GamerchiX Unite!

By: Kelly Adams
GiN Editorials Correspondent

I'm 33 years old, married for 12 years, and a female gamer. As a woman, I put up with the occasional idiot male in public, but they are rare. As a female gamer, I've put up with the idiot males since I first went onto Xbox Live with my own screen name. It seems to never end. Thankfully good guys are out there but the bad ones are really starting to ruin the experience of matchmaking on Live. Allow me to walk you through what a female gamer is subjected to. You may hear one of the following comments:

June 23, 2008 (Bozeman, MT) – Dark Matter Studios, producer of the well-received fantasy rpg Epic Role Playing, has released its latest offering, the Atlas of Eslin. Weighing in at over 300 pages, the Atlas contains eight continents’ worth of diverse cultures, compelling story hooks and varied professions.

By Dylan Miracle

Thursday night, Dungeons and Dragons fans gathered at Dragon's Lair on North Burnet for the midnight release of the fourth-edition Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. In case you don't know, Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where players make characters and play in a heroic fantasy world invented and maintained by the Dungeon Master, usually the most megalomaniacal of your friends. The players decide the actions of their characters. The success or failure of the actions are determined by a roll of a die - often a 20-sided die rolled to see if your long sword cleaves the head off a goblin.

Hit Sci-Fi TV series BSG is coming to mobile gaming through Glu Mobile. Yeah you read right, Battlestar Galactica will be a mobile game, and one that has been waited for for some time, and it is almost ready. U.S. mobile gamers can already play this heroic sci-fi based game, but those of us over here will unfortunately have to wait a little while longer.

Remember when father and son bonding meant playing catch, shooting hoops and fishing? In today’s digital world there’s a new addition to traditional father/son activities-playing video games. Dads who grew up playing classic videogames from the ‘80s are passing their love of gaming onto their offspring, resulting in shared fun and the opportunity for fathers to be positive role models.

by Techtree News Staff

Gigabyte has today announced their latest multi-core passive cooling technology, which is built upon the foundation of the company's popular Silent-Pipe series. The technology promises maximum VGA cooling performance.

ORLANDO, FL, May 18, 2008 - When the group leaders of the largest and arguably most successful Division of the popular Girl-Gaming Clan “PMS” decided to leave the clan and form their own group of like-minded gamers, few knew it would develop into what it has. Virtually the entire Delta Division of PMS chose to leave with their long-standing division leaders. The exodus inspired the name of the new clan: Delta Special Ops (DSO). Although currently the clan is comprised of mostly female members, the founders have elected that DSO be a co-ed gaming clan and the male participant numbers are steadily rising.

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Finally, a must-have game for the Wii made by someone other than Nintendo. It's also one of the few games for Nintendo's next-gen system that makes intuitive, fun use of the Wii motion controllers by allowing players to build and knock down (or blow up) virtual blocks.

CHATSWORTH, CA--(Marketwire - May 16, 2008) - Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, introduced today the Sweet System Sweepstakes which will run until the end of August, 2008.

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Unveiled at the Konami Gamer's Night on Wednesday, Rock Revolution was confirmed for release on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and DS. The rhythm game will feature 40 cover songs on the disc (sorry purists, no master tracks here), promises "the most realistic drum peripheral on the market," and support both bass and guitar in addition to drums but exclude vocals.

Straight From PC Gamer US: Last week, Gears of War 2's Lead Designer, Cliff Bleszinski, debuted GOW2 gameplay to a completely unsurprised public. We paid attention, but only because we had nothing better to do - after all, what do we want with your sloppy seconds? Here's our six snotty comments about your stupid 360 exclusive.

By Marilyn Tennissen

LUFKIN -- A small East Texas gaming company has won a $21 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case against Nintendo.

After deliberating for a full day, federal jurors found in favor of Anascape Ltd. of Tyler on Wednesday, May 14. The original lawsuit, filed July 31, 2006, in the Lufkin Division of the Eastern District of Texas, alleged that the giant game maker infringed on Anascape patents when designing controllers for the Nintendo Wii and GameCube systems. U.S. District Judge Ron Clark presided over the trial.

An Australian gamer has built a huge fully-functioning Nintendo controller which doubles up as a coffee table and storage unit.

The giant NES controller has the retro feel of the hugely popular 1980s games console – just a whole lot bigger.

Moms are special. None of us would be here without them. This article offers some great ideas for gamer Moms of all types. So, in case you didn't get her anything yet, check this out: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/games-for-all-k.html

Sony's PlayStation 3 games console has outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Europe, according to figures released by Sony. The BBC News has the story.

"We have been consistently outselling our closest competitor [Xbox 360] since October 2007, even with the latest price point," said Mr Reeves.