Amr's Video Game Links Blog

This blog has moved to http://www.awadallah.com/blog/category/games/

2006-08-09T18:13:00.000-07:00

I am no longer updating this blog, I folded it into my main blog under the games category. You can access it at:

http://www.awadallah.com/blog/category/games/

-- amr

'World of Warcraft' battles server problems | CNET News.com

2006-05-08T21:02:00.000-07:00

'World of Warcraft' battles server problems | CNET News.com

Online spaces: The new frontier | CNET News.com

2006-05-08T20:41:00.000-07:00

[print version] Online spaces: The new frontier | CNET News.com

Real Life Super Mario Bros. Re-enactment

2006-05-01T19:20:00.000-07:00

GorillaMask.net: Real Life Super Mario Bros. Re-enactment

Professional Video Gaming Set for TV Debut on Yahoo! News

2006-04-18T21:52:00.000-07:00

Print Story: Professional Video Gaming Set for TV Debut on Yahoo! News

[Collaborative gaming takes to the streets | CNET News.com

2006-04-18T21:18:00.000-07:00

[print version] Collaborative gaming takes to the streets | CNET News.com

A virtual world with peer-to-peer style | CNET News.com

2006-04-18T21:16:00.000-07:00

[print version] A virtual world with peer-to-peer style | CNET News.com

Phony kids, virtual sex | CNET News.com

2006-04-18T21:13:00.000-07:00

[print version] Phony kids, virtual sex | CNET News.com

Dell's gaming power now in red or black | CNET News.com

2006-04-18T20:20:00.000-07:00

[print version] Dell's gaming power now in red or black | CNET News.com

The Escapist - Wal-Mart Rules: Giant Compay Controls Which Games You See

2006-04-11T16:05:00.000-07:00

The Escapist - Wal-Mart Rules

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day on Nintendo DS

2006-04-10T21:29:00.000-07:00

Nintendo.com Games : Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day

Video games get very, very naughty - Apr 7, 2006

2006-04-10T20:02:00.000-07:00

CNN.com - Video games get very, very naughty - Apr 7, 2006

Microsoft buys fabled U.K. game studio | CNET News.com

2006-04-07T19:41:00.000-07:00

Microsoft buys fabled U.K. game studio | CNET News.com

Senate panel OKs video game study | CNET News.com

2006-04-07T19:38:00.000-07:00

Senate panel OKs video game study | CNET News.com

Microsoft to 'host' Linux virtually | CNET News.com

2006-04-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

Microsoft to 'host' Linux virtually | CNET News.com

Power-up prank lands gamers in trouble - NES News at GameSpot

2006-04-03T17:39:00.000-07:00

Power-up prank lands gamers in trouble - NES News at GameSpot

Wired 14.04: You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!

2006-03-23T18:31:00.001-08:00

Wired 14.04: You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!

What's wrong with serious games? | CNET News.com

2006-03-23T18:31:00.000-08:00

What's wrong with serious games? | CNET News.com

Blu-ray delay stalls PlayStation 3 debut until November

2006-03-15T11:00:00.000-08:00

Blu-ray delay stalls PlayStation 3 debut until November

Best home made lighsaber dual ever!

2006-03-15T10:40:00.000-08:00

Best home made lighsaber dual ever!

MMORPGs in the Offline World

2006-03-14T02:32:00.000-08:00

Spore: An amazing sim.

2006-03-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

You must take a look at this, its a new computer game called Spore, allows you to evolve a new creature starting from a single cell to super-large creatures, the limit is your imagination.

Terrorist Guild Holds WoW Server Hostage - Kotaku

2006-02-23T19:22:00.000-08:00

Terrorist Guild Holds WoW Server Hostage - Kotaku

Power lunching with wizards and warriors | CNET News.com

2006-02-17T00:43:00.000-08:00

[print version] Power lunching with wizards and warriors | CNET News.com

A nice video clip for Half-Life2 Gary's Mod (very clever)

2006-02-16T13:07:00.000-08:00

The Movies - The French Democracy Machinima

2006-02-15T03:28:00.000-08:00

The Movies - A Lionhead Production

The Long Tail: Machinima 202: Losing the targeting reticle

2006-02-15T03:21:00.000-08:00

The Long Tail: Machinima 202: Losing the targeting reticle

It's a nice day for an 'EverQuest' wedding | CNET News.com

2006-02-14T15:09:00.000-08:00

It's a nice day for an 'EverQuest' wedding | CNET News.com

[print version] Are virtual assets taxable? | CNET News.com

2006-02-07T04:25:00.000-08:00

[print version] Are virtual assets taxable? | CNET News.com

[print version] Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play | CNET News.com

