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Facebook shuts down R18+ for games group

16 March 2010 |Grow Up Australia group removed for violating social networking site’s terms of use; organisers to launch new fan page.

Five ways games can make you cry

16 March 2010 |GDC 2010: Ubisoft Montreal's Richard Rouse III explains how reminiscence, amplification through abstraction, transformation, loss, and nostalgia can make games emotionally poignant.

Crackdown 2 drops July 6

16 March 2010 |Ruffian-developed follow-up to Xbox 360-exclusive hybrid shooter-platformer slightly delayed; arrives in Asia and Australia July 8, UK and Europe July 9.

$15 Modern Warfare 2 map pack detailed

16 March 2010 |Newest Call of Duty add-on to command premium price, will feature five maps--three new, two remakes of Call of Duty 4 maps; hits Xbox Live March 31.

Bethesda, Brian Fargo crafting new co-op fantasy game

16 March 2010 |Elder Scrolls publisher, Interplay founder's inXile Entertainment developing Hunted: The Demon’s Forge for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

AU Shippin’ Out March 15-19: God of War III

15 March 2010 |The conclusion of Santa Monica Studio's epic hack-and-slash trilogy arrives in Australia unedited.

AU Shippin’ Out March 15-19: God of War III

15 March 2010 |The conclusion of Santa Monica Studio's epic hack-and-slash trilogy arrives in Australia unedited.

Shippin’ Out March 14-20: God of War III

15 March 2010 |Huge week at retail also sees launches of Command & Conquer 4, Metro 2033, Dragon Age expansion, new Pokemon for DS, and Resonance of Fate.

Will Wright: Game design a lot like dealing drugs

14 March 2010 |GDC 2010: Sim City, The Sims and Spore creator offers thoughts on the rise of social media in games, the allure of Advance Wars, and how games fit into the overall entertainment picture.

Ubisoft on designing Assassin’s Creed 2

14 March 2010 |GDC 2010: Sequel designer discusses core gameplay pillars, mission repetitiveness, using play tests as a mirror.

Metro 2033 UK Review

17 March 2010 |Mind the gap.

Aliens vs. Predator - Predalien Boss Guide (Hard Difficulty)

17 March 2010 |Alien vs Predator

Astro Introduces A30 Gaming Headset

16 March 2010 |A new ultra-portable gaming headset from the makers of the A40 Audio System.

Astro Introduces A30 Gaming Headset

16 March 2010 |A new ultra-portable gaming headset from the makers of the A40 Audio System.

Astro Introduces A30 Gaming Headset

16 March 2010 |A new ultra-portable gaming headset from the makers of the A40 Audio System.

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ModNation Racers Gets a Release Date

16 March 2010 |It won't be long until it's "racing" to stores. Har-har.

GDC 10: Cliff Bleszinski Talks About The Future of Gaming

16 March 2010 |The man who brought us Gears of War talks motion controllers, what's in store for everyone's favorite blood-soaked series, and more.

ModNation Racers Gets a Release Date

16 March 2010 |It won't be long until it's "racing" to stores. Har-har.

NVIDIA Adds 3DTV Support to 3D Vision

16 March 2010 |Take 3D PC gaming to the big screen.

Hunted Is inXile Melding Dungeon Crawling With Co-Op Action

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Brian Fargo (CEO and founder of inXile) misses the olden days. Back when people like him made games like ...

Next Impulse Update Available This Summer

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> While Blizzard completely revamps Battle.net to accomodate the upcoming StarCraft II, Impulse is ...

Perfect Dark XBLA Review

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Either you've played Perfect Dark before, or you haven't. Most readers who find their way here probably ...

Blizzard Hopes for StarCraft 2 Mac Beta in April

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> It's been about a month since the launch of the StarCraft 2 beta on PC, but Mac users have been ...

ModNation Racers Gets Green Light for May 25

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Sony announced the release date today for ModNation Racers: May 25. If you're wondering whether that ...

