TOG - The Older Gamers

Garden of Coloured Lights Free Game

6 January 2009 |Check out this Free Space Shooting Game Garden of Coloured Lights.

8bit killer Free Game

6 January 2009 |Check out this Free Game where you fight in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by a space creatures.

8bit killer Screens

6 January 2009 |5 new shots posted.

Garden of Coloured Lights Screens

6 January 2009 |4 new shots posted.

Combat Mission: Shock Force v1.11 Patch

6 January 2009 |You only need this patch if you have the CMSF-Marines Module installed! If you ONLY have the base game of CMSF and no other module installed, then you do not need this patch. Read the readme for installation and compatibility issues.

X3: Terran Conflict v1.0.1 to v1.4 Incremental Patch

6 January 2009 |This patch includes improved marine usage, bug fixes, improved gameplay, and more. Read the readme for details.

Tales of Pirates Wallpaper

6 January 2009 |This wallpaper comes in four sizes.

Space Empires V v1.77 Patch

6 January 2009 |This patch includes many fixes for mines, so they will no longer detonate if they cannot damage the ship, starting tech points were still incorrect and more.

Iron Grip: Warlord The Winter Offensive Demo

6 January 2009 |This is the latest demo for Iron Grip: Warlord The Winter Offensive.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Hotfix Patch

6 January 2009 |This is a hotfix for EAZ and graphics blur issues. Read the readme for details.

Reloaded LAN Party Coming Up in Adelaide

6 January 2009 |Find out the details on this huge event.

EVE Online Surpasses 45,000 Users Simultaneously

6 January 2009 |EVE Online (PC)Space MMO reaches online milestone.

GTR Evolution Review

6 January 2009 |GTR Evolution (PC)You asked for Nürburgring; you got Nürburgring.

Best-selling PC Games of Mid December

6 January 2009 |The Lich King continues to rule.

Lord of the Rings: Conquest PC Requirements

6 January 2009 |The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (PC)Can your system run it?

Combat Wings: Battle of Britain Review

6 January 2009 |Combat Wings: Battle of Britain (PC)Warm up your trigger finger.

Crysis Warhead Patch and SDK Coming

6 January 2009 |Crysis Warhead (PC)On track to release later this year.

No LEGO Harry Potter in 2009

6 January 2009 |Inside sources say LEGO Indiana Jones or LEGO Rock Band more likely.

Bionic Commando PC Coming After Console Versions

6 January 2009 |Bionic Commando (PC)PC version of Capcom's platformer will follow "shortly afterwards."

StarCraft II Screens

6 January 2009 |StarCraft II Terrans: Wings of Liberty (PC)Terran Battlecruisers hover over a fiery field.

Grand Theft Auto 4 PC Patch Incoming

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Final Fantasy XI Fan Fest Wrap-up

9 December 2008 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> After we had a chance to play with the new Final Fantasy XI content and interviewed the development team, ...

Valve Complete Pack Costs $99, Includes Left 4 Dead

18 November 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> Always willing to offer ridiculous deals via digital distribution, Valve is now selling the Valve Complete Pack on Steam. The pack ranges the Valve library from ...

No U.S. Arcade Release for Street Fighter 4

17 November 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> We recently learned that Street Fighter 4 will be released February 17 on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. But if you're still wondering whether you might be able ...

Some Expanded ESRB Descriptions Contain Minor Spoilers

17 November 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> Fair warning: If you happen to be browsing through game listings on the ESRB website, you might want to avoid reading the newly added expanded descriptions they're ...

7-Eleven Breaks Wrath of the Lich King Street Date

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Mirror’s Edge DLC, PC Release Confirmed for Early 2009

12 November 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> Electronic Arts and DICE have announced that Mirror's Edge has shipped today for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Tell us something we don't know, right? Well, there ...

Zombies!!! Shambling onto Xbox Live, PSN, and Steam

25 October 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> The zombie-related news just keeps on coming, as developer Big Rooster, LLC has announced a partnership with Twilight Creations, Inc. to bring Zombies!!! to Xbox Live ...

Lord of the Rings Online Expansion Hitting Shelves November 18

10 October 2008 | <!--Begin feature--><!-- for syndication --> On November 18, Codemasters and Turbine will release Mines of Moria, the first expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online. This may seem like a perfectly normal ...

