The Fine Art of Taunting the Gamer
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The gamer of Baghdad
The gamer of Baghdad
01/22/2004 02:11 AMWhile missiles crashed around him, Zeyad struggled to keep Crash
Bandicoot alive. Today, he continues to play, even as Baathist
holdouts rage on and his frustrated countrymen demand a better future.
Become a Professional Gamer
Become a Professional Gamer
05/21/2004 02:20 PMClassic Gamer #2 is online
Classic Gamer #2 is online
07/06/2004 01:33 PMThe second issue of Classic Gamer magazine is out. CM is a lush,
web-only hymn to the lost games of the 8-bit Golden Age, well-written
and lavishly illustrated with images from classic game ads and other
bumpf.
I would include a quote here to show you how nice this mag is, but the
authors have opted to turn on PDF's ineffectual "protection," which
keeps me from copying and pasting unless I go look up a crack,
something I can't be bothered doing. Pretty regrettable -- and
inexplicable -- decision.
7.6MB ZIPped PDF Link
(Thanks, Cav!)
Are You A Pc Gamer And Want The Best Out
Of Your Graphics Card?
Are You A Pc Gamer And Want The Best Out
Of Your Graphics Card?
08/19/2004 05:03 PMWebDevInfo Aug 19 2004 8:46PM GMT
Doom 3 kicks a$$ says PC Gamer - 94%
Doom 3 kicks a$$ says PC Gamer - 94%
07/13/2004 08:46 PMGamer Review Via 3G Phones
Gamer Review Via 3G Phones
06/02/2004 05:25 AM3G Jun 2 2004 8:41AM GMT
Guest Gamer: Matt Gallant
Guest Gamer: Matt Gallant
06/14/2004 09:47 AM
CHOIRE SICHA -- We're
pleased to have Matt Gallant guest-blogging here this week on games
and gaming. Matt Gallant is probably the only graduate of the United
States Military Academy to have fully paid off a two-story house in
Animal Crossing. He has contributed game reviews to GameSpot and
GameSpy, and has contributed greatly to the overall interactive
entertainment dialectic on his personal website. He
lives in Dallas solely for the purpose of not having to roadtrip to
QuakeCon each year.
The life and times of an online gamer
The life and times of an online gamer
01/05/2005 04:41 AMHometownannapolis.com - Tue Jan 4, 08:42 pm GMT
Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
12/19/2004 02:53 PMAn Australian gamer spends $26,500 on a virtual island that exists
only in a PC role-playing game.
Online gamer charged over death
Online gamer charged over death
03/31/2005 08:50 AMTheage.com.au - Thu Mar 31, 04:11 am GMT
Interview with professional gamer
mYmcoRey
Interview with professional gamer
mYmcoRey
05/17/2004 04:44 PMThe Life Of A Professional Video Gamer
The Life Of A Professional Video Gamer
02/10/2004 01:27 PMWe've been following the trend of video games to be treated more and
more like sporting events, and now News.com is
runni
ng an interview with a professional video gamer, who is making
pretty good money at it. The money comes both from winning
tournaments and from sponsorships. However, he's now trying to take
it a step further, and is going to start selling his own computers
that are designed to the specs he likes. The interview reads like a
typical confident (ok, cocky) athlete, talking about how great he is.
He compares himself to Michael Jordan a few times and talks about how
great he is at video games - but then talks about how much more
sportsmanlike he is than other players. One interesting thing, is
that he points out that part of his training involves real exercise:
running and aerobics to try to keep his reflexes sharp. It's still
interesting to watch video gaming morph into a spectator sport. As it
does, the prizes are getting bigger, and it's getting a lot more
attention. Of course, I wonder how many parents are happy about their
kids growing up to be professional Quake players instead of
professional baseball players.
Onliner gamer stabbed over 'stolen'
cybersword
Onliner gamer stabbed over 'stolen'
cybersword
03/30/2005 09:46 AMVirtual theft, real death
Notebooks make a play as gamer machines
Notebooks make a play as gamer machines
02/11/2004 06:56 PMA number of brand-name PC manufacturers, including Dell and
Hewlett-Packard, are planning to offer notebooks with Intel's
gaming-oriented Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor over the next two
weeks.
