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All sorts of new hotness is being demoed at E3 this week, and an unexpected addition to the Need for Speed franchise looks very interesting...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The Xbox 360's upcoming motion controller has gotten its official name: Kinect. Formerly code-named Project Natal, the device has made headlines over the past few...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles

It's not an exaggeration to say that FPS games have altered the course of my life. Since my very first experience with Quake back...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Speaking of settlements, remember how Take-Two Interactive filed a lawsuit against what was left of 3D Realms for not completing Duke Nukem Forever last...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Valve isn't exactly known for timely game releases, so today's news should come as little surprise: Portal 2 won't be ready for its originally announced...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The people at Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian Entertainment aren't sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Four months after announcing Fallout: New Vegas, the latest game...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

It's getting worse every year. During the holiday season, a million new games come out, and there's simply not enough time to play them...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Market research firm NPD has published some fresh statistics about the wild and wonderful "gamer" demographic, and the report includes interesting tidbits. For one,...

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Some publishers have escalated the fight against illicit game copying lately, with Ubisoft going so far as to require an uninterrupted connection to its authentication...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

As you may know, I am a big fan of Valve's Steam service. I buy nearly all of my games there, and I think...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The granddaddy of arcade games is turning 30 tomorrow, and to celebrate the occasion, Google has changed its search engine logo to a...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Those of you who enjoyed watching part one of the Corrinne Yu interview we posted the other day may want to check out part...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming Game consoles

If you're a PC gamer who's never heard of Corrinne Yu, you're missing out on one of the more intriguing folks in 3D gaming. ...

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Valve has gotten a lot of press for porting its Steam client and games, starting with Portal, to Mac OS X. However, users of...

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I love budget ultraportables—especially my Aspire 1810TZ. For my needs, the Aspire's Consumer Ultra Low-Voltage processor is snappy enough to make the thin-and-light...

Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming

Who ever said Macs can't play games? Valve released the Mac OS X version of its Steam client earlier this afternoon, allowing users of...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Mac

We'll have to wait a few more months for MegaTextured post-apocalyptic action. As Shacknews reports, id Software sister company and publisher Bethesda has revealed...

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Almost exactly three years after first announcing the sequel to its futuristic real-time strategy game, Blizzard has set a release date for it, at...

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