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Dead Space: Scarier Than Clowns or Invisible Skeletons
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 8:09pm EDT
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To paraphrase Stephen King, if you find you cannot horrify, you go for the gross-out. EA's third-person "survival horror" game Dead Space (for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3) frequently horrifies and grosses out. It's also ironically produced -- if... -
Will the New MacBook Pros be Decent Gaming PCs?
Posted: October 13th, 2008, 11:15am EDT
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The word on the street is that Apple's new high-end MacBook Pro is set to ship with an NVIDIA 9600M GT, arguably the most underwhelming GPU upgrade to Apple's "pro" part in years. Don't quote me on that, but... -
Warhammer Online Approaching One Million Players
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 5:10pm EDT
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I've yet to lay eyes on Warhammer Online's digitally grim "waagh-ness," and that's looking increasingly like a mistake. "Increasingly," because so many of you have. Laid eyes, that is. And fingers. And cannons, catapults, ballistas, rams, trebuchets, and Nurlge... -
TGS08: Microsoft's 'New Xbox Experience' Arrives November 19th
Posted: October 9th, 2008, 11:46am EDT
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Compared to the PS3's snappy X-meets-Y Emmy award-winning "XrossMediaBar" interface, the 360's stylish whooshing tabs comprised of five horizontally swappable blades can seem sluggish and flabby. Wish Microsoft would just ditch the whole thing and start over? Wish no... -
Told You So: Microsoft Readying Blu-ray Drive for Xbox 360
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:33pm EDT
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The idea Microsoft could somehow stave off the shift to optical-based high-def content by restricting its own solution to video downloads always seemed a little cuckoo, so today's not-surprise is that the Xbox 360 may finally be getting the... -
NIntendo: Digital Distribution Won't Swallow Retail
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:17pm EDT
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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says digital downloads may complement the business model for its new storage-centric handheld DSi, but they won't overtake retail sales. That's a big fat "aww shucks" for those of you hoping not to... -
Do Game Industry Luminaries Lean Left?
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 11:52am EDT
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Leave it to GamePolitics to tease (if not quite answer) that question by pulling together an ad hoc list of republican and democratic contributors that at first blush looks awfully Obama-friendly. Using publicly available records provided by Newsmeat ("America's... -
Are Video Games Bait for Book Sales?
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 5:36pm EDT
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In the second in a series entitled "The Future of Reading," New York Times critic Motoko Rich speculates about books pitched with video game tie-ins expressly in mind. Sound counterintuitive? Shouldn't that be the other way around? Yes, for... -
Lord British to "Ascend" into Orbit Aboard Russian Soyuz Spacecraft
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:30am EDT
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Did you hear the one about the guy who once sold computer games in plastic Ziploc bags blasting off in a Russian spacecraft on October 12th for a multimillions orbital cruise? Game developer and NASA astronaut offspring Richard Garriott... -
Review: Silent Hill Homecoming, Conventional Creepy
Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 12:53pm EDT
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The preamble to Konami's survival horror game Silent Hill: Homecoming for Xbox 360 and PS3 is all swinging lights and latticed shadows, smeary blood splats and walls gone that peculiar glaucous color you find on the underside of unkept... -
Nintendo's New DSi Plays Music, Snaps Pics
Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 10:22am EDT
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Nintendo's DS Lite games handheld is two years old, so how about a competitive refresh that comes equipped with dual-digital cameras, a music playback feature, and loses a few millimeters and grams off its edges? That's what Nintendo just... -
Get Ready for the Nintendo "Wii HD" in 2011?
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 8:15pm EDT
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Hot on the heals of news that Sony's been idea-shopping its so-called "PS4" to developers, the grapevine has it "from multiple sources" that Nintendo's started talking up its official successor to the Wii. What They Play "parents guide to... -
Up and Down With Video Game Stocks
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 1:23pm EDT
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So the Dow Jones pancaked yesterday, dropping a record 778 points, or just shy of 7 percent, while the NASDAQ composite index took an over 9 percent spill, down nearly 200 points, after the House scuttled a $700 billion... -
First PlayStation 4 Specs Posted?