Call of Duty: World at War Beta Coming in October

5 September 2008 |Release date of November 11 also confirmed.

NCsoft’s Profits Dip 42% in Q2 as Sales Rise

22 August 2008 |One of the leading MMO publishers in Korea is being carried by the Lineage franchise, but with few other major releases and costs ramping up for new projects, profits fell significantly year-over-year.

Blizzard Bringing StarCraft II, Warcraft III to Mainland China

22 August 2008 |Working with NetEase.com affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology Limited, these real-time strategy titles (along with the Battle.net) service will be made available to Chinese players.

NCsoft Lets 21 Go at Austin Office

22 August 2008 |The ax has dropped at NCsoft's Austin office, cutting the staff to Dungeon Runners and an unannounced title. No staff from Tabula Rasa appear to be in any way affected by this move.

Burnout Paradise Coming to PlayStation Network

22 August 2008 |Don't want to pick up a disc copy of Burnout Paradise? No worries, since EA will be offering the full game on the PlayStation Network. There will also be free downloadable additions soon, like trophies and motorcycles.

10 Questions for Will Wright

22 August 2008 |No disrespect to our previous 10 Questions luminaries, but this just might be our best candidate yet. This is your opportunity to ask Will Wright - send us your questions now!

Alan Wake Still Coming, says Remedy

22 August 2008 |Gamers aren't known for being the most patient lot, so many had perhaps given up on Alan Wake after its extended development cycle. Remedy CFO Mika Reini, however, has revealed that they're soldiering on, despite some difficulties.

Dragon Age: Origins Console Bound

22 August 2008 |So as it turns out, Dragon Age: Origins will only be exclusive to the PC for a limited time- after that, it will be coming to unspecified consoles (likely the PS3 and Xbox 360) sometime in late 2009.

Rhianna Pratchett Pens Mirror’s Edge

21 July 2008 |The daughter of legendary scribe Terry Pratchett is on board with DICE's Mirror's Edge, helping to frame its dystopian world, where electronic communication is controlled and human runners are vital.

2K Games Publishing Champions Online

21 July 2008 |Zounds, it seems as though Cryptic Studios finally has a publisher for their latest super hero MMO! This marks the first time that 2K Games has published an MMO, and they have large expectations for Champions Online.

BioWare Community Reaches 4 Million Members

21 July 2008 |Even being owned by Electronic Arts can't dampen the spirits of the millions of BioWare fans online. Over four million have signed up for the company's forums right on the eve of Dragon Age's revelation.

Release This: Moon, Elebits 2 Headline New Year’s Release Lineup

6 January 2009 |Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in an exclusively compiled list. The following list covers all of the game ...

EVE Online Reports 45,186 Concurrent Users

6 January 2009 |CCP's EVE Online has reached a milestone, reporting a record peak of 45,186 concurrent users on its single-shard server. "It is truly a testament to our loyal fans that 5 years into EVE's existence we are still breaking records and ...

Xbox 360 Reaches 8 Million In Europe

6 January 2009 |Microsoft says that Xbox 360's 2008 Christmas sales doubled in Europe over the same period in 2007, marking the console's most successful season yet in the region. According to the company, this brings Xbox 360's userbase to eight ...

Best of FingerGaming: From Crayon Physics Deluxe to Edge

6 January 2009 |[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor Matt Burris and guest editor Danny Cowan.] This ...

PopCap’s Kapalka On Why Hexes Are ‘Repellent’ To Casual Gamers

6 January 2009 |As part of a larger interview with Gamasutra on Bejeweled Twist, PopCap's co-founder chief creative officer Jason Kapalka talks about how games with hexagonal grids, such as Microsoft's Hexic, can drive casual gamers away -- and ...

Used Game Prices See 23.7 Percent Drop In 2008

6 January 2009 |Resale prices for pre-owned video games were down by 23.7 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year, likely due to current economic conditions and disappointing sales numbers for the general retail industry. Pricing data site ...

Treasure’s Maegawa: Microsoft Asked For Radiant Silvergun On XBLA

6 January 2009 |Talking to Gamasutra as part of an in-depth new interview, Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa has revealed that Microsoft asked it to remake classic shoot'em-up Radiant Silvergun for XBLA -- though Treasure hasn't yet decided whether to ...

