November 2005 - Posts
According to this site , the Chinese government wants to create an MMO depicting the heroes of the communist revolution to interest its gaming citizens so they don't spend time playing traditional video games that allow killing *** or Aliens, solving
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Cnet's News.com did a head to head comparison of the AMD dual core chips and the Intel chips in the same market space. The results were ugly if you are Intel (or Dell) and you wish to be the performance king. The difference, according to News.com
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In August I took a look at World of Warcraft and came to the conclusion it was "boar-ing" (read this review first). Well, with the recent disintegration of quality over at City of Heroes, I decided to give WoW another look. I stand by most of
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Apparently the Xbox 360 is crashing. Welcome to the new world of consoles acting like PCs. Do I find humor in all this? I do. I really do. Does it make me anti-MS or anti-Xbox? Not really. Once they have the first price drop and I can find a way to overule
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Electronic Arts (E.A.) has released the first expansion for Battlefield 2: Battlefield 2: Special Forces . It is available in stores now or via EA's answer to Steam, the EA Downloader . Also, they have a hefty patch that allows base BF2 users to play
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My partner Russ had his second kid today (a girl!) at 11:35am so he's a bit incommunicado. Posts may be a bit thinner than normal over the next week or so. For those of you in the know, her name is Noelle Elisabeth and she is already a gamer -- having
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Kotaku has a hysterical post about an answer on Jeopardy . We have swiped their graphic because its just too funny to miss.... Clueless? Get with the in-crowd at leeroyjenkins.net .
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In the history of gaming there have been few guarantees. Usually whenever you buy a game off the shelf (despite whatever you have read) the purchase is a bit of a crap shoot. As gamers though, we plunk down our 49.99 and hope for the best. That is not
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Gamespy takes the Diplomacy PC game adaptation to the woodshed . Apparently, Paradox fired all their product designers, developers and QA BEFORE they developed the game. If it is as bad as they say, 3 monkey's named Lou must have done the testing.
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From Joystiq , we learn that a patent by Sony could make it so that only first time played games can be played on anyone's PS3s. This is more likely for Blue-Ray movies (which still sucks), but if so, it will kill Blockbuster's game rental business,
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While first person shooters are my first video game love, real time strategy and role playing games battle for second. Unlike FPS’s and RPG’s, which I do pretty well at, I suck at RTS games. Still, I enjoy them immensely. And my favorite RTS
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Howard Stringer spilled the beans in a interview with The Hollywood Reporter , giving us plenty of new PS3 gossip. The article calls the PS3 a digital trojan horse that will allow Sony to put Blu-Ray into the mass conciousness of the country. PS3 is a
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Geez. Long article / interview on GamePolitics.com with Jack . We usually don't quote this much in our articles -- but check this out.... While the press release contained Thompson's usual over-the-top prose, one paragraph caught the attention
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A Gold Plated PC ? Better bring a security guard with you to your next LAN Party. But, it's still kind of cool. Demented and sad, but kinda cool. (via the Inquirer )
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Jim Merrick, Director of Marketing for the Big N in Europe said in an interview that: While some of our competitors enjoy comparing specifications, it has little or nothing to do with how satisfied the consumers will be with the system and the games once
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