Gaming Technology Blog

 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 [...]

The European Union’s executive body has given game publishers and vendors  two years to adopt a widely accepted code of conduct to better protect kids from violent video games.
Two things: I’m all for protecting kids from violent games, but not for the same reasons as the EU. I don’t think to should be up to  [...]

 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 [...]

FIle this one under “Only in Japan…”
A Toyama-based pharmecutical company has developed a line of vitamin supplement targeted specifically at the gaming community, and long-haul gamers in particular.
These “Game Suppli”capsules are taken twice a day and reatil for about 880 yen for a pack of 30 capsules.
There are currently two varieties: a concentration-booster with omega-3 [...]

Wii have seen the future, and the future is fit.
Nintendo’s latest accessory for its Wii gaming console is a white plastic slab of gaming technology that you stand on, and it detects subtle shifts in weight and balance of the player and transmits those to the game.
The balance board is designed to be used for [...]

This modder named Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. ‘Heck’) took apart a Sony Playstation 3, took the bits and used them to make a working, portable PS3 laptop, pictured above. Pretty cool, no?
Features:
60GB PS3
17″ HDTV 720p screen with HDMI connection
built-in keyboard
stereo amplifier
weight: 7.26kg
dimensions: 431.8mm x 349.3mm x 76.2mm
The unit apparently is not for sale, but will be [...]

A limited number of special-edition Playstation 3s featuring gunmetal-gray colorway consoles  are set to be released, according to Sony Entertainment. The special release is part of the big  hoohah over Konami’s new Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, bestowed by gaming aficionados with the surprising moniker of MGS4.
The special edition PS3 will include [...]

Newsweek’s videogame pundit N’gai Croal had a nice thoughtpiece on on parents, kids’ gaming, ratings and Grand Theft Auto 4.
Not being a parent himself, Croal just forwards concerned parents (”Should I let my kids play GT4?”) to websites like whattheyplay.com, which, instead of telling parents whether or not to let their kids play the [...]

So according to Blizzard Entertainment, the number of its Chinese concurrent users for the massively mulitplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades have passed the one milion mark–the highest ever rate since they launched the game there in 2005.
Be prepared for a tidal wave of web-jokes about everyone in China doing something at [...]

Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and William Hurt are set to star in the second Hollywood movie based on the Marvel comic character The Incredible Hulk.
But the big gaming news here is, they’re also starring in the video game. All of them.
No gaming console info or release dates as of yet from game developer Sega [...]