Can You Fight DRM With Patience? (Thursday 18th of March 2010 05:00:01 PM)
As modern DRM schemes get more annoying and invasive, the common wisdom is to vote with your
wallet and avoid supporting developers and publishers who include such schemes with their
games. Or, if you simply must play it, wait a while until outcry and ...
(more)The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting (Wednesday 17th of March 2010 03:15:01 PM)
The Guardian's Games blog explores the disposition of modern video games to suffer from poor
voice acting, a flaw made all the more glaring by increasingly precise and impressive graphics.
Quoting:
"Due to the interactive media nature of games, actors ...
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SteelSeries NP+ mousepad not made of steel, water resistant nonetheless (Friday 08th of January 2010 08:10:00 PM)
Here's one for those gamers who insist on angry looking peripherals with names like "Frag" and
"Sentinel" and "Head$hot" (oh, dear). The SteelSeries NP+ medium to rough glide mousepad offers
higher level of mouse-to-surface friction -- the perfect thing ...
(more)South Korean online games in 2009, total export value of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars (Monday 28th of December 2009 08:11:00 AM)
According to the South Korea Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (hereinafter referred to
as the South Korea Ministry of Culture) in 2010 President of the business content of the
report, in 2009 the amount of South Korea's content industry's output ...
(more)Alabama casino reopens with redesigned bingo games (AP via Yahoo! Finance) (Wednesday 02nd of December 2009 02:37:13 PM)
An e-banking bingo casino in White Hall has reopened with redesigned games. The White Hall
Resort and keeping Center shut down after the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling Nov. 13
setting criteria for the games at the betting house center 20 miles ...
(more)Measuring Input Latency In Console Games (Monday 07th of September 2009 04:45:05 AM)
The Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an powerful but often characterless
aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by
console modder Ben Heck, and after
polish for display lag, they ...
(more)ESA Sent Takedown Notices For 45 Million Infringements In Fiscal 2009 (Sunday 30th of August 2009 06:30:01 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "The play systems program combo has released this year's fiscal report (PDF),
putting out their numbers to level the finger at new targets. next up on last year's published
report, this one has a whole bunch of new numbers to ponder. ...
(more)"Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela (Friday 28th of August 2009 04:15:01 PM)
An nameless reader writes "The country that has bought Sukhois, tanks and 100,000 AK-103's, is
planned safety* to build a manufacturing plant of Russian rifles, and synonyms:
abuse peaceful
marches has decided to ban 'violent' video games because they ...
(more)BlizzCon Keynote — New WoW Expansion, Diablo 3 Details (Saturday 22nd of August 2009 08:45:01 AM)
BlizzCon kicked off this morning with a keynote address that brought some major announcements
for some of their games. First, World of Warcraft's third expansion, Cataclysm, was officially
revealed. It differs from the anterior expansions in that they ...
(more)Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC? (Sunday 16th of August 2009 11:15:24 PM)
A round-table pourparler at Gametopius looks into the state of downloadable content for games
as it has evolved over the past several years, going from an occasional, welcome supplement to
being a common dealings approach for most of the industry, typically
idioms:as ...
(more)The Right Amount of "Challenge" In IT & Gaming (Tuesday 11th of August 2009 04:30:03 PM)
Boyko.at.netqos writes "In an essay entitled 'An Epiphany I Had While Playing Pac-Man,' the
author talks about how smart people need to find a certain amount of intellectual dare from day
to day. If they don't find it in their workplace, they'll end up ...
(more)A sure bet? Does Seminole casino deal economic benefit to Immokalee? PHOTOS (Naples Daily News) (Sunday 09th of August 2009 12:14:06 AM)
The recent addition of new slot machines and banked card games like baton at Seminole Casino
Immokalee have pulled even more gamblers from Naples, Fort Myers and other nearby cities. How
long the good times last remains to be seen. The tribe has until ...
(more)Which Game Series Would You Reboot? (Tuesday 28th of July 2009 09:30:01 PM)
Ballot reboots are all the rage these days in Hollywood, and the trend is open gate to creep
into the games crowd as well. The Guardian's games blog is running a story discussing a few
examples and entranced likely applicants for future reboots. Quoting: ...
