Warren Spector Still Hard At Work After Cancellation

Gaming veteran Warren Spector can pride himself with having worked at some of the industry's most innovative development studios, from Origin, to Looking Glass and Ion Storm. Ironically, all of these companies were shut down at some point in the past, though Warren remains just as determined to continue making great games, (...)

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Microsoft's Portable Plans: Hardware Or Simply Software?

One way or another, Microsoft wants a piece of the portable market. They already took the first steps, with a host of licensing agreements for portable versions of Windows, as well as the recently launched "Origami" UMPC devices, and they obviously want more! Rumours about a handheld Xbox have been circulating (...)

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Video Games Trying To Infiltrate The Beijing 2008 Olympics

In what must have been last week's most absurd piece of gaming news, CNN reported that the Global Gaming League has been in talks with the Chinese government, trying to bring competitive gaming to the Beijing 2008 games. Their arguments are more about money than athletics, arguing that this could be (...)

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Hello, I'm Stokky and I'm a WoWcoholic. I have been "clean" now for over... 10 hours. But before last night, I managed to keep myself away from World of Warcraft for more than a month. And before last Christmas, I even took a break of over two months. Imagine that!... Ok, clearly I have a problem. But it's quite reassuring to know (...)

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Chocobo breeding was one of the most fun things to do in the late stages of Final Fantasy VII - trying to match special kinds of chocobos, feeding them the right greens, and praying that an even more special chick would hatch afterwards... Hmm, good old days! More recently, breeding chocobos was also supposed to be featured in (...)

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Sensible Soccer 2006 - Download Demo And New Trailer

Just a week ahead of the game's release on June 9th (oh and that World Cup thingie in Germany), Codies gave us a demo version for Sensible Soccer 2006, the remake of their classic - but ever-hilarious soccer game from some ten years ago. The PC demo enables you to get out on the pitch, play a full England vs. Argentina match (...)

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Countdown To Develop Conference and Expo 2006 // UPDATE

With E3 now behind us, people in the industry are turning their heads over to Brighton, where Europe's largest conference and expo for the games creative community is set to take place during the week of July 10th (11-13 July 2006). Under the banner of "Develop Conference and Expo", the conference will cover (...)

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The border between Microsoft's "next-gen" operating system Windows Vista, and today's standard Windows XP, just keeps getting thicker and thicker. While the necessity for a major hardware upgrade had already been hinted for a while, reports now also tell us about a serious software barrier to be put in place (...)

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Half-Life 2: Episode One Released And Updated // UPDATE

With most of the game's content already preloaded on Steam by the end of last week, Valve finally released yesterday the first follow-up episode for their 2004 sequel Half-Life 2. In development for a full year and a half, Half-Life 2: Episode One is now available via Steamgames.com for $19.95, and at retail (...)

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The polls are out for this year's Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2006 and, as expected, Nintendo came out wiiing all over those fancy next-gen graphics games shown by Sony and Microsoft: simply put, the Wii stood out as the single most exciting and remarkable new product at E3 2006. Over on the soft side, Will Wright's Spore (...)

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