2006-02-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

[print version] Tomorrow's games, designed by players as they play | CNET News.com

Amr Awadallah Blog » Xbox 360 Review

2006-01-02T16:31:00.000-08:00

Amr Awadallah Blog»Blog Archive » Xbox 360 Review

Joystiq: WoW, PSP, Xbox 360 top Google's top search list

2006-01-02T01:05:00.000-08:00

Joystiq:

WoW, PSP, Xbox 360 top Google's top search list

VMWare Security Flaw 'Very Serious'

2005-12-25T01:54:00.000-08:00

IT Observer | VMWare: Virtual Machine Security Flaw 'Very Serious'

Is Commodore poised for a comeback? | CNET News.com

2005-12-19T02:44:00.000-08:00

[print version] Is Commodore poised for a comeback? | CNET News.com

VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla | InfoWorld | News | 2005-12-12 | By China Martens, IDG News Service

2005-12-13T14:54:00.000-08:00

VMware releases Player, teams up with Mozilla | InfoWorld | News | 2005-12-12 | By China Martens, IDG News Service

[print version] 'Dungeons & Dragons' goes virtual | CNET News.com

2005-11-14T11:42:00.000-08:00

[print version] 'Dungeons & Dragons' goes virtual | CNET News.com

Man buys virtual space station for US$100,000

2005-11-10T16:29:00.000-08:00

Man buys virtual space station for US$100,000

O'Reilly Radar > Using Half Life 2 in Academia

2005-11-04T20:19:00.000-08:00

O'Reilly Radar > Using Half Life 2 in Academia

Xbox plays starring role in Windows update | CNET News.com

2005-10-18T20:58:00.000-07:00

[print version] Xbox plays starring role in Windows update | CNET News.com

[print version] Peter Jackson puts on 'Halo' for Hollywood | CNET News.com

2005-10-13T19:08:00.000-07:00

Xbox 360 in a league of its own | CNET News.com

2005-10-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

[print version] Xbox 360 in a league of its own | CNET News.com

Violence in games stimulates brain for aggression | CNET News.com

2005-10-13T18:49:00.000-07:00

I think not.

http://news.com.com/Violence+in+games+stimulates+brain+for+aggression/2100-1043_3-5893930.html

-- amr

The Long Tail: Friday Fanboy: The Codex Series

2005-10-10T19:07:00.000-07:00

An interesting post by Chris Anderson about how some teens made a movie using Xbox and Halo2. They had 13M viewers so far.

http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/10/friday_fanboy_l.html

Some nice Half-Life 2 mods.

2005-09-26T17:58:00.000-07:00

I tried a bunch of cool things for half-life 2 this weekend and want to share with you.

1) The Matrix map for Half-Life 2

http://www.fileplanet.com/156655/150000/fileinfo/Counter-Strike:-Source---The-Matrix-Map

This is an awesome map, it is based on some of the most favorite sets from the Matrix (part 1), for example, the lobby scene, the roof, the office, etc. The environments are super interactive, e.g. as you fight in the lobby part of the map, the concrete on the columns will break down just as in the movie:

2) HL2 Dodge-Ball:

http://www.fileplanet.com/156729/150000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2---DM_Torrent

It looks very simple at beginning, but as you start to experience the available maps (by connecting to the dodge ball server), you appreciate the ingenuity of the guy who made this mod and associated environments.

3) Gary's Mod 8.3b:

http://www.fileplanet.com/149087/140000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2---Garry's-Mod-8.3b

He added a ton of new things, like now you can enable AI on the models. For example, I was able to put 50 civilians in the middle of the map, then released 10 antilion guards to eat them :)

4) Antlion Deuce:

http://www.fileplanet.com/155440/150000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2---Antlion-Deuce-[Single-Player]

This is more like a mini-level for HL2. You are stranded with a group of combines in a fortress and a ton of antilions will come to attack you, your mission is to defend the fortress. You have many combines under your command, your success will depend on positioning them properly to maximize survival chances.

5) Last but not least, the Aftermath trailer:

http://www.fileplanet.com/156003/150000/fileinfo/Half-Life-2:-Aftermath-Trailer

This is the new expansion pack for HL2 that will come out later this year.

You should also try Dystopia mod, which is kind of PlanetSide.

