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By Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Sep 17, 2007 10:54pm PDT

Hello everyone, hope the day finds you all well. The TF2 beta unlocked last night after a few hiccups, so I haven't played it but we have this...

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"Combine them all into one superstory and sell it to a cable network as a telenovella.."

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Lord British Robbed by Idiots

By Chris Remo, Mar 19, 2007 1:33pm PDT

Ultima creator Richard "Lord British" Garriott recently suffered the second break-in in two years to his Austin-area property maintained for...

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"This story is awesome. What's the point of trying to be like Gamespot or IGN anyway? The shack ..."

- datoo see all 145 comments

Insecure HDDs Highlight Photocopier Risk

By Chris Faylor, Mar 14, 2007 1:00pm PDT

The Associated Press brings us an interesting report on a huge security risk most (myself included) take for granted: photocopiers. Turns out, many...

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"I think reporting on DDR in fitness centers would have been the better choice in this instance."

- dante2010 see all 24 comments

Please Ditch DRM

By Steve Gibson, Feb 06, 2007 1:19pm PST

So the big fuss lately in the music world is the slight hope that music companies may finally give up on the idea of DRM when it comes to music...

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"I concur, its something thats "felt" more, than say something the ear "hears". It's really about ..."

- spacemen3 see all 75 comments

A Different Take on Brain Games

By Chris Remo, Jul 13, 2006 11:00am PDT

Scientific journal Nature released details this week of an experiment in which a video game was controlled by a paraplegic subject using nothing...

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"agreed. imagine the sense of accomplishment those engineers must have today... pretty cool."

- dumptruck see all 8 comments

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD Ramps Up

By Chris Remo, Jan 04, 2006 4:55pm PST

Well, it doesn't look like there's going to be tons of real gaming news at CES, but the heated battle between Sony-backed Blu-ray and...

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"Still not really relevant. We're talking about a standard that is about to be adopted by a huge ..."

- melaleuca see all 96 comments

Philips Showing High-Tech Game Board @ CES

By Maarten Goldstein, Jan 04, 2006 4:51pm PST

Philips today announced that visitors of CES will be able to check out the "Entertaible", a tabletop gaming platform featuring a 30-inch...

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"That's really not true for good LCD tv's. I have a Samsung 26" HDTV which has excellent viewing ..."

- r3tina see all 17 comments

Microsoft Teaches You to Make Games

By Chris Remo, Dec 29, 2005 12:00pm PST

In January and February, Microsoft will be hosting a series of free webcasts teaching the basics of 3D game development using C#. It's aimed at...

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"...And the reason it can't possibly be true is that Java's native method invocation sucks balls. ..."

- wesn see all 77 comments

Go Ahead and Make a Game

By Chris Remo, Nov 29, 2005 10:15am PST

Can't find any games you want to play right now? There's a lot of good stuff out at the moment, so you're probably looking in the wrong places,...

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"We already have a 360 version. Our first 360 Torque game should be out on Xbox 360 Arcade very soon."

- timaste see all 18 comments

A JavaScript FPS, Seriously

By Chris Remo, Nov 28, 2005 3:30pm PST

Well, it doesn't have the "S" part of FPS quite yet, but Benjamin Joffe has developed a browser-based JavaScript "3D walker". It requires a...

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" blame it on haiku... i have no idea what I did... i tried putting 2 green tags."

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Gamers' Buying Guide Round-Up

By Chris Remo, Nov 25, 2005 11:00am PST

So, now that Thanksgiving has passed, it's time to to buy all sorts of gifts for the holiday season and its various upcoming gift-giving...

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"Links pwn Chris. Thanks. I nearly tabbed out my firefox to look at sequentially, 6 in a row. ..."

- kainen1 see all 8 comments

Game Programming and Console Workings

By Chris Remo, Nov 24, 2005 10:45am PST

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating the holiday, and Ha Ha Ha to those of you who don't get to eat mind-boggling amounts of wonderful...

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"That's because you completely missed his point. His point was that the shack has a huge ..."

- batkiwi see all 16 comments

Evening Reading

By Steve Gibson, Nov 20, 2005 6:00pm PST

Well just a few more days until Maarten and I shut up about the Xbox 360! Can you feel it!? - Apparently search engines are popular? - Japenese...

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"jesus christ that made me squirm. My right knee is kind of fucked up, nothing that bad but my ..."

- chazums see all 2550 comments

NPR on WoW

By Chris Remo, Oct 06, 2005 10:30am PDT

See, this is what I love about MMOs. Remember that plague that broke out in World of Warcraft recently? The way that unexpected events such as...

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"They have some great ideas but aren't very good in the execution of things. That made me ..."

- [7]kami see all 85 comments

Ye Olde Arcade

By Chris Remo, Sep 29, 2005 10:14am PDT

There's an article up by the enigmatically-named Spanner entitled The Back O' The Arcade. The author takes a nostalgic and evocative look back at...

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"I loved it after street fighter 2 came out. you couldn't walk past any arcade without a ..."

- usedillusion see all 41 comments