| All you need to know about game downloads | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:21:27 AM by Rose Martins | Game downloads are easy, convenient and relatively cheap, some are even for free. 
There are full games to be downloaded to your PC, your mobile phone and to your portable sony playstation. And you don't have to always buy before trying.
Many websites offer free demo games that can be downloaded and played for a limited period of time, or limited to just a few of the starting levels. Freeware game downloads are also very much available.
The catch is that these free game downloads are often accompanied by spyware and add-ons, usually without your knowledge and are not always easily detectable.
Video game and psp downloads have gained popularity with the launch of the new Sony PlayStation Portable. And then there is always "ye ole faithful" Mario, the legend of computer and video games. Many mobile phone service providers offer game downloads at a nominal price.
The tricky part when it comes to game downloads for a mobile phone, is the amount of free memory available. Most phones will limit you, and old downloaded games will have to be deleted before new games can be downloaded.
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| | | Ten New Titles Approach the Xbox Live Arcade Horizon | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:52:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Vampire hunters, artillery-toting worms, rambunctious aliens and trailblazing settlers are among the likeable characters that will soon make their debut in living rooms everywhere via Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 as part of the award-winning services upcoming round of new game releases. Starting with the first release in February, 10 highly anticipated titles will begin making their way to Xbox Live Arcade, including these (titles are not listed in chronological release order): 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures, from developer Wanako Games and publisher Sierra Online, allows gamers to putt their way through 36 fun-filled holes of manic minigolf action on wild courses that range from the Old West to outer space and feature a bevy of crazy hazards and obstacles. Alien Hominid HD from The Behemoth features side-scrolling, hysterical cartoon action with a quirky twist and exclusive Xbox Live Arcade features.... | |
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| | | Mobile Games Sales Surge with On-Portal Promotions | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:54:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Positioning on carrier decks can make or break a mobile game title. Publishers who grab the best shelf space on carrier decks to show off their merchandise are rewarded with a significant bump in downloads and revenues, according to Telephia. The research firm has launched its Mobile Game Merchandising product which, for the first time in the industry, quantifies and tracks the link between carrier deck placement and sales. Telephia's Mobile Game Merchandising data shows that, mobile games promoted on a carrier's New, Featured or Best Seller decks saw 90 percent more downloads than when those same games were not promoted. Furthermore, titles that got top shelf placement on the first page of the carrier's deck achieved 53 percent more downloads than when those titles appeared on subsequent pages of the deck.... | |
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| | | PRESS RELEASE: MobileRated: Top 25 Mobile Phone Games of 2006 | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:56:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | January 15, 2007, Victoria, Canada: MobileRated proudly presents the twenty-five most popular mobile phone games of 2006, as calculated by the number of customer downloads from MobileRated. In a year that over 14% of mobile phone owners played a mobile phone game and over 1 billion new mobiles were sold, prospects for mobile phone gamers and developers has never been better. MobileRated is pleased to be able to bring so many developers and gamers together. Each game on this list is available - for free - from the MobileRated website. The Top 25 Games of 2006 are: 1. Jamtris 2. M-SuDoKu 3. Bomber 4. Doom 3D 5. 5ud0ku 6. Mobile Fighter 7. vPoker 8. Dope Wars ZX 9.... | |
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| | | Fox to Offer Bowl Game Downloads | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:04:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fox Sports will begin offering full video downloads of their Bowl Championship Series coverage on Thursday, December 28, 2006, the company announced today. Starting at $1.99 for individual preview shows and highlight videos to $19.99 for a full package of all game coverage, Fox promises to have all the media available within 24 hours of the game's finish. The footage will be available through most of the big media download players, including Fox's own Direct2Drive, iTunes, Unbox, CinemaNow and AOL. Fox is the second major sports network to offer sports-related downloads. ESPN was the first sports network to embrace the download business and has been quite successful in building up a sizeable following via the iTunes store. Fox, on the other hand is being more inclusive and signing distribution deals with most, if not all download services.... | |
