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Not to be outdone by Dell's deal with Alienware (and not to be confused with the Congressional hearing (aka "HP FUD" -- Fear Uncertaincy and Doubt) now going on, Hewlett-Packard plans to buy niche PC manufacturer Voodoo Computers.
Voodoo makes cool looking, high-end PCs (expensive!) that are popular with gamers. We've blogged about them previously -- some hot boxes!
Will be interesting to see how the PC companies (Dell and HP) fare against game-console manufacturers Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.
Another battle of the titans to enjoy ...
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It's beginning to look a lot like HD around here, with Microsoft's announcment today at the Tokyo Game Show 2006 that is has a library of 110 HD Xbox 360 games that will be available this holiday season in Japan, including the highly anticipated Blue Dragon.
(Look for a lot of those to be headed our way, too.)
Also, Microsoft is going "old school" with a tribute to “Pac-Man” with the announcement of the first “Pac-Man” World Championship will be held in early 2007 using Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade.
The Xbox 360 games showcased included:
- Blue Dragon (Microsoft Game Studios)
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom)
- Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Tecmo Inc.)
- Trusty Bell (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
If this isn't enough, read the complete press release on the Microsoft web site.
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If watching reality TV and playing "reality" video games like all of the permutations of The Sims wasn't enough, MTV plans to launch its new show, Virtual Laguna Beach, on Wednesday.
Not just any old MTV-type show, according to reports (like those in today's New York Times), Virtual Laguna Beach lets you not just watch TV, but live TV.
(Not sure if I really want to ...)
The introduction of Virtual Laguna Beach is apparently the first of three virtual worlds 
that MTV plans over the next year as part of an effort to gain back mindshare from such popular Web sites as MySpace and YouTube.
To join in the fun, visit www.vlb.mtv.com and download a piece of software to get started. The first step is designing your avatar — which can look like you or anybody (or thing) you want to be.
(Think many Runescape players will go over to the light side ...?)
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According to a report in Advertising Age, Nintendo is teaming with McDonald's to reach new, non-core gamer audiences -- the Happy Meal crowd, tween girls and older folks (this last demographic via hosted "Grandparents Days!)
These efforts, along with a planned new multimedia campaign, are designed to extend the reach of its Nintendo DS beyond the core gamer market.
Will gaining one (or more) audiences, lose the core?
Gamers do know cool when they see it. "I'm lovin' it" -- I just don't know ...
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This may be hard to believe for some, but online virtual worlds can actually help kids with school and school work.
At least that's what online virtual world Whyville.net is claiming -- with 1.6 million or so children aged 8 to 12 spend time there to learn about math, science and other subjects in a "multiuser virtual environment." (Anybody remembe the three Rs?)
According to a recent CNN report, some educators believe virtual worlds can have a big impact on education, but proponents are having a difficult time overcoming negative perceptions of computer games.
What negative perception?
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What is old becomes new again -- is this inspired by Stonehenge or other ancient rock formations built by our ancestors?
(Or is there a simpler reason grasshopper?)
Rukshuk, "The Game of Rock Balancing" -- offers a "refreshing departure from the high-tech world of video games dominating the current landscape" and a global ecological theme.
Every Rukshuk rock formation, which players attempt to build by balancing specially crafted game rocks, is named for a natural rock phenomenon somewhere on the planet.
Here's creator Malcom Bisiker's take on it:
“Mother Nature has been building rock formations for a long time. People around the world have also built rock formations for cultural reasons and as landmarks for thousands of years. Rukshuk delivers this age-old idea in the form of an exciting, point-scoring game."
Players race against the clock to build different Rukshuk rock formations by balancing their blindly chosen game rocks. (Scrabble anyone?)
If a formation topples, it must be rebuilt quickly. Points are scored for each rock standing at the end of the allotted time, with bonus points added for the successful use of specific rocks and the completion of the formation. The player with the highest score wins.
Bisiker's inspiration? Rukshuk was conceived in 1998 in a cafe (are you sure this doesn't mean "pub"?) in London, England, where he watched as a group of friends nearby attempted to stack sugar cubes. He wondered what was so addictive about the balancing act, tried it himself and was instantly hooked.
