Category Archives: Gaming

How to play vintage MS-DOS games embedded into tweets!

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Stefano

What about a nice ol’ MS-DOS game? The awesome Archive.org vintage gaming library plus Twitter comes in quite handy! Embedding DOSBox-based, old school MS-DOS games has never been so easy: create a new tweet and copy the link to your … Continue reading →

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Pixels: an (awesome) upcoming movie about vintage gaming

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Stefano

You may already have seen this video, Pixels, released in 2010 by french director Patrick Jean: it’s awesome and has been an inspiration for most vintage game lovers around the world. New York is suddendly surrounded by the best 80s … Continue reading →

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April fools’ 2014: Google Maps + Augmented reality!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Stefano

April Fools’ Day this year is bringing several new ideas for pranksters! Google has created a video advertising an augmented reality Pokémon game loosely tied into Google Maps. In Google’s vision, players would hold their smartphones out in front of … Continue reading →

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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Roswell 66th anniversary (with a tiny HTML5 game)

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Stefano

Whatever happened in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, (an alien crash landing or any other controversial event) today, the latest Google Doodle celebrates the 60th anniversary with a very nice HTML5 game. Think of it as tiny adventure-game, just like … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Curiosity achievement, technology & some fun too!

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Stefano

A few things about great NASA Curiosity mission you may have missed! Apple was almost everywhere in this mission… just check out this photo of the EDL Ops Center (Entry-Descent-Land Operation) : Mac OS X looks like the weapon of … Continue reading →

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London 2012 Olympic Games: opening ceremony, media coverage and… plenty of smartphone and tablet apps!

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Stefano

London 2012! Opening ceremony will start today at 9PM (London time) at the Stratford Olympic stadium, well-known director Danny Boyle is in charge of directing the show. Friends at theiFile.com have just released a post including all official London 2012 … Continue reading →

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Lego Brain Bricks: Build, Connect, Play (with an iPad, some electronics and a lot of Legos!)

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Stefano

Needless to say, I love this stuff! It just sums up some of the things I love the most: Lego, iPad gaming, some cool programming and some pretty electronics! LEGO® BrainBricks from Wonder Years on Vimeo. BrainBricks is a concept … Continue reading →

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ING-DiBa Bank features an unusual Basket challenge: high yields in user engagement with the ‘Free Throw’ tournament

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Stefano

German bank ING-DiBa Bank sponsors the Basketball league in Germany and wanted to connect their offering to a younger audience at Basketball events across the country… So they aimed to leverage smart phones to create an interactive experience anyone could … Continue reading →

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Video Games Live: a concert event with orchestral music – video-game-based!

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Stefano

Video Games Live quickly became the biggest and most popular game concert in the world. The debut performance was launched on July 6th, 2005 at the world famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Over 11,000 people … Continue reading →

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Social media by the numbers: an illuminating infographic full of useful info

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Stefano

It’s quite reassuring: social media works – at least if you take a look at this well-thought-out infographic published by Mashable. We get numbers at large (I didn’t know myself there are 4 billion “things” shared each day on Facebook … Continue reading →

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