According to an article on PCWorld, Activision-Blizard has pulled all of their titles from nVidia's GeForce Now. In my days as CTO of Haste (a service that improves network connections for gamers), I had occasion to spend a fair amount of time playing Overwatch as part of our test regime …

An article from Zatz Not Funny! covers a trend in the selling of the new PS3 and Wii consoles that may be as old as sales itself. It turns out that ebay requires PS3 and Wii listings be accompanied by photographic (photoshopic?) proof of ownership (receipts, photos of boxes, etc …

The British Red Cross and Canadian Red Cross have both indicated that they would like the "improper and illegal" use of the Red Cross emblem in video games to stop. According to an article from GamesIndustry.biz and a letter published on GameLaw.org, requests have gone out from both …

I'm not sure that I buy this one, but WebMD is reporting that Korean students who spend a lot of time on the Internet may be becoming Internet Addicts and that this is linked to depression, although nobody seems to know which comes first. The study appears to have been …

Success can be a real burden, finds Blizzard, publisher of the wildly popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft. According to an article on FileFront, the company has limited the number of new users by stopping shipment of new boxes going out the door.

A staple of interesting election information is now back in the fact checking game! Factcheck.org has posted their first new article since the end of the 2004 election. The article discusses Social Security advertising, finding fault with an AARP ad and finding that a Bush-supporting ad used correct statistics …

Do you ever get that feeling that you didn't see the same movie that everybody else did? That's certainly the case for me after reading reviews of Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life. I don't know what these people saw, but I want to see that movie, because …

Well, it's official, Doom III is now a 2004 release. According to an article from Wired, the publisher (Activision) has stated that "for planning purposes, we're assuming Doom III will come out in the fourth quarter." Hey, Carmack, stop playing with your X-Prize toys and do some work, dude!

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Washington state law prohibiting the sale of violent video games, according to an article from CNet. The law, set to go into effect later this month, is one of the few laws to set a new standard for what is considered to be …

For those of you who wonder what some of us are talking about when we talk about the "good old days" of MMORPGs, here is an article (including a screen shot) about Avatar, an early MMORPG on the University of Illinois' PLATO system. Avatar was the first computer game that …

In what has become a pretty common ritual among providers of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), first-day glitches tarnished the roll out of Sony Entertainment Online and LucasArts's new game Star Wars: Galaxies. According to an article on CNet, users waited hours to get signed in the first …

Thanks to SlashDot for the pointer to this index of papers for the Digital Arts and Culture 2003 conference. The conference is in Australia (so, we're probably not going), but the paper titles are fascinating. Here are some examples: The Sopranos Meets EverQuest: Social Networking in Massively Multiplayer Online Games …

In an article from CNET, we see that 3DO, video game publisher has filed for bankruptcy in hopes of finding someone to buy its assets before it completely dissolves.

An excellent, but lengthy article on CNET provides some food for thought on Apple's Apple Music service, Microsoft's future in the area, some of the sour grapes by the "we were here first but nobody talks about us" crowd, and provides an interesting chart on who the author …

In a highly anticipated move reported by CNN, the Governor of Washington state has signed into law a bill that will prevent the sale of video games depicting violence against law enforcement officials. The bill was discussed extensively at E3, both because it largely ignores the existing ESRB standards and …

An article from the Adrenaline Vault ponders the effect of gaming in the workplace on productivity and argues that it may help, rather than hurt.

A good article from CNET questions the long-term viability of Nintendo's home console (the Game Cube) in the light of this seasons poor sales showing against relative newcomer X-Box. If the software companies start to pull their support, Nintendo could try to make it on the strength of their …

I didn't see them at E3, but X-tra Fun is advertising a new product that will allow up to eight of Nintendo's GBAs to communicate using Bluetooth. Not only can you play games together, but if you have a Bluetooth internet Access Point (AP), you can play over the …

The final installment of the online game track gave four (pardon me, three) case studies of companies that have brought out games with online components. Represented were FASA Studios for MechAssault, Zipper Interactive for SOCOM: Navy Seals, and Mythic for Dark Ages of Camelot. Rudely not showing up was Digital …

There are at least three different interpretations of the current licensing frenzy among the top titles at E3. I'll discuss each of them a little here. There are three basic attitudes towards licensing in the game market. I characterize them as: the valuable partner scenario, the juggernaut scenario, and the …