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Gaming On Windows 7 (Friday 24th of July 2009 05:30:01 PM)
Jason Wilson writes "Windows 7 comes out Oct. 22, and many gamers are wondering whether it will
be a boon for gaming, as Microsoft land of milk and honey Vista would, or a disappointment
(like Vista was at its launch). Former ExtremeTech editor Jason ...
(more)Valve's Newell On Community-Funded Games (Tuesday 21st of July 2009 02:45:03 PM)
Modern games are extremely high to make. High-profile, AAA titles have budgets in the tens of
millions, and even the smaller, commutative titles can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to
make. Couple this with growth times that naturally reach three ...
(more)Why Video Games Are Having a Harder Time With Humor (Sunday 12th of July 2009 03:00:04 AM)
Kotaku is running an opinion piece discussing why video games are having a harder time being
funny as they've shifted away from text-driven adventures and toward graphics-intensive
environments. "As high tech* improved, things began to get more serious. ...
(more)Video Games, the First Amendment, and Obscenity (Friday 10th of July 2009 12:00:01 AM)
An unsigned reader writes with an excerpt from an article about how obscenity laws and the
first amendment relate to modern games: "This examine is a tough one, for the very good reason
that no video game creator or publisher has ever been prosecuted ...
(more)Software Converts 2D Images To 3D (Friday 10th of July 2009 12:00:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "Dr. David McKinnon from Queensland health center of Technology, has afresh
launched a site that turns your sets of 2D images into 3D bump maps by way of 8 years of his
research. The catch is that you need to have between five ...
(more)New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client (Wednesday 08th of July 2009 10:45:02 PM)
S2 Games, longtime fans of the "Defense of the Ancients" (DotA) mod for Warcraft 3, have
decided to create an entire game based around it (with IceFrog's blessing of course). Without
offending their still-active NDA, I can say that Heroes of Newerth is ...
(more)The Dilemma of Level vs. Skill In MMOs (Tuesday 07th of July 2009 08:45:01 PM)
Karen Hertzberg writes "Since MMORPGs became a regular medium, players have debated the two
primary methods of advancement. Which is better? Is it the level-based system that is so
dominant in today's MMORPGs, or the lesser-used skill-based system? This ...
(more)Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims (Monday 06th of July 2009 06:30:01 PM)
Earlier this week, we discussed news that games fabrication veteran Dave Perry had posted a
demo of his approaching cloud gaming service Gaikai. Now that people have had time to speak
with Perry and evaluate the demo, allergy has been in item positive. ...
(more)Ben Heck's latest portable Xbox 360 adds sleek white finish, Jasper motherboard (Monday 06th of July 2009 12:33:00 AM)
Even after five iterations, Ben Heck's portative Xbox 360 models are still a spectacle to
behold -- he seems to keep outdoing himself every time, both in functionality and style. This
latest model has the appearance of an oversized plastic polycarbonate ...
(more)The Essentials of RPG Design (Friday 03rd of July 2009 01:45:02 PM)
Simoniker writes "As the latest in his Game Design essentials series for Gamasutra, writer
John Harris examines 10 games from the Western analog RPG (CRPG) folk story and 10 from the
steam room console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly ...
(more)On Realism and Virtual Murder (Wednesday 01st of July 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Gamasutra has an interesting article about how the push toward realistic movie house and
extremely lifelike ideograph in modern games is making the term "murder simulator" — once
laughed off for concerned with to pixelated dying Nazis — a ...
(more)The State of Video Game Physics (Saturday 27th of June 2009 08:15:01 AM)
The Guardian's games blog convened a panel of engineers and other experts to talk about the
current state of video game physics. A great deal of delving is currently going on to make
better use of manifold cores so that along physics tools and engines ...
(more)1gb mp5 P207 (Saturday 20th of June 2009 02:42:00 AM)
Whether online or offline, it needs the highest cost to obtain a new customer. The cost to
obtain new customers of the portable players is also much higher than the cost to obtain
existing customers. Suppose your portable players are from China wholesale, ...
(more)iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry (Wednesday 17th of June 2009 07:30:02 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Troy Wolverton writes in the Mercury News that in less than a year, the
iPhone has become a meaning game platform, but its bigger impact could be to help change the
way the game mercenary llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...
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