(See how you can turn your idle time into inspiration?)
www.rukshuk.com
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It's pretty interesting how uncool AOL is trying to get cool -- first by dropping a chunk of its pay-per-use model and now buying GameDaily, arguably one of the leading online gaming publications.
(All the news that's fit to print about video games, gaming, etc. ... and that can really be quite a lot of news!)
Check out the news on the GameDaily site to see how they reported their own news!
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Anyone care the guess the name of hte world's largest online games website? The one with 27 million users? The one that was just honored with the People’s Voice Award for Games for the second successive year?
Well, it's you said Miniclip.com, then you are correct!
Syndicated across more websites than any other, Miniclip.com games are extremely popular because they are fun, free, easy to use and include the full range from casual games to hard-core massive multiplayer games.
(Does the game pictured sound familiar?)
And hey, there's even a John Kerry Workout game (how wacked is that?!) 
www.miniclip.com
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Gamers, gamers, gamers, do I have deal for you ...
Layered Technologies is offering its LayeredX gaming server for one month (for free) to the winner of the LayeredX Wallpaper Contest.
LayeredX (www.layeredX.com) is a dedicated gaming server division that offers premium HP server hardware and a superior low latency network. The network inevitably links with skill to finesse more frags in virtual war, which means more fun as well as a technically robust environment for gamers!
How to get the LayeredX, you ask?
Just design a desktop wallpaper that awes the world -- get creative, impress your fellow artists -- and becomes one of the first of LayeredX's publicly released desktop wallpapers. It will be pasted across the virtual battlefields of the world! 
Find the contest rules at www.layeredx.com/downloads.shtml
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Try this on for size gamers!
The Satoricode Code Project is among other things an attempt to provide a constructive virtual world outlet for Internet users to settle differences that may lead to violence in the real world. Players enter a three-dimensional virtual world and control a soldier in a video game war. They can battle one on one with another player or they can recruit others to join their army. Which ever player or team has the highest score at the end of the battle wins.
(Something for the UN to consider?)
Another important part of the project will channel the energies of users to see what topics are important to them. What topics are they willing to fight for?
Visitors can post ideas that they are passionate about and create an army of fellow Internet users who go into a virtual war in order to score points for their idea. Which ever army scores the most points wins.
Here's a look inside the mind of the creator:
“This project is about creating a new form of communication for our emotional energies and connecting those energies with people from all over the world in one interplanetary exercise in anger management, conflict resolution and understanding which things are important enough for us to fight for.
"Let me explain what I mean. We all have a conscious and a subconscious mind. Our conscious mind is connected to our ability to speak so when something in this part of our mind upsets us we are able to talk about it and use reason to solve our problems. The subconscious mind on the other hand behaves a bit differently. This part of our mind is not connected with our ability to speak, but instead it is connected to our emotions.
"Because our emotions filter the way that we perceive our world, unresolved issues can negatively impact the way we respond to our environment, making us do things we are likely to regret. We need outlets for these energies so that we can mitigate the negative effect they have on our lives, and so that we can bring them to the surface of our minds where our conscious mind can interrupt them and find long-term solutions to our problem. The goal of this web site is to help to facilitate this process."
Try it and let me know if you feel better ...
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Take it easy, it's only availabe in Japan!
Nintendo has started selling its Nintendo DS Browser in Japan via several dedicated Japanese online sales sites.
Opera Software's full-featured browser enables Japanese gamers to surf all their favorite Web sites on the Nintendo DS or DS Lite.
The browser is sold as a separate DS card, just like Nintendo DS games, and will come with an extra memory expansion cartridge so that users can access full Internet content by utilizing Wi-Fi environments at home, Nintendo’s dedicated Wi-Fi Stations and free accessing spots.
The Nintendo DS Browser is available in Japan at a retail price of 3,800 yen (tax included) and can be purchased online at Nintendo-authorized sales sites. (That's a little less than $33.)
The Nintendo DS browser represents Opera Software's first product deployment with Nintendo. Nintendo has also selected Opera to be the browser for its new game console, Wii, expected on the market during the fourth quarter of 2006.
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How about the reports that Atari is attempting to get back into that top-of-mind gamers spot? (Remember when Atari was the only game in town? My how things have changed ...)
Some buzz about the launch of its Test Drive Unlimited driving simulation game, which apparently takes a radical move in in multiplayer online games designed for consoles, rather than computers.
