Showdown in cyberspace: Star Wars vs. The Sims
If online role-playing games are ever going to break out of the hardcore gamer ghetto, they'll have to do more than please the geeks.
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Star Wars
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Age of Nvidia
Keep the gamers happy, and the world is yours: How one 3-D graphics company shrugged off a recession and vanquished every foe.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming
Playing games with free speech
A federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous.
Monday, May 6, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games
Inside the Xbox
Sales have been disappointing, and the co-creator of Microsoft's game console just quit his job -- a day before a book portraying him as a hero hit the bookstores.
Thursday, Apr 25, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Microsoft, Gaming, Video Games
“The beauty contest”
Bill Gates presides as Microsoft's WebTV and Xbox development teams duel for the honor of attacking Sony.
Thursday, Apr 25, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Microsoft, Gaming, Video Games
Battle.net goes to war
Is an open-source version of Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service an illegal copyright violation, or just a good example of how the Internet works?
Thursday, Apr 18, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming
Triumph of the mod
Player-created additions to computer games aren't a hobby anymore -- they're the lifeblood of the industry.
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2002 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games
Hot salsa Tetris
Video-game music remixers turn bleeps and bloops into everything from Swedish death metal to hillbilly pickin'.
Monday, Mar 18, 2002 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games
Burn down the shopping malls!
A new game for Sony's Playstation 2 invites you to run amok as an anti-globalization anarchist. Is State of Emergency a new low in cynical corporate exploitation -- or consciousness-raising in a box?
Friday, Feb 22, 2002 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming
A hardcore elegy for Ion Storm
John Romero's game design studio was the most maligned company in the business. But from the inside looking out, it rocked.
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2002 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming
Ghost arcade
Old video games never die -- they just become collectibles and haunt our dreams.
Thursday, Dec 20, 2001 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games, Business
Playing games with Apple
Mac gamers have long suffered from PC envy. But this year their holiday spirits are unexpectedly up.
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2001 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Apple, Gaming
Land of the rising Xbox
Nintendo, Sony and Sega have made Japan king of the game console. Can Microsoft make a dent in Nippon?
Monday, Dec 17, 2001 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Microsoft, Gaming
The return of Lord British
Banished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea.
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2001 8:29 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming
Xbox squared
Microsoft's game-box revolution takes the path of mediocrity, while Sony's Playstation seizes the creative high ground.
Thursday, Nov 15, 2001 5:38 PM UTCEntertainment Microsoft, Gaming
High score
Speed, acid, pot: As computer gaming enters the mainstream, its drug subculture is also coming of age.
Tuesday, Nov 6, 2001 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Drugs, Gaming
Slo-mo gore, John Woo style
In the hit computer game Max Payne, death comes with a cost: Your own tortured soul.
Friday, Aug 24, 2001 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Business
Paranoia for fun and profit
It must be a conspiracy. Everyone is talking about the computer game Majestic -- even the aliens.
Friday, Aug 10, 2001 7:15 PM UTCEntertainment CIA, Gaming
Atari lives!
The original king of the consoles is 24 years old, boasts clunky graphics and dinky sounds, yet is still doing quite nicely, thank you.
Monday, Jul 9, 2001 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games
Mystic simulacrum
Exile, the sequel to Myst and Riven, is beautiful eye candy, but not quite art.
Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Business
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