Gamer slays rival after online dispute
Gamer slays rival after online dispute
03/30/2005 07:12 AMEnglish.peopledaily.com.cn - Wed Mar 30, 04:44 am GMT
Online gamer charged with killing
competitor
Online gamer charged with killing
competitor
03/31/2005 08:50 AMSmh.com.au - Thu Mar 31, 01:30 am GMT
Gamer wins back virtual swag
Gamer wins back virtual swag
12/29/2003 07:14 AMZDNet UK Dec 29 2003 6:52AM ET
Xbox Live Mystery Gamer Tonight
Xbox Live Mystery Gamer Tonight
04/12/2005 05:26 PMMicrosoft has just informed us that you can play Race with Xbox VP J
Allard! He’ll be playing PGR® 2 from 5:00 to 6:30 P.M. (Pacific).
Online gamer killed for selling virtual
weapon
Online gamer killed for selling virtual
weapon
03/30/2005 07:12 AMSmh.com.au - Wed Mar 30, 04:33 am GMT
Cool Hands, No Cables: A Gamer Roams
Untethered
Cool Hands, No Cables: A Gamer Roams
Untethered
04/29/2004 12:23 AMNew York Times Apr 29 2004 4:49AM GMT
Online gamer killed for selling cyber
sword
Online gamer killed for selling cyber
sword
03/30/2005 07:12 AMAbc.net.au - Wed Mar 30, 08:57 am GMT
Star Wars trailer with leet-gamer
subtitles
Star Wars trailer with leet-gamer
subtitles
04/13/2005 03:52 AMCory Doctorow:
This parody of the Star Wars Episode III trailer takes the orginal and
adds leet-speek subtitles, translating Lucas's lame, limping dialog
into snappy gamer taunting. Laugh-out-loud funny (reminds me of the
Jive-to-English subtitles in Airplane!).
Link
(
via Wonderland)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Gamer buys
$26,500 virtual land
BBC NEWS | Technology | Gamer buys
$26,500 virtual land
12/19/2004 03:21 PMChinese gamer wins back virtual swag
Chinese gamer wins back virtual swag
12/29/2003 08:09 PMZDNet Australia Dec 29 2003 6:39PM ET
Virtually immersed: The life and times
of an online gamer
Virtually immersed: The life and times
of an online gamer
12/29/2004 03:22 AMArticle.wn.com - Tue Dec 28, 12:07 pm GMT
Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling
Cyber-Saber
Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling
Cyber-Saber
03/31/2005 08:50 AMStory.news.yahoo.com - Wed Mar 30, 05:00 pm GMT
Online Gamer Wins Back Goods From
Virtual Theft
Online Gamer Wins Back Goods From
Virtual Theft
12/19/2003 01:02 PMThere's been a ton of discussion in the last few months about how the
law applies as it crosses over the real/virtual barrier. The biggest
question seems to be whether or not
someone
can be charged for stealing virtual items in an online game.
Especially in cases where such items can be resold for real money, is
it really theft, or is it "just a game"? What if the whole point of
the game is to attack others and steal their stuff? There isn't a
particularly easy way to answer these questions, though anyone
creating an online game might want to think about it, as their "terms
of service" are likely to act as a de facto Constitution for the
world. Over in China, though, the first decision has been made on
such a case and
a video game company has been told to return the goods lost
to a player when someone else hacked his account. The guy tried
to find out the identity of the hacker, but was denied, and then sued
the gaming company for money. The court's ruling sounds fairly
reasonable. It looks like they aren't making the company pay, but are
telling them to restore the items the player lost.
Dell unleashes "Gamer Laptop" with
competiton from Alienware, eMachines
Dell unleashes "Gamer Laptop" with
competiton from Alienware, eMachines
02/13/2004 05:21 PMPowerful and expensive notebooks featuring the P4EE reach the market.
Is there a market for them?
Chinese online gamer stabbed for selling
virtual sword
Chinese online gamer stabbed for selling
virtual sword
03/31/2005 08:50 AMStuff.co.nz - Wed Mar 30, 05:58 pm GMT
Chinese gamer suing MMO company over
artifact duplication dispute
Chinese gamer suing MMO company over
artifact duplication dispute
04/28/2004 10:20 AMA Chinese gamer who bought a sword that was deleted by the game-host
because it had been duplicated by the seller is suing the game-host to
reinstate his sword and apologise. As Terra Nova's Dan Hunter says,
"Virtual property, duping, and fraud. Heaven."
