Inside the Halo AI
November 17, 2004 @ 23:42
Very interesting interview with the lead AI developer for Halo and Halo 2: The game industry is fast approaching this point where we are building...
Game Over
November 17, 2004 @ 11:54
Every once in a while the discussion of games returns to the question whether games are or can be art. For example, the last issue...
Halo 2 available early
November 10, 2004 @ 17:44
Don't bother calling, I won't be picking up the phone. I just walked into the local electronics superstore and they had Halo 2 on...
Game ratings in everyday life
October 12, 2004 @ 15:29
I was queuing for the cash register in an electronics store and in line before me was a mother with two boys, who were maybe...
Tap tap tap
October 5, 2004 @ 14:02
It's attention to detail that can make a great game brilliant. Still fiddling with my Xbox controller (it sometimes works okay, but most of the...
Halo 2 'finished'
October 4, 2004 @ 16:09
Drool, splutter, gargle, cough... BBC says that Bungie have finished coding on Halo 2 and that Microsoft is now doing final testing. European release date...
Broken Xbox controller
October 1, 2004 @ 15:56
Bah! It seems my Xbox controller is kaput. The left thumbstick doesn't relay left and upwards movements properly anymore. It's not that it doesn't react...
Microsoft interested in buying Nintendo?
August 5, 2004 @ 08:52
Well, that was the four line news item in the newspaper this morning. Turns out that the source of the news is the German financial...
Collect a star
March 19, 2004 @ 07:43
Seeing that star hover over Cory's head, I strangely feel the compulsion to jump on his head Mario-style and collect it. Nothing personal, I like...
Ikea walkthrough
January 25, 2004 @ 23:25
IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In...
GameSpy MMOGs overview
November 14, 2003 @ 14:39
Finally complete, GameSpy's massive Massively Multiplayer Online Games overview, from MUDs to the present day and beyond....
Girls, games, and advertising
November 13, 2003 @ 10:52
There's a brief interview/article with a female game developer over at the BBC new site. The article presents two frequently raised issues with regard to...
Xbox 2 details
November 4, 2003 @ 12:50
Microsoft's deal with IBM for providing the CPU for the Xbox 2 is all over the web. They're changing the hardware platform quite drastically, so...
Down the toilet
October 28, 2003 @ 09:23
Yesterday I was playing Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo and at some point I let Gromit open a door marked with a toilet symbol....
Video game length
September 29, 2003 @ 09:54
There's an interesting thread on Slashdot Games about whether the length of video games differs between US/European games or releases and Asian/Japanese ones. There's some...
Affection
September 24, 2003 @ 09:39
Unattributed quote found floating in cyberspace: Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pac Man had affected us as kids, now we'd all be...
Recent virtual worlds links
August 10, 2003 @ 19:14
A bunch of somewhat related "virtual worlds" links I collected over the past week or so: • V6.0 update of the MMOG Active Subscriptions graph...
Gamers are pretty normal people
July 8, 2003 @ 15:34
A recently released study by Pew Internet & American Life shows that on a whole college students who play video games, are pretty normal people....
Playing the game
July 8, 2003 @ 12:40
An AP news story is making the rounds and CNN, Mercury News, and Wired are writing it up. The story is about a bunch of...
Online games taxed
July 3, 2003 @ 09:49
Slashdot points to a Gamespot article, noting that "electronically delivered goods and services" in Europe have become subject to a 17.5% VAT levy on the...
Die young, stay pretty
July 2, 2003 @ 16:46
Guess I better forget about playing Lara's new outing Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness then. Gamespy reviews the PS2 version of the game and thinks...
Online gaming documentaries
June 18, 2003 @ 10:51
Last week I discovered that there are a couple of independent projects trying to capture online gaming in documentary style. The projects I found mainly...
Triple threat
June 13, 2003 @ 11:38
A particularly entertaining typo can be found in this article at GameSpy. The article discusses the confusion that ensued when a MS spokesperson was (mis)quoted...
Edge's numbers
June 10, 2003 @ 16:35
I've checked out a whole lot of games and gaming magazines, but Edge is the only one I've found that discusses games and gaming in...
PSX: Playstation 2 plus
May 28, 2003 @ 15:48
Ah, the news of the day certainly must be the announcement of a new "souped up" Playstation 2, dubbed "PSX," as Slashdot puts it. The...
Game on!
May 28, 2003 @ 12:24
The Game On exhibition is opening its doors today in the Netherlands. Great news for us continental game afficionados who never made it across the...
