasm/id496137416?ls=1&mt=8.

For more information or media inquiries, contact Mark Johnson of appshout! on behalf of Subspark Entertainment at +1 408 757 0086 or press(at)myappshout(dot)com.

About Subspark Entertainment

Subspark Entertainment is a self-published Australian games developer. Founded by Paul Wilkinson, a ten year computer graphics and visual fx artist, Subspark is marked by practical goals and many years of hard work, patience and dedication. Subspark Entertainment was born from a lifelong ambition to create interactive experiences that bring a big smile to people’s faces.

Subspark continues to grow ever more expansive, inventive and popular!

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YouTube Downloader for Mac OS X and FLV gamers

On March 1, 2012, In General Discussion, By T2Rman

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Those that are operating their Apple devices on Mac OS X Lion will probably be vouching for your expertise it provides – this newest, quickest and claimed to become the biggest working method from Mac changed the prior OSs like Max OS Leopard, Mac OS Tiger and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Supplied your Mac gadget satisfied the needed configuration requirements effectively, Mac OS X Lion was produced freely accessible towards the proprietors of Apple devices operating on any of those prior working methods. In spite of of it boasting of 200 and fifty functions, some small problems remained that known as for some software program in the Wondershare business, recognized as Mac YouTube Downloader which bridged the gap and produced obtain of one’s preferred YouTube movies feasible in couple of simple actions.

Together with YouTube movies becoming downloaded effectively, this totally free wondershare free youtube downloader arrived bundled having a fantastic built-in participant that not just enabled immediate sharing of those downloaded YouTube video clip on networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and so on.

feasible, but additionally played back again these YouTube movies with top quality. It had been also in a position to perform FLV file, a file format for flash movies. So whether or not you would like to view your preferred flash movies on an iPod, iPhone or iPad, you are able to make use of the totally free services from Wondershare Totally free YouTube Downloader for Mac for this objective.

The provide of the built-in participant that may perform FLV information along with downloaded YouTube movies is noticed as being a intelligent transfer from Wondershare as due to the ease of its embedding within the web-page, FLV file format is attaining immense recognition. Much more flash movies arrive out daily and and therefore free youtube downloader for mac totally free gets to be an important and must-have instrument that may obtain, arrange and edit these flash movies and renders their sharing with our buddies feasible. So we’re not not able to publish our preferred flash movies on Facebook and Twitter – we actually can appreciate numerous modifying choices prior to providing these flash movies a individual contact and share them with our teams. The integration of this built-in participant with its functionality to perform FLV information was a large boon simply because couple of fantastic gamers that had been meant for taking part in flash movies like Tremendous, Freemake Video clip Converter, Format Factory, Brake Video clip Converter or Totally free Studio and so on. had been restricted to become utilized on Windows7 or Vista or XP, therefore an FLV participant for Mac devices was lengthy required. Aside from Wondershare totally free YouTube Downloader Mac, another FLV gamers for Mac accessible in marketplace are Wimpy Desktop FLV Participant, Perian (a QuickTime element), Sothink FLV Participant, a really well-known title – VLC Media Participant, Moyea Internet Participant Professional one.seven, Eltima SWF & FLV Participant, FFmpeg and Any FLV Participant and so on. Many of those gamers contain numerous modifying choices to let you perform with your flash movies prior to publishing them and many allow their storage on your hard disk too. So now you are able to appreciate a cartoon of one’s choice without any much more hindrance.

 

AppleMacVideo provides a wide range of multimedia and free video downloader software for Mac users, including Video and Audio Converter, DVD Ripper, DVD Creator, Free Video Downloader and Transfer etc. You can visit http://www.applemacvideo.com to learn more information.
 

twitter.com – gplus.to Today Apple released the developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion. This next iteration of the OS X family of operating systems brings us yet another incremental upgrade featuring a large number of small features. Full Messages walkthrough: www.youtube.com While we have yet to learn every feature in such an early first-look we would like to highlight some of the features we will be seeing. If you are an iOS user you will find some familiar applications that were ported over to the desktop.

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Gamespeek Podcast Rewards Gamers with Video Game of Their Choice

On August 10, 2011, In Power Gamer, By admin


Bellingham, WA (PRWEB) April 19, 2007 -

Gamespeek is holding a promotional contest asking gamers why they pick up their controllers. Hosts Aaron Apple, Lauren Miller and Chris Palmer will randomly reward one person who responds to the question on their forum, “Why do you play video games?” The winner will receive a copy of any one video game of their choice for Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Sony PSP or XBox 360.

