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October 12th, 2005 - Surrogate Interactive announces innovative action packed fighting game for PC.

"Brutal will be unlike any fighting game experience you have everplayed before! ...We're creating a game that blends your typicalfighting game experience such as Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur withthat of your typical First Person Shooter like Quake or Half-Life."said Peter Ryan, CEO, Surrogate Interactive and Brutal Project Lead.
"With any fighting game that is curr... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Oct 13, 2005

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Jack Thompson is not Jonathan Swift – not nearly as clever. So when hetitles his idea for a video game A Modest Proposal, he is degrading thebeauty that is Swift’s infamous child-eating scenario. But that’sexactly what Jack Thompson did – he is offering $10,000 to charity foranyone who makes his proposed game.

Essentially, the game involves Osaki Kim, a father whose son was“beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer.” Theguilty party was “only” sentenced to life, even ... [ There's more ]

Posted by foyleman in Gaming News on Oct 13, 2005

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In the realms of actually playing the games, 1UP.com has an article that discusses the growing popularity of gaming tutelage. Those folk who find themselves getting stomped at a Halo deathmatch might feel that they need a few coaching lessons to up their game, and if that's the case then they can head over to Gaming-Lessons.com to sign up for a talented tutor, for which they'll pay... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 11, 2005

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According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, ten Xbox 360 development kits have been confirmed as being stolen from a warehouse in Düren in north-west Germany.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 10, 2005

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Consumer game website Eurogamer has conducted an interview with Xbox corporate vice president J Allard at the recent X05 event in Amsterdam in which he has spoken in detail about the Xbox 360’s global launch, as well as fears over stock shortages due to the near-simultaneous worldwide launch of the next-gen console, which is due to debut on November 22 in North America, December 2 in Europe and December 10 in Japan.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 10, 2005

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Following the recent stockholder approval of the merger between top North American specialty game retailers GameStop and Electronics Boutique, the company has officially started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under its combined 'GME' stock symbol.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 10, 2005

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The competition between Linux distributions enters a new age, now that Mandriva has announced the launching of the 2006 version, following the release of SUSE 10. The latest distribution of Mandriva is based on Kernel 2.6.12, gcc 4.0, X.org 6.9 and it includes the OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 solution and the Akregator for centralizing RSS feeds. In addition, it incorporates Opera for browsing and Skype for communications.

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Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 10, 2005

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http://www.google.com/reader, log-in with the personal account (the one that provides access to all the Google web services) to start searching or even subscribe to their favorite RSS feeds.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 10, 2005

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Things haven't been good for Lara Croft of late. Her latest movie wasn't the success the marquee suggested it could have been and the less said about her recent games the better. But Ms. Croft has since been passed over to new handlers, and they were showing her off for the world to see at Microsoft's X05 conference in Holland this week.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 8, 2005

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The promised demo for Peter Jackson's King Kong is now available, offering the chance to take on one mission as Jack and the other as Kong in a sample of the upcoming monster movie remake tie-in.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Oct 8, 2005