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Sad state of PC gaming

Because not everything is about "piracy" you know. Here is more insight into why the market is failing.
ANYBODY wondering why PC gaming is being slapped around by the console market need only look to the release notes for the latest AMD Catalyst drivers, version 8.4, released merely moments ago.
The driver adds very little in terms […]

Get a first life

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life. Linden Labs are amused. Probably since their take on life is as pathetic as the original.
With all the hoopla about Second Life, virtual news agencies on virtual matters, taxation and virtual embassies it is starting to get more than a little creepy. It […]

Reinventing PC Gaming

Or smothering it. Microsoft wants to streamline, standardize gaming for Windows Vista. Should we be afraid or really, really afraid?

We recently sat down with Games for Windows (GFW) Marketing Director Kevin Unangst and PR Manager Michael Wolf for a brief pre-launch tour of gaming on Vista. Admittedly, the implementation hasn’t changed much since we first […]

Battlefield 2142 and IGA

IGA or in-game advertising is on the rise and Electronic Arts has just launched what seems to be its first title with built-in, remotely fetched ads for in-game billboards. It’s perhaps more surreal than spyware per se.

Electronic Arts launched Battlefield 2142 yesterday and not too many people were happy to find spyware incorporated into the […]

Taxing Virtual Economies

As mind-boggling as it sounds, Reuters just set up shop in some sort of virtual reality community called “Second Life.” Never heard of it and it sound a little girly, but the effort immediately paid off with an even stranger tale of how the US government is looking into virtual economies, taxation and property rights.

Booming […]

Pandemic Studios invades Venezuela

In a Pentagon wet dream of a computer game. No wonder that they’re a subcontractor to the Pentagon then. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames plays out as “a power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela’s oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a war zone.” Will we be seeing every future U.S. operation on […]

Turning the tables of propaganda

The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) which is funded by the U.S. Defense Department to monitor “1,500 militant websites” has come to the conclusion that said “militants” have done at least one mod for Battlefield 2 that adapts the MEC for a more contemporary and factual context. Now, listen to this:

Battlefield 2 ordinarily shows U.S. […]

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Everyone is talking about Oblivion it seems. Though of course, nothing can quite arouse gamers like a RPG regardless of its merits. Still, having a meta score of 95% over at Game Rankings does imply that the game is worth looking into. So I did. Aside from a small scene-related () glitch the game installed […]

Star Wars Empire at War

The much anticipated “Star Wars Empire at War” is finally out. I spent the better part of the day testing the various aspects of the game and I’m fairly impressed, seeing as it is a franchise game and all. Still, to get the most out of the game one has to be a total Star […]

Australia blocks graffiti game

Australia gets stupid and effectively bans “Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure” for inciting “the crime of graffiti vandalism.” Sly as they are they didn’t outright ban it either but simply refused classification.

Ironically, the game - which is set in a city of the future - features a world where freedom of expression is […]





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