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- Raptr’s iPhone App Tracks Your Xbox and PlayStation Friends
- Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Talked Ping Over Dinner
- HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job Search
- Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich
- iPhone Rock Band Performs Live on New York Subway [VIDEO]
- Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
- Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding
- 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers
- Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO]
- Weekend Gaming: “Medal of Honor,” “Enslaved” and the Return of a Legend [OPEN THREAD]
| Raptr’s iPhone App Tracks Your Xbox and PlayStation Friends Posted: 16 Oct 2010 06:01 PM PDT      Gaming-centric social network Raptr has launched an iPhone app that connects with Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, Steam and Raptr’s own gamer network to track the activity and achievements logged by you and your friends. The app is available in the app store [iTunes link] for free right now. While you can’t use the app to play games (it’s not that kind of app), you can use it to see what your friends have been up to across all the above-mentioned gaming networks. You can also send and receive messages through Xbox Live and Raptr’s network. Raptr — one of our top five social networks for gamers — serves up activity streams to let you know when your friends are playing certain games, or when they unlock Xbox Live achievements and other milestones. With the app, you can log in to see if your friend has beaten you to that Zombie Genocide achievement in Dead Rising 2. If so, you’d better rush home and catch up! This kind of social gaming integration is welcome on the iPhone, especially since Windows Phone 7 has built-in Xbox Live support. iPhone gamers can use Apple’s Game Center to track iOS titles, but there’s no native way to keep up with Xbox or PlayStation friends. There are other third-party apps for this, of course, but not many that support multiple networks. Reviews: Windows Phone 7 More About: 360, App, app store, apple app store, gaming, iOS, iphone, iPod Touch, online games, pc, playstation 3, playstation network, PS3, raptr, social gaming, social media, social network, social networking, steam, video games, Xbox 360, XBox live For more Mobile coverage:
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| Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Talked Ping Over Dinner Posted: 16 Oct 2010 05:18 PM PDT   Not thrilled that Apple’s Ping music service doesn’t integrate with Facebook? Well, Apple feels the same way — that’s allegedly why Steve Jobs invited Mark Zuckerberg over for dinner to talk. When Apple first launched the music discovery and social networking service inside iTunes, users could use Facebook Connect to access information stored in their Facebook accounts such as friends lists. It was important to the service’s success — after all, without that feature you’d have to search for each new friend by name rather than just importing your Facebook friends. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened. Facebook blocked Ping’s Connect integration because Apple hadn’t made a deal for the social network’s support. There’s no longer any mention of Facebook in Ping. The Los Angeles Times Tech Blog reports that the two uber-famous, influential and wealthy CEOs were spotted on a stroll in Palo Alto two weeks ago, and that Jobs had invited Zuckerberg to his home for dinner. Presumably, Jobs was trying to negotiate better terms for connecting Ping with Facebook. Apple had originally planned to tie Ping very closely with Facebook, but the deal fell through. Jobs said Facebook’s terms were “onerous.” Frankly, it’s hard to imagine that they could have been so onerous that it wouldn’t have been worth it in the end. When Ping first launched, we were a little bit skeptical, in part because it lives in a ghetto of its own. It doesn’t interact with other social networks at all, and that breaks one of the cardinal rules of social media if you ask us. Here’s to hoping that Jobs and Zuckerberg’s meeting was fruitful, and we’ll see some kind of Facebook integration in the future. Reviews: Facebook, Ping, iTunes More About: apple, ceo, facebook, itunes, mark zuckerberg, meeting, music, Ping, social media, social networking, steve jobs For more Social Media coverage:
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| HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job Search Posted: 16 Oct 2010 04:23 PM PDT   About 300 to 500 jobs are posted on Twitter per minute, according to Carmen Hudson, CEO and co-founder of Tweetajob. With that many shared opportunities, the task of filtering information becomes daunting — that’s why we have hashtags. They can help you focus on the tweets you want to see along with the ones you didn’t even know existed. Hudson, whose company sends job tweets that match a job seeker's location and career interests, says the numbers are true but come with a caveat. "Many of these jobs are duplicates, or from aggregators. It's likely the number of real opportunities could be much lower. There is quite a bit of 'job pollution' on Twitter, because the job boards and many employers don't target their job tweets." Nonetheless, the jobs are still there. The key is finding them. As a way to filter through the noise, Hudson recommends job seekers use hashtags to take full advantage of Twitter's search functionality. Here are six hashtag categories that might be useful in a job search, along with some examples of what you could look for. For those who are new to Twitter or just need a refresher, check out this overview of hashtags. General Job SearchHashtags such as #jobs, #jobadvice, #jobhunt and #jobsearch offer both job openings and general job search advice. If you're looking for high-level information about how to conduct a job search, this could be a great place to start.