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 10:04am EDT
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It looks like Sony Computer Entertainment may have sent rough and definitely not ready PlayStation 3 specs to third-party developers to solicit feedback. According to Impress (links to Google translation from Japanese), preliminary ideas being kicked around for the... -
Tabloid: $1.1 Million in PS3 Games Stolen in UK
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 12:28am EDT
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According to British tabloid The Sun, nearly $1-point-1 million worth of PS3 games have been stolen, not once, but twice! The first time, cops in the UK spotted fake plates on a blue Renault lorry (a British term for... -
Help, I've Lost My Video Signal!
Posted: September 29th, 2008, 6:43pm EDT
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Ever lost your video feed from your game system to your TV and been left puzzling over an error message like "out of range" without a clue what it means or how to fix it? I had this trouble... -
All You Want For Christmas is Rock Band 2
Posted: September 29th, 2008, 11:41am EDT
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While the economy's imploding around us like a balloon the feds keep inflating and shareholders keep skittishly needling, have a look at this survey by Weekly Reader Research listing what it claims "nearly all tweens and teens" are asking... -
Studios Grumble About Pre-Owned Game Sales
Posted: September 27th, 2008, 8:00am EDT
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Rather predictably, video game publishers are clubbing the notion of recirculated games like sullen cavemen ejected from the municipal fireside powwow. The latest grumbler: Marty O'Donnell, Bungie's audio director, who says that smaller studios are in for bumpy financials... -
Xbox 360 Tops PlayStation 3 for Second Week in Japan
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:00pm EDT
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Not that it's absolutely earth-shattering news given the lack of recent major PS3 releases, but the Xbox 360 managed to snub the PS3 for the second week in a row in Japan. If you missed my coverage of this... -
How to Take Your Game Systems Abroad
Posted: September 24th, 2008, 12:57pm EDT
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By the time you read this, I'll be packed away like a sardine, or at least a sardine with blanket, pillow, eye mask, socks, and plastic-wrapped headphones on my jaunt across the pond to become a US-in-the-UK expat. My... -
Sony's PlayStation 3 Finally Debuts in Malaysia
Posted: September 20th, 2008, 12:13pm EDT
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Shuffling through my news crawls this morning, I noticed Sony's PlayStation 3 just launched in Malaysia today for 1,599 Malaysian Ringgits, or about $463 USD. The launch took place at the 1 Utama Shopping Centre (pictured above) located in... -
Is Microsoft's Next Xbox 360 Set to Shrink?
Posted: September 19th, 2008, 1:17pm EDT
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"Dubious at best," remarks one of the commenters on a bit of Register-spawned tittle-tattle suggesting the Xbox 360 is about to slim up, but could a "leaked" Microsoft memo be the Real Deal? That memo, which UK geek-tech gossip... -
Bethesda Launches Full Version of Fallout 3 Site "Prepare For The Future"
Posted: September 18th, 2008, 6:07pm EDT
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Flush with interactive videos of sinister ticket-taking robots and portable nukes blasting radscorpions into puffs of mushroom smoke, Bethesda's official Fallout 3 tie-in media site PrepareForTheFuture[dot]com is now officially live. Park your browsers on the Flash-tastic site and you'll... -
Life With PlayStation Brings Wii-like Functionality to PS3
Posted: September 18th, 2008, 1:52pm EDT
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, an expression that both captures and slightly misses the point of Sony's new "Life With PlayStation" globetrotting information service, available today worldwide. How to get it? Hop into Folding@home, the PS3's protein-folding... -
Xbox 360 Surges Past PS3, Beats Wii in Japan
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 1:04pm EDT
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Buoyed by a new Square Enix roleplaying game and flagging Wii sales, the Xbox 360 outsold both the PlayStation 3 and Wii in Japan last week, according to data provided by publisher and market tracker Enterbain via Famitsu, as... -
Pew Survey Suggests Gaming Improves 'Civic and Political Life'
Posted: September 16th, 2008, 7:29pm EDT
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A survey out today from the Pew Internet & American Lift Project suggests that teens with "frequent civic gaming experiences" are more likely to go online to get information about politics and current events, give or raise money for... -
Glacial Gaming Spurs Hunger for Heat
Posted: September 16th, 2008, 12:45pm EDT
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If playing games with aloof netizens has you reaching for a steaming cup of joe, it may be more than mere coincidence. According to a study led by psychologists at the University of Toronto highlighted by the New York... -
Review: Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Posted: September 15th, 2008, 5:31pm EDT
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Before we get to tallying up all that's good, meh, and just plain crummy about LucasArts' milieu-mashing Star Wars The Force Unleashed, let's recap a couple of interesting did-ya-know developments. First, the novelization of the game by Sean Williams... -
Spurning Spore Over Draconian Digital Rights Management?
