If 
you want Apple’s Siri, but don’t have the money to buy an iPhone 4S, you’re pretty much out of luck as far as the original goes. There are alternatives, though, and Evi could be the best of the bunch.
Author Archives: Chris Morris
Analysis: Will Harrison hire boost Microsoft?
If Microsoft 
was looking to ratchet up the stakes in its ongoing battle with Sony, it sure managed to do so with Tuesday’s hiring of Phil Harrison.
In addition to filling the Redmond-based company’s quota of tall, bald game industry superstars, Harrison brings an insight into how things work at Sony that Microsoft has had to guess at for years. And, after being out of the spotlight for the past few years, he’s likely coming in hungry to make his mark.
Answers to 5 famous riddles
The 
original Words With Friends, riddles have pleased puzzlers for thousands of years. They’re often deceptively hard at first, then glaringly obvious once you figure out the answer.
Some are timeless, like the old standard “What’s black and white and red all over?” (Note to children of the digital era: It’s a newspaper. Ask your parents.) Some are confounding. But a handful have achieved a fair bit of fame.
Video games may help ease Parkinson’s symptoms
The 
health benefits of video games are adding up quickly.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco have launched an experimental program to determine whether video games could replace existing exercises for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Apptastic: AntiCrop
Ever 
wish you hadn’t zoomed in quite so close on something you were taking a picture of? Well this app lets you pull back and add extra scenery to the shot. The software fills in the background – and it does so pretty effectively, with some limitations.
Jade’s Empire: Ubisoft’s Raymond looks forward
Ubisoft 
Toronto managing director Jade Raymond has a lot to do in the next few months.
Her studio is about to formally unveil the latest installment of the Splinter Cell franchise. She’s hiring employees for the division at the blistering pace of about 12 per month. And, in just a few months, her second child is due. But the most interesting thing in her sights — career-wise, anyhow — is a bit more long term.
Research: Old video games were really hard
Think 
the original Super Mario Bros. was hard? You’re right!
Gamers, by nature, are a nostalgic bunch. We tend to fawn over the games that got us into this hobby, often forgetting the agony and frustration suffered at the hands of those very same classics.
Apptastic: Fandor
If 
you’re a fan of independent movies, you know it’s sometimes hard to find something worth watching. Fandor’s hoping to make that easier, offering over 1,000 indie and international films, with prices starting at $3 – or unlimited access for $10 per month.
Read more (and listen) at KYW NewsRadio
Cat takes on humans in video game, goes undefeated
It’s one 
thing to lose a game to a friend or online opponent, but can your ego handle being trounced by your cat?
Friskies, who already made waves by creating a series of single-player video games for your favorite feline, has unveiled the industry’s first multiplayer — and, as far as we can tell, multi-species — game. And early evidence shows that cats are better at it than us.
Zynga Expands Its Social Circle With Words With Friends
It’s 
kind of hard to believe now, but when it first came out, Words With Friends really wasn’t all that popular.
The videogame — which is, in many ways, a twist on digital Scrabble — did ok for its first year, but it was only after musician John Mayer called it “the new Twitter” in an Oct. 5, 2009 Tweet, that things began to explode — and the growth rate has been phenomenal ever since.
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