Some games are very complex – Minecraft, Little Big Planet and Dwarf Fortress, for example. These games allow you to build a working computer inside them – if you have the time for it! Geeky Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks.
Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by updating hardware drivers, downloading essential gaming tools, tweaking system settings for gaming, defragmenting game directories, Read more about Game Booster v2 Beta[…]
Finally, the long awaited moment has arrived! Studio MekTek, in association with Smith and Tinker, INC., Virtual World Entertainment, LLC, Catalyst Game Labs, and Microsoft Games, is happy to announce the release of Mechwarrior4 Free. Getting started is easy. Just download and install MTX, MekTek’s free content delivery and updating system. Once installed, simply click Read more about Mechwarrior 4 Free Release![…]
This article is a general primer on how to get players to continuously play your game, which in the world of the MMPORG is a very important element, using a behavioural model. Gamasutra – Features – Behavioral Game Design. This article is a bit more cynical and compares the above techniques to addiction creation and Read more about Behavioral Game Design / How you get addicted to games[…]
This is a huge Crysis mod which allows you to run vehicles, infantry and of course mechs in the war between the Inner Sphere and the Clans. It’s free and now in open beta. You can configure the mechs any way you like, upgrade them, repair them and you can shoot off parts of them. Read more about MechWarrior: Living Legends[…]
Blizzard Online Network Services run in 10 data centers around the world, including facilities in Washington, California, Texas, Massachusetts, France, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. Blizzard uses 20,000 systems and 1.3 petabytes of storage to power its gaming operations. WoW’s infrastructure includes 3,250 server blades, 75,000 CPU cores, and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM. The Blizzard Read more about WoW datacenter details[…]
Epic Games has released the Unreal engine for free! You can develop your own game using the Unreal engine and do with it whatever you like. This should cut down massively on game development costs and because it’s such a huge platform, should give you loads of possibilities. UDK – Unreal Development Kit – Epic Read more about Unreal Development Kit[…]
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission is a rebuild of the excellent classic Carrier Command, which allows you to command from the deck of a futuristic aircraft carrier. Your job is to colonise islands as manufacturing, defence or mining and build up a logistics base for your carrier. You can launch ground vechiles (Walrusses) and UAVs (MANTA’s) Read more about Carrier Command: Gaea Mission[…]
Kill friends: bad. Evolution sure is logical 🙂 When gamers kill friends, their testostorone levels plummet – they need to keep their friends around them to survive. When they kill strangers, the levels rise. Slashdot Games Story | Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers.
Kill friends: bad. Evolution sure is logical 🙂 When gamers kill friends, their testostorone levels plummet – they need to keep their friends around them to survive. When they kill strangers, the levels rise. Slashdot Games Story | Gamers Are More Aggressive To Strangers.
Prepare to have your pool ego crushed. http://ifun.ru/view/97477
Someone with way too much time on their hands ported a NES emulator to JavaScript. Feel like playing Super Mario Bros or Zelda at work? Grab a fast browser like Google Chrome and head on over here, http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/
This is quite clever: OnLive has a huge cluster setup lonline which runs the latest games for you, so you can have a low power piece of hardware running the latest games at blistering speeds.
This works a bit like guitar hero, but with strings you can put on your own real guitar and plug into the PC / Mac. So you learn how to play a real guitar, one that will work even when you’re not plugged into the PC.
EA is going full blown for the Steam distribution. There is allegedly no third party DRM on any of the games distributed this way (no SecuROM). They will apparently even be sending out patches allowing people to free up installation slots.
This game developer posted an open question asking why people pirated his games. He got loads of responses and he’s summed them up. Not only is he posting his findings, he’s also going to do something about it. I really hope it works out for him, as what he’s doing looks like a shining example Read more about Talking To Pirates[…]
Who needs to buy an extensive game client like WoW, Conan, or install huge things like Second Life, when the internet function you use most, namely http, port 80 or the www – whatever you like to call the internets – can BE the game, populated by thousands of denizens either playing a game or Read more about The Web as an MMORG[…]
Attention Foosball players: Here’s the largest table football game in the world. In fact, Table Football XXL is so huge, two entire soccer teams — 22 players — could face off with it, settling their challenges without ever setting foos on a real field. This monster was built by Amsterdam brewer Amstel, a stunt that Read more about Table Football XXL, the largest Foosball table in the world[…]
Nations Forever is now out – it’s an insanely cool, free racing game with loads of tracks and online play!
We had some hints that this would happen soon and now WoW Insider has confirmed through anonymous sources that the next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is in closed alpha status, and that various players are being invited to check it out, under a strict NDA. Alpha is part of the software release life Read more about Wrath of the Lich King is in alpha[…]
OK So everyone knows that when playing the legacy of games such as Wing Commander, Privateer and Descent: Freespace, we don’t want too much in the way of realism. There are some great real simulators for space which are tedious and take too much time. If you really want to fly the space shuttle, great. Read more about Space Combat Sims[…]
Shocking Tanks is a game where you remote control a tank and try to shoot the other tank(s) using a lasergun mounted on your tank. If you get shot, the controller electric shocks you.
Multiverse is a Second Life competitor, in that it allows the users to define the online experience. But not only that, you get to build your own MMOG / Virtual World very easily and allow players to play them, hosted on the Multiverse servers. The business model is simple: there are plenty of e-commerce tools Read more about Multiverse MMOG[…]
It’s been a long while since I’ve last played X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Elite, Wing Commander, Privateer, Freespace et al. and I’ve missed the genre. After a little hunting around I’ve found two space sims which look very worth exploring (Allthough, unfortunately, none is multiplayer as far as I can see…): X3: Reunion is a huge, Read more about Space Sims[…]
This Emotiv Systems controller claims to read facial expressions and brain patterns. With some training it can allow you to visualise the actions you want to take and externalise them on the computer. It’s a prototype, but release is planned for 2008, as well as an API for game designers.