The Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing, China, is one of over 400 prison-like ‘rehabilitation centres’ that seek to ‘deprogram’ teens, and wean them off their crippling addiction to the world wide web.
This game is absolutely tearing it up on the app store charts. In just three weeks, the trivia game ‘QuizUp’ has amassed 3,5 million registered users. It reached its millionth user in just eight days. QuizUp is being called the “fastest-growing iPhone game in history.”
Reports abound that the new Call Of Duty game, ‘Ghosts’ could mark the beginning of the end for the massive franchise. COD has broken countless records, raked in tons of cash, and changed gaming forever – but its new installment is failing to impress.
Dumb Ways To Die took the world by storm last year, spawning games for iOS and countless parodies. And it is with great joy that we announce that a Dumb Ways To Die GTA V parody has cropped up. Hey, at least it isn’t Gangnam Style.
Could this redefine console gaming? Valve, the company behind Half-Life, Portal and the Steam digital gaming service is totally re-inventing the game pad. Valve’s new controller, the Steam Controller, will be based around “super-precise haptic feedback,” and will allow keyboard and mouse gamers to move their gaming onto a television to get the ‘living room’ experience.
Local mobile gaming company, Thoopid, has been working on the highly-addictive smartphone game, Snailboy, for most of 2013. As was expected, they’ve knocked this one out of the park. No wonder they’re tipped to become the ‘Rovio of Africa.’