Everyone that I know that owns an iPhone also has the lightsaber app loaded onto it
It goes without saying that the only thing that’s missing is that you can’t really duel amongst your friends.
Well, from next month you will be able to challenge your Sith or Jedi foes to a battle.
Just grab the new Bluetooth-enabled Lightsaber Duel and get ready.
What would be cool is if your wins and failed battles could be shared over Facebook so that you could start a league
THQ Wireless has even included 11 new Star Wars characters whose lightsabers you can use!
Remember: “This was the formal weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. More skill than simple sight was required for its use. An elegant weapon. It was a symbol as well. Anyone can use a blaster or a fusioncutter—but to use a lightsaber well was a mark of someone cut above the ordinary.”
Exciting times at MIX 10 where Microsoft took the Las Vegas stage in order to show off a lot of the applications that will soon be hitting the streets with Windows Phone 7 Series.
Because Silverlight 4 and the XNA Framework have been baked into the Windows Phone platform this unleashes quite a bit of power to the developers who, judging by the demos, have jumped at the chance of showing what can be done on modern smartphones.
The usual run-of-the-mill apps were present; such as Twitter client Seesmic, location-based social network Foursquare, music identification service Shazam and the Associated Press but the ones that made me sit up and take notice were Netflix and the slickness of Windows Mobile 7 Series love of gaming!
Netflix is quite a popular video rental service and most of its mobile apps are focused on accessing and modifying the user’s list of movies. Now, Netflix can be used to stream your choice of flicks on the likes of the Nintendo Wii right through to TiVo but thanks to the lovely Silverlight you can sling those films right onto Windows Phone 7 Series devices to watch as you go
Even though rumour has it that the iPhone may grab this before Microsoft gets it out the display of gaming on Windows Phone 7 Series handsets was pretty impressive.
The Harvest was demoed and what was highlighted was that this game could be played on a Windows Phone, PC, or Xbox 360 and no matter which platform you choose as your arena you can unlock achievements, increase your gamer score, access leaderboards, and connect to your friends over Live.
Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel said that “Developers and designers can now build their code once and optimize it to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the phone, Web, PC or Xbox 360. Due to common shared libraries, controls and runtimes across these many screens and the cloud, developers now have the opportunity to reach over 1 billion customers,”
Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move.
Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting on [...]
You can’t have winter sports without the backing track of cowbells being whacked as a skier goes flying past.
You try getting a cowbell on a plane in the current security climate and you’re not only going to be looking at getting nudie-scanned but probably getting unpleasantly probed.
Fear not as this inexpensive iPhone app is here [...]
Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games?
If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular.
Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter.
Some may stand-up and say that FPS games cannot be [...]
Perhaps one of the lowest-tech games, Rock-Paper-Scissors (even the game devices are low tech!), has just been given the AR treatment.
To the naked eye, the shirt is a ‘normal’ tribute to the game Rock-Paper-Scissors.
The geek magic happens once you place yourself in front of a puter that’s set to T-post’s special web app and [...]
For all you retro-fangirls and cool scenesters here’s some $80 Space Invaders tights.
Guys – here’s some pictures of a girl in her underwear (check the gallery below)!
I found these on Kokatu under the amusing headline ‘Space Invaders by Camel-Taito‘ Heheheheheh! Classy huh?
There’s stacks of other designs to chose from including ‘Pheonix’, ‘Geishas’ [...]
There it is in its multi-font, easy read format.
What’s not to like about infographics – especially when about gaming consoles?
How many of you had your Xbox 360 give you the RRoD?
Who has NEVER played a Mario game?
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This is a must for any sci-fi lover or people that yearn for the day we get the chance to tote laser side-arms.
This Star Trek phaser mod can explode balloons in an awesome pewpew stylee!
And: You can build one of your very own
The full how-to can be [...]
Apple keeps holding Flash away from its flagship phone even though it seems that Adobe keeps asking nicely to join the party.
It sounds like this may change soon and with Flash comes Adobe’s 2 Million or so Flash Developers and they’re all heading towards the iPhone – whether Apple wants them or not!
The next version [...]
Say hello to the latest reason to get excited if you own an iPhone.
Using the handsets accelerometer and connecting via Wi-Fi you can fly the Parrot AR.Drone!
As if that wasn’t cool enough it has two on-board cameras that beam a pilots-eye view right to your phones screen.
This means that you don’t need to see the [...]
R2-D2 must be the galaxy’s most loved and most recognised droid.
As well as being adorable as a companion he’s also proved himself handy to have around – whether as a mechanic or patching into computer interfaces he’s helped many a human, as well as fellow droids, out of rather sticky situations.
This R2 statue is probably [...]
Nintendo has just trademarked the title “Zii” in Japan which is to be used for computer games and electronic devices, according to the paperwork released today.
The company actually filed for the trademark on October 30, but this was only just released on the trademark database.
This means that Nintendo has protected the word [...]
I’ve just been pointed in the direction of Very.co.uk.
‘Very’ is a new online department store from Shop Direct and it’s offering Gadgety News readers a great discount of £10 off your first order of £40 or more when you open a credit account.
All you have to do to claim your discount is simply [...]
Derby council has taken the brave/lazy/dangerous step of asking the public for suggestions of what to call two stretches of their new £36.2 million ring road.
Now, the ‘best’ (or most sensible/cleanest/least offensive) names have been shortlisted into 8 choices, one of which is Lara Croft Way – but there is a kind of logic at [...]
Remember the super-sized Nintendo DSi with the large screen from a coupla weeks ago?
Well now there’s an official flick for it.
This is the first screening for the Nintendo DSi XL (or LL as it’s known in Japan) from the larger hand-held. The good thing is that it gives you a good idea of both [...]
Don’t you just love leaked info?
Well, thanks to MCV the above news was gathered via a tricky tipster who said that the information was apparently the result of behind-closed-door meetings right here in the UK between Microsoft and third party developers.
Microsoft will be manufacturing 5 million Natals for a worldwide launch in November 2010 [...]
After reporting about the internet addiction clinic opening in the States in August it’s the turn of the Brits.
Yup – we are now the proud owners of our first rehab clinic targeting addicted gamers.
The Broadway Lodge, a residential rehabilitation unit in Weston-super-Mare, treats around 400 addicts a year for a range of issues and will [...]
Gamers love to have the latest and bestest and it shows that 25% of gamers surveyed said that paying for and downloading the digital only version is the way forward.
The International Gamers Survey, conducted by Today’s Gamers took in the opinion of 13,000 gamers across Europe and the United States and found that, on average, [...]
Since Wii Fit arrived there has been the question: “Does it really work?”
There has been plenty of opinions but now the NHS has stepped in.
The National Health Service is quite happy to give Nintendo Wii Fit Plus its official backing.
The NHS say that there’s plenty many benefits to be gained from the balance board game [...]
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