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Free games for Verizon Internet customers starts Friday

October 7th, 2009, 12:28 pm by

Verizon free game weekend

If you’re a Verizon Internet customer and have kids, or like to play games yourself, set an alert for Friday, Oct. 9, when Verizon offers free access to 1,500 games on demand. After the free weekend, ending Monday, Oct. 12, the price goes back to $4.99 to $14.99 per month.

That’s four full days of free games.

The offer is for Verizon’s FiOS Internet and DSL customers. Go to verizon.net/freegames to access the games.

This is a mostly casual collection of games, which include Boggle, The Secret of Margrave Manor 2, SpongeBob Teaches Typing, Zoo Tycoon, Bejeweled Twist. You can scan the list of  games available on Verizon’s main game page at gamesondemand.verizon.net.

The catch? You can play the games on a computer as much as you want all weekend but after that, you’ll be locked out. If you do decide to pay for the service, you’ll get two weeks free. Or just head to other Web sites that offer free casual games all the time, like AddictingGames.com or EA’s pogo.com.

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O.C. Internet-safety game company gets $300k grant

September 25th, 2008, 3:01 pm by

The Entertainment Software Assocation, which is the same group that puts on the annual video-game convention previously known as E3, announced today that Santa Ana’s Web Wise Kids is one of nine groups that will receive a total of $1 million in grant money. Awarded by the group’s charitable arm, the ESA Foundation, the grant winners were chosen because of  the way they use video games and technology to improve the lives of America’s youth.

Web Wise Kids, founded in 2000, makes computer games and interactive programs that aim to enlighten kids about Internet safety. Games include “AirDogs,” which familiarizes players with digital watermarks and GPS cell phone tracking; and “Mirror Image,” which challenges players to use pixel analysis, IP address searches and online directory investigate potential cyber predators.

Web Wise Kids will receive $300,000 from the ESA Foundation.  The organization, which also won last year, plans to use the funds to help promote its games.

Other grant winners and their plans for the money, according to the ESA: Read the rest of this entry »

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Apple’s iTunes store adds Line Rider

September 18th, 2008, 1:03 pm by

As expected, Line Rider is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. It’s $2.99 and beware, it contains “mild cartoon violence.” Heh.

The simple line-drawing game was developed by Newport Beach’s inXile Entertainment, which bought the rights to the web-based game from a Slovenian art-school student. The game, available free online, became a hit among players who captured their best animated drawings for YouTube.

Click photos for larger image. Photos courtesy of inXile:

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A slicker version of the game was just released for the Nintendo DS and the PC. inXile is also producing a version for the Nintendo Wii, out next month.

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Line Rider 2 games on sale today

September 17th, 2008, 5:23 pm by

UnboundIt’s been almost two years since Newport Beach’s InXile Entertainment bought the rights to the simple line-drawing game Line Rider.

The web game has been gussied up, as previously reported, and renamed “Line Rider 2: Unbound.”

Today, the  Nintendo DS ($29.99) and PC ($19.99) versions were released to stores by publisher Genius Products. This new version is more of a story, featuring the bob-sledding Bosh, who must save his true love, the blond Bailey, from sled-stealing scumbag Chaz.

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The Nintendo Wii version will be available Oct. 6. A version for the iPhone is also in development.

The simple Line Rider game, which is free to play at linerider.com, continues to have a following two years after creator Bostjan Cadiz turned an art-school project into a web distraction. Since being sold to inXile, Line Rider has won gaming awards and shown up in a McDonald’s TV commercial.

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Line Rider coming to an iPhone near you

September 1st, 2008, 3:26 am by

Line Rider coming to an iPhone near you**Four photos of Line Rider on iPhone below **

Line Rider, the simple line-drawing game, is being turned into an iPhone game, according to Brian Fargo, chief executive officer of inXile Entertainment.

Developers at the Newport Beach game company, which owns the rights to Line Rider, are putting finishing touches on the game and still need to go through the Apple approval process. Fargo hopes that it’ll be available at the Apple Apps Store later this month.

The $2.95 iPhone Line Rider will look pretty much the same and play the same as what’s available at linerider.com for free. Fans have been enamored by the flash-based “game” where users draw on a screen and then hit ‘play’ to watch a bobsledder ride the lines until he crashes or comes to a smooth stop.

In the iPhone version, players use their finger to draw lines. Also new: Sharing creations online will be instant, unlike the current Web version that requires messing with separate software to capture the video and upload it to YouTube. The videos will be hosted by inXile, which was already getting its sharing system ready for the upcoming launch of Line Rider 2 for Nintendo’s Wii and DS and PC.

Line Rider coming to an iPhone near you

But what is missing from the iPhone version is something Fargo told me was the whole reason he was attracted to the iPhone: the accelerometer.

“It’s the ‘A ha!’ factor, like when you first tried the Wii. The interface on the Wii is what really makes it so great. For the iPhone, you start picking it up and playing the games and it’s ‘A ha!’ That got me excited and when something gets me excited, my instinct is that others will get excited,” Fargo said. Read the rest of this entry »

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Looking for gaming news?

