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Pool Party (video Game)
''Pool Party'' is a Sports games, sports simulation video game for the Wii, published by SouthPeak Games and developed by HyperDevbox Japan. It includes 13 different styles of cue sports, including nine-ball and eight-ball pool, and snooker. Reception The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to the Review aggregator, review aggregation website Metacritic. N-Europe slammed the game as "badly done shovelware" which felt like a quick cash-in on the Wii's success and control scheme. GameSpot said, "twitchy controls and poor presentation eclipse what little fun there is to be had with this middling billiards game." References External links ''Pool Party'' official page 2007 video games Cue sports video games HyperDevbox Japan games Multiplayer and single-player video games Snooker video games SouthPeak Games Wii games Wii-only games {{Snooker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HyperDevbox Japan
HyperDevbox Japan (previously known as Hyper-Devbox) is a French-Japanese video game company created by Carlo Perconti, one of the founders of Toka (company), Toka and Arcade Zone. HyperDevbox Japan is developing original games, mostly for Android (operating system), Android, and also porting external titles from one platform to another. The Company is now based exclusively in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. HyperDevbox Japan is known for its breaking technology developed for the Android platform with games like ExZeus arcade and the upcoming "Spectral Souls - Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires" (from Idea factory) the first Tactical RPG to be announced for Android devices. Works * ''ExZeus'' - 2003-2009 * ''Pocket Pool'' - (PlayStation Portable), 2004 * ''Pool Party (video game), Pool Party'' - (Wii), 2007 * ''Real SnowGlobe'' - (iPhone OS app) * ''LoveCatch'' - (iPhone OS app) * ''ExZeus 2'' - iOS, Android (operating system), Android, Windows Phone, Microsoft Windows, 2012 * ''Indy 500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker Video Games
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with 22 balls, comprising a white , 15 red balls and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black—collectively called ''. Using a snooker cue, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the cue ball to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each committed by the opposing player or team. An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points, and a snooker ends when a player wins a predetermined number of frames. In 1875, army officer Neville Chamberlain, stationed in India, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids. The word ''snooker'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer And Single-player Video Games
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', ''Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. The history of multiplayer video games extends over several decades, tracing back to the emergence of electronic gaming in the mid-20th century. One of the earliest inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cue Sports Video Games
Cue or CUE may refer to: Event markers *Sensory cue, in perception (experimental psychology) ** Cueing (medicine), rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson's disease patients to improve walking *Cue (theatrical), the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time, in theatre or film *Cue (show control), the electronic rendering of the specific action(s) to be carried out at a specific time by a show control system * Voice cue, in dance, words or sounds that help match rhythmic patterns of steps with the music * Cue mark, in motion picture film to signal projectionists of reel changes *Cue, a vocal message given by a group fitness instructor to inform participants of upcoming sequences, such as a change in stretching direction Music and audio * Cue (band), a Swedish musical group *Cue tone, a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. *Cue (audio), to determine the desired initial playback point in a piece of recorded music *Cue sheet (computing), a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Video Games
2007 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as '' Madden NFL 08'', ''NBA Live 08'', '' NBA 2K8'', ''Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'', '' WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008'', ''Super Mario Galaxy'', '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', '' Halo 3'', '' God of War II'', ''Team Fortress 2'', '' Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', '' Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions'', '' Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', and '' Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga''. New intellectual properties included ''Assassin's Creed'', ''BioShock'', '' Crackdown'', ''Crysis'', ''Mass Effect'', '' Portal'', ''Rock Band'', '' Skate'', '' The Darkness'', '' The Witcher'', and ''Uncharted''. The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most influential in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time and remarked the birth of ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shovelware
Shovelware is a type of video game or software bundle known more for the quantity of what is included than for its quality or usefulness. The metaphor implies that the creators showed little care for the quality of the original software, as if the new compilation or version had been created by indiscriminately adding titles "by the shovel" in the same way someone would shovel bulk material into a pile. The term "shovelware" is coined by semantic analogy to phrases like shareware and freeware, which describe methods of software distribution. It first appeared in the early 1990s when large amounts of shareware demo programs were copied onto CD-ROMs and advertised in magazines or sold at computer flea markets. Shovelware CD-ROMs ''Computer Gaming World'' wrote in 1990 that for "those who do not wish to wait" for software that used the new CD-ROM format, The Software Toolworks and Access Software planned to release "game packs of several classic titles". By 1993 the magazine refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services, such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, or cars. This system then stores the reviews to be used for supporting a website where users can view the reviews, sells information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creates databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameSpot
''GameSpot'' is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. The site was launched on May 1, 1996, created by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein. In addition to the information produced by ''GameSpot'' staff, the site also allows users to write their own reviews, blogs, and post on the site's forums. It has been owned by Fandom, Inc. since October 2022. In 2004, ''GameSpot'' won "Best Gaming Website" as chosen by the viewers in Spike TV's second ''Video Game Award Show'', and has won Webby Awards several times. The domain ''GameSpot.com'' attracted at least 60 million visitors annually by October 2008 according to a Compete.com study. History In January 1996, Pete Deemer, Vince Broady, and Jon Epstein quit their positions at IDG and founded SpotMedia Communications. SpotMedia then launched ''GameSpot'' on May 1, 1996. Originally, ''GameSpot'' focused solely on personal computer games, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GamesMaster (magazine)
''GamesMaster'' was a monthly multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future plc in the United Kingdom. it was the biggest selling multi-format video games magazine in the United Kingdom, outselling its partner publication '' Edge''. Along with partner magazine ''GamesTM'', it ceased print in November 2018. It was originally launched to complement the television show '' GamesMaster''. History The magazine was launched in January 1993, to complement the television show of the same name. While the show later ceased broadcasting, the magazine continued, outlasting the show by 20 years. GamesMaster was edited for Future by Jim Douglas, who was poached from Emap, where he had been due to edit the official Nintendo magazine. The first issue of the magazine sold 219,492 copies according to Future Publishing. References External linksGolden Joystick Awards [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, bigs and smalls, big ones and little ones, or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of Pool (cue sports), pool played on a billiard table with six Pocket (billiards), pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a and fifteen ). The object balls include seven solid-colored balls numbered 1 through 7, seven striped balls numbered 9 through 15, and the black 8 ball. After the balls are scattered with a shot, a player is assigned either the group of solid or striped balls once they have legally pocketed a ball from that group. The object of the game is to legally pocket the 8-ball in a "called" pocket, which can only be done after all of the balls from a player's assigned group have been cleared from the table. The game is the most frequently played discipline of pool, and is often thought of as synonymous with "pool". The game has numerous variations, mostly regional. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