Gamasutra’s Holiday News: What You Missed

6 January 2009 |Gamasutra continued updating over the holidays, following breaking news and providing in-depth articles for those game professionals still working during that time. So, here's the full list of news and interviews run over the two ...

Gamasutra’s Holiday Originals: What You Missed

6 January 2009 |Were you out of town for the holiday? Never fear, because Gamasutra is rounding up all the feature-length articles the site posted over the Xmas break, from Yuji Naka and Popcap interviews through Ratchet & Clank postmortems and ...

Analyst: Big Media Buyouts Of Game Publishers? Not So Fast

6 January 2009 |The recession has brought with it plenty of increased buyout buzz, as weakened larger game companies seek smaller studios at low prices to help bolster their strategy. For example, at 2007's end, Atari, EA, A2M and Codemasters were ...

News: Reeves: Profit is number one priority in 2009

7 January 2009 |Sony Euro exec wants to alleviate financial pressure and move PlayStation business forward in the coming year

News: EVE hits new concurrent users record

7 January 2009 |Serverside improvements and fan loyalty championed as MMO sees over 45,000 log in simultaneously

News: 360 hardware sales top 28 million

7 January 2009 |Microsoft reveals console performance to date, as sales of Xbox Live content jump 84 per cent

News: Games music is an underexploited asset - Streamline

7 January 2009 |Publishers failing to monetise back catalogues, argues audio specialist

News: Microsoft boasts of best ever Xbox Christmas sales

6 January 2009 |Eight million units sold by end of 2008, as Xmas sales almost double 2007

News: Game Connection America discount offer draws to a close

6 January 2009 |Reduced price on all tickets to be withdrawn on January 9, for the event set to take place at GDC in San Francisco

News: Oxygen puts London studio up for sale

6 January 2009 |Budget publisher pulls out of internal development

News: Sony Japan to close factories and ‘major divisions’ - report

6 January 2009 |Company preparing for "sacred cow-slaying" as it takes drastic action to turn around business

News: Microsoft to pursue EUK for lost stock

6 January 2009 |Software giant said to be considering legal action to reclaim stock stranded in distributor warehouses

News: Thousands of jobs under threat at Microsoft

6 January 2009 |Company expected to announce cuts in next few weeks, EMEA to be affected heavily says report

Peter Moore Gets Feisty With Eurogamer

6 January 2009 |In the tight-lipped, image-massaged corporate world in which game company execs exist, it's refreshing to find someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind - even if he is calling out the gaming press in the process.Thus, we ...

“Sacred Cow Slayings” Rumored at Sony… Is PlayStation In Jeopardy?

6 January 2009 |UK newspaper The Times reports today that radical corporate upheaval is coming to Sony.Long-overdue cost-cutting moves will, according to company sources, result in "sacred cow-slaying measures" that will "will ...

Author Salman Rushdie Gamed While Dodging Decade-long Fatwa

6 January 2009 |There's no word on what he played, but Sir Salman Rushdie told UK newspaper The Times that he indulged in some computer games while dodging a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini from 1988 until 1998.Khomeini lodged the ...

How Grand Theft Auto Will Deal with the Recession (Humor)

5 January 2009 |Columnist Joe Blundo has a bit of fun with Grand Theft Auto (and other targets) in a recession - themed piece for today's Columbus Dispatch.As per Blundo, in order to deal with recessionary pressures, GTA will be re-invented as ...

How Grand Theft Auto Will Deal with the Recession (Humor)

5 January 2009 |Columnist Joe Blundo has a bit of fun with Grand Theft Auto (and other targets) in a recession - themed piece for today's Columbus Dispatch.As per Blundo, in order to deal with recessionary pressures, GTA will be re-invented as ...

Jack Thompson Takes His Case to U.S. Supreme Court

5 January 2009 |Jack Thompson is hoping that the United States Supreme Court will consider his appeal of the Florida Supreme Court ruling that disbarred him for life.In mid-December the anti-game attorney requested from the U.S. Superme Court an ...

