This holiday, even awesome games are falling by the wayside. Here are a few we predict will fall by yours Tough choices will have to be made, whether they’re with money or time, and some of the hottest holiday releases will inevitably be ignored until either a price drop or a lull in activity make it possible to pay attention to them.
If for some reason you've been missing out on a reason not to use your browser's pop-up blocker, here's a new one: Window Pong. The age old game of Pong comes to your browser using separate pop-up windows. You play against a computer that volleys back yet another window that acts as the ball--complete with sound effects.
Today many video games create only an illusion of intelligence, using a few programming tricks. But in the not-so-distant future, game bots will routinely use sophisticated AI techniques to shape their behavior. The need for better AI in commercial video games is readily apparent—especially to the people playing them.
Computer mouse celebrates 40th birthday
Does “Rock Band” mastermind Alex Rigopulos see a cascade of colored lights in his sleep? Does “Gears of War” creator Cliff Bleszinski hear snoring that makes him dream he’s wielding a Lancer chainsaw? Does “Burnout” architect Alex Ward dream that his car has flipped?
Nintendo's little console that could is shattering sales records left and right, and might just move more units in 2008 than any game system in history.
Here at Complex, we love video games as much as the next dude. We bet money on ‘em, play together on Xbox Live, talk shit over ‘em. But that’s really the extent of our fandom. After the console goes off, we go about our lives. As you should. Because when that line between real life and fantasy become blurred, shit can get hairier than Rosie’s upper
A Spanish Sony exec has gone on record to state that Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 5 – arguably the PlayStation 3's most-wanted game – will be releasing at Christmas.
A complete recreation of Half-Life into the Orange Box engine, you play as Gordon Freeman who... You already know what HL is. So just watch.
After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a few more changes have been made as well
So we read Chomsky's Propaganda Model earlier in the semester for insight into limiting forces on journalistic verification and transparency in mainstream news media. Before you discount this post as mental masturbation or the ramblings of another upper-middle class anaracho-syndicalist (which I'm not), I'd like to state clearly that I'm not going
Online gamers, bow before the king. According to developer Blizzard, the recently released World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King sold over 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the single fastest selling PC game in history.
Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone...
Reporting from Palm Desert and Los Angeles -- Shoppers returned to Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Saturday, a day after two men shot each other dead in front of terrified Black Friday customers.
Addictive multiplayer game where one person draws something while the other players guess what word they're trying to say. Its like a massive multiplayer online pictionary, no need to register simply hop on as a guest and start joining some matches!
Admit it. You've got an old GameCube from yesteryear laying around, and the slow economy (and fear for your life) is holding you back from running to your nearest brick-and-mortar to pick up a Classic Controller for your Wii. You know you want to play Super Mario 64 to work off that turkey, but you can't justify laying out the cash.