When Microsoft announced the much-rumored Xbox 360 Slim redesign at E3, it only came in one flavor: with a 250GB hard drive and a $300 price point. Now, thanks to a listing on Amazon’s German store, speculation is that the updated 360 is about to get the Arcade treatment as well.
A great, non-violent Nintendo Wii game with hours of fun and creative play.
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Astute gamers noticed that Blizzard’s controversial Real ID system was certified by the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s Privacy Online Program. In fact, some gamers thought they could fight the now-defunct program by complaining to the ESRB. We reached out to the rating board to ask a simple question: where does the ESRB fit in when it comes to anonymity?
Blizzard did not make many friends with its recent decision to force users to post with their real names in its official forums. The response was immediate and deafening, with pages and pages of users complaining bitterly about the new rule. One Blizzard employee posted his own name to prove the system’s safety only to have his personal information, including address and phone number, posted on the forum. The company listened to the feedback, and is now reversing course.
Laser tag is nice and all, but the weather is supposed to be beautiful this weekend—at least where we are—and we’re trying to get you people outside, away from the computer! SUCK UK has a sweet idea, a way to play with water guns that lets you know when the other player has scored a kill.
This week our biggest story was, by far, a video of some very impressive Korean StarCraft players. The story was something fun we found and wanted to share, but the readership exploded, and a very good discussion on the merits of that sort of skill began in the comments.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa game for the Wii contains much of the enjoyment of the real thing.
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To-do lists. We all have them, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them. Getting through a pile of boring chores isn’t all that fun, but an upcoming iPhone app is looking to change that. Dubbed EpicWin, the app aims to merge your to-do list with an RPG, letting you gain experience points and find rare loot as you do the laundry and catch up on e-mail.
A new investigation by David Kanter at Realworldtech adds to the pile of circumstantial evidence that NVIDIA has apparently crippled the performance of CPUs on its popular, cross-platform physics acceleration library, PhysX. If it’s true that PhysX has been hobbled on x86 CPUs, then this move is part of a larger campaign to make the CPU—and Intel in specific—look weak and outdated. The PhysX story is important, because in contrast to the usual sniping over conference papers and marketing claims, the PhysX issue could affect real users.
