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PopCap offering Peggle Nights for free – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com
PopCap is offering everyone Peggle Nights for free on PC and Mac. The game, which usually costs $19.95 to buy, is being offered as a gift for signing up to PopCap Passport. So there is a catch to getting the game for free, but it still costs no money and actually leads to further savings on PopCapgames.
Passport requires an e-mail address and in return PopCap will start sending you a newsletter. There’s also 10% off a game purchase, which rises to 20% discounts as you buy more PopCap titles. Peggle Nights is offered as a free gift you can send to someone, but there’s nothing to stop that someone being yourself.
Head on over to the PopCap Passport offer page to sign-up and start playing.
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Prison Break: The Conspiracy trailer released
Prison Break finished on our TV screens last year but now it’s set for a revival on your Xbox 360, PS3 or PC this Spring. Originally announced when the TV show was at the height of its popularity, a snag with publishers kept Prison Break: The Conspiracy off the shelves but now it’s coming and it looks pretty violent…
Set in the fictional Fox River State Penitentiary, the Prison Break: The Conspiracy trailer doesn’t feature Michael Schofield (the character played by Wentworth Miller in the TV series). Instead we’re introduced to undercover agent Tom Paxton.
While Schofield doesn’t appear in the trailer, synopses of Prison Break: The Conspiracy reveal that Paxton goes undercover in an attempt to uncover why he ended up incarcerated in the first place.
From the glimpses of game play in the Prison Break: The Conspiracy trailer, it’s clear that it will be pretty violent with glimpses of head stomping and a Manhunt 2-style unsafe use of scissors.
Should we get ready for Keith Vaz to get angry? And will Prison Break: The Conspiracy compete with the darkness of the Dexter iPhone game?
Due Spring 2010 | £TBC | Prison Break
Friday, February 19, 2010
FarmVille Wins Social Networking Game of the Year Award
The 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony was held last night as part of the video game industry’s Dice Summit conference in Las Vegas, NV. Games.com reports that the top honor in the “Social Networking Game of the Year” category went to Zynga’s massively popular Facebook game FarmVille.
It was up against PopCap’s Bejeweled Blitz, EA/Playfish’s Restaurant City and Codebell’s Farm Town. With nearly 81 million monthly active players (which Zynga is quick to note has already made it bigger than Twitter), FarmVille is far and away the largest of the bunch and in some ways a shoo-in for the award.
Still, it’s yet another feather in the cap for Zynga, who recently raised $180 million in a funding round from Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that also invested $200 million in Facebook.
Do you play FarmVille? Are there other social games on Facebook you think should have been considered for a Game of the Year award?
Tags: casual games, codebell, EA, facebook, farmville, games, playfish, popcap, social games, Zynga
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wind Turbines Create Their Own Clouds [Energy]
Wind Turbines Create Their Own Clouds
It's hard to believe they noticed this one in England, but apparently wind turbine farms have the ability to create their own fog. The phenomenon has been observed by Mike Page, a retiree flying on board his Cessna 150:
The creation of the mist depends on the wind speed and the temperature of the sea and the air at the time.
The spinning blades whip moisture up into the air like giant egg mixers and sometimes these low cloud formations are made. A close up blade of one of the turbines shows a swirl of mist created around the blades as cooler air is mixed with warmer air. It definitely occurs several times a year, sometimes gathering upwind of the turbines and sometimes downwind depending on the conditions.
The strange thing is that you will see this mist around the turbines while it is a bright clear day on the beach just a couple of miles away.
It is a fascinating example of how wind farms create their own micro-climate. It is the same as any geographical feature affecting the weather.
According to Page, you can observe these fog banks on the farms even while beaches are completely clear a few feet away. [Daily Mail]
Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author of this post, at jesus@gizmodo.com.
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AudioBox Puts Your Music Library in the Cloud So It's Accessible Anywhere [Media Players]
When you bop between your work and home computers all the time, it's tough keeping your favorite music at your fingertips ('Which computer has my Once More, With Feeling soundtrack on it?'). AudioBox lets you listen to your music from anywhere.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
AudioBox is a web-based media player that puts your music (and, eventually, movies) in the cloud so you can access it from any computer with an internet connection and standard browser. Just upload your favorite media files to AudioBox's secure server, and stream them anytime you want to hear one of your favorite tunes. In fact, you can also access your music via your mobile browser (the company says an official iPhone app is in the works).
Uploading files is easy-peasy. Just locate music on your computer's hard drive and send files to AudioBox in batches or one at a time. Create and delete playlists, shuffle and repeat songs, or filter by artist, song, or genre. The app supports drag and drop, so organizing your media files is a snap.
Currently AudioBox is free while it's in beta, and you're limited to 250 MB of storage with file size limits of 50 MB. Once the service is ready for prime time, various pricing plans will let you buy more storage and upload larger files.
AudioBox is still a little buggy during the testing phase and, of course, you shouldn't use it to store files that are super-important to you. If you're looking for a way to grab some of your favorite music whenever the mood strikes though, then AudioBox is definitely worth checking out.
What are some ways you access your media files remotely? Share what works for you in the comments.
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Google Buzz: The Official Demo [VIDEO]
Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days.
We’re still digesting all of the implications of Buzz (and will have more coverage throughout the day), but in the meantime, here’s the two-minute demo of the product in action both on the Web and via mobile that Google showed off during today’s press conference:
What are your initial reactions? Another soon-to-be-forgotten Google social product? A FriendFeed clone? A Facebook/Twitter killer? Let us know in the comments!
Tags: Google, google buzz
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Facebook to Launch a Full-On Email Client [Email]
Facebook to Launch a Full-On Email Client
Facebook is revamping their messaging system into a full-fledged email client, according to tech news site TechCrunch. We can't imagine ditching our beloved Gmail accounts for Facebook's alternative anytime soon (at least not without some serious innovation from Facebook), but for those true Facebook nuts, it could be a viable email alternative. [TechCrunch]
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Apple adds iTunes App Store web previews
Apple’s iTunes Preview launched in November, letting you preview songs and albums on a web page rather than through the iTunes desktop application. Now Apple has added iTunes App Store pages to iTunes Preview.
Previously, if you visited a direct link to an iPhone/iPod Touch app, you’d be redirected to the iTunes desktop application. Now when you follow those links it’ll still try to launch iTunes but will also see the app information, screenshots and reviews on a web page.
Though it’ll be possible to view iTunes App Store information in the browser, you’ll still need to hop into the iTunes desktop app or grab you iPhone to make buy apps.
Apple’s continuing moves to bring iTunes information to the web also suggests that rumours of a cloud-computing-based iTunes.com web service could be right on the money.
Out now | £free | Apple
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