Video Games: Therapy Or Addiction?

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

If you are one of those video games aficionados currently addicted to shooter games or fighting playing games online, you are not alone. Games like ?Fight Night 3? from Xbox 360 or perhaps the worldwide Xbox favorite ?Halo 2?, that is still making history through the fun play of both national and International audiences through […]

The Beauty of Playstation 2 Games

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Can you remember the first videogames that introduced the world to the joys of videogames? I'm talking about the ones that were introduced in the 80s. We had the ever-popular Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Centipeed. Those outstanding innovations were the bomb! I remember how I used to play pitfall on my Atari and it […]

Suffering From Classic Video Game Nostalgia? Play an Online Video Game

Monday, July 28th, 2008

In this new world of 3D video games, many people who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s find themselves feeling nostalgic. They miss the days when video games were just as simple as Mario and Luigi running across a screen, or Pac Man gobbling up little coins in a maze. Those people yearning for […]

Board Games - The Best Selling Board Games Of All Time

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

It must have been a crushing blow. It was 1934, the depths of the Great Depression. Charles Darrow was unemployed. But, he had an idea. Actually, he had a board game. He called the game Monopoly. He liked the board game and felt it was his ticket to financial success and out of the desperation […]

Turning a Non-Gamer Into a Gamer

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

If you are like many people, you have friends that just don't understand gaming. There are a few variants to non-gamers some of them can be great candidates for gaming conversion. How do you convince a person that has no interest in gaming to play games? Similar to the way you became a gamer yourself, […]

Board Games - Have Deep Historical Roots Buried In The Sands Of Time

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Monopoly, Risk and Clue have roots buried deep in the sands of ancient Mesopotamia.

British archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley unearthed the earliest known board game in the late 1920?s. He was excavating a burial tomb in Ur, what is now southern Iraq. The game, buried with other treasure, had been interred nearly 4,500 years earlier. The […]

The Top 5 Must Play RPGs for Every Video Game Console

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The gaming market is monstrous. Right now there are six consoles, three handhelds, and the ever present PC you can buy games for. That?s 10 different ways you can get your game on, so if you?re someone who doesn?t have the ways or means to buy all 10 platforms and every halfway decent game that […]

Monopoly - The Board Game

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Monopoly is a real-estate trading game for two to eight players. Players move their piece around a board by rolling dice, the board being divided into various properties and special squares.
Players can acquire the properties, and once they have a set of related properties, improve them with houses or a hotel. When a player lands […]

The Story Behind Monopoly

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As one of the most popular games eve, Monopoly has its own legend. Some say that it was invented by an engineer from German town, Pennsylvania ? Charles Darrow. The story tells that he designed the game by drawing a sketch of the board game on a dirty textile piece, while making plans for a […]

MMORPG-Multiplayer Online Gaming

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

MMORPG, as defined by Wikipedia “MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (RPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a fictional character (most commonly in a fantasy setting) and take […]