Job PostingsYou can take your search one level further by using hashtags for specific jobs like #greenjobs, #jobposting, #telecom or #salesjobs just to name a few. For a list of additional hashtags, check out this Career Rocketeer post, entitled “Top 100+ Job Search Hashtags on Twitter.”
ChatsSince social media is all about conversation, why not engage in chats about job search? There are a few hashtags for chats, including #jobhuntchat, #careerchat, #internchat, and #hirefriday. Rich DeMatteo, recruiting consultant and author of the blog Corn on the Job, is the founder of the #jobhuntchat group. This "first of its kind" Twitter chat takes place every Monday night from 10-11 p.m. ET. The audience consists of recruiters, resume writers, HR pros, working professionals, job seekers, interns and college students talking about job search. DeMatteo shared that they've had up to 300 participants in a single session and the format is working.
Lindsay Goldner shared her experience:
ResumesOnce you find the job, then you have to send over the resume. Searching hashtags like #resume, #resumewriting and #CV can give you valuable tips to keep your resume current as well as view other job seekers’ digital resumes for inspiration.
Industry ConferencesHudson suggests following professional conference events via hashtags:
Even if you’re not attending industry conferences, keep up-to-date with them via the web and follow along on their hashtags before, during and after the conferences to tweet along with attendees and other interested professionals in your field. The conversations that you start via Twitter could translate into future opportunities or even long-lasting business or personal relationships. Career AdviceThe learning doesn't (or shouldn't) stop once we land a job. Managing our careers is a constant process. Hashtags such as #career, #careers and #employment can help us with the questions and challenges we deal with every day.
And while this piece is focused on hashtags, don't forget that there are several companies and recruiters with dedicated career accounts on Twitter. The list includes Google, MTV, Starbucks and more. You can check out the complete list at Listorious. There's no denying that the job search takes time. When using hashtags as part of your job search, there is a process to reviewing what exists, identifying the right ones for your own situation and sifting through the information. But it certainly beats doing it the hard way. What hashtags have you found valuable in your job search? Add your recommendations in the comments. Social Media and Web Job ListingsEvery week we put out a list of social media and web job opportunities. While we post a huge range of job listings, we’ve selected some of the latest ones from the past two weeks to get you started. Happy hunting!
