Popular online game Wordle has been bought from its creator by The New York Times Company, and the paper has hinted it may not be free to play in future. Software engineer Josh Wardle has said he decided to sell the virtual puzzle after it snowballed and became “overwhelming” to run, and the NYT has […]
Fans of nineties TV animation Biker Mice from Mars have an opportunity to help turn the franchise into a mobile game, thanks to a Kickstarter launched by an Irish company yesterday. Galway-based game developers 9th Impact beat off international competition last year to get the licence to develop a Biker Mice game for Android and iOS. They’ve been working […]
Christian Schinkoethe is co-founder and CTO at Rocket Rainbow Studios, a games development company. At The Blacknight SME Awards they took the prize for the Best Under-30s Business. Moments like these make it all worth it, says Christian. Technology.ie – like the SME Awards – is brought to you by Blacknight. Ireland’s premier provider of web hosting and […]
Some of the biggest names in the gaming industry will gather at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) campus in Thurles next month to participate in Games Fleadh 2015, an all-island games design and development competition for third-level students. LIT Tipperary, whose alumni have worked on some of gaming’s biggest titles including Call of Duty, StarCraft […]
What do you get when you combine Legend of Zelda, the video game, with Game of Thrones? The result is pretty spectacular 🙂
The Rubik’s cube was first introduced 40 years ago this week To commemorate the 40 years of the invention of the Rubik’s cube Google has, naturally, done a “doodle” but this one is pretty advanced – you can actually play it. Here’s a screencast of the doodle: http://youtu.be/jRwGMmae0Lg And you can see it now here […]
I’m one of those people who played the original Grand Theft Auto when it was first released and it blew me away. Top down viewing but … Anyways it looks like the first trailer of actual game play from the new game GTA5 it out [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] I am in awe. The scale of these type […]
There’s a growing number of fun products available that draw their inspiration, or content, from social media. One that caught my eye this morning – personalised Facebook playing cards. You choose 54 of your current friends from Facebook and build a deck of cards using their profile pictures. I’m not sure if they’ll still be […]
