The Penny Arcade! folks decided to take a week off and put up some kiddie art from a class they were speaking at (lucky kids).
For commentary, they’re featuring various gaming associated folks.  Todays is Steve Bowler of Midway on how he got into gaming via a very circutious route.
I’ve got to give him props for […]

Check me if I’m wrong here.  When you release a game, and it gets rated by some standards body to suggest who should or shouldn’t play it, that effectively says who’s hands the game should go in, right?
It’s then the responsibility of parents, kids, game owners, etc. to make sure that it gets carried out.
Now, […]

I’ve written a review of Infinite Dungeons for Neverwinter Nights over at PCBurn.  If you’re into computer RPGs give the review a look and check if it’s a game to consider.
Neverwinter Nights Infinite Dungeons Review @ PCBurn

Now, this is just a suggestion. But I think Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB needs some sort of “persuasion device” to deal with congress.  Either that or we need to replace her with someone with the IQ of a turnip that won’t actually take their job seriously, but will stoicly dissemble to the congress […]

Whichever senate sub comittee this article concerns is filled with easily led fools.  They appear to be under the same disconnect from reality that occurs in think tanks sponsored by large corporations.
Not only are they not aware in this hearing as to what they’re discussing, they blatently lie about the Rockstars GTA and it’s “hot […]

While I’ll wholeheartedly agree that there are some games which are far to violent for my viewing pleasure I won’t go so refer to them as “speech”.
They’re not.
Nor will I gladly watch Congress critters dictate morals.  I’m perfectly capable of not buying a game on my own, without any regulation, thank  you very much.
But apparently […]

The propaganda machine is working overtime with things like Second Life starting to take off.   Web Pro News caught this one off the job posting board where someone’s looking for a Second Life developer to create “games” to further social awareness.
In Second Life, I assume.
How long until we’ve got Orcish shills in World of […]

So it came up on some forums that a PR type from Sony stated that the playstation was the first 3D console. He didn’t, he said “introduced realtime 3-D for the first time” which means that Sony’s first use of realtime 3D was in 1994 on the PlayStation console. Factually correct, if a […]

Atari isn’t just stopping updates to NWN.  That would be understandable even with the modest sales it still offers with NWN2 around the corner.
The low blow proffered in the title, though, is their cancelling of all premium content modules.  Premium content modules which cost little to produce and must be reaping a fairly good return.
Really, […]

It’s been a while, but I’ve finally dusted off my writing keyboard and cracked out the first in a weekly series of Linux gaming articles.  First up, I’ve got Triplex Invaders, Maniadrive, and Lost Labyrinth.
If you’re interested in Linux games, PCBurn will be running a couple of game reviews on commercial releases in the near […]