After many hours of playing the game, he earned 140 million units of
game money, which he spent buying a powerful sword from another player
through an online trading platform provided by the operator in
November.
On November 16, he found the sword had been deleted from his account.
After contacting Optisp several times, he was told that the sword was
deleted because it was illegally duplicated.
He is asking the court to order Optisp to give back his sword, which
he estimates is worth 1,000 yuan (US$120) in real money, and
apologize.
Link
(
via Terra Nova)
Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling
Cyber-Saber (Reuters)
Online Gamer Stabbed for Selling
Cyber-Saber (Reuters)
03/30/2005 11:17 AMReuters - A Shanghai online game player stabbed
to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily
said Wednesday, creating a dilemma in China where no law exists
for the ownership of virtual weapons.
Chinese Gamer Chases First China
Licensing Deal (Reuters)
Chinese Gamer Chases First China
Licensing Deal (Reuters)
06/02/2004 06:55 AMReuters - As China's Internet media firms seek to
diversify from mobile phone-related services, Taiwan online
game designer Chinese Gamer International Corp stands ready to
help feed their appetite for new income sources.
Online gamer wins law suit for return of
virtual property stolen by hacker
Online gamer wins law suit for return of
virtual property stolen by hacker
12/19/2003 06:24 PMSecurity News Portal Dec 19 2003 4:55PM ET
Can You Fine Me Now?
Can You Fine Me Now?
08/31/2004 01:21 PMIf you thought New York City's
ban on using
a mobile phone at any kind of performance (with its $50 fine) was
a bit much, you might want to avoid the libraries in Huntington Beach,
California. You can now
ge
t fined up to $1,000 for using your phone in the library.
Admittedly, that's only for your third strike. The first offense is
$250, the second $500. They had considered a 6 month jail term but
decided, all in all, that might be a bit much.
A fine day to die
A fine day to die
06/23/2004 02:47 AM
BATHORY
mastermind Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg has passed away. A fine day
to die? Mayhaps but maybe also too soon at a young 39. One might think
that those interested in the
black stuff
would already know of this passing, but like Elton John said,
"...then again, no" because I just found out tonight. So
there it is, if any of you are listening to "Blood, Fire,
Death" while at a grim and blasphemous desk job like me but have
missed the news. Reviews are
here of the
"band" that took off in a grim way from Slayer and Venom and
spawned a grip of younger Scandanavian agents like
these and
them. (mild
warning: when reading about black metal you will no doubt read about
some people with anti-social ideas.)
Fine
Fine
04/17/2004 01:59 PMExperimental RPM files
Jay, One Fine
Jay, One Fine
12/08/2003 08:02 AMJay
onefinejay.com
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Five and doing just fine, PII
Five and doing just fine, PII
07/07/2004 11:35 AMOh, and here's another story about Isaac I really like:
Every week my wife takes him to a nearby nature center where he
learns about all sorts of things, including rocks, bugs, birds, and -
on one occasion - the phases of the moon. At the end of this class,
the teacher handed out a black-and-white line drawing of the moon and
asked the kids color it.
Walking around the classroom, the teacher was pleased to see so
many kids using their yellow crayons to color the drawing. When she
reached Isaac's desk, though, she stopped and looked concerned. You
see, rather than carefully coloring the moon, Isaac had grabbed a
handful of crayons and attacked the drawing with random slashes of
brown, green, gray and purple. The puzzled teacher asked him what he
was doing, and Isaac - clearly happy with his creation - replied that
he was drawing the inside of the moon.
I'm happy to report, too, that my three-year-old daughter, Hannah,
likewise shows plenty of signs of thinking for herself. Not too long
ago she was gleefully drawing a picture which looked sort of - but not
entirely - like someone's foot. I sat down next to her and asked what
she was drawing, and she grinned and replied, "an evil toe!" then
started laughing maniacally.
Okay, so maybe that's more cause for alarm than hope, but I'm still
proud of her.
"Fine Art"
"Fine Art"
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