History:

The history of Angry Birds started with a simple drawing of upset looking birds in a sling shot that did not have any legs. From the characters, the game was developed in 2009. It was originally released to the iPhone and iPod Touch, but has gradually spread to other Smartphone apps since its first release.

Online Game Play:

The online version of Angry Birds and the various special releases of the game are a type of flash game format. Like the mobile version of the game, players pull the slingshot loaded with a bird back and release the bird to attack the pigs hidden in their fortress.

The online game uses the computer mouse to grab the slingshot and release the bird. The mouse drags a hand over to the sling shot and a left click will grab the slingshot. Players then hold the left click and move the mouse to position and aim the shot. Releasing the left click will send the bird flying into the pigs.

Different Versions:

Like the mobile apps, the online flash versions of Angry Birds have numerous play options available. Newer versions of the game, such as Angry Birds Rio or Angry Birds Magic are available online as a flash game.

The different versions of the game follow a similar format as the original game, but have different themes in the background. For example, the season’s version has Halloween themed levels, Christmas themed levels and other holiday themes. The birds, pigs and background follow the spirit of the holiday the levels are designed after.

The Angry Birds Rio game online is similar to the mobile version of the game. The birds interact with the characters from Rio and it takes place in the various locations throughout the movie.

Conclusion:

The online flash version of the Angry Birds games offers hours of entertainment. The puzzle game is simple enough for almost any age while getting increasingly more difficult to solve. The cute characters along with the fun story make this game fun for all ages. The numerous awards and the high public interest in the game proves that the game that came out in 2009 continues to top the charts for the best puzzle game available for apps and online.

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The author writes about the Angry birds evolution and timeline and he invites you to come and play free online games available for your entertainment.

The Real Story Behind the Video

Actually, I had to model Toad in my 3D Modeling Concepts class. And I used that model for the animation. Why did I choose Toad? Because I figured he would be very easy to model. And he was… Of course I had to also model a question block, tennis racket and a mushroom to make up for his lack of ears, nose, and legs. [If you didn't know, I started college a year ago; which is why you don't see many updates from me lately.] Then after that class, I had to take 3D Animation Concepts. To pass that class, we had to make a short 2-4 minute animation with the character we modeled earlier. The animation had to have a story, so I figured since I had Toad and a question block, I’d have him go through a hard time trying to get the contents of it. I hope you enjoy it!

This video was created with Blender.

The Super Mario Bros. 3 Sky World remix was composed by Sephirot24 of NewGrounds and can be found here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/171240

Some of the best memories of many children during their years growing up were spent with their friends and for a lot of people in the late nineties that meant playing video games into the waking hours of the night with their best buddies. Whenever you talk about all the video games that everyone loved to play together, Goldeneye always gets brought up. In fact it is all over best all time video game lists from major companies.

The video game features an amazing first person mode, and even more amazing multiplayer capabilities – and it was fun playing it on a little box of a TV let alone a high tech Vizio. It was way ahead of its time and you could select from multiple different levels and multiple characters. It had a very cool selection of weapons and you always knew it was going to be a fun game and that it was going down when “proximity mines” were selected in the “Complex” – everyone had their own favorite tool, level, and character of choice – it’s what made the game so fun.

The ongoing joke about the game is that no one could be “Odd Job” as when you were that person you had the distinct version of being half of everyone else’s size – making you a very hard target.

Although it was originally a game for Nintendo 64 – a game that sold more than 8 million copies – it was so good that another version of the game was released in 2010 for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS. This video is a trailer for that game – and it in a panel of game players were asked what makes the game a classic and so likeable to which they replied:

“It was the first game where I could sit down and play the multiplayer part for 4 hours straight.”

and…

“You can ask me at any time to play a game of Goldeneye and I would be down.”

The panel also unanimously agreed that it was the best shooter game in video game history – which many Americans would also say. If you haven’t played Goldeneye (well then you must be either very young or very old or just absolutely hate video games) then I suggest you get on eBay or Craigslist and find a cheap N64 and do so quickly – you won’t regret it!

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This article was written by Philip Rudy. Philip helps to run and maintain www.youreviewelectronics.com which is a web site that gives Vizio reviews.

Pokémon cards of the three starters from the Black and White deck.

POKEMON TCG NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) Championship Series runs for almost a full year – it begins in September and culminates with the World Championship event in August. The first tier of the competition is known as Battle Road. That’s followed by events for city and state championships and then a national event. After that comes the World Championships, where winners from Asia and Europe also compete. There are three divisions in this tournament, organized by age: junior, senior and masters.