-- amr

Plague epidemic terrorizes WoW servers - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com

2005-09-21T14:09:00.000-07:00

Plague epidemic terrorizes WoW servers - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com

Wells Fargo launches game inside 'Second Life' | CNET News.com

2005-09-19T20:05:00.000-07:00

Wells Fargo launches game inside 'Second Life' | CNET News.com

Xbox 360 to hit shelves before Thanksgiving | CNET News.com

2005-09-15T18:28:00.000-07:00

Xbox 360 to hit shelves before Thanksgiving | CNET News.com

Some nice demo links: FEAR, AoE3, Dystopia, Waste Land

2005-09-15T15:44:00.000-07:00

FEAR:
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The graphics are very impressive, it brought my super-duper machine to its knees, almost rivals HL2. It also has some very nice bullet-time effects and Matrix like explosions (you know, where the geometry of the world bends with the explosion). You can download it from yahoo videogames:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/predownload?eid=387468

AoE3:
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Also the Age-of-Empires 3 demo is out, its very much like RoN (Rise of Nations) but a significantly beefed up graphics engine. They claim they are the first to do Havoc rag-doll physics in a Strategy game. I did not like fact that you can not zoom-into action as much as you can in Warhammer40K, but still the details are impressive.

http://videogames.yahoo.com/predownload?eid=394718

(Btw, videogame folks, when I searched for Age of Empires 3 I did not get a hit, you need to add an alias from III to 3, or add an also-try suggestion).

Dystopia:
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If you got Half-Life 2, then you gotta try the Dystopia expansion pack:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/predownload?eid=395481

it turns HL2 into a game very similar to planetside, so there is different types of armors you can wear, and pick extra special powerups, etc.

C&C Generals ZH Waste Land Conflict:
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Finally, for the Strategy Fans, I recommend this clever expansion pack, it adds three new armies, Pakistan, India and Thai.

http://fp3.fileplanet.com/147790/140000/fileinfo/C&C---Generals-ZO:-2015-Waste-Land-Conflict-B-1.5C

-- amr

Blizzard Entertainment - Press Release

2005-09-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

Blizzard Entertainment - Press Release: "RVINE, California - August 29, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment�, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft�, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has reached more than one million paying customers in North America. This brings the total population for Blizzard's critically acclaimed game, the largest MMORPG in the world, to more than four million paying customers. "

Blizzard wins lawsuit on video game hacking | CNET News.com

2005-09-02T21:04:00.000-07:00

[print version] Blizzard wins lawsuit on video game hacking | CNET News.com

Boing Boing: Chinese government mandating 3-hour caps on MMO playing

2005-08-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing: Chinese government mandating 3-hour caps on MMO playing

BBC NEWS | Halo game set for silver screen

2005-08-25T20:41:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Halo game set for silver screen

Some nice clips for Doom on Yahoo! Movies

2005-08-25T18:53:00.000-07:00

Doom on Yahoo! Movies

Mega64: Very funny video clips featuring live enactments of Video Games.

2005-08-24T19:10:00.000-07:00

Mega64

Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree

2005-08-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

very funny article about a Japanese student arrested for mugging folks in Lineage II using Bots :)

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7865

I think this is fabricated: S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games on Yahoo! News

2005-08-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

Print Story: S. Korean man dies after 50 hours of computer games on Yahoo! News

Yahoo News, Reuters:

A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported. He died a few minutes later, it said.

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.

A conference for in-game Ads: Gunning for game dollars | CNET News.com

2005-08-09T15:05:00.000-07:00

[print version] Gunning for game dollars | CNET News.com

I want to get my hands on one of these: Nvidia sees double in Dell box | CNET News.com

2005-08-08T17:55:00.000-07:00

[print version] Nvidia sees double in Dell box | CNET News.com

So that's one PS3 -- will that be cash, credit or kidney?

2005-07-28T21:08:00.000-07:00

Good Morning Silicon Valley: So that's one PS3 -- will that be cash, credit or kidney?

Half Life 2 : A few Good G-Men

2005-07-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

A very clever recreation of the final court scene from "a few good men", where Tom Cruise faces off with Jack Nicholson.

http://www.nailbiter.net/gman/fewgoodgmen.mov

BBC NEWS | Chinese gamer sentenced to life

2005-06-09T20:42:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Chinese gamer sentenced to life

BBC NEWS | Actors avoid video games strike

2005-06-09T20:41:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actors avoid video games strike

Wired News: Call It the PlayStation Porn-Able

2005-06-09T20:40:00.000-07:00

Wired News: Call It the PlayStation Porn-Able

I4U Photo Gallery: E3 2005 Booth Babes

2005-06-07T22:43:00.000-07:00

I4U Photo Gallery: E3 2005 Booth Babes

Wired News: PSP Hackers Go Retro

2005-06-07T22:23:00.000-07:00

Wired News: PSP Hackers Go Retro

Wired News: Violent Video Games: Not Our Kids

2005-05-31T19:26:00.000-07:00

Wired News: Violent Video Games: Not Our Kids

The scoop on the Xbox 360's embedded OS

2005-05-27T17:27:00.000-07:00

The scoop on the Xbox 360's embedded OS

Funny Half Life 2 video using Gary's Mod.

