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 [...]