Blade Kitten Isn’t As Groan-Worthy As You’d Think

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Kit Ballard is a pink-haired catgirl bounty hunter with a snappy tongue and a not-so-covered rear end. ...

Bethesda Picks Up Hunted: Demon’s Forge

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Fallout developer Brian Fargo is going back to his roots, announcing today that Bethesda has picked up ...

Game Night with Battle Kid Coming Soon

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="624" height="388" ...

Codemasters VP Believes PSP is a “Useless Waste of Space”

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> There are few things that an entertainment device can be called that are worse than "useless." ...

Rondo of Blood, Rage of the Gladiator on Nintendo Downloads

16 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> The long-awaited Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is finally available on the U.S. Virtual Console. If you ...

Fan Backlash

16 March 2010 |Mess with someone's favorite game franchise, and you'll get more than the horns.

Your Shape Has its Eye on You

16 March 2010 |Ubisoft's new exercise game comes bundled with a camera that not only tracks your movements, but also allows you to put exercise equipment into your routine.

Mass Effect 2: Meet Samara

16 March 2010 |She's blue, kicks butt and has no interest in materialistic possessions. Sounds like our kind of alien.

Guild Wars 2 Video

16 March 2010 |New trailer showcases five races, different characters and locations from ArenaNet's ambitious sequel.

Mass Effect 2: The Engineer

16 March 2010 |Unleash combat drones and hack your enemies with Mass Effect 2's nerdy Engineer class.

MW2 MP Broken?

16 March 2010 |Xbox 360 version plagued by cheaters and 18 person deathmatches. What's Infinity Ward doing about this? Based on our experiences this week...nothing.

NES Stress Test

16 March 2010 |Can Super Mario Bros. withstand subzero temperatures? GoNintendo hopes to find out.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Trailer

16 March 2010 |Ubisoft releases a teaser to its much-anticipated Tom Clancy game.

GDC 2010 Coverage

14 March 2010 |Check out the latest videos from this week's feature packed show in San Francisco.

GDC 2010 Coverage

14 March 2010 |Check out the latest videos from this week's feature packed show in San Francisco.

Analysis: Soren Johnson On Playing The Odds

17 March 2010 |[Former lead designer on Firaxis' Civilization IV and current EA programmer Soren Johnson examines the role of luck in games, which he describes as "a social lubricant - the alcohol of gaming, so to speak." (Originally published in ...

Feature: Will Kwedit’s Play Now, Pay Later Model Work?

17 March 2010 |Developers of free-to-play games have a problem: a lot of of gamers want to play them for free. That is, while some gamers are active parts of a game's community, the majority are not spending any money on virtual items, the main ...

Analysis: PSP Go To Face ‘Slow Death At Retail’ In U.S.?

17 March 2010 |[As part of his monthly NPD review, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews takes a close look at February 2010 U.S. console hardware sales, estimating just 6-10,000 PSP Go-s sold in the month, and suggesting "a slow death at retail" for ...

Analysis: PSP’s Future And Shifting Hardware Fortunes

17 March 2010 |[As part of his monthly NPD review, Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews takes a close look at February 2010 hardware sales, concluding the PSP is on its way out and that consumers have finally "embraced" the PS3 alongside Xbox 360.] It ...

Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Wind Waker To Poseurs

17 March 2010 |In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our weblog writers take an in-depth look at The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, recent changes in Xbox Live policy and feeling more like a part of the industry. Member Blogs can be ...

Interview: Uematsu’s Dog Ear Records Head Talks Final Fantasy, Retro Piano

17 March 2010 |[We catch up with the director of Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu's Dog Ear Records label to discuss the company's diverse set of video game and related soundtracks, from piano versions of game music classics through spin-off ...

Quest Online Fires President, Hires Derek Smart

16 March 2010 |Alganon developer and publisher Quest Online has fired president and founder Dave Allen for insubordination, replacing the executive with industry veteran Derek Smart (Battlecruiser 3000AD) as the company prepares to re-launch its ...

