A Taste of Battlefield Heroes

I’m a Battlefield fan ever since BF 1942 was released on the PC.  It took my WWII shooter experience to the next level.  Since then, I’ve played every Battlefield game to be released on the PC (who actually plays the horrible console versions anyway?). 
Now, a lot of Valve groupies are ragging [...]

Fun AudioSurfing

Well, I decided to give in a pay the $10 to see what all the fuss was about.  Turns out, I was pleasantly surprised. 
AudioSurf is a small rythm game where the player imports his favorite songs, the game then creates the level based on the track.  The game analyzes the song and then spits out [...]

Using Your Mind to Control Video Games!

 
If you didn’t think it would ever come to pass, here it is, a brain-control headset made specifically for a user to interact with computers and, more specifically, video games!
According to the BBC article that my dad linked me to, the headset interprets the interactions of the neurons in the brain and then sends a wireless [...]

Random Rant: A Nerd’s Mid-Life Crisis

This is one of my “things” when it comes to online forums and communities.  I hate it when people post their computer’s specifications in their forum signature!  I hate it!  Why do I care whether you have overclocked RAM?  Why not try something a little more creative?  What, have nothing better to talk about?  Perhaps [...]

Testing Social, Political, and Economic Systems in Online Games?

I just read an interesting article at New World Notes about Second Life and its attempt at incorporating a laissez faire system.  Lindens, the developers and managers of Second Life, wanted to take a hands-off approach to Second Life, allowing the “residents” to determine how things were run. 
Interestingly, this all seems to be coming to an [...]

Keen and Graev’s Insight: Sins of a Solar Empire

Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog, one of my usual stops during my surf through the blogosphere (wow, I feel old saying that… “blogosphere”), has some great insight into the recently released RTS game for the PC, Sins of a Solar Empire.  While I’m not one to get into RTS games all that much, SSE has [...]