SimCity Online, the much awaited city building and urban planning simulation video game, recently launched and also faced several issues. Most users, while trying to play the game, received a message saying, “SimCity Servers are down. Attempting to reconnect.” at the top-left corner of their screens. While the parent company EA is promising a resolution, ...

Xi3 Corporation, a subsidiary of ISYS Technologies and owner of Xi3® patented architecture, has announced its latest Piston that will debut this Holiday season. With a base price of $1,000, XI3 Piston will feature a 3.2 GHz AMD quad-core processor with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD—but no dedicated graphics card. “Clearly, the computer/video gaming market ...

Suspected to be a pre-emptive measure aimed at preventing Web-based protests ahead of June’s elections, Iranian government has blocked the use of most Virtual Private Networks, a tool used by several Iranians use to get around an extensive government Internet filter. This has created an internet filter that prevents Iranians from accessing many sites on ...

The Creator of Plague Inc. game, James Vaughan, has been invited to speak to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Plague is a popular mobile game available on iOS and Android devices, and lets the play take control of a deadly pathogen and infect one person – patient zero – with the ...

Hacking of Yahoo webmail is not a new thing for most of us, but the attacks have become just more aggressive from the past few weeks. Just last week, several Yahoo mail accounts were broken into, at al global level, leading to disruption of users’ privacy. While the users were complaining that their webmail accounts ...

Video game ‘Tides of Numenera’, a Planescape: Torment kickstarter has smashed the funding records by raising $1.7 million in its first 24 hours. ‘Tides of Numenera’ is a spiritual successor to Torment, a role-playing game that came out for the PC in 1999. Planescape: Torment was a huge success and still love it, and this is quite ...

Pandora Media Inc. recently reported its fourth quarter and full year 2013 results, which are quite optimistic. For Q4 2013, the company has posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.04 on revenues of $125.1 million. For the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, Pandora guided revenue at $120 to $125 million ...

A recent survey carried out by NPD reveals that the gamers still prefer purchasing use games over full digital downloads. The retail research firm, via this survey, found that though core gamers have embraced digital distribution, second-hand game purchases still dominate the reign over downloading full game titles. According to the NDP survey, 78 percent ...

Just recently, Microsoft had a meeting with the investors about the next-gen Xbox 720 console, which led to leakage of few details. Despite tight security around the project, a handful of technical details came out. Apparently, there is no confirmation on an announcement date; E3 will be “Party Central” in the Xbox booth. Here are ...

Telerik recently announced the availability of Version 2.0 of its Test Studio for iOS. Test Studio is a free downloadable app which provides iOS developers with both test automation and user feedback within a single solution to ensure that all their iOS apps–web, native and hybrid–work as expected, prior to launch. With more than a ...