ZeniMax Online Adopts Fork Particle Tech For MMO

16 March 2010 |ZeniMax Online Studios will be using the Fork Particle SDK to create the particle effects in its unannounced upcoming massively multiplayer game, the studio said in a statement. A division of ZeniMax Media, which also owns ...

GDC 2010: The Announcements, The Top Talks

16 March 2010 |With Game Developers Conference 2010 now at an end, Gamasutra has rounded up the top announcements, from Sony Move through OnLive's release specifics, and write-ups of the biggest talks into one handy news story. The official GDC ...

Microsoft Patents Friend-Based DLC Promotion System

16 March 2010 |Microsoft hopes upcoming games will encourage your friends to sell you downloadable game content, based on a system described in a recently-granted patent for an integrated DLC distribution system. If implemented, the ...

News: OnLive business model a “shot in the arm” for Gaikai

17 March 2010 | David Perry has pointed out the drawbacks of cloud gaming service OnLive compared to his own Gaikai service, due to launch later this year, in the wake of OnLive's pricing and strategy announcements at this year's ...

News: British Inspiration Awards to honour UK creative sectors

17 March 2010 | Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg are lending cross-party support to the British Inspiration Awards, a new initiative to honour the UK's creative ...

News: GAME opens Home space

17 March 2010 | UK retailer GAME is to open a space in PlayStation 3 Home this week, offering visitors access to exclusive content and competitions. The company becomes one of the first ...

News: Quest Online sacks president, admits MMO “should never have launched”

17 March 2010 | US developer Quest Online has sacked its president and co-founder Dave Allen for "insubordination" and replaced him with 3000AD president Derek Smart. Although the ...

News: GDC 2010 attracts record industry numbers

17 March 2010 | The 2010 Game Developer's Conference, which ended in San Francisco on Saturday, attracted a record industry turn out of over 18,000, the show's organisers have confirmed. ...

Interview: LucasArts’ Darrell Rodriguez

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News: Bethesda to publish new title from inXile Entertainment

16 March 2010 | Fallout publisher Bethesda has picked up inXile's latest dungeon romp, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, for release on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The title is being overseen by ...

News: Registration opens for Develop 2010

16 March 2010 | Registration is now open for Develop in Brighton, taking place July 13-15, 2010, with a number of early bird discounts on offer until June 7. One, two or three day ...

News: PlayStation Home audience hits 12 million

16 March 2010 | The worldwide userbase for the PlayStation Home virtual world now stands at 12 million users, according to comments made by Sony's Jack Buser. Speaking at the recently ...

News: Microsoft patents online upselling

16 March 2010 | Microsoft has patented a new system of purchasing downloadable content via an automatic prompt, which attempts to ensure all players in the game have the same updates. ...

Fellowship Funds Year-Long Study of Asian Game Culture

17 March 2010 |Spending a year studying the culture of gamers in East Asia sure sounds like a lot of fun even if you had to pay for it yourself, but imagine how much better it would be if the whole trip was paid for by a fellowship grant.Lawrence ...

Venezuela: Violent Games Banned, Internet Censorship Next?

16 March 2010 |As a result of a Venezuelan website falsely reporting the death of a senior government minister, the Internet has now draw the ire of the South American country’s president Hugo Chavez.The Venezuelan website NoticieroDigital ...

G4C Constitution Hinges Around “Don’t be a Dick”

16 March 2010 |As time winds down before Australia's March 20th elections, Gamers4Croydon continues to up its presence.The group issued a call to arms announcement via its Steam Community presence, in which it outlines its policies, candidates ...

AU Paper Runs Game Retailer Rating Sting

16 March 2010 |Australia’s Sun-Herald recently conducted a field test to determine local retailers adherence to videogame ratings.The sting used a 14-year old boy named Peter (pictured), who was ‘described as looking even ...

U.S. Military Eying Larger Role for Games in Troop Training

16 March 2010 |The U.S. Military, already a big practitioner of videogame-based training for its members, plans to spend even more on the technology in the future.In a bid to cut battlefield casualties the Pentagon has approved an ...