POKEMON VIDEO GAME CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2011 Pokémon Video Game Championship (VGC) is already underway. The first of the six regional events took place on May 14 and the Last Chance Qualifier is on July 8 in Indiana. Players competing in the VGC craft their own six-Pokémon team and battle with their Nintendo DS over infrared connections. Prizes aren’t announced yet for the World Championship event, but some national-level prizes include a medal, a Nintendo 3DS, and airfare plus accommodations for the World Championship, which takes place mid-August in San Diego.

ORGANIZED PLAY

There are many fans of the Pokémon trading card game that hold local tournaments for players who don’t necessarily want to join an official competition. These events tend to be more casual and are aimed at all levels of players. They usually take place at a community center, comic book shop, library, or other public places. Leaders of these leagues can register through the Pokémon website and receive licensed advertising materials, foil cards to use as prizes, and official scorecards. These leagues meet once a week and the cycles last one year, with eight seasons. People interested in this type of Pokémon play can visit the official website’s event locator to find a league near them.

GREY LEAGUE

The Grey League is fan-created Pokémon competition from the makers of Pokémon Podcast. The goal of this online-only competition is to recreate the gym battles from the video games. Eight gym leaders were selected for interested players to face off against for the chance to win. Upon beating each gym leader, challengers win a badge. If all eight gyms are defeated, the challenger is sent a prize pack. All of the battles are conducted using a Nintendo DS, the Pokémon Black and White game, and a wireless internet connection. Click here for more information on The Grey League!

For those of you who are still curious about how a few things work, visit the official Pokémon site or search YouTube for TCG or VGC. There are plenty of videos online of exciting battles in championships!

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MaDonna Flowers writes for T-Shirts.com while she’s not busy training her MewTwo. Check out their video game t-shirts .

5. Mario Auditore (Assassins Creed 2/Brotherhood)

“Don’t you recognize me? It’s a-me, Mario”.  I don’t think the leader of the Assassin Order should say things that him or her into a joke on the internet. At the beginning of Assassins Creed Brotherhood Mario promises Ezio that he would protect the apple at any cost. When the Borgia attack the cannons which Mario installed fail to protect the friendly forces, Mario loses the apple and gets shot in the head.

4. G-Unit (50 Cent Blood on the Sand)

You think that having your own personal army to help you fight will give you a great advantage. Unfortunately you are wrong. Three members of the G-Unit have some fighting skills, the others have the skills to open doors for you. They’re polite, but it’s not very helpful when you’re trying to fend off hordes of arabs to get a “diamond-and-pearl encrusted human skull”….. What? I don’t know either.

3. Ice Climbers (Ice Climber)

Their point? They don’t have one. They climb glaciers and mountains. What do they do this for? To get vegetables that were taken by a giant condor.

2. Adoring Fan (Oblivion Elder Scrolls)

I had done it, I had become the grand champion in the arena. I was hoping for some major street cred, I was walking around when I heard ”By Azura! By Azura! By Azura! It’s the Grand Champion, I can’t believe it’s you! Standing here, next to me.” This began a heated rivalry which would rock the world of Oblivion. I figured I could use some help when I was in fights, right when a brown bear decides to attack he runs away. Damn you Adoring Fan, damn you.

1. Navi (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

Everyone else gets a normal companion fairy, and I get the worst one. Navi is supposed to help me beat Gannon, but mostly all she does is say “HEY, LISTEN” and provides me with mostly useless information which distracts me from oncoming monsters which kill me. Navi, congratulations on this achievement.

Anyway, if you still want to try it but want to wait for that $59 price tag to come down a bit, here are ten other things you can buy with your DNF money.

1. 12 Megapixel Digital Camera with HD Video Recording

Yes, for as much as it costs for that one game, you can take millions of photos of trees and cats in brilliant 12 megapixel resolution, with the added bonus of recording HD videos as well.

2. Two Summer Dresses

No doubt, there are plenty of single summer dresses you could buy for $59, but you are obviously a girl (or guy, if that’s your thing) who likes deals. Two $29 dresses will fit you just fine and have you ready to start summer in style.

3. Roald Dahl 16-Book Box Set

Nothing says summer like a good book, and with this 16-book box set, you will undoubtedly find better humor than Duke Nukem could ever conjure from his pixelated mouth. You have probably already read or seen the movies of classics like Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This set has them all.