“We are having the contest on our forum because it is the best place to share ideas, discuss the industry and have debates,” Apple said. “I’m sure this contest will spark some lively discussion among our current members and bring in some new members to participate as well.”

The hosts of Gamespeek will draw the name of the winner during a future episode of the show. The winner will be notified via email and they will be able to select the game. Contestants simply need to register for the forum and reply to the contest thread at the top of the page.

“We’ve held a few contests before with a lot of success,” Miller said. “We gave away a ton of E3 swag to three different listeners in May and a free game when we had a contest to rename our podcast.”

About Gamespeek:

Gamespeek (formerly known as Pacific Standard Time) is a video game podcast that comes out every week. The podcast brings listeners the latest gaming news, reviews, previews, release dates and more. Each week a different video game related band is featured during the podcast.

Hosts Aaron Apple, Chris Palmer and Lauren Miller all reside in the Pacific Northwest and have been Podcasting since March 2006. Aaron and Lauren have covered the video game industry trade show E3 two years in a row and the three of them hope to travel to Los Angeles this October for the new E For All Expo. Gamespeek can be found on iTunes by clicking here.

Contact:

Aaron Apple 360-540-0831

Lauren Miller 206-963-6951

Chris Palmer 360-466-8316

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http://www.gamespeek.com

gamespeek(at)gmail.com

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Affluent Gamers and Sports Fans Collide at the Newest Rivalspot Blog for Console Gaming on PS3 and Xbox

On August 7, 2011, In Power Gamer, By admin


Montreal, QC (Vocus) December 10, 2009

Rivalspot Sports Entertainment, home to PS3 and Xbox 360 sports console game tournaments, has launched an official blog site, creating an interactive community for hardcore gamers and big-time sports fans.

The announcement follows the beta launch of Rivalspot.com, where gamers can join epic Playstation 3 tournaments and Xbox 360 tournaments to battle the competition for bragging rights. Rivalspot.com offers PS3 console game tournaments involving Playstation 3 FIFA, Playstation Fight Night Round Four, PS3 Madden and other EA game titles, along with Xbox 360 NHL2K 10, Xbox 360 NCAA Football 10 and others.

In those tournaments, rivals can back up their talk and prove their worth at sports video games for the PS2, PS3 and Xbox 360. Now, Rivalspot?s blog will offer fans the unique opportunity to follow the world of sports, while playing like LeBron James or Peyton Manning on the screen.

With Rivalspot?s blog, gamers will connect on a level that goes beyond playing games on the Xbox 360 and PS3. It?s a place to talk trash, make friends and challenge rivals to everything from intense games of Madden 10 on the Xbox, to friendly matches of FIFA 10 on the PS3. Members will meet countless sports and gaming fanatics, finding opponents to face off with in a variety of online sports games for each console.

These head-to-head battles will have extra excitement when two established gamers step into the ring. Both might talk a big game, but only one will emerge victorious. To gain the upper hand, check out Rivalspot?s blog and be prepared.

Boasting well-written, unique sports content, the blog will break down stories of the day, while offering expert tips and strategy guides for every Xbox 360 and PS3 game on Rivalspot.com. Gamers can learn NBA Live 10?s pick-and-roll system and NCAA Football 10?s defensive schemes, along with countless ways to take down opponents in exciting online games of Fight Night Round Four and NHL 10. These tutorials will lend a helping hand to both beginners and experts, while preparing them for the tough matchups to come. Because if you?re going to challenge the best, learn to be the best.

Plus, Rivalspot members will have the opportunity to play the role of teacher and show the community how it?s done. These members can use the comments section of the blog to share tips and ideas, and to prove they have the brightest minds in the game. Think you know everything about Madden 10? Well, check out Rivalspot?s blog and you?ll be sure to find something new each time.

Rivalspot?s blog will also include comprehensive reviews, daily polls, thought-provoking commentary, athlete profiles, live scoreboards, industry buzz and helpful videos to enhance the community experience. The sports section will include daily news on each professional sport, with opportunities to discuss favorite teams and players, both in the real world of sports, and in the Xbox and PS3 versions. Members can use comments to interact with the Rivalspot team, offering suggestions and opinions to improve the site. Most of all, hardcore gamers will be surrounded by others like them, in a fun, competitive environment. If your love of sports rivals your passion for gaming, Rivalspot?s blog is for you. Head to the coolest online sports-gaming destination and become an active part of the Rivalspot community.

