Archive for the 'Online games' Category

Star Trek Online footage revealed

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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.

Software for Mac gamers with self-control issues

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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 machine’s [...]

Digimon Online #1 in China

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

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 release [...]

Online gaming surges while music and video drop

Friday, August 1st, 2008

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 how [...]

DC Universe expands… into cyberspace

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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 PC [...]

Additional WOW account security: will it stop hackers?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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.

Sony set to release Quore for the PS3

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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 surprises”.
Episodes [...]

US Supreme Court Justice = game creator?

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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 learn about [...]

A Tale of Two Games

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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 casual [...]

Even just after GTA4, Age Of Conan is doing pretty well

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

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 impressed [...]