It isn’t often that you hear about a game show being filmed entirely within a virtual world, in fact, you have likely never heard about such a thing. The 1st Question is exactly the kind of groundbreaking production that makes you wonder what is possible in virtual worlds.
Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe, their Second Life [...]
There is a lot you can do with $2.00 USD. You can buy a cup of cheap coffee at the convenience store, a candy bar from the vending machines you have become accustomed to and purchase one of the most interesting 2D flight games out there.
In Altitude, you are a pilot of one of about [...]
Get an inside look at what’s happened from Defense of the Ancients to Heroes of Newerth with host Matt Ryan. Plus a fun iPhone scrabble-like game, Starcraft 2, Words With Friends and more.
Anyone that tells you ‘Mac OS X is a viable gaming platform!!!’ is obviously deluded. Crazy and deluded. Apple doesn’t make a secret of their distaste for games either — at least on their desktops and laptops. Maybe that’s all about to change though. Maybe, with their new-found love of games on the iPhone and [...]
1UP staff Sam, Scooter, Jeremy, and Alice discuss Nintendo’s Summit, including Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M. Hint: We’re pretty excited to see what Nintendo has in stored for E3 2010!
If you’ve heard of DOTA or Defense of the Ancients, then you have likely heard about the upcoming Heroes of Newerth release. Let’s start by giving you a little background in to DotA. Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and [...]
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Trine was released in July of 2009 for the PC and on the Playstation Network later that year. Trine is a side-scrolling action platform and puzzle video game developed by the Finnish company, Frozenbyte. Currently, an Xbox Live Arcade version is being developed by third-party company Atlus.
In Trine, you play three different characters at the [...]
MUDs have been around since well before the Internet and still thrive to this day. First created in 1975 by Will Crowther, these classic games allowed hundreds of people to login to one world at the same time back when Internet connections weren’t even at 56K. These multi-user real-time virtual worlds were described to players [...]
This week we take a look at Trine, MUDs and Star Trek: Online. Have you ever wondered what the first massively multiplayer online games were? Have you wondered how the new Star Trek Online game plays? Which platform puzzle game has the best value on the market today? Let Matt Ryan answer these questions and [...]
