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Valve, the company behind clasic First Person Shooter Games has announced its proposed update to Steam - Its internet based application for delivering games to players world wide.

The update is music to gamers ears as it takes a users stats and stores them remotely, allowing people to goto any location, be it an internet cafe or a friends house and play with their own profile and settings.

Valve was initially condemed by gamers due to its copywrite management systems implimented to prevent piracy.  However after a rocky start, and with the help of the half life 2 realease, Valves Steam system… Continue Reading»

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been a vein of contention for many years now.  Apple for instance has recently bowed to public pressure and removed all DRM from its downloaded tracks.  Sony recently reviewed it’s DRM policy after receiving a huge amount of negative publicity when it released a new audio CD DRM system that covertly installed itself on your computer, then opened it up for any hacker with half a brain.

But this post is not about CD DRM nor MP3 DRM.  It is about PC Games and Their Digital Rights Management Systems and WHY they are wrong.

Yesterday for instance… Continue Reading»

The long awaited Sims 3 is at last going to launch in a few days. We can not give you the exact date as of when the Game is going to launch, however we can show you some of the screenshots.
As the Screenshots make it clear, Sims 3 is more than just an addition to the Sims series. It looks much more cool and awesome than its previous counterparts.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed till it hits the market and we really come to know how it exactly looks like. Continue Reading»

These are a few gaming chairs I Stumbled upon recently and thought I would share them with you. These are advanced, ergonomically designed video game chairs, have loungers and video rockers. Everything a gamer needs.
Every Time I game, I feel like there should more. My accessories and controllers are scatttered all over the place and my back starts aching after a couple of hours. This is when these Gaming chairs can come handy. I am still to buy one, but I am definitely going to buy it. Continue Reading»

Gaming Consoles have evolved greatly over the years from the early days of 8-Bit to the modern era of AI incentive and resource hungry games the have become a part of our daily lives. The demographics have changed too - from adolescent to teenager to adults. Continue Reading»

Singapore has banned the sale of an Xbox video game that features an intimate scene between two female characters.The “Mass Effect” game, a futuristic space adventure, contains “a scene of lesbian intimacy… as such the game has been disallowed,” the deputy director of the Board of Film Censors said in the statement.

Under local guidelines, video games sold in Singapore cannot “feature exploitative or gratuitous sex and violence, or denigrate any race or religion,” the official said.

Microsoft is sparing no expense to promote and distribute Xbox 360 shooter, including NASCAR sponsorship. Xbox Live Gold is going free from September 25-27 to allow open-access online play. When Halo 2 was released in November 2004, Microsoft made over $125 million in 24 hours–making it one of the biggest entertainment product launches of all time. With Halo 3’s release just two weeks away, Microsoft is trying everything to promote and distribute the Xbox 360 exclusive. Gamespot is reporting that From September 28-30, Microsoft will be holding its own Play… Continue Reading»