![]() And in September, Ubisoft announced Just Dance Now, a mobilized version of its popular dancing game that uses phones instead of game controllers and supposedly supports “unlimited players.” Fibbage, a game available for PlayStations 3 and 4, the Xbox One and Amazon’s Fire TV, is a regular sight in my house, with up to eight people on whatever Internet-connected devices they prefer. The mobile-controller idea has been popping up more and more in recent months. The stick connects to the same Wi-Fi network as your various devices, so they can talk to each other with only a small delay. If it all works as advertised, this is thanks to the same technology that makes it possible for the Chromecast to play videos. In other words, rather than looking at a physical Scrabble board and consulting the tiles on the rack in front of them, players will look at the TV to get the “public” view of the board, and at the Scrabble Blitz app on their own devices to see what letters they have to choose from. FIBBAGE GAME ROKU UPDATEThe new Chromecast update skews toward the latter approach, telling players to bring their own phones and tablets to the game. The Apple TV officially supports no games at this time, although a handful of developers have tweaked their games to be broadcast to the TV from an iDevice over Apple’s AirPlay streaming technology. ![]() Google’s competitors on this point - mainly Roku and Amazon, which makes the Fire TV - use either their default remotes or add-on accessories to play games. But what’s interesting is how they’re controlled. Google said today that it is adding support for a bunch of games to its cheap media-streaming stick, the Chromecast. ![]()
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