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We know about the Japanese yen, the Euro and the U.S. dollar.

Now there's the Linden.

The Linden dollar is used in a 3-D online virtual world to buy and sell virtual objects such as motorcycles, cars, furniture, houses and clothes. People create their own animated characters, called avatars, and use the virtual objects to explore a computer-generated world called Second Life for social, entertainment, educational and economic reasons.

Avatars communicate with one another through text me . . . Read more

WHAT: Get ready to celebrate at the biggest Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) Fan Faire yet with fellow gamers and the creators of your favorite SOE games at the Las Vegas Hilton, Aug. 14 -17.

For only $89, attendees receive an All-Access pass to an expanded Fan Faire that includes sneak peeks at three monumental new games in development, plus special activities, roundtables, developer forums and live in-game tournaments and quests for SOE’s lineup of smash hits.

And that’s not all! The . . . Read more

Namco Bandai announced today that the classic gorefest Splatterhouse will be making its return on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sometime in 2009.

A press release from Namco said that the next-gen version of the arcade and TurboGrafx 16 classic will feature a melee combat system complete with grappling and combos.

The infamous 2x4 wooden board also makes a comeback some 20 years after the original, as well as the ability to use the limbs of your enemies as weapons to dispatch them and, in . . . Read more

A new advertisement pinning yet another Star Wars console game has been spotted. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, according to the poster ad plastered on back of a game manual for LucasArts' LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, is exclusively releasing on the Nintendo DS and Wii.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars was a cartoon series animated by Genndy Tartatovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack) and was designed to fill in the gaps between the events that occurred in Star Wars Episode II: Attac . . . Read more

The sequel to Ubisoft's action-adventure title Beyond Good & Evil will appeal to casual gamers moreso than the first game, Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot said at the recent Ubidays press event in Paris.

"We saw with Beyond Good & Evil that so many customers were extremely happy with the game," said Guillemot to Next-Gen. "We had a different audience at that time. We had more core gamers than casual gamers than we have today."

"We think the game was probably a little too difficult for the . . . Read more

It seems that the green giant Nvidia have fired their wallet at Infinity Ward.

Some of you may remember that map pack that appeared for all the console users, that got Microsoft in the news again, because it was the most downloaded thing on XBL since the dawn of time, and netted several million.

You may also remember that us PC users got stiffed, and had to wait quite some time before we got it. Infact, we're still waiting.

However, thanks to Nvidia (I'm starting to think they might not . . . Read more

As to whether or not this is really "news," it is at the least an editorial from a hardcore gamer. Many people on NapalmRiot would call themselves something more than a casual gamer. In fact, I would venture a guess that most of the active people here have a passion for gaming, it's more than a hobby; it's a lifestyle. So why do big corporations continually slap us in the face with movie tie-ins?

If any of you have ever played a game based off of a movie or a television series, you'll know . . . Read more

As many people are aware, earlier this year the now-combined companies of Activision and Vivendi announced they would not attend E3 this year. Even more shocking, both companies are withdrawing from the Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. trade body for entertainment and video game companies. Most all significant publishers are members of the ESA, a withdrawal of these major companies was big news.

Then LucasArts announced their retreat in the days following. Citing that it was no . . . Read more

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They currently have about 9 servers up with various maps. You can check out the main site, or check out the Stats page http://www.matrix-host.com/hlstats/hlstats.php

They also have a tf2 clan if anyones interested.

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The Government Agency the Federal Trade Commission conducts an annual secret shopper survey using children 13-16 to determine how the tatings are enforced for various media formats, including R-rated movie theater tickets, R-rated DVDs, Unrated DVDs, Parental Advisory Label (PAL) Music CDs, and M-rated Games. Not only did games have 60% drop in sales to underage buyers since 2000, they had both the largest drop overall and the smallest percentage of sales to the underaged. Now what I want to k . . . Read more

So, apparently the EU WoW guild SK Gaming have taken the first kill of the final 'boss' enemy to be added to WoW before Lich King launches some time this year.

Apparently Kil'jaeden is the 'ultimate end boss' of the Burning Crusade addon, for those that aren't familiar with the game/high level content (Like me).

