Hugh Pickens writes “An MIT Technology Review article has new details on the challenges of a ‘one world design’ in Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Most games shard their servers, putting up artificial barriers between friends and family members. Technologies are now being developed to keep lots of players within a single world, some of them […]

GameDaily had a chance to talk with Matt Ringel, the president of Games Media Properties, the company formerly sponsoring the World Series of Video Games. Matt and the site work through why the cancellation was so sudden, and what lead to the event’s nixing. “It was a combination of factors. There are indeed a number […]

To add a little more context to yesterday’s announcement that the Wii had outsold the 360 worldwide, we have August’s NPD numbers courtesy of 1up. From the article: ” The story hasn’t changed much — Wii remains on top, PlayStation 3 continues to have trouble gaining steam and Xbox 360 maintains a position behind Wii […]

GT has posted up a complete Xbox 360 video review of EA\’s SKATE game, they claim it is easily the most realistic game in its genre to date but award it an overall score of 8.1/10. The design scored 8.7, the presentation scored 8.5 while the gameplay \’suffered\’ with a 7.2.

During this year’s E3 Media & Business Summit, Microsoft revealed that it would once again be producing a limited-edition Halo-themed console in tribute to Bungie’s highly acclaimed franchise. As part of its massive marketing push to secure the already-predicted $200 million in initial sales, Microsoft announced today that the Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360 […]