Check out this real-life “Angry Birds” game, set up by local tech company HONBLUE (and sister company JET Graphics) yesterday at the Pacific Building Trade Expo. “Angry Birds” is one of the hottest, biggest video games out there, and it was inevitable that people would start to recreate it in three dimensions. There’s a huge [...]
Entries Tagged as 'games'
‘Angry Birds’ In Real Life
October 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Business, Hawaii, Technology
Tags: angrybirds·games
Avatar Reality Changes Course
January 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Business, Miscellaneous, Technology
Earlier this month, Jim Sink, CEO of Honolulu-based game firm Avatar Reality, announced that the company was shifting its strategy for Blue Mars, once touted as a next-generation virtual reality environment that would challenge Second Life. As a result, most of the employees were laid off, including Sink. Avatar Reality is scrapping its substantial investment [...]
Tags: avatar·bluemars·games·virtualreality·vr
Hawaii’s Five Game Developers
September 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Business, Hawaii, Technology
Last month, I blogged about an Entertainment Software Association report that said the Hawaii video game industry had added $23 million to the local economy. The report said that the revenue was generated by five “Interactive Entertainment Software Locations.” I asked if anyone knew who those five developers were. Local “renaissance chick” Traci Toguchi also [...]
Tags: economy·games·henkrogers·Technology
Hawaii Hosting Pokemon World Championships
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Hawaii, Pop Culture
I’m still recovering from Comic-Con (and I’ve already preregistered for 2011), but one of the millions of geeky sights burned in my brain from the massive expo floor is the persistent popularity of Pokémon. The video game, the cartoon, the trading cards… the whole Japanese brand turned global phenomenon. There were more than a few [...]
Miner Brigade Released for iPhone, Android
April 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gadgets, Hawaii, Technology
Honolulu-based Noble Master Games this week released the full version of its game, “Miner Brigade,” for the Apple iPhone and Android platforms. “Miner Brigade” is similar to the arcade classic “Lemmings.” The simple and fun game involves directing a group of miners to collect gold in a race against time in order to advance through [...]
Webkinz Gets Wise for the West
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Family, The Web
About a month ago, I blogged about how the Webkinz virtual world would shut down every night just when my kids (and presumably other kids in the Hawaii time zone) would be trying to get online. By scheduling their system updates at midnight on the East Coast, they were cutting off kids living several hours [...]
Webkinz Woes
August 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Family, The Web
Being a geek and a father, I’ve long tracked online destinations for kids. And while the offerings of Nick Jr. and PBS Kids are largely Flash-based brand reinforcement exercises, they are interactive (unlike the TV shows most of them are based on) and free (usually). And since I’m also a social network whore and fascinated [...]
