Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
Two quick hits here, while I have a moment. Valve Software is looking to release Half-Life 2 Episode 2 sometime this fall. Reportedly they will be including two side-games in the Ep. 2 release. One will warm the hearts of…
Say you’re an international videogame company looking to help the world’s most powerful man celebrate his 60th birthday. What do you send him? Why, a Nintendo DS Lite, complete with a congratulatory letter and a copy of a popular brain-teaser…
There’s geeky, and then there’s putting on a production of Monkey Island* for your school play. Here’s hoping they do Grim Fandango next. *More about the Monkey Island games is available here.
We’ve been over this a million times: some people have way, way too much time on their hands. As further evidence, I present a 2D representation of a 3D representation of a 4D house, constructed entirely using the tools provided…
Senators Bill Frist and Judd Gregg have proposed the Stop Overspending Act, a piece of legislation that aims to: First, […]give President Bush the line item veto. Pork thrives in Washington because it can be tucked away inside massive appropriation…
New Sisyphus made a nifty observation regarding Valve Software’s Steam, a software distribution client and network, namely: skipping the brick n’ mortar retail markets is the only way to go for low-volume game genres (such as independent and role playing…
A gent by the name of Peter Hirschberg has assembled an absolutely astounding collection of arcade games and pinball tables which he has placed in a home arcade that is absolutely to die for, geekily-speaking. The full list of games…
I will admit that I was not quite sure about the concept of getting a Wii prior to E3’s opening, but having watched Nintendo’s keynote presentation, seen the previews of Super Mario Galaxy, noted with interest the new Lightgun 2…
Sony held a pre-E3 press conference yesterday and announced pricing, release date and features for the PlayStation 3: initally, two models will be sold – one with a 20GB hard drive for $499 and one with a 40GB60GB hard drive…
