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Felwig Software’s Snap ‘n Tap for iPhone review

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The iPhone certainly is a unique gaming platform.  Combining a reasonably powerful graphics processor, a very accurate accelerometer and a built-in camera, the iPhone offers opportunities for creating games that were just not possible before.  Felwig Software’s Snap ‘n Tap is one of these games, but is it fun? The idea behind Snap ‘n Tap

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Be in the movies with Yoostar

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Think you would make a better Sarah Connor?  Or maybe you see yourself as a natural addition to Mad Men or Sesame Street?  With the Yoostar system, it’s possible to insert yourself as a character from one of your favorite movies and then share your scene-chewing with others.    Think of it as Rock Band

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Zii Egg and the Plaszma OS

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This is interesting;  The Zii EGG. Using Andriod and the OS called Plaszma, Zii is calling this the cornerstone of ‘Stem Cell Computing’. With this unit that means 24 floating point processors delivering 8 GFLOPS of computing power using a ZMS-05 ARM dual core chip. The EGG hardware also sports Open GL ES graphics capabilities,

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Wrapsol Protection System Review

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The Wrapsol protection system is a family of products that strive to wrap your various devices in a sheath of protecting film. They sent me a pile of systems, and I tried the Android G1, iPod Touch, and Sony PSP systems for this review. Essentially the system is the same for any supported device, but

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You’ve heard of RPG and MMORPGs. But what about CMO games?

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CMO stands for Casual Multiplayer Online game. Yeah, who knew right? Faunasphere is a new game from Big Fish Games that you play through your browser. No special downloads are required and it’s completely free. The whole premise is that you’re on this world that’s been overrun by pollution. It’s your job to interact with

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GPX2 Wiz – An Amiga, Atari ST, C64 and more in your pocket

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Oh wow, I really want one of these handhelds. It looks like a retro gamer’s dream. It has emulation software for MAME (retro arcade games), Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore VIC20/64/128, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo and support for Flash based games. The GPX2 Wiz features a QVGA OLED Touch Screen, 1GB of

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hExistentialism iPhone/iPod Touch Game Review

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Are you good at pattern matching puzzles? Do you like games that move at your pace, not the game designer’s pace? hExistentialism – the “Casual Puzzle Brain Game” by Ayumusoft might be for you. Just resist the urge to fling your iPhone into the wall while you’re figuring out how it works.

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Carry a bazillion retro games in your pocket

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ThinkGeek has just posted the Pocket Retro Game Emulator on their site. This pocket sized device has a 2.8 inch screen (320×240), 4GB of internal memor and can be expanded via miniSD. The great thing is that you don’t have load emulator software to use it. Just load your favorite 8-16 bit ROMs from NES,

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