Be The Gamer

So there’s this new slash-em-up on the block you’ve maybe heard of called Ninja Gaiden II shipping next week, and by the way, show of hands please, anyone know what a ‘gaiden’ is anyway? Thank you Wikipedia, I’m no longer…

But really, you’re meant to be trying to, and that’s where I disconnect from the imminent deluge of reviewers about to penalize director Tomonobu Itagaki’s Ninja Gaiden 2 for daring to up its own ante. I’m talking about a…

Who said that video games were for kids only? You only have to look at the statistics and you will see that a lot of gamers are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Yet did you know that now, even senior citizens are getting into gaming?
Indeed, the older generation has discovered this activity [...]

No one can deny it ? social networking sites are one of the most popular things on the Internet today. Heck, even the head of my company has a Facebook account! In fact, he got one way before I got mine! Indeed, social networking sites are something else AND casual gaming companies [...]

If I told you the answer to PC game piracy involved planting a “stealth encryption chip” in your PC that would really-really-no-kidding-this-time-really slam the door on hackers and dodgy file sharing outlets, what would you say? That’s more or less…

There’s a lot of talk on the inside these days about what it means to write about games with anything approaching insight and clarity. Most of this talk you don’t hear about (or probably don’t care to) because it comes…

Toilets, water bongs, teddy bears, old cassette players, pyramids, even stacks of LEGO blocks – just a few of the things you’ve used to “extreme” mod your PC gear over the years. Why not a GTA IV limited edition metal…

Dissecting sales figures can be a little like making sense of a gyrating Rubik’s Cube. Case in point: Nintendo ’s just claimed it beat Sony’s 18 month sales record after tipping past 50 million games sold on or around May…

Flex your fingers and strap on your mini-Gibsons, and while you’re at it, how about some vocals and drums on the side? Tip your fingerpicks, lighters, and rattails to Guitar Hero World Tour, technically fifth in the series, though not…

At the very end of Free Radical’s PlayStation 3 shooter Haze, there’s a moment where you’re given to think for fleeting seconds that part of the team responsible for Nintendo’s GoldenEye 007 may yet pop the lid off your boxed…

Yesterday AMD announced the next phase in its ploy to throw mainstream PC gaming a life preserver by righting all the wrongs foisted on us courtesy the PC’s propellerhead legacy of enthusiast widgets, flexible standards, and fuzzy math. Branding it…

We had two boys aged 7 and 12 ? I never knew how creative you had to be in order to keep little boys occupied for 2 days! Anyway, it was kind of a good thing that we have several toys ? gaming consoles and computers, that is ? that the boys loved.
There were [...]

Technically Age of Conan was released in the not-quite-weekly nether space otherwise known as “the weekend” to a handful of customers who’d pre-ordered the game, but the general retail launch occurs tomorrow, extending Funcom’s Hyborian MMORPG with “Real Combat” and…

This week: Sink your pearly whites into a Gothic vampire adventure, a global domination strategy puzzler, or a souped-up retread of Capcom’s grimly glacial bug-busting shooter. Dates listed are ship-to-store. Tuesday Dracula: Origin. A-vamping you will go in this Gothic…

We have to admit, stereotype dictates that gamers are mainly male. As with most stereotypes, however, it is not really an accurate depiction. Ask the people in Australia ? it seems that the number of girls playing video games is on the rise out there. I don?t really need a formal report [...]

For starters, consider that (1) Sony’s PS2 may have outsold its PS3 by a whopping 4 million units in part because Nintendo’s Wii kept the candle burning, officially rejecting the cultural conviction that legacy processing power is necessarily “lesser.” To…