PC

Go Type ‘Zerg Rush’ Into Google

You’ll like what you get. Especially if you’ve ever wanted to see what your APM is outside of an actual StarCraft game!


April 24, 2012
Retro

YouTube In The 1990s Looked Awesome

YouTube wasn’t around in the 1990s. It didn’t open for business until 2005. Let’s pretend for 3:31 that it was around in the 1990s, though, because 1990s YouTube looks great.


April 6, 2012
In Real Life

This Is Exactly How Google’s Glasses Will Go Wrong

It’s hard not to be at least a little wary of Google’s cool new augmented-reality glasses prototype. I get distracted enough by my phone walking down the street as it is, and voice recognition on my Droid is more than a bit dodgy. Would blasting all that into my line of sight really help?


April 2, 2012
In Real Life

April Fools! All These Announcements Are Fake — But Which Ones Are Funny?

Alright, it may be a Monday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day over here, a very special day in video gaming. Many related companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here!


April 1, 2012
Retro

Google Announces Google Maps — For The Nintendo Entertainment System

The undisputed Internet-age leader in April Fools’ hoaxes gets a one-day head start on its latest gag — a brilliant announcement video for “Google Maps 8-Bit” a port of the popular, well, map service to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon.


March 22, 2012
Mobile

Breaking: Angry Birds Space Has Launched. Download It Now.

Angry Birds: Space has launched on iOS (iPhone/ iPad) as well as Android (Google Play). Download it now!


February 24, 2012
News

Google Glasses To Augment Gamers’ Reality

Google is in the news this week, not so much for their software and search offerings, but for their hardware, and whispers of an item yet to come.


January 17, 2012
In Real Life

Google Maps Becomes A Video Game

Coming to Google+ Games in February is what appears to be a virtualised marble balance game with a theme more grounded than what you’d find in your average dentist’s waiting room; you’ll be tilting your way through the streets of our own world.


December 28, 2011
In Real Life

Adventure? Hardcore Pornography? A Jedi Cares Not For These Things

A Jedi might not care about the sins of the flesh, but Google certainly does, replacing the still for a developer diary with a steamy porn thumbnail in the search results for Star Wars: The Old Republic.


December 16, 2011
News

Battlefield 3 Captures Google’s Zeitgeist

Rebecca Black, Google+, Ryan Dunn and… Battlefield 3?