Tag Archives: google maps

Mon, Feb 18, 2013 | 11:45 GMT

Wii Street U gets the “Iwata Asks” treatment, reveals Google Maps’s insane attention to detail

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Wii Street U is the incoming Google Maps app for Nintendo’s console. It’s the subject of this week’s edition of “Iwata Asks”, a panel session featuring developers and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata himself. The session has revealed Google’s incredible level of detail. They’ve even mapped the sky this time.

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Thu, Jan 31, 2013 | 10:30 GMT

TVii: Google Maps and TiVo apps delayed in US

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Wii U’s television service TVii was supposed to launch with TiVo functionality when it went live across America in December. Both TiVo and Google Maps were supposed to have launched in January, but Nintendo has now confirmed that they have both slipped.

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Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | 20:36 BST

Monopoly City Streets has over 1.7 million visitors, has to be reset

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The browser-based version of Monopoly called City Streets launched last week, and has already had over 1.7 million visitors to it.

Proving to be so popular has a price though, because the development team is being forced to reset Monopoly City Streets in order to do some improvements on the back end.

It will go down this week and hopefully be back up soon. You can find out more over on the official site.

The game uses Google Maps as the basis for the streets.

Thanks, BigDownload.

Fri, May 02, 2008 | 07:35 BST

Liberty City Google-mapped

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IGN’s put up a Google Maps version of Liberty City, just in case you get lost. This does kind of ruin the game if you look hard enough, so you may not want to. Or you may. What do we know?