A Blog about Gaming. PC, Consoles and portables.
Alternate reality games + Xbox 2 = ourcolony.net. It's kinda like ilovebees.com but it's for the new Xbox and you can form teams called colonies to solve the game.
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Men spend more money on video games than they do on all forms of music, research group Nielsen Entertainment said Thursday, lending credence to a growing belief that video games are displacing other forms of media for the attention of young men.
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This site is crazy; using their products, they offer tutorials on how to convert just about ANY file format to ANY file format. Try it out.
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In an unprecedented move, Apple Computer might be joining forces with ATI not only to make the Mac platform more appealing to gamers in terms of power, but also creating or developing their own in-house gaming unit to create new games, or port current Windows games. This should be an interesting story to follow....
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3D Realms have been developing Duke Nukem Forever for what seems like an eternity. In the same period of time that this project has been underway, most of their competitors have released multiple titles. So where exactly is this elusive game and why is it taking so long? It's hard to be sure, but in this rant I offer a couple of educated guesses.
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The news most of us have been waiting for has finally been confirmed: Valve is readying the first expansion pack for the unanimously acclaimed Half-Life 2. Provisionally titled 'Aftermath', the new adventures of Gordon Freeman and his able sidekick Alyx is tentatively scheduled for a 'summer' release, according to PC Gamer UK.
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Sony and Microsoft schedule PS3 and Xbox 360 unveiling's for the same afternoon, May 16th. Which will get more publicity???
posted by ALWEASEL at 5:39 PM
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The hack that enables you to play multiplayer games on the PSP with only one copy of the game really isn't a hack. A Sony ad ran on Japanese TV recently, which shows a couple of PSPs and demonstrating playing a networked game on them with a UMD inserted into only one.
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Nearly 30% of the estimated 22 million U.S. adults who own MP3 players have listened to podcasts, which are audio files that have been published or syndicated online as an RSS feed. The audience for podcasts skews toward youth. The report finds that nearly half of those between 18 and 28 who own an MP3 player have downloaded podcasts.
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The wearable screens can be mounted on regular eyeglasses, and their positioning smack dab in front of your eye creates a virtual 14-inch TV screen as viewed from 1m. The 0.24-inch, 180,000 pixel chip weighs in at just 7 grams, but all that compact goodness wonâ??t come cheap: at about $460.
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benjamin heckendorn of portable playstation 2 fame has been working on a prototype for a mass produced portable atari 2600, code named phoenix. It has a 3.5 screen, takes 6 aa batteries, uses standard atari game cartridges, and will someday allow me to play hours and hours of joust and moon patrol on international flights.
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This is a tutorial to play thug wirelessly with one copy of the game on the psp.
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85 children are being recruited by the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency to participate in an at-home study using the video game Dance Dance Revolution to increase activity.
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Hitachi reports a storage density of 230 billion bits per square inch, an achievement that would make desktop computer drives capable of storing a trillion bytes of information, roughly twice the capacity of today's disks. Wow, one terabyte.
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We pit the two handhelds against each other in a fight to the death. Or expired battery, whichever comes first.
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