Xbox Mod Chips Turn Your Xbox Into The Ultimate Media Center by Steven Fields
With many of the new video game systems having hit the market, most notably the XBox 360, which has been out for some time, but also the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3, many gamers are left wondering what to do with their old systems. While the option to sell of our old game machines is... Xbox mod chips also allow you to use emulators on your Xbox to play old classic NES or SNES games, as well as thousands of Arcade game too. ... An Xbox mod chip allows you to play all types of games, such as backup games (where you copy your original game, put it away for safe keeping, and use your...

PC Game Review: 'Telltale Texas Hold 'Em' by Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Poker Ladies. The sinuous ladies, that haunted my early youth. A sexy coin-op money-sink, that forced me to (illegally, according to my age at the time) enter seedy arcades in order to see badly-drawn manga-styled nude ladies doing naughty stuff. I did learn to play the American 52-card version... Even though Telltale Texas Hold’em does play a decent and varied poker game, its great appeal is the atmosphere and the characters. ... There is only one mode of play, only 4 characters to play against, one room to gamble in, one possible screen resolution and a too simple tutorial/introduction...

Roger Ebert Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Video Games Can Be Art by Rich Knight
Video games have come a long way. baby, a long way, indeed. And luckily for us gamers, the image of the suspender wearing nerd who has to put his controller down every few seconds just so he can push his taped glasses back up his nose has faded away. ... The recent game Shadow of the Colussus is, if not art, then a beautiful represntation of what art can be. ... And while games, this gamer must admit, HAVE been lacking in the story department, leading one to believe that they are not art but rahter just loud explosions and prostitute killing, there is hope.

Playing With Magic by John Deprice
Do you like magic, spells and mana? Find out what indie games with magical theme stand out for their originality and unusual plots. Dungeon Scroll 2.0 (Robinson Technologies) At first glance, Dungeon Scroll looks like a first-person dungeon crawl in the style of the old Dungeons & Dragons PC RPGs. ... If you spend more than five seconds with the game, though, you'll realize that all the fantasy trappings are just window dressing for a fiendishly difficult and addictive word puzzle game. ... Bricks Of Camelot (Arcade Lab) Join the epic adventures of Camelot in this action packed brick...

The IPAQ Rx1950: HP's Answer to PDA Gaming Community? by Damian Julien
Hewlett Packard's latest contribution to the Pocket PC arena (and let's face it-- to the PDA gaming community) is the iPAQ rx1950. High-end PDA gamers may wish to set their sights elsewhere. Its 300-Mhz Samsung processor is touted as XScale compatible, but this unit would choke on involved... As it turns out, I already have an MP3 player, as well as an arcade gaming platform, several gaming console Pocket PC emulators, a DVD movie viewer, etc. ... If you really want something that provides more than middling performance in some aspects, you may want to look elsewhere for your Pocket PC...

Popup-Killers Kill More Than You Think by Michael Russell
Probably one of the most dreaded terms in all the Internet is the popup. Let's face it. We all hate them. But can we really live without them? We're going to take a devil's advocate look at popups and suggest that maybe we should learn to live with them. ... If you go to Pogo.com to play one of their arcade games such as pool and try to enter a room to play, if you have a popup blocker installed on your computer and it's running you are going to find out that you can't get into the room because the room itself opens in a popup window.

Computer Games in the Child's Life by Tyler Benson
The effect of computer games has become a “hot point” in our society. Mostly we draw information on the issue from the two major sources - media and empiric research. And both of them have their own peculiarities. Since 80s the media abounds in numerous reports on hazardous effect of the... There are only instances of overstrain, foot ache (for those who play arcade games), hand ache caused by convulsive clenching of a joystick, general accelerated psychic excitement, insomnia). ... One of the central topics of the psychological researches is the problem of aggressiveness of under-aged and...

The Game Audio Explosion - A Guide to Great Game Sound Part II: Music, FMVs and Audio Planning by Steve Kutay
V. MUSIC PRODUCTION A. THE UNDERSCORE – INTERACTIVE VS. FILM MUSIC Until recently, you simply could not compare game music to film music. Every aspect involved in their production, from budgets to performance, made it an impractical comparison. Today, these two media have a working relationship. ... Game music for the story and role genre must highlight the dramatic events in the story as well as drive the game-play. ... A deep understanding of the game-play will reveal to the composer, new areas to interactively enhance an otherwise monotonous arcade soundtrack.

Shooters: An Industry's Legacy? by James Boza
It’s hard to watch an old friend go. That’s why we’re lucky that we’re into electronics and nerdy things that plug into walls, right? These are things that never really pick up stakes and leave… the worst that might happen is that some jerk will borrow your nerd gear and never give it back. ... These make up various hallowed series as Gradius, Thunder Force, and R-Type, and are name-dropped by old guys seeking some street cred, or maybe a part of their youth that they lost somewhere in a mall arcade.

Best Space Themed Games; Part II by Denis Snow
Now becomes a time when I want to give you second part of my article about best space themed games. In first part of this article we already see six nice games – AstroAvenger, Barnyard Invasion, Bugatron, Clash' N Slash and Cosmic Bugs. I hope you find it on my site and already play. ... Flyonoid (by Dream Dale Company) / Arcade www.chocosnow.com/games/flyonoid/ "Year 2009... ... Mutant Storm (by Pom Pom Games) / Psychedelic Shooter www.chocosnow.com/games/mutant-storm/ "Mutant Storm is furious retro arcade gaming in a state-of-the-art graphics environment.