SKIRMISHER

A 15-year-old boy, who called up 911 to ask if his douchebag parents had any right to take away his Xbox, learns the bitter lesson that having your parents feed, clothe and shelter you actually give them rights to take away your toys. That’s not fair!

Don Ivan Punchatz designed the whole packaging and promotional materials for the video game Doom. He died of a heart attack on Oct. 11.

Play Max Damage. A vanisher of hours.

Game designer Chris Tolworthy wondered: “Have you ever sat there reading a book or watching a movie, and thought, ‘I wish I was there, I’d like to talk to those people, I’d like to explore that world.’”
Then he stopped wondering and started making games. That is, a series of adventure games based on classic literature, [...]

The MMO The Matrix Online pulled the plug last July 31, but before it did, there was a party, an orgy of destruction in which players past and present had come to witness. Says one:
But we were in The Matrix Online for the final hours as well, and we managed to get some great screenshots [...]

I had played all the big titles at E3. Private showings of God of War III, Heavy Rain, Alan Wake. But at 4:00 on Thursday, I was wandering around the show floor, wondering what else I had to see. I saw a small little booth for Scribblenauts! in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment section. I [...]

Left 4 Dead 2, due for release in November, is loaded with the same awesome stuff, and more: new characters, new weapons, new monsters, new ways to die. Read here the exclusive hands-on preview.

An in-depth look into the rollercoaster ride that was the Sony Playstation’s development.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991, Sony revealed to the world a videogame console on which it had jointly worked with Nintendo. This SNES with a built-in CD-ROM drive was a project driven by Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who had [...]

If you’re a really pissed off owner of an Xbox 360 console who recently scratched his head over the E74 error, like me, you should know you’re not alone. Some blog just found out a rising incidence in e74 errors, based on Google Trends data and the readers’ responses. One possible important word: NXE.
As we [...]

Cunt, the online Flash game, is surprisingly “addictive,” despite/because of its name.

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Some classic online Tetris for the hardcore fans.

Frantz Lasorne is working on what he calls a “tangible augmented reality gaming experience”. If you think the “concept” is totally rad, then read him as he says all this shit is real, and not simply CGI.

If you’re a hardcore online gamer, or just somebody with lotsa accounts in social networking sites like Facebook, what happens when you’re suddenly dead? How to tell your buddies that the Mage Overlord of their nifty little World of Warcraft guild is no more? How do you notify loved ones with your passwords, usernames, and [...]

A game company called If Software made what many of us just joked about: killing the demons of Doom in Diablo gameplay.
The website says:
DOOM: FoM is an RPG set in the classic world of Doom. You will fight many demons through the UAC facilities on Mars to the depths of Hell.

Download here (a very early [...]

Piss-Screen is a urine-stream-controlled video game. Bad news for the swollen-prostate crowd. The Piss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals, to play a game with your pee. The game is displayed on a screen above the urinal..

This lucky dude got to play an Xbox 360 game on what currently is the world’s largest, highest definition 269-inch teevee.
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A bunch of folks with so much time on their hands actually worked on creating the “classic” version of videogame covers. This one (above) is the classic Bioshock (2007).
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