CES Gaming Preview: Xbox 2 and PSP Mysteries, and Portable Gaming

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Portable Gaming at E3

Portable Gaming at E3 05/17/2004 07:22 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- It may have been the year of the handheld at E3, but this excellent article by Justin Hall explains why we haven't yet see all that wireless-enabled handheld devices can do. Maybe next year? Read [TheFeature]...

Gaming: Sony's PlayStation Portable
could be the next big thing

Gaming: Sony's PlayStation Portable
could be the next big thing 06/18/2004 08:37 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Fri Jun 18, 07:35 am GMT

Sony's Playstation Portable may
transform gaming

Sony's Playstation Portable may
transform gaming 03/17/2005 02:55 AM
Miami.com - Tue Mar 15, 12:43 pm GMT

'Riddick' redefines Xbox gaming

'Riddick' redefines Xbox gaming 06/24/2004 09:10 PM
Tri-cityherald.com - Wed Jun 23, 04:53 am GMT

GAME REVIEW: 'Riddick' redefines Xbox
gaming

GAME REVIEW: 'Riddick' redefines Xbox
gaming 06/23/2004 08:33 PM
Sacbee.com - Wed Jun 23, 02:10 am GMT

Xbox Store Seen Opening New Gaming
Revenue Streams

Xbox Store Seen Opening New Gaming
Revenue Streams 03/23/2005 08:08 AM
Pcmag.com - Tue Mar 22, 08:02 pm GMT

FIFA, Xbox and EA Team Up in Football
Gaming Arena

FIFA, Xbox and EA Team Up in Football
Gaming Arena 08/20/2004 12:44 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Thu Aug 19, 07:27 am GMT

An Xbox Live-like Service For Open/Indie
Gaming?

An Xbox Live-like Service For Open/Indie
Gaming? 02/16/2004 06:44 PM

Gaming gets a whirl on laptops Desktop
devotee tries out 'Far Cry' on portable

Gaming gets a whirl on laptops Desktop
devotee tries out 'Far Cry' on portable 06/07/2004 05:59 AM
SiliconValley.com Jun 7 2004 10:31AM GMT

Video game review: 'Riddick' redefines
Xbox gaming

Video game review: 'Riddick' redefines
Xbox gaming 06/22/2004 08:18 PM
Newshub.com - Tue Jun 22, 06:46 pm GMT

TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Troops stationed in Iraq turn to gaming
Internet sites allow

TiVo unveils portable transfer service
Troops stationed in Iraq turn to gaming
Internet sites allow 01/03/2005 03:06 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Jan 3, 06:32 am GMT

New Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)
Resource & Gaming Site Features PSP
Games, UMD Movies, Product Reviews,
Purchasing Options and More

New Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)
Resource & Gaming Site Features PSP
Games, UMD Movies, Product Reviews,
Purchasing Options and More 04/05/2005 03:54 AM
The release of http://playstation-psp.blogspot.com/ aims to provide the average video game consumer the ability to learn more about the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming system. Visitors have the ability to quickly purchase the PSP console, accessories, games and UMD movies. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

World's Largest Xbox Console Gaming
Community Launches Professional
Competition Service for Teams, League
Play and Tournaments

World's Largest Xbox Console Gaming
Community Launches Professional
Competition Service for Teams, League
Play and Tournaments 08/04/2004 02:42 AM
Team Compete, the current home to over 30,000 Xbox Live Teams announces the launch of a Professional League specifically for Xbox Live TEAM COMPETITION. This subscription based service is designed specifically to complement and enhance the Microsoft Tsunami features available in the next Xbox Live games to release this summer. The Team Compete Pro League is modeled after a blend of several professional sports models and offers competitive play in various skill level divisions leading to the 'Major League' level of play. The service is offered in annual and semi-annual subscription bundles and is available immediately. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Vasanth Dharmaraj?s Blogs - World?s
biggest rural wireless network in India!
[my bl0g on dot net, java, eclipse,
linux, formula one, xbox gaming? ]

Vasanth Dharmaraj?s Blogs - World?s
biggest rural wireless network in India!
[my bl0g on dot net, java, eclipse,
linux, formula one, xbox gaming? ] 08/17/2004 05:59 AM
World's biggest rural wireless network in India!: "Kerala one of the southern states in India has launched wireless broadband connectivity to rural areas where land lines or cellular phones are not available. The Kerala State IT Mission Department has setup 550 internet kiosks covering 3500 square kilometers of land. The services ...