MMOG subscriptions
May 28, 2003 @ 10:55
An Analysis of MMOG Subscription Growth. A very interesting resource, putting various massively multi-player online games in a graph, plotting their number of subscriptions. Everquest...
Real lookers
May 19, 2003 @ 12:33
So the E3 is over and we're left with a couple of awesome previews and trailers. My personal favorite is the Halo 2 trailer. The...
Translucent Xbox
May 19, 2003 @ 11:32
Interesting. The Dutch section of Xbox.com showcases a translucent Limited Edition of the Xbox. There have been some rumors about a translucent Xbox, but it...
Gaming coverage
April 30, 2003 @ 12:25
Yesterday Slashdot announced the arrival of a special games and gaming focused section: games.slashdot.org. So far, the coverage has been pretty good, referring to quite...
Speeding at 60 FPS
April 16, 2003 @ 17:58
I was wondering whether my tv would support the Xbox's PAL60 video mode, which promises smoother gameplay for games that support it. Splinter Cell was...
Splinter Cell
April 12, 2003 @ 17:31
The most amazing thing... I just bought Splinter Cell and I'm blogging about it even before I've popped it into my Xbox. I really should...
Further Xbox price reduction
April 10, 2003 @ 14:05
I thought the status quo in the console price (and market share) war would last a little longer, but Microsoft decided to stir things up...
Got game?
March 29, 2003 @ 21:24
Today we've been helping our friends fix up the apartment they recently bought. It's a pretty four room apartment with high ceilings and loads of...
Apropos Xbox: Live
March 11, 2003 @ 09:27
March 14 is the launch date of the Xbox Live service in the Netherlands. I would be really excited about that, if it were not...
Catching up
March 11, 2003 @ 08:49
Got some catching up to do after finishing and tweaking the new layout. Game news first: The bad news of the week of course is...
Enter the Matrix gameplay footage
March 2, 2003 @ 17:33
Cool! Infogrames posted five movies on the upcoming Enter the Matrix videogame. The first movie is actual gameplay footage and the other four movies are...
Two interviews
February 12, 2003 @ 09:19
Ah, two great game masters interviewed by GameSpy: Richard Gariott (Lord British) and Warren Spector (via Slashdot)....
Oops and ai
February 1, 2003 @ 18:43
Spectacular console gaming failures (via Slashdot). AI storytelling technology (via Slashdot)....
Halo, or how those things happen
January 31, 2003 @ 01:37
Quite a while ago some rumors surfaced about an exciting new game in the making, called Halo. Microsoft announced its new gaming console, the Xbox,...
More online gaming
January 19, 2003 @ 13:18
Online Gaming - Comments and News, interview about Imperial Wars (via Slashdot). Flashbacks of Elite... Freelancer and preview at FiringSquad)...
MMOG's
January 2, 2003 @ 16:14
Some massively multi-player online games in varying stages of beta-testing that I'm keeping an eye on: EVE Online Neocron Earth and Beyond Star Wars Galaxies...
Online gaming
December 30, 2002 @ 18:21
There's an interesting and somewhat bitter account on Slashdot about What You Really Get From An Online Game like Everquest. Also a fairly long article...
Online gaming
December 30, 2002 @ 18:21
There's an interesting and somewhat bitter account on Slashdot about What You Really Get From An Online Game like Everquest. Also a fairly long article...
Two links
December 13, 2002 @ 13:48
RPG Codex, good site. Cheaters pose threat to the growth of online gaming in USA Today....
Games
December 9, 2002 @ 15:49
Another Slash rehash, this time gaming related articles: the latest part of GameSpy's Future of PC Gaming series, together with an interview with Chris Taylor...
Real virtual economies
November 7, 2002 @ 11:00
Online Game Economies Get Real at Wired and Lisbeth points to a BBC story: Everquest Fantasy Offers Real Rewards. The BBC story begins like this:...
Two Future of Gaming articles
November 1, 2002 @ 15:12
Two interesting articles at the GameSpy Future of Gaming section: Engines And Engineering: What to expect in the future of PC games and an Interview...
Xbox live
October 6, 2002 @ 16:18
A brief but interesting report by Chris Morris, a beta tester of the Xbox Live service. Unfortunately the Europeans will have to wait for it...
MacMyst
August 18, 2002 @ 16:42
Had Myst never been released for the Mac, I think that there wouldn't have been much theorizing about games, hypertext and narrative....