Related Twitter Resources from Mashable
Image courtesy of Jerad Horning Reviews: CoTweet, Google, HootSuite, LinkedIn, TweetDeck, Twitter, twitterfeed More About: career, career counseling, career guidance, career hunting, careers, hashtag, hashtags, how to get a job, job hunt, job hunting, job listings, job search, job search series, job seekers, jobs, resume, resumes, twitter For more Social Media coverage:
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| Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich Posted: 16 Oct 2010 03:32 PM PDT   At YCombinator’s Startup School event at Stanford University, Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason revealed his six tips for creating a successful startup, or in his words, "polishing your turds and getting super rich." Groupon is among the hottest startups on the planet. In just two years, the company has made group-buying a worldwide phenomenon, grown to 1,600 employees and increased its valuation to over $1 billion. It almost feels like Groupon and its team were always destined for greatness. In reality though, Groupon’s road to prosperity was filled with a lot of struggles and big misses. Mason told the story of how Groupon grew out of a failed company that was trying to do too much all at once. In 2007, he started a company called ThePoint. It’s a platform that lets users create donation campaigns for causes. You pledge money and provide your credit card, but you don’t donate anything until you hit the “tipping point,” either a certain number of people joining the campaign or hitting a certain financial mark. Mason loved the vision behind ThePoint, which was to solve the problem of collective action. He thought that the platform could do everything from create charity campaigns to build giant anti-snow domes over Chicago (a real campaign on ThePoint). He wanted to give people the ability to make real change occur through collective action. To prove the potential power of ThePoint, Mason started a small WordPress blog called Groupon in Fall 2008, powered by a widget from ThePoint that provided the daily deals. By summer 2009, Groupon was clearly taking off and Mason’s team quickly shifted their resources and focus onto the daily deals platform. While ThePoint didn’t get a lot of momentum, Groupon shot into the stratosphere. Why, though? Mason has six reasons why he thinks Groupon succeeded and ThePoint did not. More importantly, these six points are his advice to aspiring entrepreneurs trying to build businesses.
Reviews: WordPress More About: Andrew Mason, business, entrepreneurship, groupon, startup, Startup School, startups, thepoint, ycombinator For more Business coverage:
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| iPhone Rock Band Performs Live on New York Subway [VIDEO] Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:39 PM PDT   Even though the members of New York City rock band Atomic Tom supposedly had their instruments stolen, they loved the music so much they couldn’t stop rocking out. They took four iPhones onto the subway and delivered a rousing performance of their song “Take Me Out.” The performance is quite heartfelt — we’d even go so far as to say it’s the best iPhone band performance we’ve yet seen. And there have been quite a few. There’s the Stanford iPhone orchestra, the Chinese girl who made viral videos under the name PixieTea, the Android/iPhone musical mashup, and “Applegirl,” who performed an (almost) pitch-perfect iPhone version of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” then landed a record deal. We actually made a top 10 list featuring the best cell phone musical performances about a year ago. Check it out if you’re in the mood for more mobile melodies after watching the subway video below, or go ahead and listen to Atomic Tom’s music on its MySpace page. [Via Wired] More About: apple, atomic tom, band, iphone, music, new york, performance, public transit, subway, video, viral videos, youtube For more Web Video coverage:
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| Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] Posted: 16 Oct 2010 01:26 PM PDT   Remember when everyone on Earth was glued to Twitter (and their TVs, of course) as 33 Chilean miners were hoisted from captivity after 69 days underground? If you thought that story would top this week’s Twitter trends chart, think again, pal. Turns out, nothing can top the trend power of Korean boy band Super Junior — specifically the singer Kim Hee-chul, whose name, you may have noticed, rarely left the top of the trending topics this week. With Bieber-esque panache, Hee-chul launched Super Junior to the top of this week’s chart, leaving the Chilean miners “down below” (too soon?) at number two. And there’s good news this week for tweeters who like their trends highbrow. News around the recently announced Nobel Prize winners continued to trend strongly for the second week in a row, moving the topic up from fourth to third. Curious about the rest of this week’s top Twitter topics? Scroll on down to the complete chart below, which is compiled by our friends over at What The Trend. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section as well as read more about this past week's trends on What The Trend. Top Twitter Trends This Week: 10/9 – 10/15
