Google Chrome Adding Support For Game Controllers, Microphones And Cameras
Google figures your web browser should do it all, and that includes playing games. According to developer advocate Paul Kinlan, early next year Chrome is going to offer an even better gaming experience: by adding plug-and-play support gaming controllers.
Now, there’s already a good chance that your operating system might know what to do with a gamepad. “Might” isn’t good enough when you’re supporting 4-plus operating systems as Chrome is — and possibly adding a fifth by taking over browsing duties on Android as well. Chrome already offers plenty of gaming-related features, like WebGL and Native Client support for web-based gaming that could one day rival a traditional PC gaming experience.
Google’s pushed gaming in Chrome before, of course. When support for Chrome Web Apps arrived, Google promoted them by adding Entanglement and Poppit to users’ new tab pages. The company also made a ton of noise about the arrival of the web-based version of Angry Birds, which popped up back in May. Read More
Xiigxaag Launches Shapie, A New Game For The iPhone and iPad
Xiigxaag solutions, a provider of enterprise and consumer mobile solutions across all major mobile platforms have just released a game for the consumer market that runs on apple iPhone/iPod/iPad devices. Its a game called Shapie that challenges a user to a time bound shape matching contest. In this game, the user is presented with a series of dynamically generated shapes that need to be paired with an exact lookalike from among a set of choices.
Xiigxaag has intended to make Shapie a riveting game filled with suspense and urgency that appeals to all age groups and demographics. Shapie amalgamates brain tickling content with splendid graphics and music to present a series of time driven puzzles where the user has a very short time frame to make a decision. The game incorporates a wide array of dynamically generated shapes.
Very early on, in the conceptual stages of the project, Xiigxaag realised that they would have to arrive at a universal look and feel in order to appeal to a wide variety of users. So they spent a lot of iterations to fine tune the product. A result of this is the polished first version of Shapie. Read More
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