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Need some feedback to see if a display issue is something I'm doing, or something to RMA. I have a two month old HIS Turbo IceQX2 R270x that works perfectly fine with my flat-panel on the DVI and DisplayPort (via adapter), but fails to work with HDMI. By fail, I mean it displays a mottled...

For the past month, a friend and I have been experimenting with the WoW auction house. Now, in real-life both of us work in the IST Supply Chain department of a multi-billion dollar company. Working our computer systems, we've got a pretty firm grasp of how supply and demand works in...

Some tidbits floating around today that you won't see on the front page, but are interesting nonetheless. On the supply side, Dean Takahashi, author of "Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution" visited Redmond and posted some info on his blog...

http://www.gamersreports.com/index.php?sid=4406 Check to see how many your BB store is getting. This should help determine which store to stand in line for. Thank me later. (Yeah, the title is 260 for a reason. There are NOT that many being allocated per store. It's not looking good at...

To the chagrin of our new games moderator :p, new research shows that ADD can be helped by video games. Link to News.com.com.com.com Using a modified version of Burnout, these researchers are able to help kids cope with inattention. This is a great article to use against the Jack Thompsons...

Some exciting changes to one of my favorite emulators, namely PSP support. You can download it from Sourceforge.

SpikeTV, not having learned from the bloody coathangers known as VGA I and II, announced the nominees for who has advertised the most... er, the best videogames of the year. My favorite catagory: "BEST GAME BASED ON A MOVIE": Star Wars Battlefront II (LucasArts) Release Date: October 31...

I was scanning my usual sites when I came across an article by Fuad Abazovic that I wanted to pass on to you. Two years ago I made a bet with Kyle (that I have now won) over whether games would be specially made and boxed for a specific brand of video card. Kyle took the position of separate...

I'm going to start a new series of articles for the gaming forum. I realize that I read posts and articles on gaming that many of you either miss, don't read or don't have access to. As one reader put it, he wished he had more of an insider's look into the industry. I'm going to start...

As promised for some time now, here's Part IV: "There are some great sections that I'm having fun with, but then there are parts that I feel like I'm at the arcade playing some rail shooter... Totally telegraphed and played like a Konami shooter. Bad, bad, bad." - Nov. 16, 2004 Okay, so I...

Long thought cancelled, Prey is going to be making a showing at E3. Details are light but this has been a *tightly* held secret for quite some time. I've known about it now for almost two years and was sworn to keep my mouth shut. I kept my word so now Gamespot is reporting it, I don't have...

My computer has been exhibiting some strange behavior for some time now when double-clicking or right-clicking on common file types. I'm trying to find the cause. For example, if I double-click on a text file or a video file, it takes 10 seconds for the OS to either run the application...

Two reasons for posting this thread: The first is that Where Is Phantom hosted a conference call where we talked about the Phantom gaming console, the history of the website and what the impact for gamers are. We recorded it and you can download it here using your Bittorrent Client. It's 1h...

Previous Parts: Part I Part II Up until this point in the game, the action has mostly been narrative. A bit of action has been thrown in, but the game takes a sudden turn when Route Kanal begins. This third part in a series of game design breakdowns analyzes some design decisions in...

Games Industry Article Take2 is now reportedly going after exclusive Major League Baseball rights. The NBA can't be far behind. Folks, this ain't good for the consumer.

Part II: Point Insertion Sorry for the delay in getting this next part out. I chose to spend the holidays completely with family instead of writing. I should be cranking these out every few days or so. When designing a AAA game, right at the beginning of the game the developer wants to...

As one astute poster put it, every generation has their own form of artistical expression. Be it oil paintings, literature, movies or television, the population has attempted to put their own meaning into these art forms. Naturally, video games for today's generation can also fit this...

I know Steve's got great intentions, but I'm encouraging everyone to please turn your televisions to something other than the 2004 VGA award show. Why? 1) Show sponsors (ie commericials on SpikeTV) get heavily favored. 2) Last year the judges weren't affliated with the gaming industry. 3)...

Something I want to run by the denizens of the gaming forum. Sure, there have been plenty of I hate HL2/I love HL2 threads of late. What I would like to propose is a breakdown level by level of the design of the game. This isn't a "this part sucked" or "this part rocked" review. Sheesh, you...

I read it the articles on my own and since Kyle brought it up on the front page, I might as well comment on it. Now, we agree on many things but there are times that we disagree. He's probably forgotten about the bet we made a year ago that there would be separate versions of games created and...

The other day the Independant Game Developers Association released an open letter to the game industry voicing their concerns over the miserable quality of life that game developers have in the industry. This is the strongest wording yet from the IGDA about the quality of life for developers...

Set your Tivos and VCRs to tape Video Game Revolution on your local PBS station this week. Older folks like me who seriously study the past history of gaming should get a big kick out of it. Those yunguns can watch and cringe seeing massive pixels moving around the screen and people enjoying...

Ever since Tron left as being moderator, things have progressively gotten worse in the gaming forum. Hey, I know that the other mods are overloaded and haven't had time to police the forums. Still, it's no excuse for some of the totally stupid threads and comments that have been made in the...

It's in the Hot Deals forum, but in case you don't visit there, Fry's has Unreal Tournament 2004 Special Edition (DVD with the headphones) for $19.99. There's at least 50 per store. No rebates. That's twenty bucks at the register. Oh, and to those people who thought I was crazy for posting...

Gah. I installed the latest Cat 4.4 drivers and now my Viewsonic PF790 is stuck at 60Hz. The eyestrain is killing me. I've tried RefreshForce and the ATI control panel to force it to at least 75Hz. Refresh Override is no use either. The "Displays" tab always shows the Monitor section at...

Just got back from the Gearbox 5th Year Birthday Party. A great night and lots of fun. I'll try and quickly summarize what I saw before heading to bed. The entire night was WWII themed. From the USO themed show on the stage to the girl handing out candy cigarettes. All the bartenders were...

(Disclaimer: Remember no lawsuit talk. This is strictly a news post on the console itself.) It may be a throw-away quote, but the Sarasota Herald-Tribune states that (get ready for it) Infinium is planning a product launch in May. The article also goes on to show that Infinium Labs is...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. At the request of Kyle's lawyers (and it was a request) I've removed all court documents from my site and Kyle has reluctlantly (and it's killing him to do this) disabled the case threads. The fear is that we might be giving Infinium's lawyers too much...

I finally put my PACER account to use and was able to get the public court documents regarding the KB Networks vs. Infinium Labs case. I've put them on my website for anyone interested to download. I found some interesting things that weren't in the press release, such as the fact that Kyle is...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=4&u=/nm/tech_microsoft_report_dc NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) plans to drop the price of its Xbox (news - web sites) video game system by $30 to $149 next month according to a story in the Wall Street Journal...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/21/whizb21.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/21/ixworld.html The article is new, but the concept isn't. Goes to show what the real dark side of gaming really is.

Just a few days ago, in the thread about Game Sequels, Rise of the Triad was mentioned a few times. To see where the current situation is, I decided to ask my casual good friend Tom Hall what the 411 was on it. Tom Hall finally got back to me on the three questions I asked. If there are any...

I think it was almost three years ago when the Frgmstr himself, two other people (Jeremy and Monty) and I got together to do a little experiment. For a few weeks we tried do to a little online show to see where it went. Kyle and Monty would talk hardware, I would talk games since I was a...