Archive for January, 2008

Starcraft Online Licensed

BEIJING, Jan 29, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — NTES | news | PowerRating | PR Charts — China’s leading online game operator Netease.com Inc. (NTES.NASDAQ) is likely to make its first step on being licensed to operate overseas online games…
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'War World' For Xbox Live Arcade

E3 2007: Microsoft Announces Two New Live Arcade Titles For Immediate Download, Others Coming Soon,Plus Movies! Vote in the First Xbox Live Arcade Awards; Free XBLA Game for All and Microsoft Points for Live Veterans; Gears Of War Still …
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When Security Theater Becomes Farce

In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous players and sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked “IMPORTANT! …
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Is It Really a “War On Terror”? Parts 9 & 10 of 11

What of the war games that were being conducted the morning of 9/11? We heard nothing about them on the nightly news. Joseph Paul Göebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister said the following: “Not every item of news should be published. …
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Jan 2008 links

New online GTxA book about game AI (eg-chapter) Dogme95-for-games 2.0 (GTxA) “I try to love you… I really do” (oDvrwhr) Genetic origins of housecats (sciBlog) How the stimulus plan shafts the poor (pKrug-table) Iraq war stimulates US …
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Universe at War Review

Westwood Studios spin-off Petroglyph takes another stab at the real-time strategy genre with a new series, Universe at War: Earth Assault. But can the new title live up to the greatness of Westwood’s glory days?
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Philippines, US war games to focus on disaster relief operations - Earthtimes

Philippines, US war games to focus on disaster relief operationsEarthtimes, UK -2 hours agoThe war games, dubbed Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) 2008, will be held from February 18 to March 3 in various areas in the Philippines, including the …

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Fancy Pants World 2

There are a handful of games that really sucked me into their world, the old original Infocom text adventure games, especially the first, Zork, a text adventure game called “World”. The first graphical game that did this was Mario World …
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning collector's edition

Here’s a list of what the WAR’s collector’s edition carries:. In-Game:. 12 exclusive quest (two for each army); 12 exclusive quest rewards (one for each quest); 12 exclusive character heads; Special player title; 30 days of free game…
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War on!

I’ve destroyed the last couple of nights by engaging in playing Battle for Wesnoth, a free (as in “under GPL”) role-playing game. While it’s no World of Warcraft, it’s still pretty awesome. If you get easily hooked on turn-based …
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