Xbox Live Passes 1 Million
SubscribersMicrosoft's million-member
online gaming service reaches membership
mile

Xbox Live Passes 1 Million
SubscribersMicrosoft's million-member
online gaming service reaches membership
mile 07/15/2004 03:15 PM
Gigex Jul 15 2004 7:20PM GMT

X09 Gaming PC

X09 Gaming PC 04/13/2004 11:26 AM

When a PDA is better than a GBA for
Gaming

When a PDA is better than a GBA for
Gaming 11/04/2003 02:27 PM
An anonymous reader writes "Conventional wisdom says that it's silly to buy a $300+ PDA to play games when a $100 Game Boy Advance SP is going to be better at ...

Gaming Car

Gaming Car 05/18/2004 01:21 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- Outfitted with a GameCube and a monitor. It begs the question, "why"? Because we can. Found on this great website: The Worst Modified Cars in the UK. Be sure to also check out the wooden body kit....

Gaming on the down-low

Gaming on the down-low 05/11/2004 06:30 AM
USA Today May 11 2004 11:12AM GMT

A Brief Look At Professional Gaming

A Brief Look At Professional Gaming 07/25/2004 04:01 PM
The other day I came across an old friend while doing my weekly shopping and we decided to go for some ice blendeds to catch up on things. It went along smoothly until I asked him about his job. At the mere mention of it, he shifted uneasily and his eyes scanned our surroundings. Finally, he leaned close and said in a hoarse whisper: "I play games for a living." It had been a known fact since my high school days that this particular friend loved playing games and often his mind were on his games rather than the opposite sex. At one point he had mentioned that his dream was to become a professional gamer, and it looked like he had achieved his dream, except for one problem: "It's not working out," he said dejectedly. "Everything's falling apart."

Online Gaming is Still Very PC

Online Gaming is Still Very PC 08/17/2004 10:54 PM
News.awn.com - Wed Aug 18, 03:34 am GMT

Spec Gaming

Spec Gaming 12/28/2004 01:09 AM
Making Sense of Specs Free registration required to read the story. LAST-MINUTE holiday shoppers, or those looking toward the after-Christmas sales, may be familiar with the feeling Brian Halabaso acknowledged as he made his way across the sales floor of a Circuit City store here. “I’m just clueless,” said Mr. Halabaso, a 27-year-old student at City College of San Francisco. “This stuff changes so fast.” Mr. Halabaso was accompanying a neighbor, Luis Meza, on a…

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Grant Us Some Gaming!

Grant Us Some Gaming! 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Inspired by the successes of Santa Monica PL and, of course, the Ann Arbor District Library, MLS is collaborating with the Thomas Ford Memorial Library (one of our members) to submit a LSTA grant to bring gaming to our libraries. Aaron and I have been talking through the idea since the current round of grants was first announced, and now we’re moving on putting together the pieces. We both believe strongly in gaming as a draw for t(w)eens in libraries, and we both recognize the impact gaming is beginning to have on our culture and society, which truly is only just beginning. Plus, the introduction to gaming culture should help librarians better understand patrons from this type of group and where they’re coming from.

Our plan is to submit a grant to put together a gaming “package,” much like the one Erin Helmrich and Eli Neiburger are going to show off at our May 26 Tech Summit (just 3 seats left!), except that ours will be a traveling road show. We want to get a number of MLS libraries to commit to the idea of gaming tournaments using the traveling road show. MLS will coordinate scheduling the equipment and can house it when not in use, but participating libraries would hold their own tournaments in their own buildings for their own patrons. The winner from each library would then go on to a championship tournament with bigger prizes at stake. The whole thing would be ongoing, with the championship possibly being an annual event. Imagine being crowned master chief of Chicago’s south and west suburbs! (Not that we’ll be using Halo as one of the games, but you get the idea….)

Since we’re just starting to put together the details, we have some questions we’d like to ask of those libraries that are already doing gaming tournaments. Of course, we plan to corner Erin and Eli when they’re here in two weeks, but for others, we’d really appreciate your feedback. Our inclination is to get [what will then be] new XBOX 360s for the coolness and current factors, which means we’re dependent on the games initially available for the system. We’re debating if we need to also get a second, more established platform, and which games would be the biggest hits with kids without setting off alarms for parents. (At home, we’re pretty strict about what Brent can and can’t play, so I’m very sensitive to this issue in a library setting.)

I guess our big question is if you could dream big, what would you dream? And if you’re at a MLS library, do you want to participate in the grant? We’ll be discussing this in more detail with MLS attendees after each session on the 26th, but feel free to contact me or Aaron with questions or responses! And watch Aaron’s blog, because he’ll be posting more on this topic.

Update: Here's Aaron's first post about the grant, in which he explains the significance of the XBOX 360.

HP to sell Gaming PCs

HP to sell Gaming PCs 05/11/2004 06:23 AM

The Fastest Gaming PC

The Fastest Gaming PC 09/20/2004 11:02 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 21 2004 2:24AM GMT

Gaming @ Your Library

Gaming @ Your Library 04/15/2005 04:16 PM

Never mind our new web site that goes live on April 28... I've got a new countdown until the following program takes place at MLS!

