The News Review:
- Console vs. PC: The PC Gaming Alliance Interview Part Four
- nline game Caduceus to raise funds for Children’s Hospital
- Excitebots on the Wii brings light gambling to online play
- PPA Has $3 Million Available to Lobby Congress for nline Poker
- Field report: the first ten hours of Demigod
- Xbox 360 Elite bundle now includes better games
Console vs. PC: The PC Gaming Alliance Interview Part Four
PC World
Like bandwidth and connectivity for starters. RS: As an online player I’m sure you’ve seen people cheat and you’ve probably heard of people hacking and cracking online games. Those are issues the industry has to deal with and fraud’s another issue the industry has to deal with. So just because piracy isn’t an issue doesn’t mean there aren’t other things that dominate the mind of the game developers and publishers for online games.
nline game Caduceus to raise funds for Children’s Hospital
Mass High Tech
”The funds raised will go toward research into treatments for serious childhood diseases including cancer diabetes and heart disease. Similar to a walk-a-thon youngsters can raise money from sponsors as they move past levels in the educational online game. Caduceus is part of.
Related from Fathernickthomas: Will children’s hospital really happen?
Excitebots on the Wii brings light gambling to online play
Ars Technica
but the real joy is in betting stars the in-game currency on your own performance. Welcome to gambling Nintendo-style… but the real joy is in betting stars the in-game currency on your own performance. Welcome to gambling Nintendo-style.
PPA Has $3 Million Available to Lobby Congress for nline Poker
4Flush.com
But the NFL is not the only sports organization that is for the UIGEA. The NCAA basketball hockey and baseball organizations have joined the efforts made by the NFL to keep the UIGEA. D?Amato has stated that he is for leagues banning wagering on their own game but he does have a problem with the leagues trying to block online poker. Hopefully the funds available to the PPA will help raise more awareness of the need to overturn the UIGEA and maybe with the new President in office we shall see a change soon.
Field report: the first ten hours of Demigod
Ars Technica
That’s disappointing and as we were trying to get the issues worked out I was chatting with my friends on our Vent server. It became clear how this is affecting the game’s chances at retail. “I’m going to wait until all this is worked out” one of my online gaming buddies said when I asked if he was buying the game. He said he didn’t want to beta test it for the first week and when I tried to argue about how good the game is he brought up the fact that he had listened to us curse the online system for fifteen minutes. That was hard to argue against.
Xbox 360 Elite bundle now includes better games
CNET News
It’s less than half what you’d pay to play World of Warcraft. Sony saying they will allow 3rd parties to run their online network for them has resulted in an almost across the board worse experience online for me on the PS3. nly Resistance 2 and KillZone 2 have really solid online play and that’s pretty sad compared to the dozens upon dozens of excellent online games I can choose from on the 360. I pay more for one month of my internet ISP (AT&T UVerse) than I do for a year of XBox Live Gold. It’s simply not a bad deal. Reply to this comment.