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ricardoinfante Reviews: Twitter, iStockphoto, news More About: entertainment, football, List, Lists, social media, sports, Super Junior, Top Twitter Topics, trends, twitter, twitter trends
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| Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding Posted: 16 Oct 2010 12:41 PM PDT   The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels” presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. Specifically, he said the funding world has been turned upside-down. So what’s causing this fundamental shift? The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said. He explained that startup funding used to consist of relatively small angel investments ($20,000 to $50,000) from individuals or multi-million dollar investments from venture capital firms. In the middle of that was a gaping hole. That’s no longer true, thanks to a new class of investors known as the super angels. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Ron Conway’s SV Angel and Dave McClure’s 500 Startups are just two of the many examples of the super angel phenomenon. The sudden rise of prominence of the super angels has shaken the very foundations of the venture capital industry, according to Graham. VCs — who could before invest in a startup and get 1/3 of the company in return — are now facing stiff competition from the super angel crowd. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs. The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker. Graham sometimes wonders if this is the beginning of another bubble, but believes instead that the lines between super angels and venture capitalists will blur — you will see more VCs participating in smaller rounds and more angels participating in larger rounds. “The next few years will be a great time to raise money,” Graham said. The competition between super angels and venture capitalists may be leading to a new golden age for entrepreneurship. How long that will last is another question entirely. More About: angel investors, funding, investing, investment, Jessica Livingston, New, Paul Graham, Seed funding, Stanford, Startup School, startups, super angels, vcs, venture capital, ycombinator For more Business coverage:
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| 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:20 AM PDT   The possibilities for social media tools in the classroom are vast. In the hands of the right teacher, they can be used to engage students in creative ways, encourage collaboration and inspire discussion among even soft-spoken students. But we’ve already made our case for why teachers should consider using social media in their classrooms. What about the how? Even when people say they want to incorporate social media, they don’t always know the best ways to do so. It’s especially daunting when those efforts can affect the education of your students. To help, we’ve collected seven of the the best classroom tools for incorporating social media into your lesson plans. 1. EDU 2.0EDU 2.0 is a lot like online course management systems Blackboard and Moodle, but with a couple of distinct advantages. First, teachers can share their lesson plans, quizzes, videos, experiments and other resources in a shared library that currently hosts more than 15,000 pieces of content. Second, a community section allows teachers and students to network and collaborate with other members who share the same educational interests. And third, everything is hosted in the cloud for free. The founder of software company The Mind Electric, who has roots in education, self-funded the development of EDU 2.0 in what the site describes as a “labor of love.” This means free access to some great tools: An online gradebook, customized quizzes, a debate tool, chat, classroom blogs, the ability to track proficiency and a customized portal page. You can also create a network by connecting classes by school and schools by districts. 2. SymbalooEDUThe popular visual organizing and sharing tool Symbaloo launched its “EDU” version last month. According to the company, 50,000 teachers are already using Symbaloo to organize classroom resources. The new EDU version comes with academic subject-specific resource pages or “webmixes” and top tools like TeacherTube, Slideshare, Google Docs, Flickr and more are fully embeddable. Teachers with a “Free Plus” account can add their school logo and customize the links. The site also allows students to easily share their Symbaloo pages and projects with classmates. “It not only becomes a way to organize yourself and find your websites, but a place to put your work,” explains Randy Hollinger, the middle school science teacher featured in the above video. “[SymbalooEDU] becomes sort of the e-portfolio.” The tool is free for up to 50 userkeys, which include a school branded website and customized domain. Mashable readers can sign-up for a free plus account and get 150 userkeys here. A premium package for unlimited users starts at $2.00 per user. 3. Collaborize ClassroomThere’s no replacement for hosting in-person discussions in classrooms, but there are some benefits to moving portions of the discussion online. As high school English teacher Catlin Tucker points out in the above video, “Class discussions seem to be dominated by about five to seven students. The same kids talk, the same kids don’t