An Old School Game TradeWars 2002 With a New Life

Take the way back machine and go back to 1984. That was the time when going on line was connecting using a phone line and a SLOW modem to dial up a local BBS (Bulletin Board System) and everything was done in ANSI graphics. I can remember dialing up a local BBS in St Louis Called “The Grotto” they had about 20 lines at the time and most of them full 24/7. Most BBS’s at the time all had chat rooms, forums, file downloads and Games. The Games area was the place I could be found every day. There was trivia, mazes, puzzles and Early RPG games. I started joining some of the RPG game to see what it was all about. Playing Legend of the Red Dragon , Falcon’s Eye , Exitilus , DrugWars , Barren Realms Elite. Then I found it the HOLY GRAIL of games, Trade Wars 2002 or TW2002. Full Story »

By God, Could You Please Clean Up your Code

How many times have you upgraded your hardware in the last 5 years? Was it really needed? If software makers would do the job correctly you would not “Have To” upgrade as often as most do. Gone are the days of having or trying to make your source code efficient and small, trying to fit it on a floppy or better yet One CD. Why would we do that now we can use a DVD (or more) there is no need to give the Code a smaller footprint.

The more lines of code make the hardware requirements even larger. Take a look at any MS Windows OS after Win95, it was all built on the same Base Code structure. They have not built an OS from the ground up since Win95 and even that was a Hack job of WinNT. Every release of the OS gets larger and larger but it does not necessarily get better, bigger yes, but better? …. Hmmm I will let you work that one out. Full Story »

E3 Does it Still Work? Or Is It A lot Of Corporate BS Now?

Well since E3 2007 is almost over let’s review if the changes worked this year or not. As I was not in attendance this year I have to go by reports from the people that did attend. E3 is now smaller more intimate event focused on targeted, personalized meetings and activities. That makes for less Press for small publishers, due to the fact that the “Big Boy’s” have the cash to put on large press events. No “John Q. Public” in attendance. That drops it from around 60,000 last year to about 5,000 attendants. Full Story »

E3 - Almost 40 New Game Fact Sheets And Still Going

With over 40 Fact Sheets already and E3 2007 is only 2 days old. I have placed the Game Fact Sheets here in one post. I call it “The E3 2007 Game Fact Sheets Roundup” I have gathered together all the Fact sheets I could find and posted them in one place to make looking for the info about your favorite game go much more smooth. Use the navigation links in the posts to make it faster to find what your looking for. Full Story »

Microsoft owns It, Now Get over It!

Microsoft has failed to STOP racism from joining the Forza 2 gaming community. Yesterday over at 360Gamer they posted an article about people using the Forza 2 paintjob editor to create racist themed cars and place them for sale into the online auction. Full Story »

Video game systems and the rise of drug use!

With all the data we as a society track now days this is one that has been over looked. All the talk about violent video games and what they are doing to our kids, I thought I would look at the numbers a little more. Scanning the U.S. Department of Justice crime numbers thinking I would not find anything new. I found something so crazy that I could not even believe what I was looking at. If you will look at the numbers you will see what I see. Full Story »