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Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games

May 14, 2008 4:52am PDT

Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco. Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The...

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Add an arcade to your game room with a MAME cabinet or console

August 18, 2006 2:32pm PDT

For gamers like me who grew up with arcades, having a game cabinet the basement would have been the ultimate cool toy. Even as PC and console games met and eventually surpassed arcade machines,...

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Dinosaur sightings: XCOM UFO Defense

December 13, 2006 12:20pm PST

Throughout the storied, yet relatively short, history of computer gaming, there have only been a few games to capture the imagination of players and achieve a significant audience that were not...

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Video: Game designer Will Wright talks about SimCity, Spore, AI, and Care Bears

July 22, 2009 1:28pm PDT

Watch these two interviews with video game designer Will Wright for an insider's look into the gaming industry. He talks about SimCity, Spore, the first game he loved, what he thinks makes a game...

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Image Gallery: Five Astraware games for the Apple iPhone

February 15, 2009 4:53am PST

Astraware is a well-known mobile game development company that has had Palm and Windows Mobile games for years. They decided to also expand to the iPhone/iPod touch and are launching games like...

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Image Gallery: Cronk for the Apple iPhone

November 17, 2008 8:22pm PST

There are lots of games available for the Apple iPhone and the prices are more competitive than what you will find for the DS and PSP mobile gaming devices. One of the recent games launched and...

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Geek Trivia: Which of the Big 3 game console makers almost collaborated on a single game system?

July 22, 2011 5:30am PDT

The contemporary video game console market is dominated by three central players: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. However, the three-console market almost remained a two-player game because two...

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Five hottest new games at E3 2011

June 10, 2011 12:22pm PDT

Military first-person shooters, sci-fi and fantasy, and historical action games are some of the most popular titles at E3 2011. GameSpot's John Davison shares his top five titles from the gaming expo.

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Game developer Michael Romero on Chrono Trigger, C/C++, and Macs

July 19, 2010 9:56pm PDT

WishB Junior Game Developer Michael Romero, the son of DOOM co-creator John Romero, discusses writing and playing video games and offers advice to aspiring game programmers.

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Game Finder - by Big Fish Games 0.6.0 (Mobile)

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

[NOTE: THIS IS NOT A GAME, it is a game discovery App to find new PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad games to play.]Browse or search through the entire catalog from Big Fish Games, worlds largest casual...

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Scenes from GDC Online 2010

October 7, 2010 4:00pm PDT

Austin's annual Game Developers Conference has been renamed GDC Online, and is now focused on online gaming -- from MMOs to mobile games to social and Facebook games.

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Channel your inner Kirk in SpaceTrek: The New Empire

April 6, 2010 9:27pm PDT

Edmond Woychowsky says the browse-based game SpaceTrek: The New Empire is like a cross between the old text-based Star Trek computer game and the open source game FreeCol.

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Geek Gifts 2012: The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

February 6, 2012 1:44pm PST

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is one of the most remarkable open-world RPGs ever produced and is destined to become a landmark game.

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Why the London Olympics could lead to internet outages

February 6, 2012 9:40am PST

Plans to let staff work from home during this summer's London Olympic Games might run into trouble if the government's warnings of possible internet outages come true.

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Video: Sigourney Weaver talks about the game Avatar

July 31, 2009 1:41am PDT

In this GameSpot interview from Comic-Con 2009, actress Sigourney Weaver talks about her character in James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. She reveals that the game is beautiful and that she wouldn't...

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Video game pros get down to work (and play) at GDC (photos)

March 12, 2010 6:20am PST

Video game developers, artists, and producers gather to share ideas on the future of gaming at the Game Developers Conference, the world's largest professionals-only video game convention.

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Video: Game developers tout innovations at GDC 09

April 7, 2009 12:24pm PDT

Games enhanced by wind, vibration, and light, plus mind control and super-realistic motions. CNET was at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and saw some of the latest game creation...

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Geek Trivia: The quibble of the week for Feb. 17, 2009

February 17, 2009 5:01am PST

This week's quibble comes from the Feb. 10, 2009 edition of Geek Trivia, "Game within a (war)game." TechRepublic member Ric_Shanahan quibbled about the naming conventions of a certain nuclear...

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Geek Trivia: Game within a (war)game

February 10, 2009 5:02am PST

What is the most complex game ever completely solved under mathematical game theory -- a form of competition far less complicated and subtle than the various types of nuclear war that were...

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AtG Weekend Gaming: HTML5 games, id on github

February 2, 2012 6:07pm PST

After a hard week of work, relax with this selection of games. Some are in-browser, others are classics from John Carmack and id software.

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