This morning Gamasutra is reporting that there is  a widespread PlayStation 3 outage. Users have been experiencing  a bug that began last night.  This morning Sony has responded saying that the problem has been located  in the system’s clock functionality,  affecting all models other than the newer slim PS3. The  consoles nick named the ”fat” 60 and [...]

Ok stop kicking the walls and shouting boys, and SIT DOWN. I will explain to you in words that even the young male readers will understand. If you can’t see what the iPad will do to the world in the future right now, then you just don’t have the vision for it. Not everyone can [...]

From the Engadget Live Blog here is the new baby from Apple and ohmygod is it ever sweet!

In this intricate mobile platformer you play as Sun Wukong who is an ugly little Monkey King. Despite the unpleasant character model the rest of the game is beautiful. The artstyle is like Okami. Game play is designed around a caligraphy gimick. You’ll draw lines to create clouds for the monkey to glide to. The [...]

Geek Woman’s Best Games of ‘09  : Including Game of the Year
Best New IP
Best New IP goes to Flower the imaginative down loadable game on the Playstation network. Visual poem, designed to affect the gamers feelings rather than their fight or light instincts. The concept was to bring the serenity of the forest into [...]

As an Apple enthusiast it sucks more than usual to have to buy an additional Windows machine every two years, just to play MMO’s, while the Macs keep going and going long beyond their life expectancy. Now more than ever game developers like NCSoft, and Turbine and need to release OSX versions of their Betas [...]

I’ve played the Halloween Guild Wars event every year and it is lots of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing what they have going on in Aion this year.
Aion – Harvest Revel. During the Fall harvest, the people of Atreia have always celebrated the bounty of the land. Years ago, the joy of the annual [...]

Aion Trumps WoW

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Go Aion! It would seem that the churn I predicted away from WoW has begun to come true.  Aion has beat World of Warcraft, and The Sims 3 in sales this month. According to Ryan James,  NCSoft PR rep, “The response we?ve seen from players and critics has absolutely exceeded our expectations. The amount of [...]

LOTRO Welcome Back Week

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There are two days left for the LOTRO Welcome back week. If you need to download the game client to return, or to put your account on a new machine, the elusive download links are posted here: Welcome Back Week!
During The Lord of the Rings Online™ Welcome Back Week from October 15th through October [...]

New MMO Aion Launched

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Aion the new MMO from NCSoft launched successfully last week. It is getting lots of attention, mostly good. The game thus far has not disappointed. Full review soon to come. I got to level ten in a very short time. For an average player 10 -20 hours would get you out of the [...]

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