Valve Announces Steam Cloud, Network to Store Saved Games
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Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a new system in Steam that will retain gamers’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely.

Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder
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At yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will “absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay.”There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now,”

The Real Life S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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These guys play popular S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game for real. They on purpose go to the Chernobyl area of the nuclear disaster explosion site dress in Stalker themed cloths and play, even involving armored vehicles and real guns.

Shigeru Miyamoto The Walt Disney Of Our Time
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When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher’s son living near Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters. Shigeru Miyamoto, a man whose creative successes have spanned almost 30 years. From Donkey Kong, to Mario as well known as Mickey Mouse

5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You
www.cracked.com/article_16330_5-innovative-ways-gaming-industry-screwing-you.html
With any exciting and new industry, there are all sorts of previously unheard-of ways to screw the customer. Video games are no different. As the technology changes, the rules start to get blurry, and publishers are eager to see just how much they can get away with.

What Happens to MMO Players When Their MMO Worlds Shut Down?
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Each represents the birth of a world where something new and never-before seen will emerge. Whether brilliant and creative or ridiculous and deeply flawed, each will be, in its own way, a miracle of creation.Not every one of these new worlds can survive. The ecosystem supporting our online worlds is not infinite. Sometimes, the world has to die.

In-game advertising is not very effective
www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/in-game-ads-not-very-effective-says-st-john
Wild Tangent founder and CEO Alex St John is no longer a believer in in-game advertising. In retrospect, St John says that it is a huge mistake to ever interrupt a game while somebody is playing it. He is no longer thinks injecting ads into console games is a “bright idea or where the market opportunity is.”

Steam untethers games from your PC, evolves multiplayer
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Valve thinks that PC gaming is strong, and getting better. The Steam service is about to evolve in an unexpected way: allowing you to access your games, files, and configurations from any PC, anywhere.

The Top 10 Worst PlayStation Ads We’ve Seen
www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/05/30/this-is-advertising-top-10-worst-playstation-ads/
Over the past few years, Sony’s controversial attempts at viral marketing for the PlayStation brand were not well-received by the general public. The company had been criticized on numerous occasions for various failed ad campaigns. Campaigns didn’t just fail to hit their target markets, but more importantly had an adverse effect leaving many upset

Spore’s Creature Stage Pictured, Detailed
blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/ea-reveals-spor.html
Electronic Arts has released details on Spore’s Creature Stage, the second phase of life in the upcoming evolution simulator from game designer Will Wright.The overarching goal of the Creature Stage is to “gather DNA points as you interact with other creatures either socially or aggressively,” according to the gamemaker.

10 Games To Make You Sweat
www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/19/wii-fitness-videogames-tech-personal-cx_mji_0519wiifit_slide.html
These games should make you sweat according to the site. Why bother going to the gym, go ahead grab the controller and start losing some calories.

“I Win!” - What Competition In Gaming Says About Us
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We play games for a lot of reasons, but none is so central as competition. Whether your opponent is a dreaded archenemy sitting next to you on the couch or a crafty computer with borderline-self-aware AI, competition is the backbone of gaming. But what is it about the thrill of victory — and the fear of defeat — that drives us?

Star Wars: Clone Wars Title For Wii, DS In The Fall
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Anyone picking up a copy of Lego Indiana Jones when it ships will find this ad on the back of the game’s instruction booklet. Yes, a Lucasarts game based on an upcoming Star Wars property. SHOCKING.

The 20 Most Influential People in MMOs
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If you’ve ever searched the web for a comprehensive list of the biggest and the best in the MMO industry, Beckett Massive Online Gamer magazine has done it for you in a recent article entitled “Top 20 Influential People in Massively Multiplayer Video Games of 2007″. The top half of this list should reveal no surprises for you, including such. . .