Gaming Technology Blog

Last time, we focused on a home computer game designed to turn all of us into fashion designers.  This time, we’re going to see how we can fulfill our secret dreams of becoming a stellar interior decorator — at least, when we’re playing around on the computer. Home Sweet Home is an awesome time management [...]

So … this is not going to be about standard gaming news.  I have recently gotten into PC games – not WoW or things like that, but the kinds of games you can find on places like BigFish and iWin.  Two titles stand out, each of them with two games in their series’. First up [...]

Crytpic Studios dangled some interstellar combat footage as well as screenshots and concept art for its Star Trek Online massively multiplayer role playing game. The footage was revealed at a ceremony presided over by Spock actor and Star Trek film director Leonard Nimoy at a Star Trek convention last week. Check it out here.

We all know online gaming– World of Warcaft, Lord of the Rings Online, and all those other immersive, sprawling time suckers– can get pretty addictive, and some of us are more addicted than others. Well if you do your compulsive online gaming on a Mac, here’s something that might help: an application that disables your [...]

CDC Games, a pioneer of the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” micropayments model for online gaming has announced that its upcoming title, based on the popular Digimon franchise from Japan, has been ranked number one by Chinese players via online recommendation on the most popular Chinese search engine, g.baidu.com. The Digimon online game is scheduled for [...]

Interesting tidbit from the World News Network… they claim that in the Asia Pacific region, online activity is on the uptick with online gaming leading the way, while online video and music fall to the wayside due to rampant piracy. Hm. Maybe online audio and video execs could learn something from the gaming industry about [...]

Now that DC’s got some of its self-respect back, what with Batman: The Dark Knight making all sorts of noise all over the place, they’re launching DC Universe Online. It’s a make-your-own-hero (or villain) sort of massively multiplayer role playing game, and it’s been three years in the making. It will be available to Windows [...]

World of Warcraft subscribers can now opt for additional account security by purchasing a little gadget at the Blizzard Store for $6.50. The gadget is a random code generator that users enter into an additional password screen they can use to better protect their WOW accounts. The random codes will only be valid once.

What is Qore? It’s a bit like a gamers’ magazine, a bit like a podcast, a bit like a website. It’s basically exclusive content that Sony wants its PS3 owners to subscribe to via the online Sony Playstation Network and will feature galleries, trailers, interactive stuff, and even ads, in addition to “a few other [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor, 78, USA’s first female Supreme Court Justice, wants kids to stop playing video games and start learning about their Judiciary system. How? By playing video games, of course. In particular, she’d like kids to start playing Our Courts, the video game she’s helping to create, which is aimed specifically to help kids [...]

Today I have for you a couple of interesting virtual career paths. Either one, or both, if you so choose, can be explored via two online games you can play for free. Career path one: economist. Manipulate markets, tweak around with the laws of supply and demand and find yourself enjoying this simple yet fun [...]

You might not have noticed for all the hype over GTA4′s monster release, but Funcom’s Age of Conan massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) has been quite the blockbuster as well, passing the 400,000 unit mark in just a few days. That ranks it among the best-selling PC games of all time. And the critics seem [...]

Okay, good news-bad news: the good news is, NASA wants to make an massive multiplayer online (MMO) game that will help players learn more about the sci-tech side of NASA. The bad news? NASA doesn’t want to pay fot it. No, they want the prospective game developer to fund the project by itself. So who’s [...]

Carnegie Melon University researchers hope that gamers visiting their new website, www.gwap.com, can help make computers smarter. How? By playing online games. For example, in the game “Tag a tune”, humans add tags to describe whether audio clips are “sad”, and so on. This helps computers learn to do stuff better, like image and audio [...]

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. You play it by… not playing? You join, you browse the internet doing everything you usually do (or not), and your online actions are translated into in-game events like level-ups, missions and apparently even some kind of PvP melee combat. It certainly brings new meaning to the term [...]

Looking to get your free online gaming on but don’t know where to start? Don’t have time to wade through the spammy, keyword-infested search results on your search engine? Try this free online tool that helps you find free online games with no fuss and no pain. A handy tag cloud clues you in on [...]

Antivirus company Sophos has posted an alert on its website about a trojan/virus program designed specifically to steal information pertaining to the victim’s online gaming. Hacked accounts and stolen passwords are a big enough problem already, and now it seems identity thieves are becoming increasingly savvy about how they do it. Make sure you’re protected; [...]

 It’s about time we had something other than dragons and spaceships to populate our MMORPG gaming worlds. Recent trends have increased the viability of online games featuring Asian, particularly Chinese, historical characters and gameplay elements. Hollywood is partly the reason for this, with box-office hits like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:, “Hero” and the recent “The [...]

 CNN Money recently posted a trend story about the opening-up of the gaming market. It asks, “Who’s rewriting the rules of gaming?” Discussed is the merger news involving giant publishers Electronic Arts and Take Two, and the possible ginat-slayers lurking around the corners: startups and small, energetic companies establishing a new business model. Instead of [...]

People of the 8-bit generation, prepare to flip over from sheer gaming nostalgia! Nintendo8.com is the place to go to play “low-technology” Nintendo classics like the original versions of Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda… for free! I only received the news today, so excuse me while I go check if the old up-up-down-down [...]