Gaming Technology Blog

With a game like Grand Theft Auto, you’re bound to get an “I told you so” from some crime-obsessed, watching-out-for-the-kids type media watchdog, somewhere along the line.
And we certainly didn’t have to wait. This week a Thai teenager knifed a 54-year old taxi dead, in part, according to the youth, to find out whether it [...]

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 [...]

So the idea was to find and collect letter shapes formed by the corpses of Elites and Spartans (those are playable characters from the game). What they got was a full alphabet, including numbers and even a few punctuation marks!
Take a gander at this monumental achievement by clicking on this link.

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 [...]