speak at all…” For some students, however, online discussions are less intimidating to participate in. This app gives teachers four discussion format choices. Students can either agree or disagree with a statement, answer a multiple choice question, post responses, or have the choice between adding a new response or voting for someone else’s response. Teachers can add photos or videos to their prompts and all of the discussions take place on one class page. Tucker says in the video that she uses the site for ice-breaking activities, creative writing prompts and peer editing. Other lesson plans are conveniently posted on a teacher resource page. Democrasoft, the company that developed Collaborative Classroom, clearly field tested the product with their other businessiness-targeted products. The site is simple and effective; it’s clear how to ask a question, invite class members and send messages. The service is free for one year if you sign up before October 31. 4. EdublogsThis WordPress-like blogging platform only supports educational content and thus, unlike WordPress, usually isn’t blocked by school filters. Since 2005, it has hosted more than a million blogs from students and teachers. Common uses for blogs in classrooms include group projects, reflection journals, school newspapers, class web pages and parent newsletters. But, as evidenced by the winners of the 2009 Edublog awards, there are plenty of other creative options for integrating the blogs into curriculum. The award winners are public blogs but there is also an option to keep blogs private. This is one of many safety features. Another is that unlike general platforms like Blogger or WordPress, there is no exposure to other blogs. One aspect that might raise red flags for teachers is that ads are allowed on the free version of the site. A $3.33 per month fee, however, removes all advertising from up to 50 student blogs. 5. Kidblog Teacher Matt Hardy developed the first version of Kidblog to use in his 3rd and 4th grade classrooms. He thought (correctly, it turned out) that his students would enjoy the collaborative nature of blogs, but general blogging platforms lacked safety considerations that would make them appropriate for school use. Kidblog doesn’t advertise to kids, doesn’t ask for their e-mail addresses, and gives the teacher full moderation power. Kidblog is a bit more specific than Edublogs. There are fewer options to adjust the appearance of the main page, and it’s hard to use the platform for anything other than as a system for managing individual class blogs. The homepage serves as a catalog of student blogs on the right with a recent post feed on the left. Having said that, if you want to introduce individual class blogs to your K-8 classroom, this is the perfect tool for it. The interface is easier to navigate than Edublogs, and you can generate user names and passwords for students, teachers, administrators, and guests with a couple of intuitive clicks. Teachers are able to edit and remove any of their students’ posts. Teachers can also control how private they want the blogs to be. They can keep them student-and-teacher only, allow parents to log in with a password, or make them open to the public. 6. EdmodoEdmodo looks and functions much like Facebook. But unlike Facebook, it’s a controlled environment that teachers can effectively leverage to encourage class engagement. The platform allows teachers and students to share ideas, files and assignments on a communal wall. Teachers can organize different groups of students and monitor them from the same dashboard. Once they’ve organized classes, they can post assignments to the wall and grade them online. They can then archive the class groups and begin new ones. There are several aspects that make the site safer than Facebook: There’s a group security code that users need in order to view class discussion pages, and although students and teachers can communicate privately, there’s no private communication function between students. Some other nice advantages of using this site are the ability to connect with other teachers, a group calendar where students can easily see when assignments are due, and a mobile version that allows teachers to moderate discussions from anywhere. 7. TeacherTube and SchoolTube and YouTubeAs the name implies, TeacherTube is YouTube for teachers. It’s a great resource for lesson ideas but videos can also be used during class to supplement a lecture. For instance, you can let Mrs. Burk rap about perimeters if you like her idea but lack the rhyming skills to pull it off yourself. This site also has a crowdsourced stock of documents, audio and photos that can be added to your lesson plans. Unfortunately, every video is preceded by an ad. SchoolTube is another YouTube alternative. Unlike other video sharing sites, it is not generally blocked by school filters because all of its content is moderated. The original, generic YouTube also has a bevy of teacher resources, though it’s often blocked in schools. Khan Academy consistently puts out high-quality lessons for every subject, but a general search on any topic usually yields a handful of lesson approaches. Some of the better ones are indexed on WatchKnow. What resources have you found, are there any social media tools should absolutely should not miss? Let us know in the comments below. More Learning Resources from Mashable:
