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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 [...]

The Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360, and the Sony Playstation 3 all contain too much bromine, according to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace. Bromide is classified by Greenpeace as a chemical that’s hazardous to the environment,and the PS3 had the highest levels of it. The XBox and PS3 also had beryllium-containing alloys, which Greenpeace found worrisome. [...]

A far as Microsoft is concerned, the video game retailer GameStop has put a stop to the Zune game. Gamestop says it decided to cease Zune sales because it wasn’t a gaming gadget. It has been selling Zune, however since 2006, when the gadget first launched. Gates and co., though, have thus far shrugged the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently rumors have been flying about a planned “slimmed-down” version of the Microsoft XBox 360 gaming console. The sleeker model was supposed to have been in line for a 2009 release. But a Microsoft representative quashed the rumor by telling tech blog Engadget the whole thing was a hoax. Unless, of course, the rep was [...]

Japan’s $6.9 billion arcade gaming isustry has been hit hard by the increasing popularity of TV gaming consoles, particularly the Nintendo Wii, according to reports. Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. plans to close a quarter of its outlets, while rival Namco Bandai Holdings has announced that it will shut down roughly 20 percent of its arcades [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]