Jiggle and Blow Your iPhone to Make Mother Earth Smile
The folks who introduced GoPlanit to the world are launching a Sim City-like set of iPhone applications, one free and one for pay ($2.99) by the name of Pet Earth [iTunes URL] and Pet Earth Lite [iTunes] to quench the activist, treehugging, superheroic self nascent in the global gamer conscience.
Perhaps Sim City isn’t grandiose enough [...]
Want a Free TV? Purchance It.
You know those sweepstakes that go on in malls and on oceanside boardwalks? Organizers might ask you to offer up $50 for a single ticket with a chance to win a car when the final lottery drawing is made. Purchance is kind of same idea.
Only, you’re actually buying something to start with. Like a concert [...]
Turn Your iPhone into a Computer Game Controller With iFun
The iPhone’s accelerometer technology has already led to a number of very cool and very popular games. But tonight, SGN is taking it to a whole different level, allowing you to utilize the Nintendo Wii-like functionality to turn your iPhone (or iPod Touch) into a computer game controller that can be used on your [...]
The Death of Tangible Media is a Little Murky
You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media. It’s honestly quite difficult to top it every week. On the one hand, we bloviators have generally no compunctions re-using the [...]
100+ iPhone Games That Use the Accelerometer
The iPhone’s built-in accelerometer has opened up a new world of mobile gaming, introducing fun, engaging, and interactive applications from virtual golf to racing games, mobile beer pong, and more.
Here are over 100 free and paid apps that are worth checking out, especially if you’re looking for ways to waste some time, say in line [...]
15 Signs Big Media Isn’t Hot for Facebook
The last couple of years have had the questions of when and how the world of Big Media would embed itself in the burgeoning social media space recycled over and over again.
And as you can gather, we’re still not quite at that dream state, where everything is available, sharable, discussable, and yes, even mashable.
So where [...]
PlaySpan Launches Marketplace for Virtual Goods
Virtual goods were all the rage a while ago, but nowadays I don’t hear that much about them. Perhaps everyone got bored of Second Life, companies stopped opening virtual headquarters in virtual worlds, and WoW players…well, they’re a lost cause anyway, tormented creatures always destined to live in the shadow (also, Blizzard does not allow [...]
Heyzap: Keep Your Site Visitors Entertained for Hours
How do you get people to stay engaged on your site? You could work really really hard to produce stellar content, or you could take an easy way out and start embedding highly addictive games to do all the hard work for you. The fact of the matter is that even the most compelling content [...]
Would You Like to Play Games While You Check Your Email?
I guess it depends on your line of work. Email is a chore (an unpleasant one) for me, and I like to get it over with and move to something more interesting as soon as possible. On the other hand, casual users might like the idea of playing a game while checking their email, and [...]
