The world’s most important turn-based strategy video game in the history of the PC is making its fifth reincarnation: Civilisation V.
Basically a history simulator in terms of history's broad strokes and ideological angles, anyway. The general goal--to conquer the world by diplomatic or less-than-diplomatic means--hasn't changed much since the original debuted in 1991.

Calling Civilization V's new engine "astonishing," 2K ...... Read More

Some thing aren't built to last, but it might surprise you to find out Microsoft's Xbox LIVE online gaming service turns out to be one of them.

On April 15, 2010, Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Xbox LIVE services for its original Xbox as well as online services for Xbox games playable on the Xbox 360. Microsoft's Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb broke the news on his blog and said the shutdown will commence with immediate ...... Read More

Huge portable device. An enormous iPhone. Doesn't carry much power when compared to a laptop - also a huge portable device but better for gaming. Can play iPhone games. What do you think the newly announced iPad will do to gaming? Are you even interested in it for your games?

Apparently, according to an analyst, gamers won't care about ...... Read More

The PS3 has apparently been hacked by the same person who hacked Apple's iPhone. It is the only console that has been on the market for three years which has not been hacked and has been said to be unhackable. "It's supposed to be unhackable - but nothing is unhackable," George Hotz, the one responsible for the hack, told BBC News. This, according to him, could allow gamers to run pirated games on the PS3 ...... Read More

When I first heard of First Person Tetris, I thought, "how interesting" and I immediately thought that we'd see it in the perspective of each block - from above. So I went to http://firstpersontetris.com with enthusiasm, hoping to get a different experience than you do with the millions of tetris games out there. And I sure did. Not in a good way though.
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Movies based fighting games seem to keep coming. Maybe they just don't understand that the formula doesn't work. What fighting game-based movies have worked well so far?

Next in-line is Tekken (see trailer below) and by the looks of the trailer, history might repeat itself. Don't let the title fool you though - it's not based on the first Tekken game. A few characters fro the sequel ...... Read More

Intel's 'Arrandale' laptop cpu's.
11 new processors for 2010, five Core i7s, four Core i5s and two Core i3s.
The big difference between these processors and the 2009 i5&i7s is the brand new architecture, which couples the 32nm processor and a 45nm integrated graphics controller onto a single chip.
In food terms, sandwich the brain and graphics together with cheese in between.
Mobile hardcore gamers would prefer them separate, ...... Read More

Sony is considering several options for the design of the 'PlayStation 4,' including scrapping the Cell design entirely and moving towards a traditional PC multi-core processor. While the PlayStation 3's Cell processor has its advantages over the competition, many third-party developers still seem to be having difficulty programming for it.

Sony is also looking at a new, modified version of the Cell processor, and Intel's Larrabee chipset ...... Read More