Source: The Inquirer
THE JOHAN at Ace's Hardware has posted up an illustration of the gaming possibilities using AMD's 64-bit chips. Over here it is. Meanwhile, the general forum at Ace's is going bananas with AMD and Opteron stuff and that. What an excitable lot! See this geezer, frinstance.
Let's move swiftly along, shall we, to the Turbocase X-Sonic Black Allie Case, which that lot at Tweaknet have a good old art dekko at.
Source: CNN
When it was released in November 1998, "Half-Life" redefined the action gaming genre by combining fast-paced action and an intelligent, intense story. Players quickly began clamoring for a sequel, but developer Valve Software responded with silence. Five years later, the call for that sequel is as loud as ever.
Source: BUSINESS 2
What open-source enthusiasts can teach Microsoft about unlocking its full digital potential.
Source: CNN.com
In the not-too-distant future, specially trained soldiers infiltrate enemy compounds, to spy and even assassinate threats to national security under the direction of a secret U.S. government program called Third Echelon.
As Sam Fisher, you'll play one of these elusive agents in "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell."
Xbox owners have had the luxury of playing this game since November. Ubi Soft has finally made it available for the PC, and it's better-looking than ever.
Source: AMD Zone
Valve, L.L.C., creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life, today announced immediate availability of a 64-bit version of the Counter-Strike dedicated server using the upcoming AMD OpteronTM processor. Counter-Strike has the largest service footprint of any game on the Internet, with 35,000 servers generating over 4.5 billion player minutes per month.
I managed to source out the trailer for the upcoming Enter The Matrix video game that'll go on sale when The Matrix Reloaded opens in cinema's in May. Eitherways, from what can be seen from the game trailer, this is going to be everything the developers are hyping it up to be -- I hope. In the meantime, check out the trailer for the game here.
Source: CNN.com
A movie about machines creating an alternate reality for enslaved humanity is turned into a video game that draws the pretty and the powerful from the movie business to a lavish party to be amused by machines.
Virtual reality meets Hollywood.
Source: CNN.com
It was the dream of many a dead dot-com: build a virtual universe where people can socialize without the confusion of chat rooms or the awkwardness and emotional investment of physical face-to-face encounters.
Backed by serious venture capital and sophisticated software, There Inc. is hoping to offer just that, and is betting that people will be happy to pull out their credit cards to buy virtual clothes, good looks -- even a trusted canine companion.
Source: BBC
The days when video games were just something for teenagers to play in their bedrooms are over.
Gaming has blasted its way into the mainstream to become a multi-million dollar business, rivalling the film and record industries.
The past 12 months look like being a bumper year for gaming, with sales of video games in the US alone set to break through the $10bn mark.
Source: CNN.com
Members of Congress and watchdog groups are again sounding the alarm over the sexual and violent nature of some video games that are falling into the hands of children even though they are intended for adults.
Although critics agree that the majority of video games have little or no objectionable violent or sexual content, those that do, they say, have gone far beyond the pale.