2005-05-26T21:49:00.000-07:00

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Quake leaps into next generation

2005-05-26T20:26:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Quake leaps into next generation

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sims creator takes on evolution

2005-05-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sims creator takes on evolution

An audio comparison of XB360 vs PS3

2005-05-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

(from MSDN Channel 9)

Another comparison (podcast) of XB360 & PS3
By Minh
via Major Nelson
This is a special blogcast that is an interview with Michael and Bruce from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group. That is the team that authored the Xbox 360 vs PS3 report that has caused quite the uproar in the gaming community. In this blogcast, Michael and Bruce address some of the questions that people have posted on this blog, as well as explain more of the inner workings of the Xbox 360.
Warning: Parts of this blogcast get extremely technical.
Xbox 360 vs PS3 blogcast in MP3 format 19:55 (6.84 Mb)

You gotta see these PS3 Game Demos ...

2005-05-25T01:38:00.000-07:00

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/killzone2/media.html

Among all of them, KillZone is definitely the most impressive, I just cant believe that is realtime ... gotta be pre-rendered ... time will tell ...

-- amr

E3 2005: PS3 Official

2005-05-17T18:41:00.000-07:00

More details at IGN:
PlayStation 3: E3 2005: PS3 Official

Specs:

CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

What the Xbox 360 is Not : Gizmodo

2005-05-13T19:37:00.000-07:00

What the Xbox 360 is Not : Gizmodo

Nintendo Revolution No Taller Than Three DVD Cases : Gizmodo

2005-05-13T19:36:00.000-07:00

Nintendo Revolution No Taller Than Three DVD Cases : Gizmodo

Boing Boing: PSP will only run apps that Sony has signed -- Sony shooting self in head

2005-05-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing: PSP will only run apps that Sony has signed -- Sony shooting self in head

Boing Boing: Car modded to control a PC with windscreen display

2005-05-13T19:26:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing: Car modded to control a PC with windscreen display

Boing Boing: Katamari ball of real junk to be built at next E3

2005-05-13T19:20:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing: Katamari ball of real junk to be built at next E3

Xbox 360 Details ....

2005-05-13T13:20:00.000-07:00

Ok, first watch this nice video clip by the Xbox360 design team:

http://msxb.wmod.llnwd.net/a274/o2/ourcolony/TheColony_v1_750k.wmv

The details are:

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
• Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
• Two hardware threads per core; six hardware threads total
• VMX-128 vector unit per core; three total
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
• 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
• 500MHz processor
• 10 MB of embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
• Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
• 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
• 16 gigasamples per second fill rate using 4x MSAA

Shader Performance
• 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
• 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM
• 700 MHz DDR
• Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth
• 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance
• 1 teraflop

Storage
• Detachable and upgradeable 20GB hard drive
• 12x dual-layer DVD-ROM
• Memory Unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
• Support for up to four wireless game controllers
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Two memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
• Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features with broadband service
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Wi-Fi ready: 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g
• Video camera ready

Digital Media Support
• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
• Ability to stream media from portable music devices, digital
cameras and Windows XP-based PCs
• Ability to rip music to the Xbox 360 hard drive
• Custom playlists in every game
• Built-in Media Center Extender for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Interactive, full-screen 3-D visualizers

High-Definition Game Support
• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Standard-definition and high-definition video output supported

Audio
• Multichannel surround sound output
• Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio
• 320 independent decompression channels
• 32-bit audio processing
• Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
• Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
• Interchangeable to personalize the console

Video Games makes us handle more info and syntehsize more complex data.

2005-05-11T17:07:00.000-07:00

Good Morning Silicon Valley: Your GPA and SATs look good, son, but that "Super Monkey Ball" score needs to come way up: "Mike Antonucci of the Mercury News reports that there's a growing wave of research and firsthand reports about children, parents, workers, corporations and even medical patients experiencing notable benefits from computer or video games."

New Xbox details leak out ahead of launch on Yahoo! News

2005-05-09T19:31:00.000-07:00

New Xbox details leak out ahead of launch on MTV: "Extensive details of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) newest video game console leaked out on the Internet on Monday, three days ahead of the console's formal worldwide unveiling on MTV.
Based on pictures and purported eyewitness accounts that made the rounds of the Internet over the weekend, the console will be known as 'Xbox 360.'"

