Hey, remember Panasonic’s portable online gaming console, the Jungle? It’s inching closer to retail, after an email was sent out today to US customers who’d registered interest, offering them a test-run. “We’re doing something very different,” Panasonic wrote. [Bloomberg]
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The best way to do something unpleasant is to try to make it fun. So Nike – hoping to sell some shoes in the process – turned London into a giant online running game, sending competing players hurrying between urban checkpoints.
This is truly crazy data: 290 million people play FarmVille and other Facebook games – five of the top 10 are by Zynga – every month. Combined, that’s 4406 years worth of play time – or 105,878 man-years milking virtual cows.
Codenamed “Google Me”, Google’s rumoured Facebook-like site wasn’t exactly confirmed by their CEO Eric Schmidt, when talking to the WSJ, but he did have something to say about cloned sites and how no one needs ‘em.
