Gaming Technology Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 biting? According [...]

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 “browser-based [...]

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 hot [...]

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; read [...]

 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 Forbidden [...]

 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 shelling [...]

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 [...]