See you in Arkham City... later

Why Don't You Play it For Me?

As gamers are also people they inevitably aged, with age comes the inevitable increase in life's responsibility and obligations that all cuts into gaming time. What is a gamer to do if there is a nice game out but one simply could not find enough time or energy to properly enjoy it?

Well, if it happens the gamer in question has a sibling/friend/room mate who is also into the hobby chances are "second hand gaming experience" can be an option.

Good Game or Good Game?

Happened to me before. Anyone else experienced this before?

Brickgamers60 Gaming Influence to Life

In less than half a century after video game was invented, it has slowly but surely showing signs of its influence in our daily life. From introducing catch phrase, showing up in main stream media, inciting political issues, making people meet one another to naming children after video game characters... we have since been there, done that.

Job for a Gamer?

Yes Jack is a man child who seems to try staying from reality as far as possible by indulging on gaming. If you would force a fella such as him get a job, what kinda job would he choose?

Black Ops got Hit

As reported in Kotaku.
Well, that is one way to play a game before it is realised :D

Shame.... but it is a Good Shame

As reported in Kotaku some time ago. More pictures of the event here in Lowyat's Gamer’s Hideout.

Sit like a Conqueror

NZXT Phantom PC case airbrushed with Jalur Gemilang for 53rd Merdeka

For all you Malaysian gamers out there who are feeling Patriotic (not Nationalistic!) this 53rd Merdeka, Answer Sdn Bhd, a local computer distributor, airbrushed the Malaysian national flag, the Jalur Gemilang (Stripes of Glory), on the new NZXT desktop computer chassis, the Phantom. It took 2 weeks to do this! This exclusive case is NOT available for sale (unfortunately!) but it IS available for viewing (for a limited time only!) @ C-Zone, Digital Mall, Petaling Jaya, Selangor till the 5th of September and Atom Computer, Low Yat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur from the 6th till the 12th of September 2010. So if you're a Patriotic Malaysian Gamer, go see it!

Gaming Addiction Warning Needed

Dude spent 20,000 hours in the past 5 years playing Lineage 2 and now decides to sue NCsoft because it failed “to warn or instruct or adequately warn or instruct plaintiff and other players of Lineage II of its dangerous and defective characteristics, and of the safe and proper method of using the game". Read the whole news on Gamepolitics.

UPDATE - All Communications are off during War

This just in - we found a YouTube video about National Geographic where they made a documentary about StarCraft with the launch of StarCraft 2 recently, a game 11 years in the making, worthy of a highlight with the story of this gaming culture universe:

Singaporean Dude get first Copy of StarCraft 2, Cries

Was traveling the whole galaxy until it comes to a stop in the planet Charr lately. All things on hiatus but hey, it was worth it after a decade; a point which is best illustrated in this "old news" of Singapore Man Cries After Being First In Country To Purchase Starcraft II.

Just look at that, without reading the captions you would have think he just became a father wouldn't you?

Overtime with Jim Raynor

Nothing can stop him from playing, he says

This Gamer needs serious Anger Management!

A recent real life drama which definitely potrays all gamers in bad light, Gamer stabs opponent after in-game knife kill in Counter-Strike makes for a text book case in which people argue violent games promote violence - which stands for may be 0.00001 percent of all gamers population.

Learn New language with gaming

Based on a true story... so it goes the fella in question was defeated in a way which was like totally owned. Before he left the game he said something native to himself and after that he messaged the same thing again via the network, lovely.

Girlfriend deletes Boyfriend's World of Warcraft character

This strip is inspired by the online video of girlfriend deletes boyfriend's WoW character and BF destroys his computer with a twist ending. Chances this idea has crossed the minds of a legion of disgruntled girlfriends worldwide whose boyfriends are spending more time in front of the monitor then with them. With the current craze over the 2010 South Africa World Cup, this might just be the alternative option for boyfriends to hit back (not literally) at their girlfriends!

World Cup is Here

Gaming Bummer

Sort of a modern day gaming bummer, you leave your beloved games for a while when life distracted, when you came back eager to play instead first you are most likely to hit the update bars. Sure it is necessary for the game improvement, sure it is like a modern day essential, but compounding issues like slow local internet connection with big patches plus the ever dwindling time resource it still can be a bummer from time to time.

Old Games are now DRM Free!

Talk about making existing situation into an advantage... ever since the new "must be online all the time" policy made it into a whole new range of game titles the term DRM has became a byword for evil itself for a certain number of gamers.

Certain old games has came out since and labeling themselves as "DRM Free". Simply ingenious.