It allows literally thousands of gamers to play within the same game world simultaneously. According to the company, the seamless online connection offers unlimited new challenges, opponents and competitions as well as monthly additions of vehicles, aftermarket parts, clothes and apparel; and I'm sure plenty of other stuff.
Anybody want to share any fond Atari memories?
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Video game goliath Electronic Arts has recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mythic Entertainment, which vaults it into developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs).
Mythic is recognized worldwide for revolutionizing the online gaming space with the awardwinning Dark Age of Camelot (pictured) and is currently developing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning under a license agreement with Games Workshop.
The net net: The growing importance of online gaming as a revenue-producing space, as more and more companies look to monetize the Internet.
Is that a good thing?
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The Arcadia Project is calling itself the very first fully community-funded and community-assisted PC game ever attempted to be built from the ground up!
A company called Stormcloud Creations will build Arcadia: Guild of Heroes (aka The Arcadia Project), which will enable pre-order users to play actual builds of the game and suggest ideas as its being created.
The project is in the beginning stages now, with several builds already having been released.
The game itself is a management game with a role-playing game sensibility. You can recruit heroes, view detailed stats on their abilities, age, birthday, height and weight.
Build a party of adventurers and send them on dangerous quests in search of riches. Characters age, mature over time and retire.
More info for the game related aspects of the project and pre-order links are available at: http://www.stormcloudcreations.com/arcproject.htm
Entrance into the project is $19.95, and this gives any user a full version of the game when released and full access to the private forums during the complete development cycle.
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In another sign of the ever-growing importance and influence of video games, EchoStar and its DISH Network satellite television service have announced that it will offer a new interactive application called DishGAMES as part of its “DishHOME” interactive channel 100.
DishGAMES will feature 16 games from PixelPlay’s branded games including ASTEROIDS MEGA and CENTIPEDE MEGA. It will also include prizing, score submission, leader board and tournament capabilities.
To subscribe to DishGAMES, customers can select an on-screen “subscribe” button using their remote control which will connect them directly to the interactive TV customer service application.
DishGAMES is $4.99 per month or $49.99 annually. New customers will have access to all 16 games for the first five weeks, after which the games will rotate out weekly from an extensive library. All games will also be available for non-subscribers in demo mode.
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Just in time for Father’s Day, graduation day and summer travel, Nintendo has introducesd its cool new hand-held gaming system, Nintendo DS Lite.
Available in a stylish Polar White, the Nintendo DS Lite is less than two-thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS and more than 20% lighter. It features a brighter screen with four adjustable brightness settings so you can see what you're doing in any light.
Retail price: $129.99 (available now at retailers throughout the United States).
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According to a recent report from BusinessWeek Magazine, the online gaming market will reach $13 billion by 2011. This would be a 400% increase from the $3.4 billion market last year.
Over that time period, North America could challenge longtime leader Asia as the top market, but only time will tell with that one.
The full 750-page report is from market research firm DFC Intelligence. That's a lot of reading!
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RuneScape Boards is one of the fastest growing forums/communities for RuneScape members and players.
Check it out at http://www.rsboards.com.
Interested to hear about other forums and why you like/don't like them ...
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If you love online gaming and want to avoid any kind of fees (except for Internet access, of course), GreenAppleGames.com is offering free online "casual games" for internet browser play. These games do not require any downloads, and a user can play the game inside the window of an Internet browser.
Games include the top-selling Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects and Poker Superstars 2 as well as Mystery Case Files: Huntsville, Big Kahuna Reef, Slingo and more.
Actually some fun games; check them out!
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Amid all of the massive hubbub over today's opening of The Da Vinci Code, we seem to forget that (of course) there is a video game connected to the movie, too.
The movie opens today and the game, from 2K Games, is released today, too, for Xbox, PS2 and PC.
Will it be easier to buy the game than see the movie?
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RuneScape launched its latest game engine upgrade today! Here's the details from www.runescape.com:
"This is the biggest upgrade to the underlying engine which runs the game since we launched the new 3D engine two years ago, and I've been working on it for literally months. However this time the changes are more under the hood, which means (if everything goes to plan) you shouldn't actually notice a huge amount of difference!
