"Ah, fanboys. What industry can truly call itself an industry without them? Those who prove themselves obsessively loyal to any product or corporation can be found among many communities, and nowhere do they flourish more freely than within gamer culture.

Although it may sound ridiculous to normal people, swearing undying allegiance to a heartless box of electrical components is a perfectly rational act in the mind of the fanboy, even though if he defended something like a particular brand ..."

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. The same saying goes for the PSP. It's already made big waves this year with God of War: Chains of Olympus and Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, but don't think for a second that it's done pulling the punches yet!

PSP Blogger takes a look at some of the titles still planned for the PSP in 2008. Among these are a few new games, but there's also a few older ones coming out via the Playstation Store.

More in particular, SarcasticGamer has called for a boycott of Battlefield: Bad Company. Of course most gamers online would question whether such a boycott had a chance of going anywhere. However, according to SarcasticGamer's statistics, it very well may be. The boycott is already gaining widespread attention. In spite of the odds, the anti-EA crowd is willing to do anything to somehow hit EA games where it hurts.

What this boycott is about? - EA allegedly making another attempt to swindl...

"Operating Systems

1 Windows XP 78.78%
2 Windows Vista 6.93%
3 Mac OS X 4.91%
4 Windows 2000 3.20%
5 Linux 2.02%
6 Windows 98 1.01%
7 Windows 2003 0.72%
8 Windows ME 0.37%
9 Windows NT 0.05%
10 WAP 0.03%"

"We, the fans of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. (T2) games, object to the idea of Electronics Arts (EA) purchasing T2. For the sake of diversity and variety of choices in the video game industry, we would like the two companies to remain separate. Each of the companies make games that are unique to their respective ways. The fans view the purchase of T2 shares by EA, as jeopardizing to the games made by T2, and would not remain loyal if EA acquired any T2 shares. By signing this petition ..."

A website called StreamMyGame has made it possible to play your PC games on your PS3. It's a free service all you need is a high end networked PC and PS3. The game is on your PC and played via your network. StreamMyGame converts it and sends it to the PS3. See the source for complete requirements. Soon they will offer remote game play but that will require large band width.

Minimum for low resolution Streaming
1.5GHz CPU
1GB RAM
DirectX9 graphics card
AGP bus

The 5th annual Video Game Awards on Spike TV are almost here. And Kotaku has a list of all the nominees. The award show will be aired on Decembe 9th at pm on Spike TV.
Game of the year nominees are:
BioShock
Halo 3
Mass Effect
The Orange Box

Best PS3 Game
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Warhawk

Best Wii Game
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario

Best ...

"Ripping Blu-Ray discs and other discs is easy using your PlayStation 3 console. But before you can begin, you will require the following:

• Linux installed on PS3
• 50GB free space under Linux or external hard drive
• Blu-Ray game disc (or other disc)
• Access to PC with Windows XP

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For any one who has been following this format war, would know that Blu-Ray is winning in sales and has a lot of great movie companies behind its back. But Today, news came from Universal Studios that they are not planning on supporting Blu-Ray any time soon. They Say that they want to be able to market all the great things HD DVD can offer. He then went on to say this about PS3 owners

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70% of gamers don’t even know that their console has a DVD playback option.
the PS3 simply hasn’t be...

"Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves and what happens when a super-massive black hole, about a million times the mass of our own sun, swallows up a star.

As the architect of this research, Dr. Gaurav Khanna is employing his so-called "gravity grid" of PS3s to help measure these theoretical gravity waves -- ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light -- that Einstein's Theory of Relativity predicted woul..."

"Some players give themselves the ability to magically see and shoot through walls. Others find a way to fly, making them nearly impossible to defeat.

Cheating like this in video games has a long and even respected tradition. Games have often slyly included ways -- intentionally or not -- for sophisticated players to hack into the software and then skip levels or take on supernatural powers.

But these days, the subject is getting a more serious look. Unlike older games, today's are netwo..."

"#10: King Kong (DS) - Sudden Death
#9: Counter-Strike (PC) - Head Shot
#8: GoldenEye 007 (N64) - Slapped Silly
#7: Mortal Kombat (ARC) - Fatality
#6: Metroid (NES) - Wrong Way!
#5: Super Mario Bros. (NES) - Goomba Collision
#4: Soul Calibur II (PS2) - Ring Out out of the Stage of History
#3: Castlevania (NES) - They All Fall Down
#2: Unreal Tournament (PC) - Juggled in the Air
#1: The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo) - Death by Chicken"

"Seeing a beloved franchise crumble into a defunct mishmash of horrid ideas and misconstrued concepts seems to happen all too often in this day and age of money grabbing bottom-liners. A great game is relatively easy to create in comparison to what it takes to sustain that greatness throughout an entire series. Some franchises are great at keeping a high level of quality, whereas others take a swan dive into the shallow end of the pool. It might not be so bad when a company makes a one-hit-won..."

"Cedega allows games originally created for the PC to run on Linux, right out-of-the-box. Cedega 6.0 comes with support for some of the most popular new PC titles, including Bethesda Softworks’Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 2142 and Madden 2007. It will also continue to support the most popular massive multiplayer online game, Blizzard’s World of WarCraft, along with many others."