Jack Thompson Takes His Case to U.S. Supreme Court

5 January 2009 |Jack Thompson is hoping that the United States Supreme Court will consider his appeal of the Florida Supreme Court ruling that disbarred him for life.In mid-December the anti-game attorney requested from the U.S. Superme Court an ...

Youthful Sonic Fan Gets Ban on Hedgehogs Overturned

4 January 2009 |A Lawrence, Kansas boy's fondess for iconic video game character Sonic the Hedgehog has led to a successful crusade to overturn a citywide ban on the critters.KTKA-49 reports that Judson King, 11, decided three years ago that he ...

New Illinois Law Bars Alcopops From Kid-centric Games

4 January 2009 |In Illinois, a new law restricts certain content in video games.However, unlike the 2005 game violence law championed by recently-indicted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the video game industry is unlikely to mount a legal challenge in ...

Researchers Study File-Sharing Effects on Teen Norms & Values

3 January 2009 |Researchers at Sweden's Lund University are studying the ways in which interaction with file-sharing and social networking sites may affect how adolescents develop norms and values.Swedish news outlet The Local reports that ...

WET resurfaces, new screens dried off

7 January 2009 |Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action Sometimes news comes from where you least expect it. Case in point: middleware firm Illuminate Labs. The lighting tech company recently toweled off new screens for ...

Explore the wonderful world of old game patents

7 January 2009 |Filed under: Retro Technologizer has put together a really beautiful gallery of old electronic gaming patents, the oldest example of which you can see just above. You won't want to miss the early designs of R.O.B., wireless Atari ...

Skate 2 demo coming Thursday

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sports We tend to think of demos as free gifts from the gaming overlords, which would make the Skate 2 demo coming on Thursday to Xbox Live a gift within a gift, like a Hickory ...

GameStop suspending Xbox trade-ins starting Feb. 9

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Microsoft Xbox, Business GameStop will no longer accept trade-ins on original Xbox games, systems, or accessories beginning Febuary 9, 2009. Although GameStop corporate wouldn't verify this information during its ...

Best of the Rest: Justin’s Picks of 2008

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Meta (about Joystiq) Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (X360) "Wait, did he just start his list with Spider-Man: Web of Shadows?" Yes, ...

Rumor: No Lego Harry Potter in ‘09

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure A Eurogamer source claims that Traveller's Tales isn't making a Lego Harry Potter game this year. This follows rumors that a brickitized Potter title was ...

The best thing you’ll see today: Metal Gear voice cast improv

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3 A mere five days into the new year and our sanity is being brought into question. Is this video after the break really what it seems to be? The principal voice cast of Metal Gear Solid 4 ...

SCEA: Killzone 2 demo exclusive to GameStop, on PSN after release

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, First Person Shooters Last week, GameStop revealed that gamers who pre-ordered Killzone 2 would get "exclusive" access to the game's demo. We contacted SCEA to see just how exclusive that deal is, ...

Amazon nukes Fallout 3 bundle prices today

6 January 2009 |Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 Today's Amazon "deal of the day" bombs the prices on several limited edition Fallout 3 bundles. For starters, the Fallout 3 "Collector's Edition" for the Xbox 360 has its ...

Rumor: 360 a footnote in Microsoft’s CES keynote

6 January 2009 |Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, CES It's sounding like the only "megatons" at Microsoft's CES 2009 keynote will be the volume of hors d'oeuvres served beforehand. According to TechCruch, the company will focus primarily on Windows ...

Silent Hill: Homecoming Unbanned In Australia?

7 January 2009 |Fallout 3 got banned, then unbanned. F.E.A.R. 2 got banned, then unbanned. And now it appears Silent Hill: Homecoming just got unbanned, having been banned back in September.

Oz Rock Guitar Hero Pack For Australia Day

7 January 2009 |Excellent news for Guitar Hero: World Tour-owning fans of Aussie RAWK! Activision has revealed a three-song DLC pack featuring Silverchair, Wolfmother and The Vines (most definitely not pictured above) will be hitting the console ...

Congratulations To Our Blogging Brothers

7 January 2009 |Some good news for the wider Kotaku family with our sister sites blogging brothers Gizmodo and Defamer snagging nominations for the 2008 Weblog Awards. Yay them!

