"I didn't get a cat. It's not mine." The cat blinks and lets Jude hold it. "They want to name it."We look around at each other. Who's going to speak up first and risk ridicule? "Link?" Jude asks. He's been playing Phantom Hourglass. It's his first Zelda game."Gay."Now that we've gotten that out of the way, everyone starts throwing out names.
Several weeks after Nvidia released a new mid-range video card based on a revised version of a one-year-old chipset, AMD has fired back with a well-timed hard launch of two new parts based on its own chipset refresh.
Despite the growing popularity of digital distribution services like Steam and TotalGaming.net, a new report indicates that retail outlets remain by far the dominant channel for global videogame sales.
German developer 4HEAD Studios has ceased work on its independently-developed title Beowulf, citing pressure from the new Paramount blockbuster of the same name.
Georgia resident Francisco Garcia has launched a class action suit against Microsoft, alleging the company's creation and automatic renewal of his son's Xbox Live account without his consent is consumer fraud.
From Intuition Games, Dinowaurs is a trajectory shooter (think Artillery with dinosaurs). Pasley calles it "Barney with a Rocket Launcher strapped to his back running through Omaha Beach in [Saving] Private Ryan." The idea is you and your competitors will battle it out online with dinosaurs who have weapons strapped to them. Kind of like what the U.S. Military does with dolphins, but without the PETA lawsuits.
In its latest filing with the SEC, moribund videogame developer and publisher Interplay says it is attempting to revive its in-house development studio in order to develop sequels to some of its popular past franchises.
