Posted AT 1:32 PM EDT on 01/01/08
Gaming's Year of the Boom
If you were going to choose a year to camp out in a cabin and survey the video-game scene, it would be hard to beat 2007.
There was, across interactive entertainment, more of everything: great games, bad games, innovation, stagnation and sales. It was a year that saw games grow out of any narrow categorization, incorporating music, social play and online interaction to reach an increasingly diverse audience.
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Board
- Facebook Scrabble flashy, but not better
- Features are very similar to those of wildly popular but unauthorized competitor, Scrabulous
Health
- Beyond BlackBerry Thumb
- Neck pain, phantom vibrations and bulging bellies are afflicting hand-held device addicts. The omnipresent technology may be creating a host of problems
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NYT Circuits
- A little help
- Will Microsoft still put out security patches for Windows XP? And how can you import old email messages into Gmail?
Pics pick
- Polaroid printer is pocketable, practical
- The PoGo spits out 2-by-3-inch colour photos that can be peeled apart to reveal a sticky back
GPS
- Route to a steal
- The TomTom Go 920 is a decked out consumer GPS does everything except tell you where the potholes are
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Forbes.com
- Your future phone
- ‘The phone is becoming like a PC, a Swiss army knife that does many things very well,' says analyst
- Attack of the iPhone killers
- Of all the companies now up against Apple in the smart phone market, Research in Motion has the best shot at coming out on top
- Seven iPhone disappointments
- Apple's new device promises to be awesome, but imperfections still lurk
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Wireless drives
- Network storage comes home
- Drive makers pushing new generation of external storage disks that connect to a home network -- a great idea but some have difficulties
Pogue
- Scanning for groceries from home
- Each time you're about to throw away an empty container, you just pass its bar code under the $400 Ikan's scanner and with amazing speed and accuracy, the device beeps and adds the product to your shopping list.
Smartphones
- Too many barriers in mobile world
- You should be able to do what you want with your cellphone, so why can't you?
Controller Freak
- Revolution brings Civilization to consoles
- Sid Meier's beloved PC franchise has been masterfully transitioned to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
Gamer
- Scott Colbourne ‘E3 '08 = epic fail'
- Look for music titles, but not for originality coming out of annual games show
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Star Wars 3 1/2
- Game bridges gap between films
- ‘The Force Unleashed' fills space between
Revenge of the Sith and
New Hope
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Shooter
- Battlefield: Bad Company rocks steady
- More Three Kings than Saving Private Ryan, the latest Battlefield game takes EA's popular military shooter in a fun and offbeat direction
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In Pictures:
Battlefield: Bad Company screenshots
Movie to game
- Indy, Bourne go gaming
- While a playful Lego Jones is just like the hit movies, a plastic Jason Bourne is, unfortunately, like the movies
Quick Keys
- PC legend jumps to consoles
- Sid Meier's Civilization is a mainstay on the computer, but can it make the jump to the PS3, 360 and DS?
Interview
- Metal Gear creator cool under pressure
- Hideo Kojima's fourth instalment is expected to boost sales of Sony's PlayStation 3
Games
- Penny Arcade, Teenage Zombies bring the funny
- So few games have a sense of humour, it's refreshing when something makes you laugh out loud
