Posts tagged playbook

BlackBerry making games catalog fruitful with Jetpack Joyride, Sonic, and more

by Jessica Conditt (May 2nd 2012 4:00AM)

BlackBerry is leaping into the gaming ring with the announcement of major additions to its games catalog. Along with yesterday's launch of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on PlayBook, RIM is adding Jetpack Joyride (and four more titles from Halfbrick), Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, Smash ...

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook

by Jessica Conditt (May 1st 2012 7:30AM)

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has been generally recognized as a great downloadable game that should be played by as many people as possible, which is why we're confused about its launch on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Get it? Because no one owns a PlayBook. That's not true, we realize, but all ...

Dead Space lands on BlackBerry PlayBook and Android ... well, Xperia Play

by Christopher Grant (Aug 19th 2011 2:30PM)

In this chart of non-iPad tablets compared to "obscure" video game consoles, the BlackBerry PlayBook is somewhere between the Philips CDi and the Atari Jaguar. That is to say, the PlayBook hasn't set the world, or really much of anything, on fire. Google's Android OS, on the other hand, is ...