"The game engine upgrades this time are focused on allowing us to make the game bigger and on providing support for all sorts of features we want to do in future updates. These are the sort of changes that you won't see immediately, but do allow us to do all sorts of things in the future which we've been dying to do, but couldn't previously.
"However, there will still be quite a few improvements that you will see immediately, such as:
- The first time you load the new engine it will take slightly longer than normal to load as it imports all the data from the old engine. However it only ever has to do that once, and from then on you can look forward to much faster loading times and much faster update times.
- Greatly reduced memory use.
- Vastly improved sound compatibility, including sound support in Firefox.
- Better sound engine which can play more sounds at once.
- Improved chat filter. Again this is a whole new technology and we might need to tweak it a bit so please be patient with it, but it should in the long run give less false positives whilst still protecting the chat.
- Far better anti-macro technology.
- Better compatibility with dual CPU computers.
- Better compatibility with firewalls.
- Better language support, with support for accented characters in chat, etc.
"But of course it mainly consists of underlying changes to let us do more exciting stuff in upcoming updates ..."
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SanDisk answered the call for the growing demand from power users of the popular Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) by introducing today a 4-gigabyte (GB) SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo Game card that can store up to 64 hours of MP3 music tracks, 20 or more hours of movies/videos/film trailers, 12 hours of game saves, or 4,000 digital still images. The announcement was made at E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where SanDisk is showing its new gaming products in Meeting Rooms 6809 and 6811 in Kentia Hall.
The 4GB card, which is expected to ship this month, carries a suggested retail price (SRP) of $219.99. Other capacities in the Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming Card line include 256 megabytes (MB)* at $34.99, 512MB at $44.99, 1GB at $59.99 and 2GB at $109.99 (SRPs).
The PSP uses a proprietary storage medium called Universal Media Disc (UMD) for movies and games, but UMD discs are neither recordable nor writable.
SanDisk co-developed the Memory Stick PRO format with Sony. Last year, SanDisk introduced the new gaming line of Memory Stick PRO Duo cards in semi-transparent neon colors. The new 4GB card is red.
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Say what you want, Electronic Arts (EA) is still one of the top producers of video games (been so for a long time, too) for every platform.
EA is using E3, which opens today in LA (and runs through May 12) to showcase the following games:
- The Lord of the Ring, The Battle for Middle-earth II
- NCAA Football 07
- SPORE
EA officials say The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for the Xbox 360 will bring players into the heart of Middle-earth to live the battles seen in the blockbuster New Line Cinema films and classic J.R.R. Tolkien literary fiction.
NCAA Football 07 on the Xbox 360™ features detailed graphics relaying the authenticity of the stadiums, mascots and marching bands of college football.
From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes “SPORE for the PC, an epic journey that takes players from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space.
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Sony and Microsoft used to compete head to head in video gaming consoles, but with Sony announcing PlayStation 3 prices at $499 (basic) and $599 (souped up), they now seem to be at a major competitive disadvantage with Microsoft on a key issue -- price. Xbox 360 is at $299 and $399.
And where does the new Nintendo box fit into all of this?
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Gaming enthusiasts unite!
Tomorrow, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the world’s largest gaming conference, opens in the city of angels (Los Angeles); it runs through May 12.
New programs will be unveiled by such leading companies as Entertainment Arts, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, but the biggest buzz this year will be new gaming consoles. Will the new Sony Playstation 3 blow away Microsoft’s Xbox 360? What do you think?
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According to an
IGN survey, 14% are unsure about their next next-gen videogame console purchase.
Microsoft has a headstart over both Sony and Nintendo, however the Sony Playstation 3 sports a 36% allegiance versus
Microsoft XBox 360's 28%. Having trouble deciding - I say just buy one of each.
Here's the IGN survey synopsis...
Console Makers Must Court PlayStation 2-Owner Fans of "Lost" who Listen to Gorillaz on their MP3 Players and Eat at Taco Bell, According to IGN May 1, 2006 - Brisbane, Calif. - In the race to be the leading next-generation console, any of the three manufacturers can take the prize, according to results of a recent study by IGN Entertainment's GamerMetrics and IGN Research Solutions. The "IGN Research: Next-Gen Console Allegiance" survey shows that while 36% of the IGN.com audience claims loyalty to the PlayStation 3, the spread is narrow enough for the undecided 14% to make the critical difference. 28% say they have the strongest allegiance to the Xbox 360, while 22% pledge their faithfulness to the Nintendo Wii.
