So, you’re pretty good at Gears of War 2, huh? Like, one of the best? Care to put some money on that? OMG, BRING IT. Your crazy gaming skills are about to be rewarded. Billing itself as “the next generation of competitive video gaming,” BringIt.com is a new site “where video gamers can put up money [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
In yet another win for the folks at World of Warcraft, Kevin Werbach, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of business and self-proclaimed “technology analyst, dad, raconteur, resto shaman, and policy wonk” has recently been “named as co-leader of the FCC review team for the Obama-Biden Transition Project.” It [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
I am not a member of the Midnight Club. I have never participated in an illegal street race, nor have I played any of Rockstar Games’ Midnight Club series which focus on street racing. Hell, I’ve never even seen The Fast and the Furious; apart from some foolish moving violations earned in my youth, I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I’ve made no secret of my feelings on RMT — the “real-money transfer” that exchanges actual currency for virtual goods, such as in-game property, character-leveling services, or vast hoards of Warcraft gold. As a gamer and not a gold farmer, however, the depth of my complaints extended only so far as such practices might affect [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sometimes, when a board game becomes a video game, it’s a great thing for all concerned. The XBLA version of Catan is terrific fun, and while the Catan MMO misses a few steps, it’s certainly a unique exercise in digital board gaming. We’ve seen recent Xbox conversions for many of our favorite tabletop games, including [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
You hear me? It’s goin’ down. We’re going to show that little so-and-so a thing or two. Oh, wait — Microsoft beat us to it, and will be taking Xbox LIVE down personally. For only 24 hours, mind you. In a quick warning email from MS, we’ve been asked to pass along the word that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 4, 2008
Back in May, GameCyte attended the unveiling of Nokia’s mysterious “Project White Rock,” a new game for the phone giant’s relaunched N-Gage platform. That game turned out to be Reset Generation, a retro-themed head-to-head puzzle/boardgame/combat mashup which would also be free available, for free, on PC. We later had the chance to play Reset Generation on its [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 31, 2008
You can’t keep a good man with someone else’s great idea down. A while back, some enterprising young programmers created Scrabulous, a free online application which was later adapted for the wildly popular Facebook social network. As can be inferred from its name, Scrabulous was an adaptation of the long-celebrated word game Scrabble, allowing players to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Team Fortress 2 updates, incoming! Tomorrow: The latest in the new “Meet the Team” animated shorts will arrive. “Meet the Sniper” drops at 11am Pacific Time. Thursday: TF2 gets the Pyro Update, including three new unlockable weapons and 35 achievements for everyone’s favorite unintelligible immolation enthusiast. Friday: Fire free-for-all! Literally, it’s free for all. Steam will host [...]
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Friday, November 21, 2008
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