MSU-Developed Game Teaches Kids to Avoid Landmines

16 March 2010 |A game in development at Michigan State University was designed to teach Cambodian kids, and others around the world, how to avoid landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) that might be scattered about their ...

Kiwi Internet Filtering Goes Live

16 March 2010 |While Internet filtering went live for some New Zealand web surfers in February, the enactment was only recently announced to the general public.The filtering technology is currently in use by two New Zealand ISPs, Maxnet and ...

Unlikely Pair Come Out Against RI Adult Game Bill

13 March 2010 |While Rhode Island Bill S.2156 drew backing from the Parents Television Council, an unlikely pair has come out against the Bill, which proposes fines and possible jail time for retailers that sell “M” or ...

Unlikely Pair Come Out Against RI Adult Game Bill

13 March 2010 |While Rhode Island Bill S.2156 drew backing from the Parents Television Council, an unlikely pair has come out against the Bill, which proposes fines and possible jail time for retailers that sell “M” or ...

Why People Do What They Do to Earn Social Game Points

13 March 2010 |Research released by Offerpal Media offers some insight into why so many social gamers are willing to complete marketing actions in order to obtain virtual currency.The comScore-conducted study among 799 panelists reported that ...

Rumor: Gears of War 3 in April 2011

17 March 2010 | A few things in this life are certain: Oprah will have a new book for you to read every month and you can bet there's a new Gears of War in the works. Edge says a source has put a pin in April 2011 as the release window for the ...

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd coming to Japan in late 2010

17 March 2010 | When Capcom woke up this morning, it decided it would like to have roughly a bajillion more dollars by this time next year. It walked over to a secret panel in its foyer, slid it open and pressed a button inside, labeled "New ...

Hands-on: Risk Factions (XBLA)

17 March 2010 | I have an admission to make: I haven't played the original Risk board game. For hardcore fans of the game, that fact alone may discredit my opinion. However, after playing the upcoming XBLA adaptation, I wish I had discovered the ...

Sega teases yet another Yakuza game

17 March 2010 | [Famitsu] Now that Yakuza 3 has been out in North America for a whole week and Yakuza 4 ia due to hit Japan in two days, it's definitely time for Sega to announce another one. At least, that's what Sega seems to think. At a Yakuza ...

GDC: ‘Designing Shadow Complex’ (or: zig when they zag)

17 March 2010 | While Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto may not have played Shadow Complex, the XBLA darling's creators definitely played Metroid. During a panel titled "Designing Shadow Complex," Chair Entertainment Creative Director Donald ...

Hands-on: Parrot AR.Drone

17 March 2010 | We've never written about the Parrot AR.Drone on our humble news site because we've yet to see its applications in the gaming space. Don't get us wrong -- it's as inherently awesome as you'd expect a hovering, camera-equipped ...

Go behind the tech of PlayStation Move at the Engadget Show this Saturday

17 March 2010 | The Engadget Show is teaming up with Joystiq's very own Chris Grant this Saturday in a brand new episode that features the newly unveiled PlayStation Move motion controller. Sony's Richard Marks will take the stage, bringing some ...

Ghostwire to haunt iPhone, Android

17 March 2010 | Ghostwire lead developer Tom Soderlund told us at GDC that his upcoming DSi-exclusive Nintendo DS game will be coming to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. The DSi version, published by Majesco, is set to come out near Halloween ...

Developer Tom Soderlund explains the frights of Ghostwire

17 March 2010 | Bumps in the night. Unexplained sounds. A chill up your spine. Extreme terror. These things aren't associated with the Nintendo DSi, unless you unexpectedly leave yours behind in a taxi. But A Different Game CEO Tom Soderlund ...

SXSW: Creating 87 bazillion guns for Borderlands

17 March 2010 | Fact: there are 16,164,886 guns in Borderlands according to Gearbox Software developers Matthew Armstrong and Jimmy Sieben. That's a lot of guns. Remember that scene in The Matrix where Neo says "Guns. Lots and lots of guns."? ...

