Between January 2004 and January 2009, 696 gaming-related injuries were reported in the United States. How are gamers hurting themselves? More »
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At some point during E3, this happened, but we were far too busy working to see it. More »
I highly recommend seeing Disney’s latest Toy Story film at an E3 preview, where you can have all the candy, popcorn, milkshakes, Yoohoo brand chocolate drink and vodka Jell-O shots you can handle. And I can handle a lot. More »
Staff at Disney Interactive Japan & Jupiter Corp hand picked their ‘favourite’ new creatures for the wholly un-Pokemon-like monster egg archaeology game Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals.
Each of the eggs will be available for download at a cost of one point each. Interestingly (to me, anyway – feel free to form your own opinions) the option of using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to download content is itself an unlockable ability within the game.
That list of downloadable Spectrobe beasties in full, after the jump.
For the last 14 years the denizens of the USENET group rec.arts.int-fiction have been keeping the Text Adventure flag flying with hundreds of new games and an annual competition to find the best of the year’s crop. 2008 has seen 35 new entries with some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures/interactive fiction.
