by Scott Judson
Owner of Judson Steel, an iOS development studio based in Auckland
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Facebook planning to release smartphone by 2013
With the strength of social and mobile games, a Facebook Smartphone could have significant implications for the games market.
The 10th season of the long-running machinima series Red vs. Blue. Series creator Rooster Teeth will premiere the first episode on May 28.
The regular cast of the comedic parody of Microsoft’s popular Halo shooter videogames will be joined this season by a new character named Sigma, voiced by Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood. (via Trailer: Elijah Wood Debuts in Red vs. Blue May 28 | Game|Life | Wired.com)
(via LEGO - Life of George)
Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. (via The myth of the overnight success - Chris Dixon)
Video games have both positive and negative effects on the brain. (via The Neurology of Gaming | Online Universities)
For the first two months of 2012, Flurry Analytics measured that more than half of all end user sessions were spent in games. (via Indie Game Makers Dominate iOS and Android)
Early this morning the Alliance News Network started tweeting the beginning of an invasion of Earth by huge squid-like robots. It was an online re-enactment of this.
They used the hashtag #solcomms. And then it went a bit mental. LA was the first city hit. Dallas is in flames. Manhattan is a smoking crater. Most of the eastern seaboard is going silent. London is toast. And some of the images coming in are amazing and terrifying. (via The Alliance News Network • Field Theory • Public Address)
Microsoft Flight available today on PC
Microsoft has released a new, free version of their flight simulator.
We built BikeRide, a community based cycling iPhone app & website for RaboDirect. The idea is to bring together cyclists into a community where they can easily share their favourtie rides.
Users download the app, sign up and can start recording their own rides to share with the community straight away, or find rides that start nearby.
As users ride courses they get achievements, including the coveted yellow jersey for holding the fastest time on the course. There are also global achievements for holding the most of a certain achievements, such as king of the hill for riding the most extreme rides. (via BikeRide Crowd Sourced Cycling App | Judson Steel)
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