Following the merger of the year between Activision and Vivendi Games, the CEO and co-chairman of the new super-publisher are expected to get a hefty payout — $40 million. Activision Blizzard’s new CEO, Bobby Kotick, who was Activision’s former CEO,… Read More »

I always hate having to leave my IM and MSN names logged on when I’m working on a paper because people feel the need to send anything gaming related to me, even if I’m set to busy or away. Most… Read More »

The new AMD Phenom and Barcelona Opterons are broken and the only avaliable fix will cost Phenom buyers anywhere between 5% and 50% in performance. The problem is with the CPU’s translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and L3 cache, and can… Read More »

While this is far from official news it is still quite interesting. The Admin of the popular CoD4 Boards has created a thread in which he has cobbled together links and articles from all over the Internet that point towards… Read More »

OK, I admit it. I am a Star Wars fan. I’ve got a first edition Darth Vader mug, an authentic and rare Star Wars Trilogy button, an assortment of various fast food giveaways, seen each episode a billzion times and… Read More »

While the annual gaming lull continues, a few PS3 games finally make their long-awaited debut including Unreal Tournament 3, The Orange Box, NCAA March Madness 08 and BlackSite: Area 51. One game I’ve been anticipating for a little bit is… Read More »

You guys better appreciate this. You have no idea how long it took to resize and upload all of these one at a time*. Especially spanning a Friday night/Saturday morning. The things I do for you people… For your enjoyment,… Read More »

There’s no doubting that pirates are popular. For the past few years every Halloween has been Pirates vs Other Costumes, and there’s been a lot of people trying to take advantage of Pirate Mania. The latest to try and cash-in… Read More »

Contra 4 Review

I was having a conversation with a gaming friend of mine the other day, and the topic of difficulty came up. He told me that no game has challenged him since the days of the NES, and that all of… Read More »

Star Trek Conquest Review

This was a pretty hard game to review; not because it was necessarily difficult to play, but because for every good reaction that I felt about the game, there was an equal and opposite reaction as well. (Mr. Hewett, my… Read More »