There's a few things that id Software's iconic programmer, John Carmack, loves doing whenever he gets the chance. Coding new gaming technologies is surely one of them, and so is building rocket ships. At times, he also likes to predict the (gloomy) future of gaming, though one of his most recent hobbies (...)

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Dark Sector E3 Demo Shows A More Down To Earth Game

Remember that teasing E3 trailer from a year ago, showing Digital Extremes' first PS3 project Dark Sector? No? Good for you! Because if you do remember it, you might as well forget all about it! The game was only demoed behind closed doors at E3 2006, (...)

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LMA Manager 2007 Brings Next-gen 3D Matches And PS2 Version

Coming late September, Codies will release the 2007 edition of their popular LMA Manager football manager series not only on the PC and Xbox 360, as previously known, but also on the PlayStation 2 - a version confirmed by today's press release. Codemasters also revealed the first screenshots featuring the new 3D match engine (...)

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Over 24 Million Downloads Through Xbox Live, 5 During E3 Week

Microsoft self-proclaimed their Xbox Live service as "the world's largest platform for high-definition on-demand content", now that it has surpassed the 24 million downloads mark, since the launch of the Xbox 360 in the US back in November 22, 2005. A huge amount of downloads was recorded during (...)

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo For QuakeCon 2006?

You gotta love it when fanboys spill the beans on things they probably shoulnd't have: it's what apparently happened with someone over at PlanetQuake4, who met with Edward "Bongoboy" Stern of Splash Damage at E3 and found out that an Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo version might be released (...)

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Halo 2 For PC Packed With Editors, Coming In Early 2007?

GamePro's meeting with a couple of Microsoft higher-ups at last week's E3 2006 revealed some new tidbits about the PC adaptation of Bungies' massively popular Xbox shooter, Halo 2. As previously noted, the game will be running on Windows Vista, which first and foremost means that it will only come out (...)

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The Hungarian developer Stormregion has finished work on yet another World War II real-time strategy title - Rush for Berlin. The game has reached Gold status in North America, where it's being published by Paradox Interactive, with a release date set for May 30, and a suggested retail price of $39.00. Quite frankly, (...)

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Any of you working people out there ever thought about what you would do if you went to work one morning, only to find that you've been fired and that you're not even allowed to get to your desk? I guess it's times like these that "going out for a beer with your [ex-]co-workers" is simply the best and most practical idea. (...)

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Alliance: The Silent War Waged Across 90 Years Of History

There's a pooload of war shooters bursting out of Los Angeles this year once again, one of them being Alliance: The Silent War. Developed by Windward Mark Interactive, Alliance is in many ways an ambitious project, promising to take us across three continents and over ninety years (...)

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There's always been this rumour flying around, that in space, no one can hear you scream; which of course is utter nonsense. Just take a look at some of Hollywood's highly-scientifical productions, like Star Wars, Star Trek and the likes - or better yet, CCP Games' EVE Online MMORPG. The game's universe may have been pretty silent (...)

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