Have gaming questions to ask? Have opinions about new titles? Then Rivalspot?s blog is the perfect place to ask those questions and share those opinions with people just like you. Just won a big game? Then this is the perfect place to brag, too.

It?s also the perfect compliment to Rivalspot?s sports gaming section, where you can back up your trash talk during games of playstation and Xbox hockey, basketball, football and soccer. So, what are you waiting for? Head to the blog and get ready for some serious gaming.

For additional information, please visit Rivalspot?s blog at blog.rivalspot.com

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Ziff Davis Launches Gazerk.com Search Site For PC and Video Gamers

On August 6, 2011, In Power Gamer, By admin

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2006 ?-

Ziff Davis Game Group, the nation?s leading publisher of videogame magazines and websites, today launched the beta version of Gazerk.com (http://www.Gazerk.com/), a vertical search site for gamers. Gazerk.com uses Kosmix search technology to provide users a multi-dimensional view of search results, placing Web content into categories specifically relevant to gamers: game reviews, cheats, screenshots, etc. This reduces the number of steps it takes gamers to find the most relevant content, and presents useful information users may not have considered otherwise. The site is designed to be fast, clean, and simple, delivering comprehensive results quickly and efficiently from across the entire Web.

“The gaming space lends itself well to vertical search,” said Ira Becker, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the 1UP Network (http://www.1UP.com/). “Gamers think of Web content in terms of specific categories. So Gazerk provides them search results in a view organized around the way they search ? by content category, such as screenshots or cheats. We chose Kosmix to power the search engine because it’s the most powerful search categorization technology on the market.”

Gazerk.com combines search algorithms with human expertise, leveraging both Kosmix’s (http://www.Kosmix.com/) best-of-breed search technology and Ziff Davis Game Group’s editorial authority. As a result, Gazerk.com provides gamers the most comprehensive resource for finding all types of gaming content on the whole Web.

About Ziff Davis Game Group

Ziff Davis Game Group, a division of Ziff Davis Media Inc., is the largest publisher of electronic gaming magazines and websites in the United States, reaching over 11 million gamers online and over 17 million gamers in print. The Game Group publishes Electronic Gaming Monthly, which has the highest readership of any independent gaming magazine, covering the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Revolution, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and all relevant and emerging game systems; Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, the #1 publication for passionate PlayStation and PSP gamers; Computer Gaming World, the longest running and most respected publication for core PC gamers; 1UP.com, the online home for gamers looking for exclusive editorial content and advanced social networking; GameVideos.com, the only site hosting any and all video related to gaming culture; FileFront.com, the leading destination for gaming-related file downloads; and GameTab.com, the industry?s most powerful game news and reviews aggregator.

About Kosmix (http://www.kosmix.com)

Kosmix has created a fundamentally new approach to search based on the development of patent-pending algorithms and technology that present a multi-dimensional view of relevant search results. The company was founded in 2004 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who also co-founded Junglee, a provider of database technology for helping consumers find products on the Internet, which was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Kosmix has filed more than 10 patents and has indexed more than 3.2 billion URLs. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Kosmix is privately funded. Lead investors include Cambrian Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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iPad gamers upset as Angry Birds HD get intrusive ads

On March 21, 2011, In Mobile Computing, By admin

iPad gamers upset as Angry Birds HD get intrusive ads
With Angry Birds now a global phenomenon, fans (including myself) wait in anticipation for every new update that surfaces, but the latest Angry Birds HD release for Apple’s iPad brought to the table 15 new levels, a new golden egg, and a rather unwanted feature which has left its loyal fans extremely angry. The feature in [...]
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PoKos Transforms Mobile Messaging with Point-and-Chat™
Today, PoKos Communications Corp announced the addition of “Point-and-Chat™” messaging to the company’s consumer IM/text App, PoKos Chat™. Point-and-Chat is the first and only software on the market that enables users to point their phone at any other user in sight and send them a message, without using contact information, check-ins, or social networks. Point-and-Chat’s breakthrough [PR.com]
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Motorola XOOM Wifi hits stores March 27th
Motorola should have released this a month ago.
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ExB Launches Android Tablet Solution in the U.S. to Accelerate Information Retrieval Across Applications
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwire – 03/15/11) – SXSW — ExB Group, a leading provider of productivity solutions for mobile devices, today announced a new Android tablet version of its flagship product, petitpetit (PTPT). Rather than holding data hostage in individual silos or repositories like address books, photo albums or folders, PTPT works like a personal Wiki to intuitively find and aggregate …
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