Posted: September 12th, 2008, 8:54pm EDT
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The controversy bubbling around Spore's digital rights management "solution" is keeping blogs roiling and boards rocking as we near the one week anniversary of Spore's US sales debut. At issue: Spore, Will Wright's "universe in a box" computer game... -
'Muslim Massacre' Game Not Parody, Just Tasteless
Posted: September 12th, 2008, 1:14pm EDT
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If you want to do serious political satire, you'd better have all your i's dotted and t's crossed. You'd better know the difference between sensationalism and burlesque, between "look at me!" hand-flapping and "look if you can stand to"... -
NPD: Xbox 360 and PS3 in Photo Finish, Wii Down Sharply in August
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 11:42pm EDT
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In hardware sales, the Xbox 360 inched past the PlayStation by 10,000 units, according to sales predictions by market analyst NPD Group, while Wii hardware sales plummeted by 102,000 units from July's figures. August sales were down in general... -
Should We Really be Telling the Games Media to Shut Up?
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 4:14pm EDT
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According to pollster John Zogby in his new book The Way We'll Be, the bull**** era is over and people want to be leveled with, not propagandized to. "They want choice, not imposition, and they are demanding to be... -
Infinite Undiscovery for the Xbox 360 is Better Than You've Heard
Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:20pm EDT
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Infinite Undiscovery's dithering protagonist resembles the sort of reluctant hero you'd love to slap. He absorbs insults like a punching bag but never punches back. He can't keep his neck straight or his fingers out of his hair, like... -
Analyst: PS3 Squeaks by Xbox 360, Wii Supplies Flat in August
Posted: September 8th, 2008, 8:00pm EDT
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NPD's official August 2008 sales numbers hit later this week, but for today, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has some intriguing prognostications about the PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii. For starters, Pachter's August 2008 predictions claim Sony's PlayStation... -
8 Things Spore Needs to Do Better
Posted: September 8th, 2008, 10:45am EDT
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Spore was never meant to be all things to all people, and it's a hoot reading the mea culpas marching in from the folks who did the game such a disservice by hyping it so unreasonably. They're now calling... -
PC World's Lucy Bradshaw Spore Interview, Final Slice
Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:00pm EDT
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Check out this final extended slice of my interview with Spore executive producer Lucy Bradshaw, in which Lucy talks editing cosmetics, why asexual reproduction was dropped, whether Spore's a game or a toy, and plugging Spore into The Sims.... -
More of PC World's Lucy Bradshaw Spore Interview
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:58pm EDT
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If you enjoyed my interview with Spore executive producer Lucy Bradshaw, check out these extended cuts, in which Lucy talks about science, religion, procedural audio, and patrolling the universe in her UFO posse. PCW: You've lived with this project... -
11 Things to Expect from the Next Nintendo DS
Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 11:11am EDT
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The rumor mill's barking again that we'll see another Nintendo DS in early 2009 with slightly larger screens and each one touchable, but what do we really want from a new Nintendo handheld? Swappable storage? Custom media playback? A... -
What's Up with the Nintendo Wii?
Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:44pm EDT
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Anyone noticed the recent dearth of intriguing, headline-grabbing games for the Nintendo Wii? Some 555,000 little white boxes leapt off store shelves in July U.S. sales, according to NPD data, and Nintendo certainly did brisk top 10 software sales... -
Stardock Says You Have Rights, PC Gamers
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 4:43pm EDT
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In the boldest, wisest, and frankly coolest collection of axioms I've ever seen a developer lobby in three decades of PC gaming, Galactic Civilizations designer Stardock today released a 'Gamer's Bill of Rights' describing what gamers should expect from...