If you are internet technology enthusiast like me, you have probably heard the news about testing new HTML5 standards in browsers. The first two will be Google Chrome and Safari.

Google released a video of their engineers playing Quake II using Safari. They did it with Jake2, a Java 3D engine, Google Web Toolkit, WebGL, WebSockets, the Canvas API, HTML5 and a local storage API to compile it into Javascript. Read the rest of this entry…

Pepsi Invaders was an advergame developed for Atari 2600 platform. Game was commissioned by Coca-Cola and developed by Atari. It dates back to 1983.

Game is a modification of original Space Invaders, which you surely know of. Because original game had six aliens rows, and word Pepsi only 5 letters, they left one alien row. They also changed limited lives to unlimited, but shortened time form unlimited to a three-minute time limit.

You can check it in this video bellow, I found today on YouTube:

One more interesting thing. They gave 125 copies of this game to sales executives attending 1983 sales convention, so this game is really rare. This year (2010) one of collectors bought a copy on eBay for $2,125.

Here are some facts about US gaming industry:

• Computer and video games software sale grew 22.9 % in 2008 (valued $11.7 billion)
• 68 % of American households play
• Average age of gamer is 35 and he has been playing for 12 years
• Average age of game purchaser is 39 years
• 40 % of gamers are women
• 84 % of games sold in 2008 rated “E”, “T”, or “E10+”
• 92 % of underage players (bellow 18) report their parents were present at purchase or rental of games
• 63 % of parents  believe games are a positive part of their children’s lives

The above facts are summarised from ESA (entertainment software association). I included ones I find interesting.