Archive for the ‘Specials’ Category

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Custom sneakers for gamers أحذية رياضية مشخصة لمحبي ألعاب الفيديو

According to Diana Adams, who posted a nice story about Daniel Reese, a 21-year-old sneaker designer, who takes regular Nike sneakers and turns them into expensive work of art. Daniel can turn a normal Nike sneaker to a Google, Twitter, Pac Man, Mario, Bioshock, Michael Jackson and many other custom themes. But for $200 -250 a pair, we won’t be rushing to order one, not now anyway, how about you dear reader? Would you part away with a small fortune just to have your favorite game theme walking along with you? Click here if you do!

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Jordan Mechner: from coding to script writing جوردان متيشنر: من البرمجة إلى كتابة الأفلام

Little did Jordan Mechner know that the second video game he developed on Apple II, will evolve to become a feature film 21 years after he first released it. Mechner watched his creation going from a sequel to a prequel, but he dreamed of watching his Persian Prince on the big silver screen. In 2003, Mechner traveled to Los Angeles to show Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer a trailer he had created using the Sands of Time game. Bruckheimer was so interested that he bought the film rights. The Independent had a chat with Mechner which they published here.

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+Arabic, News, Playstation 3, Specials

The art of God of War III ’معرض فنون لعبة ‘جود أوف وور 3

Ok, so The Art of God of War III Exhibit has toured many places, but us Middle-Easterners, never had a chance to (officially) play the banned game, or attend such exhibits. But worry not, we at GamesLatest feel your ME pain, and thus we have brought you 4 of the major artworks on display there. Enjoy!

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+Arabic, Playstation 3, Specials, XBox 360

Chat with Capcom’s COO, David Reeves, in Dubai لقاء سريع في دبي مع ديفيد ريفز مدير شركة كابكوم

Part of being a huge company’s COO is to visit different countries and look for developing regions with lucrative markets. Capcom’s COO, David Reeves, was visiting Dubai for the same purpose. Perhaps to enjoy the extra sunny weather as well. Luckily we managed to track him down at the end of his busy day and bombard him with questions.

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Hardcore gamers and their games collections مجموعات الألعاب الخاصة باللاعبين المحترفين

You keep reading lists of best artworks related to videogames and other stuff, and the top list of hardcore gamers’ rooms and gaming setups, so we thought how about we look for the best videogames collections by dedicated gamers, and to narrow our search, we picked Deviantart.com as our only resource, and we came up with a list of the best videogames collections photos posted there in the last month or so.

Pocky and Video games by ~Hyperpsychodork on deviantART

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Videogames vanguard in Middle East Part 2 –Lebanon and Jordan طليعة ألعاب الفيديو في الشرق الأوسط / الجزء الثاني – لبنان والأردن

In the first part of this series, we shed some lights on the dawn of this industry in Syria. now we will follow up the sparks as they spread all over the region. The next Middle Eastern country that was involved in developing video games was Lebanon.

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When we pirate, what happens next لماذا نقرصن الألعاب، وما الذي سيحدث نتيجة لذلك

Pirated games and chipped / modded consoles are something many gamers have heard about, but may not know the full story. So in this article I’ll try  to give you the low down on game piracy. It may have the word pirate, but you shouldn’t think of swash buckling sea raiders, rather illegal stolen copies of games sold on the black market with no parrots or eye patches in sight. Game piracy is when people distribute or get illegal copies of games or consoles without permission from the game developers or publishers. Simply put, it’s stealing games without going into the shop and actually taking them from the shelf.

So, why should you care about game piracy? You may not own a chipped console, or you may have never pirated games, but game piracy does effect you negatively!
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