PC

Razer’s Combat Knife-Inspired Blade Gaming Laptop Will Be Home For Christmas

With only a few short weeks before Christmas, Razer prepares to take preorders on their dedicated gaming laptop, the Razer Blade. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan explains what’s changed since the “world’s first true gaming laptop” was revealed in August, and talks about the Army origins of the laptop’s sleek and sexy design.


June 9, 2011
Xbox

Suprisingly Competent Blackwater Kinect Title Could Be It’s Own Greatest Victim

This week was the first time we heard of publisher 505 Games’ Blackwater, an FPS that would cast you in the role of Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries.


May 16, 2011
News

Army Wants Soldiers’ Heads To Control Robots

You thought laptop glare was murder on your eyes? Try sending a fleet of wheeled robots down into the horrors of battle using nothing but your icy stare.


May 3, 2011
News

This Military Simulator Is A Match Made In Heavy Metal Heaven00

Brothers Ondrej and Marek Spanel – who spent their childhood in communist Czechoslovakia playing Atari games “bought on the black market” – are the surprising originators behind a military-training game employed by the governments of at least five major nations. Among the brothers’ sources of inspiration: heavy metal music.


April 16, 2011
News

How To Get Your A-Game On (With Electricity)

Are you desperate to take your video game performance to the next level – and willing to indulge in some high-risk behavior? Hint: you’ll need a 9-volt battery and a wet sponge!


February 13, 2011
In Real Life

Video Games On The Front Lines

Long hours, hard work, crap weather. Then there’s the boredom, the long hours of boredom, followed by the bursts of heart-pounding adrenaline. This is war.


December 28, 2010
Uncategorized

If An Alien Invasion Really Happened, We’d Be Dead Instantly

In movies humans fight off alien occupation forces, explode alien ships, and mind-control aliens with the power of love. How on earth can we think that would happen?


November 1, 2010
News

Army Sim Is Short On Graphics, Big On Steering Wheel Peripherals

Everybody knows that armed forces around the world train using what are essentially advanced video games, but it’s rare we actually get to see one in action up-close like this.


October 10, 2010
News

Enlisted Gamer Criticizes Military Response To Medal Of Honor

Stars and Stripes, the foremost independent publication covering the United States military, examined the Army and Air Force’s recent decision to forbid Medal of honour from being sold in their exchanges. One enlisted man blasted the decision as shortsighted.


October 9, 2010
News

The United States Army Is Testing Fallout PIPBoys

You can call the devices the US Army is testing out at Fort Dix in New Jersey wrist-mounted phosphorescent OLED Displays is you want. We’re calling them PIPBoys.