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, skynesher Reviews: Facebook, Flickr, Google, Mashable, WordPress, YouTube, blogger, iStockphoto More About: Collaborize Classroom, edmodo, EDU 2.0, Edublog, Edublogs, Khan Academy, Kidsblog, SchoolTube, Symbaloo, SymbalooEDU, teachertube, trending, youtube For more Social Media coverage:
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| Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] Posted: 16 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT   Where can you find the founders of Groupon, Sun Microsystems, GitHub, Facebook, Quora and LinkedIn all in one place? The answer is Ycombinator’s Startup School, where the world’s leading entrepreneurs and investors come together to teach hundreds of students and entrepreneurs the tricks of the trade. I’m here live from the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University for the 3rd edition of Startup School. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Sequoia Capital’s Greg McAdoo Quora’s Adam D’Angelo and many more are slated to speak. While this auditorium can only hold a couple hundred people, you can still watch today’s talks thanks to Justin.tv. I’ll be writing about many of today’s talks and providing some analysis, so be sure to watch out for that. The live stream for Startup School is included below, along with today’s schedule. Update: The Internet’s having issues; hopefully the live stream will be up and running again soon. Live Video: Startup SchoolStartup School Schedule
Reviews: Facebook, Justin.tv, LinkedIn, imeem More About: facebook, groupon, mark zuckerberg, quora, Startup School, ycombinator For more Business coverage:
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| Weekend Gaming: “Medal of Honor,” “Enslaved” and the Return of a Legend [OPEN THREAD] Posted: 16 Oct 2010 08:31 AM PDT   The latest installment of Medal of Honor hit shelves this week. The game is a reboot of the long running series of shooters, and feels as though it was designed in an attempt to take on the Modern Warfare juggernaut. In an attempt to modernize the series, the new Medal of Honor follows a team of elite Tier 1 soldiers in the events after September 11. The game takes part in military operations in Afghanistan and is, to put it lightly, pretty violent. Medal of Honor doesn’t necessarily rival the ultra-cinematic singleplayer of Modern Warfare, but it isn’t a dud. From my experience, it was mostly well-done, with solid pacing and engaging gameplay. Its multiplayer, on the other hand, doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the Modern Warfare experience. This leaves some serious doubts regarding its ability to perform longterm Some Other GamesEnslaved: Odyssey to the West is the sort of action-adventure game that consoles were built on. There’s more here than the button mashing that you’d find in an old Castlevania, but it manages to harness that old school platformer feel to some new effects. Granted the main characters, Monkey and Trip, are so ridiculously named, that at times I wanted to let them get eaten by robots, but upon further thought, I decided that it was their parents who deserved to be eaten. Enslaved redeems its poor choice of names with some particularly dynamic gameplay. Sure it’s kind of messed up that Monkey has been enslaved by Trip, but he has a sort of preternatural knack for crushing robots, which makes him a solid vehicle for some Enslaved carnage. Trip, for her part, is pretty useless. We’re not talking Ico useless, but let’s just say that the game would be really short if Monkey weren’t around, because she’d be immediately eaten by the robots. Still, we get the impression that even if Trip set him free, Monkey would come back to help — he’s just that kind of guy
But this isn’t just a rehash of your mom’s old Castlevania platformer. Gabriel doesn’t just hop from platform to platform throwing wooden stakes and holy water at Frankenstein. He lashes out with a fiery whip (remarkably accurately, I might add) and enemies that dwarf him by daunting magnitudes. He then levels up about 40 times, becoming absurdly powerful and reiterating the old adage that “size isn’t everything.” In the end, Castlevania: Lords of Shadows has such expansive settings and enormous bosses that the game has the feel of something epic enough to be the latest installment in one of the longest running franchises in gaming history. Oh, and it’s narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart, so there’s that. Weekend GamingWe’ve looked at “Medal of Honor,” “Enslaved” and “Castlevania,” but we know that’s not all that you’re playing. So the question remains: What are you playing this weekend? Comments are open to: tips, critiques, (good-natured) smack talk and basically anything else related to gaming. The weekend gaming open thread is intended to bring Mashable gamers together through conversation about games. This thread is for those of us who had the first NES and for those whose first gaming experience happened on an Xbox 360, so let's try to keep it fun for everyone. Reviews: Mashable More About: castlevania, enslaved, medal of honor, microsoft, modern warfare, platformer, playstation 3, PS3, shooter, sony, Weekend Gaming, Xbox 360 For more Tech coverage:
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