Eidos Caught Block-Voting On HYPER Awards

6 January 2009 |Eidos are understandably fans of their own games, but perhaps they've gone a little too far with this public display of affection. Australia's only multi-format games mag HYPER has called out the smitten publisher for constantly ...

Puzzle Quest Patch On the Way

6 January 2009 |TransGaming has gotten back to us with a response to our story last week about Puzzle Quest iPhone randomly deleting heroes. <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: news, iphone, puzzle quest: challenge of the warlords, top, ...

Microsoft: We’ve Sold 28 Million Xbox 360s

6 January 2009 |The Redmond giant and relative newcomer to the console wars revealed that it has sold over 28 million Xbox 360s since launch. Yes, that's much more than the originals Xbox's lifetime sales. <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: ...

So How Long Do People Play Wii Games For?

6 January 2009 |MTV decided to find out. Using the Wii's Nintendo Channel - which tracks the playing habits of 1.6 million Americans - they've yanked out some data on what games you're playing, and for how long. <!-- Gawker ...

U.S. Army Testing Out Recruitment ‘Arcades’

6 January 2009 |The U.S. Army wants you, gamers. It's testing a new kind of recruitment centre, one the New York Times is calling a "model for recruitment in urban areas," one that smacks of old-school arcades. <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: ...

Have Video Games Gotten More Violent?

6 January 2009 |This article on GamesRadar has me wondering if violence in video games has gotten more intense - or is it just more vivid as a result of technology making blood brighter and guts more realistic. <!-- Gawker Tags/Categories: ...

Madballs Added To Game That Was About Angry Balls Anyway

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What Can Ads Teach Developers‭?

7 January 2009 |<!--paging_filter-->  Is it false advertising when commercials strongly imply that a game is more narratively or emotionally engaging than it actually is‭? read more

FIFA Reclaims UK Top Spot Amid Sales Plunge

7 January 2009 |<!--paging_filter-->FIFA 09’s retail wrangle with Activision’s World At War continues apace as the EA football sim reclaims the UK’s all-format chart. On Christmas week FIFA ended World At War’s ...

MS: 360 Life-to-Date Sales Hit 28m

6 January 2009 |Microsoft proclaimed Monday evening that Xbox 360 has sold 28 million units worldwide through 2008 since its launch in November 2005. Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg told Edge in ...

Microsoft Tight-Lipped on Layoff Rumors

6 January 2009 |Microsoft will cut loose as many as 15K employees from its global workforce on January 15, according to unconfirmed reports that permeated the Web over the holiday break. Bloggers at Fudzilla said in late December that mass layoffs ...

360 Sells 8m in Europe

6 January 2009 |Microsoft's European gaming arm announced on Monday that Xbox 360 has sold 8 million consoles to date in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) territories, citing sales estimates based on GfK-ChartTrack. A statement from the firm ...

Analyst: Wii to Pass PS2 Two-Year Sales

6 January 2009 |U.S. life-to-date sales of the Nintendo Wii surpassed the initial two-year sales of Sony's mega-successful PS2, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter projected on Monday ahead of December sales data from NPD ...

Report: Major Sony Restructuring Brewing

6 January 2009 |Following Sony's December announcement that it will cut 16,000 permanent and temporary staff, a new report says the CEO of the Japanese-based PlayStation house will make even wider-reaching changes to the company to avoid ...

Mistwalker 360 RPG Cancelled

6 January 2009 |<!--paging_filter-->AQ Interactive has confirmed that its upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Cry On has been cancelled.Details on the game had remained thin ever since t was announced back in 2005. AQ Interactive says it closed the ...

Zavvi May Still Be Saved

6 January 2009 |<!--paging_filter-->Zavvi’s administrators claim that there are still a number of interested parties looking to buy the business.Zavvi – the UK's largest independent retailer of games, music and film goods – ...

Kojima Declares New Western Direction

6 January 2009 |<!--paging_filter-->Hideo Kojima has spoken of a thorough “structure, tools and staff” revamp taking place at Kojima Productions in order to realise the developer’s goal of penetrating the Western market. ...

Meet the New Lara Croft - Photo Gallery!

7 January 2009 |Meet Alison Carroll, the new Tomb Raider Lara Croft. For the new Tomb Raider game, Carroll will be the face of Croft, joining the long list of ladies who have held the title, such as Karima Adebibe, Lucy Clarkson, Jill de Jong, ...

