GamersCircle

Yep.. I am going to take Monday off so, no new news. Sorry… Unless you want to post something. Drop me an email.

A Reuters story reprinted at Forbes.com is an interesting read, saying that ‘The gaming industry will shrink unless we start to see new games’. It talks about how the ratio of original titles to sequels is dropping dramatically, but it also goes on to say that upcoming sequels (Doom 3, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, GTA: [...]

Asus is promising to “change your perception on data storage” when it releases what may be the world’s first Wi-Fi enabled network-attached hard drive storage system. The WL-HDD is a hard drive enclosure capable of taking any 2.5in ATA-100 hard disk. The enclosure also contains an 802.11g adaptor and antenna, plus a pair of wired [...]

Wireless hotspots are the Big Thing right now. One much-ballyhooed tie-in was Starbucks and T-Mobile’s partnership to bring for-pay wireless hotspots to U.S. Starbucks locations. You can sip your Triple Red-Eye (Venti Coffee of the Day with three shots of Espresso for the caffeine-impaired) while paying by the hour (or monthly) to surf the ‘Net [...]

NEW YORK - Once among the top results when using common search terms like “Seattle hotels,” the hotel reservation site GotHotel.com has all but disappeared from the Internet.
Though the site is still there, it’s almost impossible to find using the leading search engine, Google, after a routine shuffle of its results-ranking formulas. Site owner [...]

DUBLIN — They’re the scourge of the electronic age — the modern-day equivalent of the 19th century snake-oil salesmen hawking their miracle cures, love potions and get-rich-quick schemes. Like the rain in Ireland, there seems no escape from the tide of spam, or junk e-mail flooding the Internet.
During the European day, employees at spam-filtering [...]

The Neverwinter Nights Forums has a follow-up to the recent report/rumor that BioWare might be showing off Neverwinter Nights 2 at this year’s E3. Here’s the deal according to BioWare QA Ninja Stanley Woo:
Since we currently have no plans to make an NWN2, it would be highly unlikely that Trent would be talking about [...]

Manhattan Chase will let you choose between the brave side of the police, or the evil side of the criminals. In short: Chase, or be chased! During (story-based) destructive chases you can use several weapons such as rockets, homing missiles, chainguns, grenades, mines, firedragon and even… an airstrike! Everything is allowed in the chase! [...]

The first shots in the next-gen battle have officially been fired - full report from GDC, plus first ever screens and direct feed videos from astounding new tech demos!
Here’s your first glimpse at what Xbox 2 might be capable of, fresh from the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, where Microsoft today announced a universal [...]

“Indie-label executives who caught a sneak peek of Microsoft’s music download service here March 18 at the South by Southwest Music Conference give it high marks,” Reuters reports. “The software giant’s offering, the MSN Music Service, is not slated to launch until the fall, at the earliest. It will compete with already up-and-running services including [...]