Beatnik Games Announces Plain Sight
UK indie dev bringing multiplayer exploding robots with great big swords to PC and Xbox 360.
SOCOM Beta Crumbles Under Demand (SOCOM: Confrontation) 
Sony Computer Entertainment America have this weekend publicly apologised for the issues gamers have experienced attempting to participate in the SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation public beta.
val :: Sep.10.2008 :: General :: No Comments »
<i>Spore</i> Space Video
Spore (PC)
Discover space in a whole new way.
val :: Sep.08.2008 :: General :: No Comments »
Fuel given away free in computer game promotion (Mercenaries 2: World in Flames) 
Drivers gained some respite from the recent hikes in fuel prices after a garage decided to give away free petrol. As part of a promotion for a new computer game, £20,000-worth of fuel was being given away free of charge on Friday.
Electronic Arts took over the Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park, north London, to promote the game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.
By 7.30am on Friday morning more than 150 customers had taken advantage of the offer, which allowed drivers to put up to £40-worth of fuel in their tanks free of charge.
GenCon 2008 - The Video Games
With the “death” of E3, GenCon vowed to pick up some of the slack by courting video game publishers. While the video game contingent at GenCon hasn’t grown by leaps and bounds, there was still a strong showing of publishers, particularly of computer RPGs and online games. One section of the dealer’s hall was […]
val :: Sep.06.2008 :: General :: No Comments »
Nokia N93 Golf
Expanding upon their N93 cell phones, Nokia revealed their N93 Golf Edition, a special package combining mobile video capabilities of the Nokia N93 multimedia computer with a unique golf application that enables you to capture your golf swing, analyze and improve your game by split screen swing comparison and other advanced analysis tools. The N93 will feature the Pro Session Golf by Nokia
Ubuntu Keeps Building Momentum
With Windows XP going the way of the dodo, Ubuntu looks to us like a good fit. We wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu as a primary OS for our other builds, since it won’t let you play most games or run Photoshop out of the box, but this is a sub-$300 small-form-factor PC for basic desktop tasks.
val :: Sep.02.2008 :: General :: No Comments »