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Tag: Games

  • Google Search: What Can it Do Today

    From the Google Blog Search is a Jack of all trades, wait, you can play a friend on Tic-Tac-Toe?  From Search?  Guess what I am thinking. Today we’re dealing two new hands from the Google Search deck: solitaire and tic-tac-toe. Now you can play two of the oldest and most popular games for all ages,…

  • Niantic’s Ingress Game is Poised to Grow After Google

    Niantic, a maker of games people play by trekking around their neighborhoods and cities, is bringing in two new investors, the Pokémon Company and Nintendo, after completing its spinoff from Google. Niantic, based in San Francisco, said it raised $20 million from Pokémon, Nintendo and Google, and could receive an additional $10 million if it…

  • How to Make Money with Minecraft

    Read the article on NYTimes.com titled “Minecraft Stars on YouTube Share Secrets to Their Celebrity” Videos by Mitchell Hughes, a top Minecraft YouTuber, often consist of him and his friends exchanging jokes as they play survival games with other online players. CreditEve Edelheit for The New York Times Continue reading the main story Excerpts of…

  • Play Old MS-DOS Games

    Play retro DOS games in a couple of clicks, thanks to The Internet Archive. The site, in an effort to help preserve the fading games of yesterday, is offering over 2,300 classic DOS titles, without the need to download anything. You’ll be playing in two clicks. Head to the collection right now! Version 2 of…

  • In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money

    Next week we are going to read this article from the NYTimes for class SEATTLE — A bewitching creature — half woman, half deer — battles a shaman and a sentient tree. Lightning bolts strike. Weapons explode. Nasty spells are cast. The video game Dota 2, like so many across the Internet, transports teams of…