Veel bibliotheken weten nog steeds niet goed wat ze aanmoeten met videogames en/of gratis internet. Sla de archieven van ZB Digitaal en andere biblioblogs er maar op na. Voor collega's die worstelen met gamedilemma's is het wellicht aardig om te weten dat de American Library Association deze week ee...

Everyone has an opinion on this whole Resident Evil 5 racism debacle -- well, everyone except a real expert on the science of race relations. Prompted to settle the ongoing debate once and for all, Videogamer.com has employed Glenn Bowman, University of Kent senior lecturer at the Department of Anth...

Split down the middle. Folded: In For The Kill by La Roux - Skreams remix (addictive like crack. Or maybe popcorn) Pronouncing Noilly Prat correctly and looking smug (have a go, you won’t get it right. You probably won’t know what it is either – or care frankly) Being nice to people with Satur...

Cleitus the Black has an amusing post up at Elected Swineherd about parents who ask their children to honor the Geneva Conventions while playing violent video games such as Call of Duty. According to MSNBC:"Evan Spencer wanted to play 'Call of Duty: World at War.' So he asked his dad. Hugh Spencer w...

In the PlayStation 3 exclusive Killzone 2, players take the fight to the red-eyed Helghast, invading their barren home planet of Helghan to try and capture the warmongering leader Emperor Scolar Visari. It is, on its surface, a big ball of science fiction and video game cliches, but what first-perso...

We could have easily gone for a more vulgar headline! Here's what Christian Svensson, Capcom's vice president of business development and strategic planning, actually said about the upcoming co-op shooter, Lost Planet 2 : "Takeuchi's approach was, you know what we're not going to sit back on our lau...

Auf diesen Zeitpunkt haben viele Ego-Shooter-Fans seit Monaten gewartet. Seit heute Nacht dürfen sie Quake Live ausgiebig und kostenlos testen - und mit ihren martialischen Waffen wieder nach Herzenslust durch die Gegend ballern. Die Entwickler der texanischen Spieleschmiede id Software, bekann...

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch I happened to try iSniper Lite [iTunes link] the same week I was offered a chance to preview Shooter [iTunes link]. If you've played iSniper, you get a sense of what the basic gameplay in Shooter is like: use the accelerometer to move a sniper's sco...

Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch I've said in this space before that I'm not always an enthusiastic gamer, but lately some really cool games have appeared that use the iPhone's capabilities to the max. A good example is First Contact [App Store link], a new game for the iPhone/iPod...

The Microsoft Xbox 360 was introduced to the Australian public a full nine months earlier than the Nintendo Wii or Sony PlayStation 3, and has since lost the lead it had built up in the beginnings of the latest console war. However, it still manages to hold its own by delivering solid, straight-forw...