More: Old Soviet Union Arcade Games…

From the people who brought you "The Sims"! Sounds good, but no time to try it....

Gestern gab der Kollege noch mächtig damit an, mittels Iphone seinen Bürocomputer fernsteuern und somit womöglich auch mobil "World of Warcraft" spielen zu können. Bei der Gelegenheit startete er auch gleich eine neue Software, die einen Roboter seine Spielfigur lenken lassen sollte.
Heute ist der alte Schwung dahin. Der Autopilot sollte artig Monster erschlagen und den Level hochtreiben, wenn den feinen Herren der rechtschaffene Schlaf der Arbeiterklasse überkam. Hat aber nur 41 Stunden gedauert und die Warcraft-Leute sind dahinter gekommen. Finger weg davon, Kinder!

Vier Accounts wurden dem Delinquenten gelöscht, fast 2 Jahre "Arbeit" sind dahin. Das Kollegium begegnete dem Vorfall mit einer merkwürdigen Mischung aus Häme (ich) und Mitleid (feinfühligere Menschen).

New WoW Ads Recruit Mr. T and Shatner

-Hey, I don't play that game, but those commecials are really funny, I must admit.

Das coolste Videospiel wird gerade bei der Army getestet: Military VR Simulator Is Closest Thing Ever to Real-Life Halo 3

Sollten sich die Jugendschützer mal Gedanken drüber machen...

Blöde Scheiße, ich steig' aus! Das macht keinen Sinn und kostet nur Zeit. In Zukunft nur noch Montags mal einloggen, sämtliche "Friend Requests" bestätigen und damit hat es sich. Das Ding ist tot.

Wikipedia: "Donkey Kong made his first appearance as the titular character of the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong alongside protagonist Mario (then known as Jumpman) and heroine Pauline. "

Die Geburt von MARIO!!!!

Ab in die Comments und los gehts!

About the Piss-Screen: "How to capture the inebriated attention of any potential drunk drivers? Well, where do most people go when they’re drunk? (Apart from the bar, that is. Or maybe for a kebab.) They go to the toilet. As such, we thought this would be the perfect medium to reach our target audience in a fresh and impactful way.
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The Piss-Screen - a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee. We installed this newfangled creation in male restrooms across Frankfurt, teaming up with a variety of bars, clubs and cafés. The game itself was displayed on a screen above each urinal, and would automatically start as soon as someone began to pee. The player could then control the car whilst relieving himself – if they wanted the car to go right, they simply peed to the right (and visa versa)."

Techcrunch: "Mattel's virtual world Barbie Girls hit the 3 million user mark in its first 60 days and is growing at the rate of 50,000 new users a day, according to a report from the Scientific American.

To put that in perspective, Second Life took 3 years to get to 1 million registered users."

Impressive trailer for the new multi-player online game. Watch out, Warcraft!

Some interesting videos JMC Project: Videogame Violence & Effects on Youth

Via Regine (hey, what about moving the furniture?)

"Why co-mingle a brand like the NBA in a virtual world like Second Life when you can create your own virtual NBA world?"
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A brand's presence in virtual worlds has largely been seen as a promotional tool in the past, but the accent on making the promotion itself into a viable business may gain Trilogy Studios clients that other virtual world companies couldn't access. The platfrom of choice, in this case, continues to be Makena Technology's software bundle most famously used on the There.com platform."

From Metaversed: Trilogy Studios Targets Branded Virtual Worlds

"Earache Extreme Metal Racing PS2 Game - The world's first exclusively Death Metal and Grindcore PS2 Computer game is here. Naturally, it is Earache that leads the way..the music simply takes extreme gaming to another level..making other computer games sound like fucking Nickelback.This PlayStation 2 Game features an in-game Mp3 player to access 3 hours of exclusively Earache extreme metal music including unreleased tracks, plus over an hour of Video clips- including several exclusive never-before-seen clips, which are accessed during the higher levels of the game."

Earache Shop

-Wird doch im Kartoffel Country gleich wieder indiziert weil die Musik so schrecklich ist und die Kinder später sonst auf der Autobahn so rasen tun wie ihre Alten.

"An increase in the level cap to 70."

What? I don't get it, but all the Warcraft-geeks seem to be very excited about this!

The trailer is here!

Lost-Das Handyspiel Aber was bitte soll das jetzt wirklich kosten? Schlecht gemacht beim Jamba!

