Gaming

It's been a long wait, but for fans of the super popular first-person shooter series "Halo," Tuesday was a very good day indeed. Not only were gamers just hours away from the launch of the multiplayer beta for the highly anticipated game, Microsoft finally announced the game's release date -- Sept...

For the makers and fans of the blockbuster games "Halo" and "Halo 2," Tuesday will be almost like Christmas Eve. "Halo 3" is set to go live with its public beta Wednesday. For two years, gamers have been counting the days until they could get a glimpse of the game in action. Their wish was granted F...

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled plans to replace its Athlon processor line with a new quad-core chip for desktop PCs in an effort to keep pace with chief rival Intel. AMD will launch its quad-core desktop processors under the name "Phenom" later this year, shortly after the company unveils its q...

Game maker Electronic Arts revealed details on its forthcoming title, "The Simpsons Game," Wednesday during an event announcing the new video game as well as 12 other new titles. Set for release this fall, the game turns the tables on the characters of the well-known TV family: The whole Simpsons cl...

Xbox 360 owners may be in for a pleasant surprise the next time they connect to Xbox Live using the next-generation console. Microsoft released its Spring Update for the Xbox 360 Wednesday on a rolling basis to the Xbox Live community. The software upgrade brings with it communications support for W...

Parents are becoming more restrictive when it comes to regulating the video games their children play, according to a recent study commissioned by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Sixty percent of parents with children under the age of 17 never allow their kids to play M-rated titles, the st...

Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony's dropping the PSP price to a very attractive $169, and the resignation of PC World's editor in chief over a throwaway Apple piece. The first item got me thinking about why th...

More than half of "Second Life" users are from Europe, according to a study announced Friday that analyzed active users of the virtual online world. A full 61 percent of the 1.3 million users who ran the official "Second Life" software and logged in in March were based in Europe, compared with 19 pe...

Graphics technology leader Nvidia has released details of a new graphics card it describes as "the world's fastest." The Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra is expected to give gamers a boost in their never-ending quest to cram more state-of-the-art graphics onto PCs. In fact, the graphics kingpin claims the ...

LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves. Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert figh...

Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-based NeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action. The toys include a sensor, which is placed on the player's forehead to read the brain's electrical signals. Moves are dependent on the player's concentration. In a pr...

The latestet iteration of Microsoft's next-generation gaming console, the Xbox 360 Elite, hit store shelves Sunday. The new model boasts a 120 GB hard drive, a high-definition multimedia interface port for connecting to HDTV, a wireless controller and a premium black finish on the console's exterior...

IBM is working to turn its System z mainframe computer into an online 3-D gaming platform, and it's doing it by putting advanced technology used in video games into a mainframe. The idea is to merge the massive transaction and account-based scalability of the mainframe with the graphics power of the...

Your PS3 Is Watching You

PlayStation 3 owners will be able to see and be seen this summer with a new accessory for its next-generation gaming console Sony announced Thursday. The PlayStation Eye is an intelligent camera and noise-canceling microphone that the game maker said will expand and boost gaming and communication op...

Lord of the Rings fans now have the opportunity to cast themselves as their favorite Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf or Man. Game software makers Turbine and Midway announced Tuesday the release of "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar." The game is the first massively-multiplayer online game based on...

Technewsworld Channels