IGN's survey also profiled and analyzed the undecided gamer by lifestyle choices, media consumption habits, favorite brands and game genre preferences to understand what Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony need to consider as they strategize to emerge as the victor. One noteworthy quality about the undecided gamers is the fact that they prefer role-playing games (RPGs), while the favorite genre of the entire survey sample is Action. This, coupled with the fact that 79% currently own a PlayStation 2 - traditionally considered the top console for players of RPGs - might give Sony the edge over their competitors. Favorite brands of the undecided gamers include Google, Apple, Coke, Taco Bell, Target and Dell. The group's affinity for youth-focused brands that offer quality products for reasonable prices might favor Nintendo's next-gen approach.
Gamers undecided about their next-gen purchases seem to spend more time and money consuming their entertainment at home. More have sizable DVD collections than go out to the movies (67% own at least 20 DVDs, while only 50% went to see a movie within the 30 days before taking the survey), and many (47%) plan to buy an HDTV. They won't be using it to watch MTV, however. Only 17% watch "Punk'd," while an even smaller 10% watch "The Real World." Undecided gamers will instead be watching their choice television drama, "Lost," as will those allied with the Xbox 360, a positive sign for Microsoft. PlayStation 3 enthusiasts by and large prefer "24," while Nintendo Wii devotees favor "Smallville."
Other findings about the undecided gamer include:
• 70% own a handheld gaming device (their preferred handheld being the PSP)
• 90% regularly download music from the internet; 60% own MP3 players
• Favorite band is Gorillaz (which is true also for those most excited about the Nintendo Wii. Xbox 360 fans prefer Nirvana, while those awaiting the PlayStation 3 most enjoy Eminem.)
IGN's research suggests that Microsoft must lose its reputation as being first and foremost for the First-Person Shooter crowd to appeal to a broader market. Nintendo must appeal to the consumer who can not afford to spend close to $500 on a new console and Sony must reach out to their loyalists by promoting backwards capability with the PlayStation 2 and offering functionality with the PSP. IGN Entertainment's network of videogame-related properties which includes IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, Direct2Drive and others is the web's number one videogame information destination and attracts one of the largest concentrated audiences of young males on the Internet. GamerMetrics data is based on more than 30 million users' activity on these, and on a pool of more than half a million users volunteering which titles they own, want and are evaluating. IGN's "Next-Gen Console Allegiance" survey is available at no charge to members of the press, industry analysts and clients of IGN.
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This week, Google launched its first movie industry cross-promotion ever, according to Adotas, around the release of The Da Vinci Code: The Movie.
Working with Sony Pictures, they have launched the Da Vinci Code Quest, an online puzzle game that challenges players with a dizzying 12,358 puzzles and no simple solutions. The Da Vinci Code: The Movie is distributed by Sony Pictures and is based, of course, on the mega-selling novel by Dan Brown.
According to a post on the Official Google Blog by Google software engineer/for-time world puzzle champion Wei-Hwa Huang, the puzzle game’s many twists and turns are “designed to honor both a fanatical puzzler’s sheer love of a mental challenge and the labyrinthine spirit of The Da Vinci Code itself.”
Huang developed the puzzles while Google and Sony developed the overall user experience. Those who successfully navigate the Da Vinci Quest will win one of several prizes, including the grand prize of a tour of Paris, London, Rome and New York, and a hefty grab bag of Sony electronics that includes a Bravia HDTV and a Vaio laptop. For 24 days, the Da Vinci Code Quest will feature one new puzzle or riddle per day spanning several levels of difficulty. The puzzles are organized into six categories, including Symbol, which is a version of the popular Su Doku number game.
Around the time of The Da Vinci Code’s original publishing, Random House released two "WebQuests" similar in concept to the current Quest, but they are less-elaborate online puzzle games than the ones Sony and Google are rolling out now. After the questions end on May 11, the first 10,000 players to correctly solve their daily puzzles will receive a replica of the "cryptex" –- a cylindrical decoder device that played a key role in Dan Brown’s story — they will move on to the final round. The finalists will then face off against five more puzzlers, with the last question being asked on May 19, which is, appropriately enough, the release date of the movie.
If you win, don't forget who turned you on the contest ...
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