It's said that it took the guild three days to get from the entrance to the kill, with a line up of: one feral druid, three hunters, one mage, two paladins, four priests, three rog . . . Read more

So, it seems some researchers at Stanford, lead by Allan Reiss, have been looking at what the differences between male and female gamers.

It is a bit on the wordy side, but it's not a bad read, and best of all, it makes reasonable sense.

"After analyzing the imaging data for the entire group, the researchers found that the participants showed activation in the brain's mesocorticolimbic center, the region typically associated with reward and addiction. Male brains, however, showed much grea . . . Read more

According to ps3fanboy.com, there will be a Metal Gear Solid 4 Launch Party at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square (that's in New York, in case you've been in a coma since the dawn of time) at midnight on June 11th.

It's said that the creator, Hideo Kojima, will be on-hand to sign copies and greet the fans of the game series.

Some of the readers of ps3fanboy will be gathering to have a little "meet" in celebration out there that night as well, apparently.


The information comes from . . . Read more

Nexon America Inc., the U.S. division of Asia's leading online game company Nexon Group, announced today the launch of Combat Arms, its free-to-play, online first person shooter. The highly-customizable game is slated for commercial release later this summer, but a select group of players will get a chance to fire away in the closed beta test starting May 30th.

Combat Arms deploys players into a dangerous war zone teeming with soldiers of fortune looking to make a mark. The online shooter wil . . . Read more

Talk about an ironic title for a game - Infinite Undiscovery. Nevermind the mind boggling nature of its name, Square Enix will be targeting a September 2 shipping date for this Xbox 360 title, making it the first in a completely new lineup of Square Enix titles for Microsoft’s console. This fantasy RPG was co-developed with tri-Ace Inc., so fans of the genre can expect something different from the usual Final Fantasy mix of characters and spells, and not on a Sony nor Nintendo platform to boot . . . Read more

Football Superstars is a free to play football MMO, published by UK Company CyberSports. It is the world’s first virtual footballing world - an interactive online virtual world designed for football fans to live a top footballer’s lifestyle and is due for release in late 2008.

Once downloaded, players re-create themselves online as a footballer and then have free reign in the state of the art interactive virtual world. Players can play their way from three-a-side up to eleven-a-side match . . . Read more

Ryu, Chun-Li, and Mega Man have battled Marvel's best more than once. Now they'll be taking on Japan's very own Home of the Heroes.

The latest issue of Famitsu is reporting that Tatsunoko Productions, better known as the birthplace of well-known series such as Speed Racer, Macross, and Samurai Pizza Cats, will be featured in the newly-announced fighter Capcom vs. Tatsunoko: Cross Generation of Heroes.

Tag team battling will be returning, and fans of previous iterations of the Capcom Vs. se . . . Read more

As it turns out, Micromania (A Spanish game magazine) had a preview of Starcraft 2 from Blizzard, and it seems they've gone and dug out the potential system requirements. However, just as a forewarning, the game is not gold yet, and these are likely to change. Blizzard has not confirmed them.


Minumum Requirements
GFX: GeForce 7/8 Series or Radeon 1000/2000 with 256 MB RAM
CPU: Pentium 4
RAM: 1 GB
Internet: ADSL 1 Mbit

Recommended Requirements
GFX: GeForce . . . Read more

Chinese MMO operator Shanda Entertainment is being sued by a denizen of the company's Legend of Mir II over the loss of 31 virtual items, all of which mysteriously vanished from the player's in-game inventory over the last year.

The player, surnamed Wen, is seeking a little over $14,000 USD in damages from the company in a suit filed in the Shanghai Pudong District People's Court.

(source: Wired - http://blog.wired.com/gam…8/05/chinese-mmo-ope.html)

I was reading through the list of news articles I had to filter through, and I stumbled upon this article about a movie adaption of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Curious, I decided to open it and give it a read, and promptly got a nervous twitch.

First off, this is Jake Gyllenhaal; and secondly, Disney is responsible, and my insides hurt. Now, I know Disney has made great mov . . . Read more

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