Und dabei wollte ich eigentlich diese schaurige Eingangsmelodie als SMS-Ton haben. Gibt's aber nicht! Da ist man mal bereit, 99 Cent für Handy-Quatsch zu löhnen....

Remember the classic Atari game? Well, those asteroids want revenge!

Video beim ollen Kottke: "Great 2004 BBC documentary about Tetris, the man who created it, and the lengths that several companies went to in order to procure the rights to distribute it.

Alexey Pazhitnov, a computer programmer from Moscow, created Tetris in 1985 but as the Soviet Union was Communist and all, the state owned the game and any rights to it. Who procured the rights from whom on the other side of the Iron Curtain became the basis of legal wranglings and lawsuits; the Atari/Nintendo battle over Tetris wasn't settled until 1993."

Kottke has the video.

But look at what I found:

Eat your heart out, Jacko!

Hottest link today: The home of Storytron, Inc, a company created to commercialize Chris Crawford's interactive storytelling technology.

Was wirklich wichtig ist: "Zombies, like Nazis, are the perfect enemy for video games." Some thoughts on the ultimate villains for videogames over at eyebeam.org.

Ziemlich kranke Scheiße! Der perfekte Feind wäre nach Meinung des Autoren ein hässlicher, politisch unkorrekter Ausländer.

Mal schnell verlinkt, glaubt einem sonst kein Mensch! Diese WoW-Menschen haben alle einen an der Waffel! Ist aber wohl die am Schnellsten wachsende Suchtkultur und wie neulich jemand richtig sagte: bald ist man in der Minderheit, wenn man bei World of Warcraft nicht mitspielt.

Start the riot on your computer (free scene for "Medal of Honour" / Hybrid PC/Max/Linux)!

Via republish

"Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.

The game, slated for release by October 2006 in advance of the Christmas shopping rush, has been previewed at video game exhibitions, and reviewed by major newspapers and magazines. But until now, no fan or critic has pointed out the controversial game's connection to Mr. Warren or his dominionist agenda.
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Could such a violent, dominionist Christian video game really break through to the popular culture? Well, it is based on a series of books that have already set sales records - the blockbuster Left Behind series of 14 novels by writer Jerry B. Jenkins and his visionary collaborator, retired Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye."

Story at talk2action

"Perplex City is a place, a story, a game and a real-life treasure hunt.

The Receda Cube has been stolen from Perplex City. It's an object of immense power and importance, and the people of Perplex City want it back.

The thieves have buried the Cube somewhere on Earth and there's a reward of $200,000/£100,000 for whoever finds it first.

Welcome to the hunt ."

MTV: 'Spore,' 'Lost' The Video Game, 'New Super Mario Brothers' & More - New game by 'Sims' creator could rekindle debate over real-life sales of virtual items.

MTV at E3 2006

The game shows immigrants crossing the border with a sign that reads welcome to the U.S., welfare office this way. The three targets: a Mexican nationalist, a drug smuggler and a breeder -- a pregnant woman with children.

Via del.icio.us

"Want To Live Like Neo? Alternate Reality Games Might Be Your White Rabbit

ARGs tantalize players with fake Web sites, strange text messages, suspicious phone calls."

More at MTV

"He's the soft spoken guy painting happy clouds, mountains and trees in about twenty-six television minutes, using big housepainting-type brushes and cooing soothing "you can do its" to the audience.

A virtual cult-like figure around the world. Bob Ross Inc. produced the first of his low-budget, unrehearsed and unedited TV programs in 1982, and almost 25 years and 403 shows later, his Joy of Painting program is still the most popular, most watched art show on TV.

The Bob Ross video game, currently untitled, is planned to be developed for PC, the Nintendo DS handheld & on Nintendo's next-gen system coming later this year, code named Revolution. Release date was not announced. AGFRAG is currently seeking a publisher."

From AGFRAG via Revolutionfanboy

This is not a joke!

You must visit Bob Ross Online!

Bob Ross doing his thing (video, 11 minutes)

"Run every aspect of McDonalds in this great game! Grow cattle, run marketing campaigns, hire and fire McDonalds employees, bribe officials, and more!"

Play it here!

"Spore is a simulation computer game designed by Will Wright. It is currently being developed by Maxis and will be published by Electronic Arts, sometime in the range of late 2006 to early 2007."
Wikipedia

"Will Wright talking at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference about 'Spore', which looks like it could possibly be the best video game ever." (On Google Video, 35 minutes)

Website: Spore.com