Gaming Technology Blog

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 [...]

Is Microsoft developing a motion-sensitive controller similar to Nintendo’s Wiimote? The project, supposedly codenamed “Newton”, has been making the rounds but Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim sort of put down the rumors, though he stopped short of a full denial.
Meanwhile, Yu Suzuki’s masterly Shenmue series is supposed to be up for a Nintendo [...]

Nintendo is making eight arcade style games available for its Wii gaming console on May 20… and they can be had via internet download!
The following games can be purchased online using Wii points, which can be purchased using a credit card at stores found at the average High Street:
Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My Life as [...]

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 [...]

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute has published a book entitled “The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It”.
In it he says the latest must-have gadgets like the XBox 360 b and iPhone stifle creativity and turn their owners into passive users of technology.
Increasingly tighter controls on production of software [...]

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 [...]

Reports from Taiwan suggest that an ASUS subsidiary there is in the process of developing a version of Microsoft’s XBox 360 gaming console that supports Blu-ray discs. There’s been news before of Lite-On making a stand-alone Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, but this is the first news to go in the direction of built-in [...]

A factory fire in South Korea last month caused enough damage to affect the global supply of lithium-ion batteries, and analysts are predicting a lithium-ion battery shortage that could last at least three months.
Thankfully, large companies with multiple suppliers won’t feel the pinch, but if you do your gaming on low-cost machines like the Asus [...]

Microsoft has announced price reductions for its XBox 360 gaming consoles in four Asian regions by as much as 20 percent.
Consumers in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore can expect the lowered prices to take effect this week.
A similar price cut was implemented in Europe last month, with price tags going down by [...]

 According to game publisher Enterbrain, the number of Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) units sold last April in Japan was more than twice that of rival Nintendo’s DS.
However, the picture turned around when it came to full-fledged gaming consoles.
In the same month, Nintendo’s Wii outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3)  five to one.  The Wii has continued [...]