Live Xbox 360 shot! - Engadget - www.engadget.com /

2005-05-08T19:36:00.000-07:00

Live Xbox 360 shot! - Engadget - www.engadget.com /: "Live Xbox 360 shot!"

Wired News: Violent Game Ban Advances

2005-05-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

Wired News: Violent Game Ban Advances: "California lawmakers reconsidered and approved a bill in committee on Thursday that would ban the sale of violent video games to minors."

Sony contest for Antonia Bayle look-a-like (Everquest Babe: Queen of Qeynos)

2005-05-06T02:01:00.000-07:00

CNET News.com: Know anyone who looks like the 'Everquest' babe?

PS3 Claimed to be 3x Faster Than Xbox 360

2005-05-05T20:34:00.000-07:00

PS3 Three Times Faster Than Xbox 360? and Other Gossip: PS3 Stories : Kotaku

Queen of Quake to Make Men Weep at E3

2005-05-05T20:32:00.000-07:00

(Click here for more details)

Researchers Looking for MMO Players : Kotaku

2005-05-05T20:30:00.000-07:00

Researchers Looking for MMO Players : Kotaku

The State of PSP Piracy: Ahoy, World! : Gizmodo

2005-05-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

The State of PSP Piracy: Ahoy, World! : Gizmodo

Katamari Damacy sequel

2005-05-05T19:49:00.000-07:00

I love any game that is original, that is something new that nobody did before.
Katamari falls under this category. Very happy that a sequel is in the works.

Boing Boing: Katamari Damacy sequel in depth

The Pirates of World of War Craft ...

2005-05-05T19:40:00.000-07:00

Boing Boing: Pirate MMO clan freaks out monitor with yarrrs - Updated Link

Clownterstrike: a funny clown based mod for UT2004 ...

2005-05-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

worth checking out:

Boing Boing: Clownterstrike: clown-based first-person-shooter without guns: "Clownterstrike"

Playing Games = Higher IQ ... !

2005-05-05T19:23:00.000-07:00

A funny posting from Boing Boing ....

Boing Boing: Do games and bad UIs account for rising IQs?

Ouch: EA profit plunges 91% for quarter

2005-05-04T15:28:00.000-07:00

Shares of the world's biggest video game publisher plummeted 11 percent in late trading Tuesday and 7 percent in early trading today. ``We are in a challenging period,'' said Warren Jenson, EA's chief financial officer, in a conference call. ``It's a period of significant risk, and a period of significant opportunity.'

Read more details at:

MercuryNews.com | 05/04/2005 | EA profit plunges 91% for quarter

Bungie to reset all Halo2 stats tomorrow (Wed May 4th)

2005-05-03T22:42:00.000-07:00

They will reset all stats and add the new maps to the matchmaking cycles. They will also add a "Double Team" playlist for 2vs2, and a "Team Preview" playlist for the Turf and Sanctuary premium maps.

Read more at:

Bungie.net : Top Story

Gates says Xbox 2 will beat Sony

2005-05-03T15:54:00.000-07:00

Interesting Article from BBC Tech News:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Gates says Xbox 2 will beat Sony

Sky-divers play DS games in multiplayer mode in freefall

2005-04-26T03:54:00.000-07:00

skydiverds
Originally uploaded by awadallah.

This is insane, how much action can one need:

"Four sky divers have taken the new Nintendo DS and jumped out of an airplane and played Mario Brothers through an ad-hoc wireless network at terminal velocity. They found that they could play wirelessly at distances of 400 feet."

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/25/skydivers_play_ds_ga.html

Video game market up in first quarter | CNET News.com

2005-04-25T18:51:00.000-07:00

Read some stats about the video game market stellar growth.

[print version] Video game market up in first quarter | CNET News.com

Simple games rule cell phones

2005-04-22T01:22:00.000-07:00

Interesting article from BBC UK:

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Simple games' rule mobile charts

Stargate mod for Half-Life 2 killed by MGM idiots.

2005-04-22T01:04:00.000-07:00

This is very sad, very. Instead of helping these guys out (they were going to publicize stargate for free), MGM, the rightsholder for the show, sent a legal threat to terminate project.

STARGATE: SOURCE :: View topic - The worst has finally happened.

Playboy gets it -> Playboy Station Portable !

2005-04-22T00:54:00.000-07:00

I am really impressed with how fast Playboy moves. I do not endorse porn, but these are just a bunch of pixels after all ;)

Playboy Station Portable - Portable Nude Photos and Videos