Hot on the heels of winning the Academy Award for best director for "Million Dollar Baby" comes this announcement that Clint Eastwood will be Dirty Harry once again -- for a video game. I bet this made his day.
The Order of the British Empire is awarded for valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. Who would have thought that a games maker would qualify?
When a Pasadena man decided to sell his naughty sons' Nintendo DS game systems on eBay, who do you think stepped up to buy them? The same casino that bought the Virgin Mary cheese sandwich and the ghost of a young boy's grandfather.
Nubile beach bunny sues game makers for distributing half nude pics of her in "The Guy Game" video game. The reason: she was 17 at the time and apparently didn't realize that the cameras taking pictures were loaded. Oops.
If you're an MMORPG player you've probably been salivating for this game for quite some time, with good reason - and you aren't alone. Blizzard estimates that a quarter of a million copies sold on the first day of the games release (November 23, if you're curious)!
National Halo2 Day might not be an official holiday, but the day has come and gone, leaving behind a $100,000,000 profit for MS and Bungie. I guess their hackvertisement of "someone stole our code" really paid off, eh? If you've played it, tell us! (P.S. Check out the trailers inside.)
MMORPG fans everywhere have seen their numbers grow and their importance in the video game world go along with it. Of course, when you grow you're likely to pick up a few things you didn't expect. Say hello to the Hello Kitty MMORPG.
The co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox is ramping up to launch a new online subscription gaming platform with the help of Sun Microsystems, the companies said.
Mac game developers, here's your chance to make inroads into the Japanese gaming market which has until recently been untouched by Mac-based games. (Thanks to Carlos Camacho for this heads up.)
In what seems to be both a matter of universal coincidence and karma-inspired fate, the new "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" has been found on the Web, a week before its scheduled US release. Maybe this is some kind of sick marketing tactic.
It's not often that I talk about stuff you can buy here, but man, this rocks! For $150 you get the XBox, TopSpin (a tennis game -- Yawn!), and EA Sports' NCAA Football 2005. Ok, I'm a football fan, I'll admit. Go USF Bulls! Still it's a sweet deal. Do you game?
Japanese video game giant Nintendo said it will seek to retain its dominance of the portable game market with the launch of wireless Nintendo DS, a hand-held double-screen console.
It's a bit like saying "get paid for playing football." Without all the sweat, of course. And you only make $400,000. Guess that's enough to live on for a few weeks...
I don't know if many of you have noticed, but there's a flash ad running on the site which starts out with a bunch of leaves with you blow away by pointing your pointer over them. I have way too much fun with that ad. Game ads are fun, but how effective are they?
You remember Duke Nukem Forever? Well, of course none of you are going to remember PLAYING the game. But those of you who were gaming back in 1997ish should remember the hype behind this release.
Gee, why am I not surprised? Infinium, the company that's been promising its Phantom gaming system (how appropriate a name that is!) for years now won't be able to meet their 2004 deadline. Should these people just give it up?
Atari has just released a 64-bit version of its game "Shadow Ops: Red Mercury." Too bad the OS it's made for isn't out yet. Still, maybe Linux emulators will be able to run it before Longhorn sees the light of day.
Sony's announced that it'll be coming out with a version of the PS2 that's 25% smaller, sleeker, and have an integrated Ethernet port. They also plan to put one new game out every day until the end of 2004.
John Kerry in a video game? Looks like it. Kumawar.com, a firm which specializes in making games from real-life news events, is making a video game of Kerry's much debated swiftboat service.
Quake 4 previews are on the net. The new game, which is being done not by id, but by Raven Software, is built atop the new Doom 3 game engine. The story takes place where Quake 2 left off, with a human invasion of the Strogg homeworld. These screenshots will have you drooling...
Hollywood is increasingly turning to video games and anime to churn out movies. With the success of the comic book movie genre, is this just the next step? What games would you like to see turned into movies? And are they all doomed to suck as bad as the Street Fighter movie?
Perpetual Entertainment, Inc. announced today that it has secured the exclusive worldwide rights from Viacom Consumer Products to develop and publish a massively multiplayer online game based on Paramount Pictures’ Star Trek franchise.
With the PSP, Nintendo DS, XBox 2, PS3, and Infinium's Phantom* (*maybe) about to come out, are you holding on to your cash and waiting for the next generation of games before you buy again? I know I am. (Then again, I also buy game consoles JUST so I play any Final Fantasy title available.)
The PlayStation Portable will come with a 333MHz processor that includes integrated graphics, a specialized core for video, a reconfigurable processing core that will enhance sound and 4 megabytes of integrated memory
As if I didn't have enough stuff to get done, Trubine's started to beat the war drums and let puff the smoke signals regarding their new Lord of the Rings (LOTR) Middle Earth Online (MEO) game. This looks seriously cool... (Yeah, there's more inside. Keep reading.)
"Madden NFL 2005," the latest version of Electronic Arts Inc.'s ERTS.O pro football video game franchise, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first week of release, the company said on Thursday, citing internal figures
...Apparently this link led to website that claimed you needed to have a special .pak in order to play co-op. People downloaded it and joined this server this kid pasted. Upon joining, their game crashed and when they tried to log back in they got "CD key in use".
Here is a new Donkey Kong game that you dont use a joystick for, you use a DK Bongo controller. That's right--this is a platformer that you play with a pair of drums, rather than a gamepad.
OMG. Do not buy this if you ever expect to have a life. Original massively multiplayer role-playing game and all seven expansion packs now available in one box.
Nintendo recently released NES Classics for the Game Boy Advance, while Capcom released the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the GameCube and the PlayStation 2
Fans of the Yu Yu Hakusho anime won't need any introduction to Yusuke Urameshi, the scrappy young man who died pushing a small child from the path of an oncoming car, only to be granted new life (and new powers) as a spirit detective.
Sony said it expects to show off its latest PlayStation at the E3 trade show next May, increasing pressure on Microsoft to take the wraps off its Xbox successor at that time.
Too violent? Please. Sure, you can strangle someone, shower an enemy with bullets, direct a teen girl to shoot a demon dog, beat up cheap hookers, run down pedestrians, bathe in the blood of your enemies, and in some cases commit rape, but that's not TOO violent, is it? Is this really free speech?
Cafem SteamPowered.com: "Starting later this summer, Valve will be conducting a limited-time beta of 'Counter-Strike: Source' via Steam. The beta will first be open to subscribers of the Valve Cyber Café Program..." Time to drop by the ol' cyber cafe.
How bizarre is this? While Microsoft and Sony seem to be betting big dollars on the rise of online gaming from their console systems, Nintendo seems to think they're throwing money away. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was quoted as saying, "customers do not want online games."
With Spider-Man 2, Activision's fourth Spider-Man game for PlayStation consoles, the game developer adds a new installment to one of its best-received franchises.
Xbox gamers! You are about four months away from having virtually no life while sitting home staring at your TV in awe while holding your weapon of choice - the Xbox game controller. Will you purchase it?
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