Custom God Of War III Console Has Its Eye On You

17 March 2010 |There’s a televised God of War trivia competition on Spike tonight. What fun. There is one bright spot emerging from the charade, though: the winner’s prize, which is this custom God of War III PlayStation 3 console. ...

Wakeboarding HD, A Rare Wakeboarding Game, Goes To PSN

17 March 2010 |How many games have been based on the water sport of wakeboarding? One? Two?! No, three, now that Creat Studios is bringing Wakeboarding HD to the PlayStation Network this week, perhaps the most shark-jumping of the bunch. ...

Kotaku Off Topic: Uninterrupted

17 March 2010 |After giving Kotaku Off Topic a few days off, let’s get back into the week with some conversation that doesn’t have to be about video games if you don’t want it to be. Movies, music, toys, fashion, politics. Cut ...

Someone’s Gonna Buy A R.O.B. For Four Grand

16 March 2010 |This display case, containing a pristine, never-played Nintendo Entertainment System, and a never-used Robotic Operating Buddy (we like to be formal on first reference here) will fetch more than $US4000 when its eBay auction closes ...

Mafia II Hands-On: The Scenic Route Is Full Of Centerfolds

16 March 2010 |What differentiates Mafia II from other open world gangster games, especially Take-Two’s other popular driving and delinquency-filled Grand Theft Auto series? For one, Mafia II runs things at a slower, simpler place. It also ...

A New Marathon Trademark? What’s That Pfhor?

16 March 2010 |One week ago Bungie filed a new trademark application for Marathon, the FPS superstar of Mac gaming’s brief apogee during the mid- to late-1990s. There are few details beyond that but the paperwork’s enough to stoke ...

Sony: Passing On Demon’s Souls “A Mistake”

16 March 2010 |Sony Computer Entertainment published From Software’s brilliant Demon’s Souls in its native Japan, but when it came time to take it westward, it was up to publisher Atlus to step forward and localise the PS3 game. ...

Multiplayer Fix For MLB 2K10 Could Arrive This Week

16 March 2010 |A fix correcting a debilitating dead-end bug for players connecting to random ranked matches in MLB 2K10 could go live as early as this week. The patch addressing the error contains a multitude of other fixes as well. (more…)

Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes HD Eyes-On

16 March 2010 |Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, the Nintendo DS strategy-RPG that went under-appreciated – and under-purchased – by too many last year, is getting a second chance on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in ...

Raise A Toast To Toast Mario

16 March 2010 |Mario, represented by several dozen slices of toasted bread and some plain hamburger buns. Seen via Epic Win FTW. You know what’s coming next: Bacon Luigi.

GDC Sees Record Attendance

17 March 2010 |A record 18,250 game industry professionals attended GDC 2010 in San Francisco. Held at the Moscone Convention Center from March 9-13, the event surpassed last year's total of 17,000 visitors, according to its organisers. As well ...

Gears Of War 3 Releasing April 2011 – Source

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->Microsoft will launch Gears Of War 3 in early April 2011, a trusted US publishing source has told Edge.The first teaser trailer for the third person shooter is expected to debut next month on April 8, ...

Community Spotlight

17 March 2010 |Highlights from our community-written blogs, featuring PlayStation Home's potential for gaming and the emotional impact of Heavy Rain. EvilRedEye plays Sodium, an action MMOG based in PlayStation Home, and he finds what he plays ...

ModNation Racers Dated

17 March 2010 |Sony has confirmed a May 25 North American launch date for PS3 and PSP kart racer ModNation Racers. The company said that it hopes to release the United Front Games developed title during the same week in Europe. “ModNation ...

Sony Regrets Passing On Demon’s Souls

17 March 2010 |Sony has said that passing up on worldwide publishing rights to surprise sleeper hit Demon's Souls was an error. Speaking at GDC (via 1UP), Sony Japan Studios localisation and licensing rep Yeonkyung Kim said that the company had ...

