Amazingly, the pre-release estimates of a $400 million first week for the latest edition of Grand Theft Auto turned out to be low with publisher Take-Two trumpeting a 6 million unit, $500 million debut. Playing GTA IV in HD isn’t without controversy, however, with reports of over-scan issues on older HDTVs (some experiences range to [...]
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new partnership with the non-profit organization Companions in Courage which is dedicated to supporting families with children who are dealing with life-threatening medical conditions. As part of the partnership, Microsoft will be supplying hundreds of standalone Xbox 360 kiosks to children’s hospitals across the country.
The first wave of [...]
Games for Change, the non-profit devoted to promoting, well, games for change, will hold their fifth annual festival in New York City from June 2-4. Keynote speakers are Henry Jenkins and Jim Gee and the closing keynote is the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The first day of the festival will be a free, one-day workshop. [...]
GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the Internet. If you’re one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before [...]
The Los Angeles Times reports that Sony is planning on making movies and TV shows available for download through the PS3 “as early as this summer.” Sony hopes to make use of the roughly 4 million PS3s already sold in the US to compete with similar services such as XBox Live, which began offering video [...]
Wired reports that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has just acquired three PC-based video games which they will use to train the next wave of analysts. The games are short, but they have branching story lines that change depending on how a trainee reacts to various problems.
From the Article: “‘It is clear that our new [...]
Using an interesting blend of real-world video and cartoon-enemy overlays, ToonCrisis is a fun Flash shooter with an original soundtrack of punk-ish/ska songs to keep you motivated.
The objective is simply to kill the monsters by aiming your laser-shooting hand (which is, of course, in the shape of a gun) at them and clicking the left [...]
Region-free gaming on the Wii is a whole lot simpler now with the new release of Gecko Region Free. Now you don’t need a Freeloader or any type of fancy hacking, but you do need the Twilight Princess disc and the ability to run homebrew apps (see the article below). It’s not a completely optimal [...]
Here’s a video game that sounds like hours of bittersweet fun…
From the Website: “The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It’s more like an explorable painting [...]
If PC World is correct, then it looks like Sony’s pending, PS3 2.20 firmware (press release here) will have at least one little surprise for movie buffs. As if the inclusion of Blu-ray’s BD-Live interactivity and the removal of the 2GB DivX and WMV file-size cap wasn’t enough, PC World says that can also expect [...]
Roughly Drafted has a nice, long analysis of the iPhone as a gaming device, and they hit on a lot of great reasons why the iPhone seems destined to be a great gaming platform. Not only will it have the hardware chops to play games (including a few input devices that no other handheld gaming [...]
I have once again have attained from a rock solid source that Microsoft WILL be replacing the 20GB hard drive on the standard Xbox 360 with a larger 60GB version. Dates are not nailed down, but my source says Microsoft wants it done and dusted before the end of its financial year which translates as [...]
Bored with your white, sterile Nintendo Wii? Relive the glory-days of 8-bit gaming with this elaborate Super Mario case mod.
LiveJournaller Capt. Sideburns has posted the results of his experiments in making a Space Invaders pixel-art cutting board — it worked superbly, as you can see. He’s promising Zelda next.
If you are interested in playing Nintendo Wii games from other regions than your current one you can buy a copy of Wii Freeloader. It is a software-only product that apparently makes it possible to boot up a game from any region. If you have any experience using this one please comment below.
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