June 16th, 2008, 2:02 am by

Sniffing around for exclusive gaming newsI’m branching out and have started a new blog dedicated to covering the local gaming industry. We’re calling it GAME ROVER because pretty much every other game name has been taken. One of the first posts is an update to a story that Gadgetress readers may be interested in: the well being of young Ezra Chatterton, the Riverside kid with brain cancer who got his wish granted by Blizzard and its Warcraft team last year. Check it out at ocregister.com/gaming.

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Big TVs, cameras, and monsters — must be Father’s Day deals day

June 15th, 2008, 8:51 am by

Today is Father’s Day, so it’s too late to win him something cool. But as it so happens, today’s contests are very male themed. You could enter these contests in honor of him, maybe that will bring you some luck.

Win a Vizio TVI love my 48-inch Vizio LCD TV, which I bought soon after I reviewed a plasma TV from the Irvine company. I would love it even more if I had won it. Now Vizio has teamed up with another local, SRS Labs in Santa Ana, to give away three big HDTVs. The contest is to mark the new partnership between the companies. SRS makes technology that improves the sound-quality of audio on TV, the Web, or just about anything. You just have to answer a few questions and supply your personal email. Contest ends July 4. Enter HERE.

Super Dad photos anyone? Send one in to Canon for the NFL SuperDad sweepstakes and you could win the ultimate photo kit, which includes EOS Rebel XSi with EF-S 18-55mm IS Digital SLR kit, EF-S 55–250mm IS Telephoto Lens,NFL and Canon’s SuperDad sweepstakes PowerShot SD1100 IS Digital Elph Compact Camera, 10×30 Image Stabilizer Binoculars, FS11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder and a Pixma MP970 Photo All-In-One Printer. Just by entering, you’ll also get 10 percent off any NFLShop purchase so you can buy useful stuff like this Dallas Cowboys office chair. Enter HERE.

Are you good at making monsters? This next contest takes some skill for a prize that is so-so. Unless you’re interested in breaking into the video game industry. GameRecruiter’s “Battle of the SuperModelers” is a digital art contest is looking for the best original real-time character model of a monster, creature, robot or alien for a possible fantasy, sci-fi or horror game. The grand-prize winner and three finalists will get $50,000 in digital art tools (from Alienware, Autodesk, Wacom and The Gnomon Workshop) plus a free vacay at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Tex. for the Austin Game Developers Conference on Sept. 17. Details are available HERE.Dotster eBiz contest

More free domains from Dotster: Each week until the end of July, Doster is giving away a “eBiz in a Boz,” which includes a free domain name, free Web site creation with Dotster’s SiteBuilder tool, free e-mail and free Standard Linux Web hosting for a year (value: $100). Details on Dotster’s homepage.

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Line Rider 2 game ditches simple for slick

June 11th, 2008, 2:01 pm by

UnboundFor fans of the web-based sketch game Line Rider, the new version is much slicker than its creator may have intended. It’s also obviously coming out soon, based on the disc full of art, a slick new logo and a very cool demo movie. There is even the box art for the Nintendo Wii and DS versions of the game.

The game has won millions of fans, a few imitators and awards. Created by Bostjan Cadez as an art-school project, Line Rider is simple: Draw a few lines on the screen, press play and watch as a stick-figure “Bosh” rides the lines on his bobsled. The original game had no eraser — so whatever you only had one chance to get the lines perfect. The popular web game has attracted millions of players around the world and, most recently, a McDonald’s commercial.
Line Rider for Nintendo’s Wii

I interviewed Bostjan in December 2006. Game developer inXile Entertainment in Newport Beach had just bought the rights to turn the animation into a game and Bostjan was in town from native Slovenia for a few months.

At the time, he considered his invention “a toy,” but one that encouraged people to make a story out of it.

“The eraser is missing on purpose. It was part of the concept. I wanted it to be, in a way, like life. If you make a mistake, it’s there. You can’t just erase it,” he said.

The new versions of the game for the Wii and DS will be so much more when released this summer.

Details on how this game will work on the Wii weren’t provided. Will I use the controller as my pen? Will the new Wii balance board be used as a sled?

But there is information on the new challenges of the game. According to Line Rider’s media folks, a story has been added to the game:

“Line Rider 2: Unbound” follows the sled-stealing scumbag Chaz, who is up to no good and only you, as the clever and cunning Bosh, can defeat him. For Bosh to save his true love Bailey, players must complete tracks in over 40 mind-bending puzzles created by the #1 Line Rider player in the world, TechDawg.”

Everything is slick about the new Line Rider game — from its new logo to a heftier Bosh, joined by the two new characters Bailey and Chaz, pictured below:

Meet Bailey, the female sledder in ‘Line Rider 2: Unbound’ Meet Chazz, the mischievious-looking dude in “Line Rider 2: Unbound” The new and improved (?) Bostjan for ‘Line Rider 2: Unbound’

I kind of liked the simpler Bosh more:

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