Police in South Korea are investigating allegations of match fixing by professional players of sci-fi-themed strategy game StarCraft.
The game, made by World of Warcraft developer Blizzard, is enormously popular in South Korea.
Leagues of professional players compete in televised tournaments...
On the last day, they gathered for a group photo. They were videogame programmers, artists, level builders, artificial-intelligence experts. Their team was — finally — giving up, declaring defeat, and disbanding. So they headed down to the lobby of their building in Garland, Texas, to smile for...
The next chapter of this saga begins....
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Meanwhile, high resolutions screenshots and spreadsheets of the entire plot have been leaked onto the Internet, find them here:
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I saw a video posted from several months back of some game reviewer who got a chance to actually play the game . I'm sure the video is still around somewhere.
Veteran games developer 3D Realms has closed down because of a lack of funds.
Founded in 1987, the firm popularised the concept of shareware gaming and published the seminal Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D first-person shooters.
The company was working on a follow-up title, Duke Nukem Forever...
Just a heads up.
Steam is offering the addictive Tower Defense game Defense Grid: The Awakening for a mere $5.00 , or 75% off the original price.
This special is available until May 13th.
Read here for more information:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/18500/
Hi Chris,
I can't help since I don't play or map anymore. And I'm half asleep right now. If you think there is a mistake and you've tested out a fix and it works, then you are welcome to attach it into this thread so others can benefit from your work.
I can't say if anyone has really used...
Video game publishing giant Electronic Arts (EA) is to shed more than 500 jobs, after the firm announced lower than expected profits for the year.
Nearly 20% of its share value was wiped out after the profit warning, with its shares closing at $22.78.
EA said that higher development and...
In those parts of the world where they follow traditional views of Islam, girls who have been raped must kill themselves or be killed in order to restore honour to their family.
And the criminals more often than not walk free.
It's disgusting, but it does still happen far too often in...
I think this is why it's probably best to not announce these things too early. Games taking too long to ship from the official announce date kills all the excitement of it.
I'll buy this game for sure, but I'm not going to play it with the same enthusiasm I had back around E3 2007.
~ Disable Aero before playing any 3D games
~ Go into the properties for the .exe file for the game -> Compatibility tab -> run the game in XP compatibility mode
Do you *actually* have 3gb ram or do you have 4gb and its only detecting 3gb ?
Here's an interesting Q&A made last Monday by Wired as part of their Blizzcon 2008 wrap-up:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/qa-starcraft-ii.html
The interviewee, SCII Lead Designer Dustin Browder, gave what was one of the more relaxed and frank interviews that I've read from a Blizzard...