Razer, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-end gaming peripherals, announced today that Ed Larkin, designer and inventor of the original Mouse Bungee, will join their design team. Their new collaboration, the Razer Mouse Bungee is due out worldwide in Q4 2010.
The Mouse Bungee essentially suspends a wired mouse’s cord in …
Retro PC gaming site GOG has been naughty lately. The digital download service pulled a stunt last week that made it seem like the plug had been pulled on the site–which left thousands of users mourning–only to say “Just kidding!” But they’ve been making up for it by making first-class titles available for purchase.
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Sid Meier has done it again with the latest installment in his popular Civilization computer game franchise. Civilization V (Civ V) does not deviate greatly from the premise of its predecessors – conquer or be conquered – but what makes Civ V so entertaining is how smoothly it plays.
One of the greatest pitfalls for video games is …
If you’ve ever felt the need to fully customize your keyboard, the gaming peripheral company SteelSeries might just have your answer. SteelSeries’ Shift offers gamers the option to completely remap every single key as well as the ability to swap out the physical keyset itself. The concept, originally developed by Ideazon’s Zboard, …
Christopher Nolan’s dreamtime action-thriller has racked up $753 million worldwide and now its director is saying that he’s looking to take the film’s subconscious security exploits to video games. The quote from Variety:
“We are looking at doing is developing a videogame based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas …
Whether you’re rocking a wired ball-mouse or the latest in ergonomic laser gaming mice, one fact remains: your mouse is only as good as the surface it glides on. Most surfaces are not uniform, thus affecting both the physical motion of a mouse glide and the tracking that relays information from mouse to computer. When a millisecond in …
A while back, I wrote about Schwarznegger v. EMA, the case going before the Supreme Court that could possibly restrict video game sales. Currently, pro-gamer organizations are marshalling support for their side of the argument. The Entertainment Consumers Association is gathering names for a petition to include in an amicus brief to be …
Today marks the first day of the 2010 NFL season, which brings with it the first NFL-licensed computer game since EA sports stopped making a PC version of Madden back in 2008.
QuickHit, as previously reported, is a browser-based football simulator. The newest version allows you to coach your favorite NFL team through various
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If you haven’t seen Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece The Room, you are truly missing out on the best of independent cinema. A hilarious drama with “the passion of Tenneessee Williams” (yes, the name was misspelled in the quote), there’s a reason why Entertainment Weekly calls it “The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies.”
While waiting for Wiseau to …
According to remarks from David Vondehaar of Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops will ship with about 14 maps on the disc when the game hits on November 9th. I had the chance to try out some of the various new multiplayer maps and match types last night and came away impressed.
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Activision’s hosting the worldwide reveal of the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer tonight in LA. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been announced and shown so far:
Mark Lamia, studio head of Treyarch, said, “We’ve never been more fired up than we are about Black Ops. There’s never been a more important game for us at Treyarch.” As …
MTV Multiplayer‘s posted a nerdgasm-inducing bit of info that could bring two awesome sci-fi visions together, if we all wish hard enough. In an interview with MTV’s Russ Frushtick, Rob Pardo–Blizzard’s Executive Vice President of Game Design–offered up the following observation about moving their game franchises onto the silver …
