Gamers Evolved

It seems that everyone is trying to make our world a little more eco friendly and to protect us from the doom of global warming. But I don’t think we’ve even seen it in a video game before. Daedalic Entertainment created A New Beginning for fun and possibly even for teaching us to take care of our world.

A New Beginning is a cinematic, interactive eco-thriller. In the classic adventure game an impending global climate cataclysm threatens the world, in a story ripped from today’s headlines, dealing with the defining issue of our time. At locations all around the globe, players will have to try and stem the tide, with the whole world hanging in the balance.

Conflict: Denied Ops is the fifth game in the Conflict series that is set in today’s volatile political climate, which focuses on two covert field operatives, experts in weapons and military tactics. This two player game allows players to switch seamlessly, at any point in the game and offers cooperative gameplay.

Featuring cooperative gameplay and highly destructible environments, Conflict: Denied Ops focuses on so-called “deniable operatives,” special forces soldiers who do the government’s arm’s-length dirty work. According to an Eidos news release, the game’s characters are ruthless, merciless, and brutal.

Everyone has been anticipating the August 21st release of the first-person shoot ‘em up, Bioshock. With the release just around the corner they decided to whet everyone’s appetite by releasing a demo of the game on Xbox Live.

As can be expected many people who don’t own the Xbox were hoping to get a demo to download to their PC, but were unable to find any. Irrational Games (which has recently changed names to 2K Boston) is assuring fans that the PC demo will be available later this month. But seeing as how the game will be released in a week it seems kind of pointless to wait and play the demo.

There aren’t many games that are made for every different game systems. Usually they are exclusive to one game system. For example: Halo 3 is exclusive to the Xbox 360. The Spiderwick Chronicles game has been made for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PC, and PS2.

“Sierra Entertainment is excited to announce that one of the most anticipated family entertainment films of 2008 will be coming to the world of video games as well,” said Al Simone, senior vice president, Global Marketing for Sierra Entertainment.

First there were videos, than there were DVDs, than came HD, and finally there is Blu-Ray. For anyone who is not yet familiar with the Blu-ray Disc it is a next-generation optical disc format meant for high definition video (HD) and high density data storage, and is one of two competing standards for HD optical media.

Shuttle inc. has taken the advances of Blu-Ray one step further and created a small form factor(SFF) PC that has the fuction of Blu-Ray playback.