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| | | Advances in technology changing way fans see the game | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:52:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | The San Francisco Giants were in the thick of the pennant race in August 2002. And Blake Krikorian and his brother, Jason, were stuck at their office with no way to watch. The afternoon game was being shown on a local TV station, but their office didn't have a TV feed. They signed up for an Internet service that showed games live -- only to discover local teams were blacked out. "We thought, 'There's got to be a way we can watch and control our living room television,' " Blake Krikorian said. "Whether I'm in my backyard on my laptop, or sitting in an office on my desktop, or traveling in Shanghai with my mobile phone, it shouldn't really matter. All I want is my familiar, living room TV programming." Thus, Slingbox was born. The product, which lets people watch their home TV anywhere, anytime using an Internet-connected computer or handheld device, is one of the many ways the view of games we love are changing.... | |
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| | | Gaming Console Review: Sony Playstation 3 | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:53:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | After years of promises, (some true, some false) the PlayStation 3 is here. But only for a lucky few though, since launch numbers were far below the PS2's Day One tally. Although small numbers of units are coming in each week, the launch left many eager shoppers without, to say the least. But is Sony's new system worth your $600? That depends on a lot of variables, I am afraid. It is difficult to look at this from only one or two angles. If you want to watch Blu-ray movies and play games, then this is an easy choice. You are not going to find a $600 Blu-ray player any time soon. If you are a PS2 owner and are upgrading to a PS3, there are a lot of advantages. If you own a PSP, there are even more features that integrate with your PSP, sweetening the deal even more.... | |
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| | | Medieval II: Total War Coming to Steam | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:54:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Valve today announced an agreement to deliver Medieval II: Total War to Steam, the leading online digital distribution platform for PC games. Heralded on the cover of the December PC Gamer with an Editors' Choice award, a review score of 90% and described by the magazine as "an epic strategy game that's exquisitely big, bold and beautiful," Medieval II: Total War advances the series with the most cinematic and realistic battles ever seen in the real time strategy genre. With over 10,000 troops now to command and hundreds of unit types, players can experience massive battles in graphically rich environments enhanced by dynamic weather effects and vastly diverse terrain. Leading armies across Europe, the Middle East, and even the Americas, players will encounter brutal real-time battles and the pure bloodlust of medieval warfare.... | |
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| | | TiVo stretching into the Internet | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:52:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- In its ongoing bid to be a central conduit of media, TiVo Inc. plans to broaden its digital video recording service later this year so users of its set-top boxes can download videos from the Internet and watch them from their television sets. The new feature, one of several announcements TiVo made Tuesday, comes as homemade clips and Hollywood movies are all becoming more popular on the Web and an increasing number of tech giants are tackling the barriers to deliver video from a computer to the comforts of a living room. "Broadband video is growing rapidly on the Web, but the television will continue to be the key way viewers want to watch video," said TiVo's chief executive Tom Rogers. "Our overall goal is to provide as many types of content in as many formats to be displayable on the television through TiVo." TiVo's new broadband offering, however, will work only with downloaded videos that are not copy-protected, such as most user-generated clips and many video podcasts.... | |
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| | | Microsoft Makes Xbox A Family Machine | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:52:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Microsoft is hoping for a larger role in the digital living room by making movies and TV shows available for viewing through the Xbox video game console. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Nov 7, 2006 03:25 PM Microsoft Corp.'s plan to offer movies and TV shows for viewing through the Xbox widens the appeal of the popular videogame console to non-gamers, a move that could give the device a bigger role in the living room, analysts say. The Redmond, Wash., company on Monday unveiled agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System, Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Warner Bros. to offer by the end of the year more than 1,000 hours of content in both standard and high-definition formats.... | |
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| | | Microsoft to offer TV shows, movies through Xbox Live | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:52:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | REDMOND, Washington -- Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with a handful of Hollywood studios to sell TV shows and movies that can be downloaded through the software maker's Xbox Live online video-game service and beamed straight onto television sets. The company announced last week that beginning Nov. 22, Xbox Live users with the latest console will be able to choose from shows including "South Park," which airs on MTV's Comedy Central, CBS Corp.'s "CSI," and movies including Warner Bros.' "V for Vendetta" and Paramount Pictures' "Mission Impossible III." In addition to CBS, MTV Networks, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, Microsoft has signed agreements with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and Ultimate Fighting Championship, a privately held Las Vegas company that primarily broadcasts pay-per-view fights.... | |
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