Game Gift Guide '08: The Hardware
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox
The who what and why of holiday shopping for gamers; a snack sized gift guide.
Fallout 3
Windows PC
Fallout 3 follows in the auspicious footsteps of role-playing/shooter hybrids before it, Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and BioShock, widely accepted as Game of the Year in 2006 and 2007 respectively. '08 just might be the year of the Fallout. But maybe not...
Surprise, most gamers aren't geeks
Macintosh, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Software, TV Plug-n-Play, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
For some, it's hard to take the videogame industry seriously when all it conjures is images of boys playing virtual soldier shooting aliens on the spare TV in the basement. Thing is, that image hasn't been accurate for a decade or two. And now, a new Ipsos study shows it to be completely false. Go figure.
D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up
Windows PC
Though "die in pain, rest in peace" seems a weak slogan for a car-combat game, D.I.P.R.I.P. is nonetheless a solid smash-bang vehicular shooter, mainly because it's based on Valve Software's superlative Source code. Think Half-Life 2 goes destruction derby.
Bond game promo, play free, win stuff
PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360
If you like 007, freebie games, chances to win cool free stuff like a PlayStation3, have a PC and an internet connection, well, has Activision got a deal for you.
Cool free stuff: Source MODs on Steam
Windows PC
Valve Software just made available Source MODs, user-created game modifications, recreations or completely new games; all built using Valve's publicly available game code. Free.
UberSoldier II
Windows PC
Apparently, what the world needs now is another World War II themed first-person-shooter (FPS) in which you kill many, many Nazis. Well, the world also needs cheaper games, and UberSoldier II certainly fits that bill.
Spore
Macintosh, Windows PC
Better and more sadly described as a "Life Simulator for Dummies," Spore is not quite the evolution of videogaming most hoped it to be, though it is all about evolution.
Spore spawns a million
Macintosh, Nintendo DS, Windows PC
Sure, a few of the exceedingly vocal have complained about tyrannical digital rights management (DRM) accompanying EA's new Spore game, but a million of the tyrannically tolerant haven't said boo.
TechKnow: DirectX 10 and the future of PC gaming
Windows PC
You may have heard of DirectX, DirectX 10, OpenGL and APIs because you're into PC games. You may also have heard that Microsoft's Windows Vista isn't worth the hassle and vowed to stay with XP. The thing is, you can't... not for much longer, anyway. Chad Sapieha explains.
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