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B-movies inspire C-game
wired.com
We seem to have a fascination with little green men in flying saucers. Of course, in most games, the aliens are the bad guys. Not so in 'Destroy All Humans'.
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New poker column in New York Times
about.com
The New York Times has started publishing a Poker column, written by James McManus, the author of 'Positively Fifth Street'. Click for details.
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What's Sony up to?
g4tv.com
Xbox "dominates" console gaming in terms of sharp realistic graphics. Nintendo "dominates" console gaming with it's amazingly witty games.
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Best trivia games
about.com
When 'Trivial Pursuit' burst onto the scene in the 1980s, it seemed like an entire genre of games was born. But, it isn't the best in the genre.
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More girls need industry jobs
gamerscircle.net
From The Guardian editorial:
"The development team of Sims Online game was 40 per cent female, while 60 per cent of its players are female."
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Living the LAN life
news.com.com
By day, they're professionals, students and housewives who might not seem to have much in common. But they share a passion for networked computer games.
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Building the Ultimate Gaming Desktop
slashdot.org
The game itself would only run on one core, that is true. But there are lots of other OS and background processes also going on all the time.
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Man wins entry to world series of poker
about.com
A 43-year-old resident of Washington recently won a Poker tournament at a local casino -- and with it, the $10,000 entry fee into the World Series of Poker.
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Candyman pre-releases at Origins
gamingreport.com
The game, a twisted boardgame parody for 2-6 mean-spirited players, finds every gingerbreadman in a mad dash for the border, as they discover the truth.
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Aberrant Games: Rezolution ships
gamingreport.com
Rezolution is a tabletop miniatures game for two or more players where you take control of one of the many splintered forces of humanity or its alien enemies.
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The Falklands War: 1982 ships
avault.com
The first purely historical simulation from ProSIM, long known for their ultra-realistic, but mostly hypothetical, real-time simulations of a modern battlefield.
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Man battles supercomputer
news.com.com
The undefeated Hydra chess supercomputer is a cluster of 16 nodes of four computers, with each node holding 32GB of memory. Click for details.
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