PlayStation

PS Vita Goes Social With Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Skype

Along with a series of Sony-built applications for keeping players playing together, the PlayStation Vita will come fully equipped to keep them connected to their favourite social networks. Wow, it’s like a mobile phone that plays games!


August 12, 2011
News

US Rental Service Redbox Adds… Foursquare Support?

Redbox, the in-store movie and game rental kiosk, is adding Foursquare support starting next week, the company tells Kotaku.


June 30, 2011
Mobile

World Of Fourcraft Is Like Real-Life Risk, Played In New York

Foursquare, the hot social network expansion that… does… social things… yeah, actually, that’s sort of the problem. Sensing an opportunity to make the “check-in” utility for Twitter “more compelling for long-term use”, some people have used it to turn New York into a giant game of Risk.


April 22, 2011
Mobile

This Game Will Let You Play Monopoly In The Real World

Why plan Monopoly over a little board and pieces of plastic when you can grab your phone, get off your arse and take over the real world?


February 8, 2011
In Real Life

You Are All Liars

Some time last year, I landed in Los Angeles. I was catching a connecting flight, the bane of the expedient traveller. But I was unusually happy for the brief stop. I’d been changed by something in my phone.


February 2, 2011
Mobile

How To Kill A Super-Hero Using Foursquare

Foursquare could be more deadly than Kryptonite, according to the smartly written – really! – 60th issue of the latest Supergirl comic. A bright Harvard guy makes a crowd-sourced Foursquare-style app that lets supervillains hunt super-heroes. Mark Zuckerberg meets Lex Luthor?