Gadgets and Video Games

Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune . What are the two Sony Pictures Television game shows that THQ has licensed for video games? The publisher announced that it has acquired multi-year licenses for the two venerable game shows, specifically for the Wii and DS/DSi, with options for other platforms.

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THQ buys a vowel, licenses Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy

Irrational Games continues to empty out its vault of memories and secrets over on its newly commissioned blog — Ken Levine and the crew are revealing so much old insider information over there you have to wonder how long they’ll keep it up. Today, it’s “what might have been” on System Shock 2 , as Levine relates what they would have liked to do with the SHODAN showdown game, given more time and resources. The game was originally designed as an Apocalypse Now -style assassination in space , and it included some zero-G gameplay ideas (that sound pretty similar to what Dead Space pulled off years later). The ending also had to be rewritten, as the cinematic that Levine got back didn’t have much to do with the script that he had originally put together.

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Ken Levine goes behind the scenes on System Shock 2

D3Publisher has announced a worldwide publishing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing that will see the upcoming 3D animated film, “Despicable Me,” transformed into an obligatory video game for consoles (which likely includes the one making a cameo above) and handheld systems. Despicable Me: The Game casts you in the role of Gru, the film’s anguished supervillain mired in a war with his archnemesis, Vector. Expect “a unique blend of action and puzzle solving,” along with “an army of loyal-but-manic minions” and a release date in line with the film’s debut on July 9, 2010

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D3 becomes ‘Despicable Me’ publisher

First reaction: lolwhut ? Of course casual gamerz haven’t hurt the hardcore. Hardcore have mad skillz. Second, more thoughtful reaction: Oh — Cowen and Company’s Doug Creutz was speaking in terms of business . That makes a little more sense.

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Analyst: Casual games not bad for the core

The slow trickle of EA Sports MMA media appears to be picking up again with today’s small handful of new shots. EA released a relative pittance of assets in the form of five screenshots (including the Eeyore-inspired headshot you see above).

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EA Sports MMA drops an elbow full of screenshots onto our lower back

Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond was in the unfortunate position of being a not-so-bad follow-up to a pretty darn bad game. As if we needed to feel even worse for it, Gamasutra has released one of its all-too-humanizing postmortems centered on the PSN and XBLA release. Developer Vicious Cycle’s revelations about underestimating the work a downloadable game would take are interesting, but we’re kind of disappointed that the “What went wrong” section isn’t just “The first Matt Hazard game” in big letters. Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond gets postmortemed originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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We’re not going to pussy-foot around this (ha, you said — nevermind ): Team Ico’s highly-anticipated The Last Guardian finally has an honest-to-goodness website now, chock full of saliva-inducing high-res screens. Aside from that, there isn’t really much there at the site now — apart from the trailers we’ve all seen way too many times but, hey, you might as well watch them again because it’s been [insert any amount of time here] since you last watched them and why not?

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Look! There are new The Last Guardian screens

Prague, Czech Republic – ZENTITY today is pleased to announce a special Striker Edition of Touch Carrom, which is a special free update to Touch Carrom, available world-wide through Apple’s App Store in iTunes, iPhone or iPod Touch. Touch Carrom integrates with Striker to becomes the first ever official iPhone game of a Bollywood movie.

The Indian Film Company and Studio 18 have tied up with ZENTITY s.r.o., the makers of popular iPhone game Touch Carrom, to promote their upcoming release, Striker. Touch Carrom brings the favorite Indian carrom board game to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Touch-based game controls give the players very realistic game play.

Striker top lines Siddharth (of Rang De Basanti fame), a young carrom champ who is forced to give up the game to pursue other ambitions abroad. Destiny and circumstances bring him back to the game to earn money. Commented Hemant Bhardwaj, SVP, Intl. Business, Studio18, said, “Looking for innovative and high impact ideas to create interest around over movies, TouchCarom perfectly fit the bill for Striker.”

Abhishek Balaria, Founder, ZENTITY s.r.o said, “This is an exciting partnership, which helps us to bring a world class gaming experience to traditional Indian games. This is the first integrated movie and gaming experience and we believe that it will be an important trend. Studio 18 are truly an innovative partner to work with.”

Striker comes from Chandan Arora, the director of Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh and Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon. It releases in Indian theaters on 5 February, 2010. It has already created history by becoming the first Indian feature to premiere internationally on YouTube day and date with its Indian release.

Device Requirements:
* Phone or iPod Touch version 2.0 or later (iPhone 3, 3GS and iPod 3rd Gen tested)

Pricing and Availability:
Touch Carrom: Striker Edition 1.1.4 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Sports category.

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ZENTITY is an iPhone development and consulting company based in Prague, Czech Republic. The company operates in two major areas, mobile application development/marketing and telecommunication systems consulting. ZENTITY’s first product Touch Carrom has already sold in over 30 countries within just two months of launch. Copyright (C) 2010 ZENTITY s.r.o. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

According to its Facebook page , Metro 2033 , the upcoming post-apocalyptic FPS from 4a Games, will feature a full (optional) Russian voiceover track with equally optional English subtitles. Seeing as how Metro 2033 is set in Russia , this option could really add to the game’s atmosphere, granted you don’t mind reading subtitles — or hey, maybe you even speak Russian. It’s a shame other games developed by foreign studios and set in foreign countries so often neglect authentic language options when localized for North America

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Metro 2033 will also speak Russian

Chicago, Illinois – right arrow key and ObjectDev Corporation today are proud to announce S’mores 1.0, their new app for iPhone and iPod touch users. S’mores, a novelty entertainment application simulating the ever-popular campfire snack treat, its creation, its problems (marshmallow catching on fire and falling on the ground), and its triumph, roasting a marshmallow to perfection, stacking it in between graham crackers and chocolate, and squishing it! Mr. Toasty, your marshmallow host will help guide you through the application, telling you what to do, where to go, and when to start over.

App Features:
* Picking a stick from 3 favorite options, twisted coat hanger, tree branch whittled to an optimum roasting stick, and a professional S’more roasting fork
* Grabbing a marshmallow from the bag of marshmallows
* Roasting the marshmallow over a campfire
* Rotating the marshmallow on the stick before it catches fire, watching the marshmallow thermometer on the left
* If the marshmallow catches FIRE!, you have to blow out the fire using the built-in iPhone microphone
* If you don’t blow out the fire in time, the marshmallow falls to the ground, and you have to start over
* Stacking the S’more after the roasting to perfection
* Squishing the S’more using the iPhone multi-touch pinch function
* Repeating the experience

Minimum Requirements:
* Apple iPhone
* Apple iPod Touch
* Sense of humor
* Capacity for nostalgia

Device Requirements:
iPhone and 2nd Generation iPod touch 3.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
S’mores 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

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