Neowin News Feed for: Gamers

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity v1.2 Update

Spencer Scott — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:24:31 +0000

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are excited to launch the latest update for the award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity. Trinity is a bundle with the original Sins game along with the two... Read more...

Gears of War 3 set for September 20 release

Byron Hinson — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:32:18 +0000

Microsoft and Epic Games have finally set in stone the release date for what could turn out to be the year’s biggest seller, Gears of War 3. The Xbox 360 exclusive will be released on... Read more...

Quarter of British gamers download games

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:55:27 +0000

A survey of British gamers has found that a quarter prefer to purchase and download their games online, often through their console's store, rather than purchase a physical copy from a retail store. According to... Read more...

Stardock Announces "The Gamers Bill of Rights"

Spencer Scott — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:34:08 +0100

Stardock announced today the Gamer's Bill of Rights: a statement of principles that it hopes will encourage the PC game industry to adopt standards that are more supportive of PC gamers. The document contains 10... Read more...

Undertow Free to All XBOX Live Gamers

troGGers — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:30:27 +0000

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XBOX live gamers will be entitled to a free download of Undertow from the XBOX Live Arcade in response to the recent excessive XBOX Live downtime. The game will be available to both silver... Read more...

Scotland to Target Gamers With Anti-drinking-and-driving Ads

Slimy — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:53:27 +0000

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The Scottish government plans to pay for inserting advertisements discouraging drinking and driving into video games. The 10,000 pound ($20,000) trial project will see the ads appear on virtual billboards within several games for Microsoft... Read more...

Gamers use PS3s to do biomedical research

Slimy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:51:48 +0000

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It's kind of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID, anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their systemÂ´s downtime... Read more...

Nvidia Readies New "Ultimate" Technology for Gamers

Slimy — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:33:38 +0100

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Nvidia Corporation not only plans to refresh its lineup of performance graphics accelerators this year, but also intends to introduce its 3-way SLI multi-GPU technology, which is apparently Nvidia's new "ultimate gaming platform". Initially Nvidia... Read more...

Real targets casual gamers with Game Trust buy

Slimy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:47:34 +0100

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RealNetworks has entered into an agreement to acquire Game Trust, a casual-gaming company based in New York, with plans to add Game Trust's community and commerce capabilities to the technology platform currently on offer to... Read more...

Video gamers virtually violent but socially active, studies

Slimy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:16:18 +0100

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A high number of middle-school youth may be playing violent video games, but that's not a worrisome trend, according to a study just released by Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Mental Health and Media. The... Read more...

Microsoft Fails PC Gamers

malebolgia — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:28:03 +0100

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Is Microsoft Trying to Kill PC Gaming? When Microsoft started talking up Vista's gaming functionality, PC gamers got all hot and bothered. There it was, laid out in front of us, the holy land... Read more...

Intel's mobile chip for gamers coming soon

Slimy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:49:23 +0100

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A mobile version of Intel's Core 2 Extreme chip will hit the market during the third quarter in high-end gaming notebooks. Combined with Nvidia's SLI technology, which uses two graphics chips instead of one, notebooks... Read more...

NPD: 62% of US gamers play online (mostly on PC!)

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:58:12 +0100

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In a sign of the increasing importance of online gaming in today's video game market, The NPD Group's annual study on the online gaming landscape in the U.S. reveals that out of all gamers, 62... Read more...

Girl gamers get more lovin?

Todd Tanner — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:14:56 +0000

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Don't shoot the messenger folks, just a terrific story I thought some of you might enjoy. It's official – women who play video games have sex more often! Gametart, the UK's largest online games rental... Read more...

Gamers get political action group

Slimy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:48:17 +0100

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Calling itself the Entertainment Consumer Association (ECA), the new non-profit advocacy group is forging itself a place in gaming history. Based in Connecticut, the ECA's mission is to give a political voice to gamers in... Read more...

Study: Casual gamers are "old and grey" gamers

Todd Tanner — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:14:32 +0100

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Perhaps Nintendo is actually on to something with its Brain Training games. According to a new study from casual games developer PopCap Games, a large percentage of casual players are actually over the age of... Read more...

Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:17:09 +0100

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In response to an addiction to computer games by Chinese gamers, that has caused some deaths in the past, China's government brought in a system to prevent gamers from playing for more than three hours... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT: Value-conscious gamers best bet?

Julio Franco — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:30:13 +0100

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The GeForce 7900 GT is one of NVIDIA's latest entries in the high-end gaming market. Utilizing the revamped G71 architecture, this chip shares similar specifications to the almighty GeForce 7800 GTX, while being manufactured in... Read more...

PowerUser.tv: NeowinCAST Gamers edition returning

Todd Tanner — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:46:05 +0100

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The staff here at Neowin are getting ready to relaunch our 'NeowinCAST' channel of Poweruser.tv podcasts over the next 2 weeks. Legal entanglements over our previous name, staff availability, and the dreaded College exam season... Read more...

Mario Item Boxes Get Gamers In Trouble

Marcel Klum — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:31:30 +0100

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Gamers in Ohio make life size Mario "Item Boxes", placed them around their town and now may be charged. Games have been in the news for the wrong reasons many times before, but who... Read more...