Monkey Attack

Warren Ellis’s first column on Second Life is up. Go check it out.

The other perception, of course, is that Second Life is a psychosexual nightmare given virtual form, where giant penises roam the land and disturbed people wear

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As with most statistics, these really don’t mean anything, but I thought it was an interesting discussion.

More narrowly still, the average citizen of Brazil consumes 1,884 kWh, which, given the fact that my avatar estimate was rough and

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I don’t really pay much attention to new games, but this one looks interesting.  It reminds me of Shogo, which I still occasionally reinstall and play for a while.

NCsoft’s Team Beam puts you in command of a Mechanaught

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I’d play it. During a free trial. For a day or two.

Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a

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I still don’t want any of them enough to pay, but I wouldn’t mind a Wii or an Xbox 360. So far nothing on the PS3 has made me really want one. Or, I would take them all for free.

$20 for an adapter to allow you to use any Wireless Xbox 360 controller on the PC sounds like a deal to me.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver will begin shipping later this month and essentially makes

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Passwird has a note up about Walmart’s PS3 bundles.

Sony Playstation 3 + 10 Games + 2 Blu-Ray Movies Bundle $1318.90 shipped at Walmart Walmart has the Sony Playstation 3 20GB Console + 10 Games + 2 Blu-Ray Movies

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Sounds like a threat to me. “Give us your PS3 and we’ll make you eat $12,000 worth of Taco Bell {Insert Maniacal laugh}”.

“The PlayStation 3 is on every teen’s holiday wish list,” said Bob Fulmer, executive director of

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Sports games seem like the perfect games for motion cap type controllers.

In most cases, the movements you make to perform an action in the game are completely intuitive. To snap the ball, you flip the Wii Remote

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See what happens when you get jocks playing consoles? Back in the day the regular Nintendo fatties would have been wheezing peacefully on the ground in 5 minutes.

According to WHDH it took 12 police officers to clear the

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