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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 [...]

The results are in: the second quarter of 2008 was all Nintendo’s.
The company shipped 5.2 units of its Wii gaming console from April to June, dwarfing its nearest competitor Sony, which shipped 1.6 million PS3s. Microsoft brought up the rear, moving 1.3 million XBoxes.
Nintendo also trounced the competition in terms of software and handheld gaming [...]

Market research company Onepoll released a tally of the best 20 video games of all time, according to… well, a bunch of people. mostly in the United Kingdom. It’s a surprisingly varied mix:
20. Guitar Hero
19. Wii Play
18. Street Fighter II
17. Pokemon Red, Blue and Green
16. Frogger
15. Lemmings
14. Gran Turismo
13. Final Fantasy
12. Wii Sports
11. Lara Croft: [...]

It’s been a twenty-year wait, and in the end, is the returning thing still recognizable?
Compare. Above is the package illustration for the original Bionic Commando, which I played in my youth. He’s a clean-cut kind of super-agent with a funky stretchable bionic grappling-arm-hook-thing.
These are screenshots from the new version. Dreadlocks, really? An not a bionic [...]

Now that DC’s got some of its self-respect back, what with Batman: The Dark Knight making all sorts of noise all over the place, they’re launching DC Universe Online.
It’s a make-your-own-hero (or villain) sort of massively multiplayer role playing game, and it’s been three years in the making. It will be available to Windows PC [...]

It’s happened to at least once to every gamer: you throw down your controller (keyboard, joystick, gun, whatever) and exclaim, “I could make a better game than this!”
Well now Microsoft, via its XBox 360 console, is giving gamers a chance to put up or shut up.
So you use the available XNA tools that have been [...]

So the prices came out earlier this week for Intel’s latest batch of processor chips, and boy those Core 2 Extreme Quad-Cores cost a bundle. Way more than earlier reports led us to believe.
Why? Is it because desktops have been making a comeback lately, thanks to frugal techies looking for a cheaper alternative to laptops? [...]