2004 December

While this Crystal ball of sorts may seem more akin to a mouse, you have to just love the poke this article makes at the game manufactures like Nintendo and Sony. Could this actually become the controller of the future? My magic eight ball seems to doubt it.

When I read that the folks at Boing, Boing Blog thought that a technical book was engrossing, I figured it had to be about some wild security exploits or something else equally exciting. As it turns out though, the books is all about game hacking. Speaking as a guy that enjoys a game or ten […]

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is actually sitting in my queue over at Gamefly as we speak. Speaking as a huge Star Wars fan, I am doubtful that anything else that game companies come out with are going to hold a candle to the amazing Star Wars: Battlefront.

If I am not mistaken, my nephew is a huge Sponge Bob fan. He would love nothing more than to spend hours and hours sitting in front of a TV playing this game till his eyes started to look like those of this toon character.

The BBC News is reporting that veteran game designer Peter Molyneux will receive the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to the computer games industry. The Lionhead Studios’ founder has been involved in the gaming industry for over 15-years and has been responsible for such titles as Populus, Theme Park, Black & […]

Saga of Ryzom developer Nevrax has announced that a 14-day trial is now available for their new MMORPG. There’s two ways you can join in on the party, either by the Express Access Free Trial or by the Deluxe Access Free Trial. The Express Access doesn’t require a credit card to subscribe and is only […]

Even if you are not a gamer yourself, one can hardly argue the fact that gaming tournaments are truly good for business. Well, from what I am reading at PRWeb, the cooperative effort between web2zone and Plantronics could really help to push gaming tournaments into a mainstream spotlight if done properly.

Now this is something that sounds exciting - asuming the games are better than what they have come out with for the Xbox anyway. According to PRWeb, Infinium Labs will be introducing their Phantom Game Service at CES, which just happens to be built onto Microsoft’s Windows XP Embedded technology.

Tired of the poor performance of your NES? Some games, particularly earlier releases, suffered from poor performance based on how many sprites were on the screen at a given moment. The fact was that in the early days of Nintendo gaming, the programmers hadn’t truly mastered how to make the most out of […]

I am one who yearns for the days of old, where the count of your bits did not matter. It was the fun you had that made a game a winner or a looser. Thanks for me there is a free Online magazine that offers me news about retro gaming. It is […]

According to EB Games, the Xbox version of DOOM 3 will feature some special content in the form of a collectors edition release. Similar to what Microsoft did with Halo 2, the Collector’s Edition will feature behind the scenes videos, Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom (both will feature split screen multiplayer action).