4. An Economy Box of 192 Diapers

Who needs a summer dress or books to read when you were a kid when you have kids of your own? Diapers are expensive, and although Duke Nukem has a potty mouth, he will not help you potty train your tykes. With one DNF credit, you can get a box of 192 diapers.

5. A Full Tank of Gas (maybe)

This one is subject to change and depends on how much of a gas hog your car is, but you might be able to get a full tank with $59 and actually go somewhere this summer instead of sitting at home playing video games.

6. Standard VPS Hosting from virtual dedicated hosting provider 34SP.com

Now is the time to launch your own family of websites, all dedicated to bashing Duke Nukem Forever and praising the Duke games that came before it.

7. A 10-Piece Stainless Steel Knife Set

Unleash the culinary genius inside yourself with a new knife set. Imagine having good food that you cut yourself instead of a $60 game you wish you could cut to pieces.

8. Dinner for Two (with dessert) at Sylvia’s Queen of Soul Food Restaurant in Harlem

Planning on going to Harlem or live there already? With $59 you can get more than your fair share of appetizers, meals, and desserts at this lovely soul food restaurant. Yes, I was hungry when I wrote this.

9. One Air Jordan Shoe

Sorry, if you really want to be like Mike, you will need more than $59, but at least half of you can be like him, assuming you can find some sucker on eBay to sell you one shoe. Hey, stranger things have happened. What are you waiting for? Get hopping!

10. 59 Mp3 Songs

Is this even a choice: Duke Nukem Forever or enough Prince songs to last you until the next Duke release? You make the call.

OK, so some of you will probably still want Duke Nukem Forever no matter what alternatives I offer you. After all, you likely waited half of your life to play it. Go ahead, but just remember this article when you are at the world’s largest cheese factory wishing you had a 12 megapixel camera.

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Tavis J. Hampton is the executive editor of All Blogs Considered, serious news for serious idiots. He has been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever for all of his adult life.

Lara Croft, popular video game heroine

The problem with online gaming and females is that most male gamers are ready to label female gamers with a certain stereotype before even playing a round or doing a few quests. Male perceptions of females in games have been honed over the last few years, so much so that most males are either openly hostile towards female gamers, or they are outstandingly creepy. Male stereotypes applied to female gamers are as follows:

The Attention Whore

This stereotype is most commonly associated with MMORPG games, such as World of Warcraft. Males feel like females create drama within these games and so men who play these games nearly semi-professionally tend to avoid games. In fact, some of the top guilds in the world bar female players because of the illusion of being drama queens.

This stereotype can be extended somewhat to the world of first person shooters, where females are consider ‘mic spammers’ and drama queens. Females that incessantly whine about being shot in these games are the main type of ‘attention whore’.

The Girl Gamer

Legitimate female gamers find this to be the hardest stereotype to overcome, because it is a persona adopted by females who would not normally be interested in gaming, but enjoy the attention lavished on them by male gamers. Most girl gamers are rabid first person shooter players, with Halo often being their poison of choice. Girl gamers rarely play any other genre of game and so they are easily identified by their foul language and ‘hanging with the boys’ flirting attitude.

Class & Gender Stereotypes

Stereotypes are not the only challenges faced by female gamers in online gaming. Even female gamers who have earned the respect of their male counterparts are often relegated to tasks that are considered feminine. If a healer is needed for the group, often males believe the female should take up this mantle. If there is a character that has been labeled as “easy to play”, most males leave said character to the females and by the same token, if a cast of characters features a female, then the female is expected to play that character.

This class and gender stereotyping can be infuriating for female gamers, as not every female wants to play the healer, nor do they want to be the female character in games simply because they are a female in life.

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Miles Walker usually writes about the best place to get an auto insurance comparison over at CarInsuranceComparison.Org. He recently looked at cheap car insurance.

EA Sports is also has decided to follow in their footsteps making players buy an “EA Sports Pass” to use the online features of the very popular sports games they make.

But the question I’m asking is, what do you think?

Many people are against this idea for the reason that they think multiplayer should be free, because it always has been, but if it is a one time payment to get access to all the online features and maybe more (in the case of COD:Elite) and will help the company recoup any losses during the general release and help to fund future DLC’s, though I doubt Modern Warfare 3 will have to worry about any losses.

Feel free to leave your opinion in the comments below!

