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Archive for December 2005

December 24th, 2005

Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend

You said it Marilyn.
I may not be a jewelry fiend, but I can appreciate a well-done diamond as much as the next person. They glitter, and they’re pretty, and rather mesmerizing. But pricey and austentatious if they’re one of those 8 carat behemoths that weigh you down and turn your hand into little more [...]

By Erin -- 4 comments

December 23rd, 2005

A Further Comment on Game Reviewing

Bruce Shelley has really cheesed me off. The Age of Empires III co-creator has created a term and used it to explain why his precious game isn’t scoring in the high nineties with every single reviewer.
First, several things to mention: I have no doubt that AoE III is a fantastic game [...]

By Erin -- 2 comments

December 23rd, 2005

What’s All The Fuss About Sequels?

About a month ago, there was a lot of blog attention paid to the inability of the gaming industry to come out with fresh new titles, and the reaction of gaming consumers as the holiday season approached. Industry analyst Wedbush Morgan Securities released a cautionary report stating that consumer apathy, coupled with reviewer “nonchalance” [...]

By Erin -- 2 comments

December 23rd, 2005

Giving the Gift of Gaming

Poor Ingrid, I have abandoned her terribly this week amidst a whirlwind of “OMG it’s Christmas and I have done zippo shopping!”, illness, panel interviews, and my so called life. It’s really not fair of me, and the guilt is threatening to swallow me whole, so I thought I should make reparations by way [...]

By Erin -- 4 comments

December 23rd, 2005

Merry Holidays from Play Girlz

Well, Christmas weekend is finally upon us, and that means that no one is reading this blog except for me and maybe my parents, as this is how they usually check to see if I’m still alive. I am. But Erin has disappeared. Who knows where she’s gone the past few days. If she’s not [...]

By Ingrid -- 2 comments

December 22nd, 2005

Seed MMORPG Coming Out in April

If you’ve grown bored with all of the other MMORPGs out there already, you can always be certain there’s more on the horizon. Runestone Game Developer announced that its massively multiplayer online role playing game, Seed, should be available this upcoming April. Better than that, for all of you die-hard beta testers out there, they’ll [...]

By Ingrid -- 5 comments

December 21st, 2005

Guys Caught For Selling Modified Xbox Consoles

Three guys - two of which were store owners - were arrested for modifying and selling Xbox consoles that allowed gamers to play pirated games. The guys added control chips and also a 250-GB hard drive to the Xbox, allowing the installation of about 80 pirated games to the console. That’s roughtly $3,000 in games. [...]

By Ingrid -- 8 comments

December 20th, 2005

The Earliest Recorded Video Game

Higinbotham. Say it again. Higinbotham. Good, now remember it, because a gent by the name of William Higinbotham is said to have created the very first video game all the way back in 1952. It must have been quite the feat, seeing that computers were pretty much the size of a [...]

By Erin -- 0 comments

December 20th, 2005

Attention Mac Gamers!

Tired of being the red-headed step child of the gaming industry? Want some good Mac compatible games to call your own? Well there was a competition held at the beginning of the month that you might be interested in: The Original Mac Games Cup (OMG Cup for short). From December 1st [...]

By Erin -- 0 comments

December 20th, 2005

Pokemon vs. POKEMON Gene

Well, it looks like Nintendo Pokemon USA threatened to sue the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York over the abbreviation of the POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene: POKEMON, arguing that associating their Pokemon brand with cancer is bad for business. The cancer research center conceded that yes, perhaps that made sense, so they went [...]

By Ingrid -- 3 comments