Which inevitably raises questions about how Apple's newest toy will function as a games machine – not answered by a mixed bag at its launch of console-style titles awkwardly downsized and iPhone games awkwardly upsized.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, hosted by TV talk-show veteran Regis Philbin, began as a series of limited runs, functioning as a game show miniseries of sorts.
Wilson states that the auction house won't change the way that Diablo functions as a game, but if it's an enormous financial success, surely there will be tacit pressure on designers to introduce a greater number of saleable items, or make the hasty acquisition of certain weapons and armour pieces more attractive?
The ambiguity the game throws at you also functions as a game mechanic the lack of information you get as you wander around facilitates the user's imagination and allows them to experience it differently next time they play it.
Made from a thick low-tack film that can be stuck onto and peeled off walls without damaging paint, the puzzles function as both a game for children and decorative accents for a room.
The government's Apps for Healthy Kids doesn't necessarily function well as a "game," but instead as a rhetorical exercise that makes the government look cool, technological and "plugged in" on an important social issue. .
You know how there's universal remote controls (like this one I used), smart devices that can control a TV, cable box, DVD player, etc.? It's the same principle here: a single device that's about to function as a video game controller for all sorts of consoles.
(Unlike StarCraft, CoD's competitive circuit functions as a team game, with four on a side, working in concert to shoot bad guys).
Contorting the battery more than 50,000 times in testing its durability, Samsung's focus on form as well as function could be a game changer when these enter the consumer market around 2017.