Tech Summit #15: Gaming @ Your Library
Event ID#: 650
Thursday, May 26, 2005
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
At the Burr Ridge office of MLS
Cost: $0
CPDUs: 2.5

"Video games are an $11 billion business and a fundamental component of teenage life. Hosting video game tournaments at your library builds community, demonstrates your library's relevance to a different audience (young adults, teens, and especially males), and allows libraries to bring content directly into users' hands. Come to this exciting MLS Tech Summit to see firsthand how Ann Arbor District Library Information Access Systems geeks worked with the teen services librarians to bring video gaming tournaments to the community. You'll learn all of the technical details as well as how to replicate the program at your library-- whole hog or on the cheap!--and take notes on arguments and justifications for your director. Be sure to wear comfortable clothes and shoes because you will get to experience this phenomenon firsthand!

Presenters: From the Ann Arbor (MI) District Library - Erin Helmrich, Teen Librarian, and Eli Neiburger, Information Access & Systems Manager

Background: See their article at http://axi s.aadl.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/02/02/ for more about their tournaments and OCLC's webcast for more about gaming in the library in general!

This session is limited to 40 participants. Should this session fill, please sign up for the wait list. If the demand is great enough, we will open a repeat afternoon session."

I am soooooo psyched about this session that I'm considering bringing Brent in for the day so that the participants can watch his eyes bug out when he sees the setup and plays the games. ;-)

Note that this program is not limited to MLS libraries. Registration link.

Gaming for the rest of us

Gaming for the rest of us 12/19/2004 03:46 PM

What happens when a good developer goes bad and closes up shop? Game.Ars has a look at what supposedly happened to an insider at Interplay.

After several months, money arrived via a bank-to-bank transfer, i.e. direct deposit, but it was far less than my normal paycheck. I tried to reach somebody, anybody to explain this. Calls and emails to executives went unanswered.

Unfortunately, that happens all too often.

In addition, Game.Ars looks at the phenomenon of banned games — blood and gore is ok, but uncovered female breasts are not. And of course, there's all the week's gaming news. Read on.

A Big Winner in Gaming

A Big Winner in Gaming 09/03/2004 02:47 PM
Mandalay falls short as gamblers lose less; Shuffle Master's winning streak continues.

Compaq's new gaming PC

Compaq's new gaming PC 12/12/2003 11:34 AM
CompReviews.About.com overview of Compaq's (well, HP's, technically) recent foray into the world of gaming PCs, the X09 Gaming Tower, which has a 3.2GHz processor,...

PC gaming is 'Doom'ed

PC gaming is 'Doom'ed 07/15/2004 08:13 PM
Variety Jul 16 2004 0:31AM GMT

3-D Gaming on Your Cellphone

3-D Gaming on Your Cellphone 06/17/2004 11:24 AM

Gaming Gmail Ads

Gaming Gmail Ads 05/06/2004 02:28 PM
Oh, those crazy unintended consequences. TheRegister is pointing out that the contextual advertising aspect of Gmail may lead to some interesting business opportunities. For example, you could try to buy up the keywords around your competitor (or, better yet, if you can figure it out, their standard "signature" file in emails) and guarantee that any emails they send out come complete with advertisements for your company. Even more sneaky, they pick up on Karl Auerbach's suggestion that a company would process outgoing email to add to it certain keywords to guarantee certain advertisements would show up within Gmail. This seems a bit far-fetched, and I doubt it would be all that effective - either in getting the right ads to show in Gmail or in being a worthwhile endeavor for advertisers. I do think, however, that the issue of competitors' ads showing up in email may upset people much more.

Getting sociable with gaming

Getting sociable with gaming 01/17/2004 10:58 PM
Titles like EyeToy have made gaming more sociable, argues BBCi's Daniel Etherington.

The future of gaming

The future of gaming 02/06/2005 03:17 AM
The future of gaming (video stream). Check out the demonstration by Total Immersion (French). This is the future, baby!

Who's Right For DX9 Gaming? Nvidia or
ATi

Who's Right For DX9 Gaming? Nvidia or
ATi 04/23/2004 04:09 AM

Gaming Hacks

Gaming Hacks 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

Retro Gaming Gets Hot

Retro Gaming Gets Hot 06/26/2004 08:43 PM

XX Factor in Gaming

XX Factor in Gaming 08/30/2004 09:35 PM

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A Reuters article indicates that according to Entertainment Software Association, 39 percent of game players are women, and women purchase about half of all games. With numbers like that, we need more women game developers. WomenGamers.com has partnered with The Guildhall at SMU to offer a women-only scholarship for the 18-month certificate, a six-term program….

gaming offline

gaming offline 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
On the past two consecutive weekends, Kev and I have visited the new location of the Legends gaming store (there's...
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