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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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 system´s downtime... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
"48 pipelines is simply bonkers." The graphics system uses the R500 GPU from ATI. Whilst all sorts of information has been flying round, here's what we know. R500 is an Xbox-only chip.... More...
Online study states the obvious: online gamers prefer to play online via their PCs, even if there's a networked console nearby. Research mavens The NPD Group, those folks who tally weekly and... More...
Recent Macrovision survey sees more than 50 percent of PC gamers admitting to software piracy. Copy protection experts Macrovision have recently conducted a software piracy survey across a number of popular gaming... More...
Contrary to a popular stereotype, the average video game player is not a teenage skateboarder but a more mature fun-seeker old enough to be his dad, according to a survey released on Wednesday. ... More...
The newly launched Eurofiles service, which is operated by Eurogamer.net and GamesIndustry.biz publisher Eurogamer Network, has proved a huge success over E3 - with tens of thousands of downloads served in the first two days.... More...
New Xbox and PlayStation 2 action game lets grown-ups play cops-and-robbers online. First screens inside. Eidos has announced 25 to Life, a new third-person shooter for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. While... More...
The developers finally reach the 'tuning' stage in the coding of Half-Life 2 Developers Valve have just conducted a massive survey of users of Steam - its broadband platform for direct software delivery... More...
Thanks OptiPlex. The women challenging the stereotype that professional online gaming is the realm of geeky men alone. Anja Maller lives a double life. By day she is a 26-year-old single mother studying... More...
Think teenagers are spending all night long playing online games on the computer? Wrong -- it's their mothers burning the midnight oil. AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., released a study on Tuesday showing... More...
More than a million gamers are expected to be playing online on the Xbox by the middle of the year, says Microsoft. Microsoft is set to hit its target of a million... More...
In Thailand, young people's obsession with online gaming may help to nurture a generation of computer-literate children, reports BBC ClickOnline's Spencer Kelly from Bangkok. Ministers say the number of nocturnal gamers has dropped Thailand's capital... More...
The Liemandt Foundation - a nonprofit foundation focused on promoting technology-enabled education - is hosting a college student video game development contest with a twist: Students are being challenged to build entertaining games that secretly... More...
Today Microsoft Corp. ignites the Windows® gaming world with a trio of new tools and content just for Windows XP, the best version ever of Windows for PC gamers. Microsoft® Windows XP users can now... More...
Thailand is to impose a night curfew on online gaming to curb rising rates of addiction by young players, Information and Communications Technology Minister Surapong Suebwonglee said on Tuesday. Game servers, both local... More...
For any serious computer gamer it is a little piece of heaven. A long comfy sofa opposite a 56" plasma screen that can be hooked up to the Playstation 2, Xbox... More...
Dell Computer will unveil a new PC geared toward gamers on Monday in an effort to scope out the relatively small, but often lucrative, enthusiast market. The Dimension XPS sports Intel's latest 3GHz... More...
One in four employees admits to installing games on their work computers, according to a research. And more than half of IT managers report that employees are accessing online game sites at work, according to... More...
Research finds employees installing and accessing games on their work PCs One in four employees admits to installing games on their work computers, according to a research. And more than half of... More...
Recognizing that color allows people to express their individuality, Microsoft Corp. is listening to gamers who wanted color options for their Xbox (TM) controller. The company is even taking it one step further by putting... More...
thanks to brn2prgrm for the heads up on this No matter what their preferences, predilections, and penchants, there's one thing that all PC gamers are a slave to: the Windows OS. And... More...
Wish i had one :) "NOKIA'S latest gadget is a handheld game device with 3D colour graphics and multiplayer mode - oh, and it also doubles as a phone. The world's largest mobile... More...
Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studio yesterday announced that 10,000 gamers will be invited to participate in Ensemble's online multiplayer test of Age of Mythology. Between Friday, June 21 and Sunday, June 30, gamers will... More...
Codemasters has completed the enhanced PAL PlayStation 2 conversions of Soldier of Fortune – Gold and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force. Both titles are licensed from Majesco Sales Inc., publishers of the games' NTSC editions... More...
Thanks to Andy Tolson for sending this in. Online game players using Microsoft's Zone site complained of persistent problems accessing the service Tuesday, as Microsoft required all users to switch to its Passport... More...
Thanks Charles for this one. Rumors of the Xbox's shaky stability have been greatly exaggerated. Here at the Xbox Unleashed show, a two-day promotional event for the forthcoming Xbox, gamers have been running... More...
A bit of light humor on this fine Friday... Neobond found this on his many trawls on the web... Gotta be good for a few laughs... Quote from the interview...... More...
A nice XP review over at GamePC. This time reviewed by a gamer. The review covers the Pro and Home differences, the installation, activation, customization, driver support and benchmarks. News... More...