Kotaku’s 2008 Games of the Year Awards

7 January 2009 |This year we decided to try something different with our Game of the Year awards: The GOTYS. We came up with categories that exemplify the areas of gaming that we think should be highlighted. Instead of awards meant to serve as a ...

Download Dozens of Commercial PC Games Free

7 January 2009 |Where do computer games go when they die? Nowhere, if you know where to look.

Wii Sports Became #1 Selling Game of All Time! Surpasses SMB

7 January 2009 |Wii Sports has now passed sales of Super Mario Bros. (NES), making it the top selling console game of all time!

20 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2009

6 January 2009 |You're probably playing catch up with all the great games that came out the last few months, but you better hurry up. There's a lot more coming in 2009. You can expect everything from sequels to game series reboots to brand new ...

9 comic book characters to watch in 2009

6 January 2009 |The new year is wide open with comics firing on all cylinders — from the upper echelons of superhero comics to the vibrant field of modern comics.

Airport Vending Machines Selling DS Systems and Games

6 January 2009 |Best Buy vending machine let's you buy a DS system and a couple of games before takeoff.

Mirrors Edge Themed Photoshoot

6 January 2009 |It all started when I was driving home from work and listening to the following MP3 remix of “Still Alive”, the theme song for Mirrors Edge. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to dress or cosplay Jannica as Faith...

Replica: Only person who can beat you is.. you

5 January 2009 |Ever tried playing yourself in a flash game? Well this is what this game is all about. It's an addictive game that makes you plan your movements in advanced to stay alive!

Huge Sonic Fan gets Ban on Hedgehogs overturned

5 January 2009 |11 year-old Judson King became so enamored with the blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, he decided he needed a real one.

PS2 the Most Played Console In 2008

6 January 2009 |An anonymous reader writes "In terms of console usage, the aging PS2 still leads the competition, according to data from US research firm Nielsen. Data the company compiled between January and October 2008 shows that the PS2 ...

Why Game Developers Should Support OS X and Linux

6 January 2009 |kevind23 writes "Although Mac OS X and Linux have a small (but growing) market share, Jeff from Wolfire Games argues that supporting non-Windows platforms can lead to a huge increase in game sales. Using their popular game Lugaru ...

Apple IIe Emulator Released For the Wii

4 January 2009 |fortapocalypse writes "Yohanes Nugroho just released WiiApple, an Apple IIe Emulator for Wii. While the sound doesn't work, some games are playable (he shows a screenshot of Epyx Winter Games as well the execution of a program he ...

“Necessary Complexity” in Online Games

4 January 2009 |Massively is running a story about Google's short-lived virtual environment, Lively. The article examines why Lively shut down so quickly, and how its simplicity and its attempts at user-friendliness did more harm than good. ...

“Necessary Complexity” in Online Games

4 January 2009 |Massively is running a story about Google's short-lived virtual environment, Lively. The article examines why Lively shut down so quickly, and how its simplicity and its attempts at user-friendliness did more harm than good. ...

Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming

3 January 2009 |An article on CNet questions the viability of using games as part of a strategy to increase Linux adoption. It points out a blog post by Andrew Min which suggests: "... Linux companies also need to start paying attention to the ...

How Sony’s Development of the Cell Processor Benefited Microsoft

2 January 2009 |The Wall Street Journal is running an article about a recently released book entitled "The Race for a New Game Machine" which details Sony's development of the Cell processor, written by two of the engineers who worked on it. They ...

CCP Considering Mobile Apps for EVE Online

2 January 2009 |Massively reports on statements from EVE Online developer CCP Games indicating that they'll be working with MIT students to see if they can create mobile applications that will interact with EVE. They specifically mention things ...

A Look At the Growth of MMOs In 2008

1 January 2009 |Zonk writes with news of a collaboration between Massively and GamerDNA to analyze the state of MMO player bases for 2008. Sifting through the data brought out several interesting trends. For example, Age of Conan took a ...

The Best Games of 2008

1 January 2009 |As the year comes to an end, most game sites are putting up lists highlighting their favorite games of 2008. Gamasutra is no exception, but they've nicely consolidated a variety of lists, and included some of their reasons and ...