The change has happened slowly, with consoles gradually gaining shelf space as time goes by. Of course consoles have been around for a long time and there have been some big names in their time too, like Zelda and Grand Theft Auto, but the sheer processing power of the PC always offered so much more in terms of in depth, challenging gameplay and it really set the games apart.

Does your console look this cool?

PC gaming may have been responsible for one or two no win, no fee claims when certain graphic sequences triggered epilepsy attacks in the unlucky few and they have been accused of contributing to the obesity problem but it has definitely contributed positively to society as well. After all, PC games have created a generation of technologically savvy people who have had to learn how to fix install problems, get to the bottom of bugs and understand their hardware and why it might be breaking a game. There are so many reasons why PC games don’t run and whilst it may be annoying at the time, it is an excellent learning experience, making you delve into areas of your PC that you never even knew about.

It is for these reasons that I hope that console games like the Wii and Playstation do not take over altogether (as well as the lack of depth of gameplay and shallow multiplayer experience). The Wii may make you move around a lot more than playing on your PC and it certainly has its place in lounges of those who don’t like to consider themselves gamers but it would be a great shame if it, and consoles like it, were to sound the death knell for any future PC classics.

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This guest post was written by Alex, a PC gaming enthusiast (can you tell?) who also writes about sports injury compensation.

Nintendo DS system aimed towards female gamers

The videogames market however would have you believe that as a “girl gamer” I like nothing more than cooing at my pet puppy (Nintendogs), cooking up a continental delight in the woman’s domain of the kitchen (Cooking Mama), or simulating the innocent, non violent events of “real life”  (The Sims series). Women are preciously frail and need protecting from the harsh, male interest serving realm that is video gaming!

OK, this is a slight exaggeration. The industry is aware that there are quite a significant number of females out there who can hold their own in the more audacious virtual realities offered by gaming. But to ensure that as much money as possible is being sucked from the pockets of the female population (and therefore, the pockets of those who do adhere more closely to female stereotypes), this demographic is addressed with games positioned in the “casual gamers” market and the consoles themselves go under a development phenomenon known as “pinking and shrinking.”

The 1955 Dodge La Femme

The earliest example of this manufacturing technique was back in the 1950s. Car manufacturers noted that an increasing number of women were taking an interest in cars and in 1955, Dodge revealed La Femme, a car specifically geared towards the female market. The vehicle was not only light pink in colour (as was the interior fabrics complete with rosebud pattern) but several of the internal features were downsized. The car even came with a matching pink calfskin purse – how could any girl resist!? *Note the sarcasm!*

60 years later and this marketing to females technique continues across an array of industries including mobile phones, MP3 players (including iPods) VHS/DVD players, laptops (smaller netbooks are available in pink far more often than their larger counterparts), televisions, digital cameras and more and the tendency has been no less rife in the gaming console market.

Was the original PS1 console available in pink? How about its successor the Playstation 2? What about the Game Boy? The Nintendo DS? The PSP? You may initially want to respond with a “yes” but these consoles were not actually available in their rose forms until they had been shrunken in size. The Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles make one of the few exceptions to the pink and shrink ethic; the latter was made around a 5^th smaller in 2010 but was never made available in pink. A number of official (and unofficial) pink Xbox controllers are available to buy but a pink console is only possible through the use of adhesive stickers known as “skins.”

This seems likely result of the strong ideology that even though around 40% the world’s gamers are actually female, the fairer sex prefers novelty Nintendo consoles such as the Wii and DS. The most recent Sony console – the Playstation 3 – seems to be following suit of presenting itself as a “serious gamers” console and has yet to succumb to pink manufacturing even after the release of their slimmer version in ‘09.

Unfortunately for the female gamers who do not wish to be misrepresented by the industry, pink amalgamations do result in boosted sales and whilst a considerable number of ladies are convinced to part with their cash in the wake of pink and shrink bait, it is a method which will continue to be employed by the games industry. I for one however will not adhere to this (frankly sexist) pigeon-hole. I am quite happy to continue to defeat male opponents on the COD: MW2 multiplayer mode, hit the back of the net on Fifa 11 and I have already pre-ordered my copy of the long awaited Duke Nukem Forever from GameStop.

This doesn’t make the state of female gaming dogma any less sorry though.

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The author of this article – Kat Cole – is female gamer who until recently, only indulged in retro console gaming. Three years ago, she nearly bought herself a Nintendo Wii but is glad that she made the decision to buy an Xbox 360 instead!