Microsoft: Blu-Ray Absence Boosted Xbox 360

17 March 2010 |Microsoft director of product management Aaron Greenberg believes the absence of an Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive has played a significant role in the console’s success. “We’ve just taken a different strategy. Sony bet ...

No New Epic Game In 2010

16 March 2010 |Epic Games' Mark Rein has said that the Gears of War developer wont be releasing a game this year but instead said the company would be supporting games made by customers of its Unreal Engine. "We don't have any games coming ...

THQ: Metro 2033 Sets New Xbox 360 Visual Standard

16 March 2010 |Metro 2033 has pushed Xbox 360 graphical standards in a way that hasn't been "done before", according to THQ's head of communications Huw Beynon. read more

Alan Wake DLC Planned This Year

16 March 2010 | Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has said it plans to release at least two downloadable episodes to expand the title this year."I think it'll depend a lot on the audience, but certainly we want to -- if we're ...

Blizzard May License Battle.Net To Third Parties

16 March 2010 |Blizzard's Rob Pardo has said the company could make its upcoming Battle.Net publishing and multiplayer platform available to third parties. "It's something that we've definitely always talked about," Pardo told the ...

Bethesda Announces New RPG: Hunted - Preview Inside

17 March 2010 |RPG software giant Bethesda is bringing us a completely new RPG...

God of War III pre-orders hit half a million in the Americas

17 March 2010 |God of War III narrowly beats out Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver with 485,000 pre-orders in the Americas, both games release next week

Oddest Video Game Marketing, Don’t Drop the Soap

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Whoa ‘Mass Effect’ Girl!

17 March 2010 |Just another hot Mass Effect girl.

11 Awesome “Mario Bros” Creations (PICS)

16 March 2010 |When Mario was first introduced, he was playing second fiddle to Donkey Kong and was just called "Jumpman." Lame. Now look at him. 30 years have passed and fans are still paying tribute to the portly plumber, bringing him (and his ...

A Gorgeous Gallery of the Best Princess Zelda Cosplayer Ever

16 March 2010 |We’ve featured a lot of cosplayers on this site in the past year or so, but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen one quite like this, which is why she’s getting her own post.

1UP Mushroom (PIC)

16 March 2010 |Photographer Jon Beard, who normally photographs broken light bulbs at the exact moment the filament burns altered this still because, "What can I say? I grew up gaming and learned that if you break enough objects you'll eventually ...

Game Guru Sid Meier Explains Gamer Psychology

16 March 2010 |Sid Meier knows how gamers think. He has been making hit games such as Civilization for decades. Today at the Game Developers Conference, he shared his insights on gamer psychology and how he has had to change his assumptions about ...

Perfect Dark N64/Xbox 360 Video Comparison

16 March 2010 |A Perfect Dark comparison video between the new XLBA version, and the original N64 game.

Top Ten: Game Titles That Sound Like a Bunch of Random Words

16 March 2010 |For the game developer that needs a title quick, a thesaurus and a random word generator may be a good idea, but these did not come out right...

Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler

16 March 2010 |Bethesda Softworks took advantage of the recent Game Developers Conference to take the wraps off a new game called Hunted: The Demon's Forge that they're partnering with development studio inXile to create. It's planned for the PC, ...

BioShock 2’s First DLC Already On Disc

16 March 2010 |An anonymous reader writes with this quote from 1Up: "Trouble is brewing in Rapture. The recently released Sinclair Solutions multiplayer pack for BioShock 2 is facing upset players over the revelation that the content is already ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

University of Wyoming Studies Video Games

13 March 2010 |krou writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming's English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an ...

Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN

13 March 2010 |itwbennett writes "Sony on Tuesday 'rolled out the ability to buy HD movies from the PlayStation Network,' writes blogger Peter Smith. Sony claims they're the first service to offer HD titles to own from all six major movie ...