Facebook meets Shelfari…for gamers. Vigster.com, the self-proclaimed “Planet for Gamers,” is what you get when you mix social networking with video games. Although just in beta, Vigster promises to be the “IMDB of video games,” and looks to be on the right track.
Business, Start-Ups, Technology
I bet you didn’t know in 1998, the history of the United States changed forever. In that year, a small decision was made that affected the course of this country forever. It was something akin to the Boston Tea Party, but with fewer feathers, face paint, and wasted tea. The event: Google Inc. was officially born.
If you’ve ever tried to watch a baseball or football game with someone who has a fantasy team, you might understand the devotion of fantasy sports players. To enlighten the rest of the world, Challenge Games has decided to reinvent the wheel, and create a brand new type of fantasy baseball, infinitely more accessible to those of us who don’t have hours to spare at the office to watch the waiver wire.
I’m in love with Iminlikewithyou. Why hasn’t anyone told me about this site before? I hopped onto it, intending to do some research for my article, played a few random games, had the urge to register in order not to be listed as another “RandomGuest2690”, and realized I had been sucked into their machine of like.
In an attempt to rid the internet of abrasive typos, Melon Media has decided to launch a revolutionary online tool: spellr.us. We’re not convinced the internet will go gently into this good idea, though.
The folks at GameRail turned off the lights last month, ending an innovative experiment that promised to drop your ping and thus give you the extra milliseconds needed to blast the everliving snot out of those Counter-terrorist weasels.
Whatever happened to Internet relay chat? Well, if you use a modern instant messaging client like AIM, you probably already have an answer. But before all that, people who wanted to communicate online had one option: IRC.
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Montreal-based startup Akoha publicly announced today they have received $1.9 million in funding from angel investors. That big wad of generosity will help Akoha complete development on their online / offline community game.
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