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If you love playing hockey, there are times and seasons in your life when it is just not possible to fool around with a puck, either due to injury or the unavailability of getting enough team mates. Well, how about bringing the excitement of hockey right to your desktop
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Finger Hockey Desktop Office Game
To commemorate the big two-oh years since its release, Bethesda has offered up the full Wolfenstein 3D experience to play for free in your web browser. Not only that, you’ll also be able to play the id original on iOS devices gratis (at least for today) and creator John Carmack has decided to offer us a director’s commentary on the game’s development while shooting his way through a few levels. Watch, nod and reminisce right after the break, then hit up the source to play for yourself.
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Wolfenstein 3D celebrates 20 years of machine guns and flag-obscured passages with free web version
When Chinatown Fair closed in March of last year, Filmmaker Kurt Vincent went to work documenting the New York arcade’s final days, continuing to return to the location after it shuttered to work on his upcoming film, Arcade .
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New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade hits reset, plays a new game
At their worst, captchas are impossible to decipher; at their best, they’re… fun?
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PlayThru hopes to kill text captchas with game-based authentication
Now that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 690 is shipping through some vendors , gamers have been wondering if it’s worth the wallet-busting $999 to get those higher frame rates. Surprisingly, the answer is “yes.” As AnandTech notes, the GTX 690 is often almost as fast or faster than a pair of GTX 680s working together in SLI mode, only using less power and running at cooler and quieter power levels through those two 28-nanometer Kepler chips. Across multiple reviewers, though, the GTX 690 was sometimes slower than two Radeon HD 7970 boards using CrossFire .
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 review roundup: (usually) worth the one grand
Upon its debut, the Xperia Play suffered from a lack of game titles that were compatible with its unique built-in gamepad. While the selection has improved considerably since its inception, the question remains: wouldn’t it be nice if the handset supported any Android game you threw at it?
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GameKeyboard 2.0 requires root, maps Xperia Play gamepad to all Android games (video)
Razer looks to be the latest getting into the Diablo III -themed peripheral game with a special version of the Naga Hex , even if it won’t mention the click-and-slash title by name. The Wraith Red edition keeps the same six mechanically-driven side buttons as the original, but drapes the top shell and lights in an infernal red
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Razer Naga Hex mouse gets Wraith Red edition for manic Diablo III clicking
In an effort to reduce male patron’s messiness (and grab some cash from locales not necessarily associated with gaming) Sega’s Toylets can now be found in restrooms across Japan — and even in a handful of cities overseas. You won’t need to make the laborious trek to your nearest bar or arcade to beat the high score any more, however, as Sega’s now put the urinal games terminal up for sale to (Japanese) Joe Public
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Sega urinal game ‘Toylets’ goes on sale to general public, sink companion still missing (video)
Halo may have made its way to the Atari 2600, but wouldn’t porting a retro game to this ’70s-era console be more appropriate? MAKE Magazine has the skinny on former Atari dev Scott Williamson’s port of the Cinematronics shooter Star Castle
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Star Castle finally finds a home on the Atari 2600, gets a redesigned cartridge
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of using VIM, the popular Linux (and other platforms) text editor, you’ll know that dark magic lies within its keyboard shortcuts. However, with so many to learn, where do you start? Well, some fine fellows thought the answer to that question was a neat little fantasy adventure game.
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VIM Adventures teaches you keyboard shortcuts, :%s/n00b/pro/gc in no time
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
