2006 January

E3 is no longer going to allow the scantily clad ‘booth babes’ the companies often hire to stand at their booths. Vendors found to be reaking the dress code will be given a verbal warning first. If the vendor doesn’t comply they can be fined a hefty $5,000.00 fine on the spot.
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Bethesda Softworks today announced it has secured the rights from CBS Consumer Products to publish a series of Star Trek games on all gaming consoles, handhelds and PCs. Bethesda has two titles slated for release this year to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the epic series – Star Trek: Legacy for Xbox 360 video [...]

Atari, Inc. and Marc Ecko, the visionary behind several of today’s most respected youth lifestyle brands, today announced that Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure has gone gold and is on schedule to ship to stores nationwide on February 14 in North America and on February 17 in Europe.

Hot off their Mac release, Caravel Games has released a new expansion for their hit series Deadly Rooms of Death (DROD). DROD: Perfection is an expansion for Journey to Rooted Hold, which recently won the 2005 Player’s Choice Award from Game Tunnel. Perfection is available only through the CaravelNet membership, an online [...]

Your name is Kilroy, and your job is to kill mutated, bullet-resistant canines. Just thought you should know that in case you plan on playing today’s featured game. The game is, Kilroy: Chernobyl Farms, a 3D shooter from the amazing folks at mockworld.com.
The object, in case you didn’t read the first sentence of this review, [...]

Merscom LLC today announced that “Bode Miller Alpine Skiing” for PC has gone gold. This skiing sports game featuring 32 slopes across 18 world-famous venues is the only game featuring and endorsed by Olympic medallist and defending FIS World Cup champion Bode Miller, who is also currently featured on the cover of Time, Newsweek and [...]

Alawar Entertainment, a leading publisher of downloadable games for the PC, today announced the online release of Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2. Snowy enjoyed his first globe-trotting arcade adventure so much, he’s setting out on another journey through exotic new lands! Excitement and riches untold lie ahead in Africa, the Mayan jungles and the Far East. [...]

Realscan 3D , an industry leader in mobile, high resolution, high color structured light 3D scanning, today announced the delivery of a scanned, animation-ready 3D model of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Midway Games for its new video game Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run. “The Rock” is featured in the role of the game’s lead [...]

Interactive games publisher Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. and award- winning U.K. games developer Rebellion today disclosed that Rebellion is developing the anti-terrorism game “PRISM”. The game is scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2006 for PC and is being developed in conjunction with Rival Interactive, which is the liaison between Playlogic and the [...]

CDV Software Entertainment has signed a co-publishing agreement with Enlight Software to release three PC strategy titles in North America this year.

OH WOW!! I feel old for knowing most of these games, but I can’t help enjoying myself. C64s.com have hundreds of the old Commodor64 games online in flash form. I’ve already spent a large amount of my lunch break playing these games and I just don’t want to stop. Go take a look for [...]

SEGA of America Inc. announced 2006’s most highly anticipated PC title, Medieval 2: Total War. The Total War franchise is unmatched in ambition and scope, receiving widespread critical acclaim and a multitude of awards across the globe whilst selling a staggering 3.5 million units to date. This, the 4th instalment of the franchise, takes the [...]

y announced the “Cult of Mithras,” a downloadable mini expansion for “Legion Arena;” it’s hugely popular Role Playing Strategy Game. “The Cult of Mithras” is due for release in February 2006 and requires a full working version of “Legion Arena” to play. This expansion will cost approximately $11.99.

Matrix Games is proud to announce that the sensational Napoleonic wargame, Crown of Glory by Western Civilization Software, has won War Game of the Year from the War-Historical newsgroup, one of the most popular destinations for wargame fans. In addition to taking top honors, Gary Grigsby’s World at War received the bronze third place [...]

Personally, I just don’t know. While I am not a fan of kids playing violent video games, I do have to ponder the possibility that kids who commit violent acts might simply have issues outside of the gaming world?

It has been my experience that sports video games are either really great or they suck beyond belief. For once, it looks like we can look forward to the first item versus the latter…

My first reaction is that this is the parents responsibility and not everyone else’s. Unfortunately, this does not seem to matter. Since this is a growing problem, it appears that the lawmakers will have to intervene so that kids are not playing games which are frankly too violent for them anyway.

Mini golf shouldn’t be something that you play all by your lonesome. It should be a shared, competitive, multiplayer gaming experience. And it should be in 3D. At least that’s what Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf is. It’s 3D multiplayer mini-golf. But there’s more to Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf than just being 3D and multiplayer. It’s also an [...]

Before you try today’s feature, Watch Me Change, we want to warn you that you may find it disturbing. Or you may find it funny. If you’re into fashion, you may enjoy it. Our reaction to Watch Me Change was to stare blankly at the screen and slowly say, “Oooookkkaaaaaayyyy.”
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It has recently come to light that the fast food chain, Subway, has been placing ads into Half Life’s Counter Strike with the use of a mod. This has been done without the okay of Valve and actually breaks the EULA the server hosts agree to.