Atari to Reissue Scores of Old Games
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Atari wants to take you back in time, and to get there, you can ride a "Centipede" or an "Asteroid," or bounce back and forth between the pixilated paddles of "Pong."
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Classic games can now be downloaded from Apple's iTunes Store for the range of iPod models.
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Los Angeles-based Collectors' Choice Music is carving a very successful niche with the rerelease of some old albums that probably aren't in your record collection.
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Like Led Zeppelin&#39;s &#39;&#39;Stairway to Heaven&#39;&#39; and Lynyrd Skynyrd&#39;s &#39;&#39;Freebird,&#39;&#39; classic video games like Frogger and Pong can bring back an entire era.
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Tycho:  Sony hasn't been entirely clear regarding what their 1.92 update for the Playstation 3 actually does, suggesting that it "focuses on some PS3 compatibility and playability issues for select titles," but our own experience with the update has been conclusive.  In the Internet's dark places, aggrieved Lair fans are suggesting that this update improves the game's motion controls, and that each media outlet must rescind their previous scores.  I'm fairly certain this is magical thinking - neither Sony or Factor 5 will say with any specificity, and now that both our PS3s are updated it would be impossible to test.  Typically we don't take the traditional holidays off, nor do we take off non-traditional holidays, such at the Feast of St. Motherfucker - a holy day that I've only just now invented.  Gabe's father was around, though, and golf seemed like a good time investment.  Reading greens and choosing clubs for other people is about as far as I get, so for me the social aspects of the game are paramount.  Standing under the awning at the driving range, it's hard not to see where EA's Tiger series could improve.      This year's lobby system is much improved over last year's, but I'm not sure why the lobby itself couldn't be a driving range.  This is how virtually any actual round of golf starts, with every person hitting the bucket they bought and lamenting their performance.  A few of their minigames would work just fine in this context - don't create a custom game to play them, build all of the basic play into a casual, central experience.  From here, modes, courses, and wagers are established.  When new people pull in, carts can be heard.  Links for the 360 wasn't as complete as Tiger, but it had four player modes first - and it had a means to play Speed Golf that Tiger should loot from its fallen enemy.  Essentially, you play the round as normal.  Everyone else plays the round as normal simultaneously, and shots are keyed to a certain color so that the arc of each person's shot is visible to all other players.  They need to steal this - throw the name of each player on there, use the face, whatever.  This needs to be how it works.  You can play an entire course in a quarter of the time.  The RPG metaphor really worked the first few times I bought the product, but it's really lost its currency with me.  There's a point - and it may be with the '08 version of the product - where the number of courses are such that I don't actually want to pay sixty dollars again just to lose all of my character progression every year.  Gabriel's suggestion is to approach it more like a fighting game, which is to say like Mario Golf - with discrete golfer archetypes that have a suite of skills.  I'm wondering if Guild Wars doesn't have the answer - full priced expansions every year, with a perpetually tracked online experience where your prior purchase actually increases the value of the next.  Let all play - online and off - be a part of the core experience, let all play hone your ability.  Don't wall off online play into some purgatory as it is now, untracked, outside of the normal scheme of advancement.    With these thoughts in my head, excited by the sun-dappled future we had envisioned. we sat down to play a round online the next night.  After determining that one of us couldn't play at all or it would crash the game for everyone - a weird kind of crash where you can't play, but you're able to talk to one another about the crash - we were able to play eight holes, at which point it crashed before a victor could be determined.  They've only just made online Photo Game Face available for Tiger, for the first time since launch, but they had to deactivate online features for two other titles to do it.  So, no.  I don't have high hopes.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft said Wednesday it will replace discs of its Halo 3 Xbox 360 game that were already scratched when users purchased them. On its Xbox 360 Web site, Microsoft said an Xbox Disc Replacement Program will replace Halo 3 Limited Edition Game Discs and Essentials Discs at no charge through Feb. 1, 2008, but only for Xbox 360 console owners in countries where Xbox is sold at authorized retail locations. Microsoft released the highly anticipated Halo 3 Xbox 360 game on Tuesday at midnight, but some users found that their game discs were already scratched upon purchase. Some attributed the scratches to the company's packaging of the discs, which did not keep them in place. Users did not report any performance issues with the scratched discs. To get a new disc to replace one that was scratched, people who purchased Halo 3 and meet the program requirements can fill out and print a program form and send it to Microsoft. They should receive a replacement disc in about two weeks, according to the Web site. Halo 3 is the latest installment in the critically praised and enormously popular first-person shooter series developed by Bungie Studios. Microsoft said it had more than 1 million preorders of Halo 3 before its release this week, and fans lined up Monday outside of a New York Best Buy retail outlet for the game's launch hours before the game went on sale.
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Your mission is to travel back to the '80s, the golden age of arcade games, and play your favorite one.
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The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's.  Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator.  It allows you to play all of your favorite Atari 2600 games again! This is the 1.4.1 release of Stella for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.  Distributions for other operating systems will appear as they become available.   Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, it has been ported to a number of other platforms.   The distributions currently available are:    * Binary distribution in RPM format for Linux (stella-1.4.1-1.i586.rpm)    * Binary distribution for Mac OSX (StellaOSX1.4.1.dmg.gz)    * Binary distribution for Windows (stella-1.4.1-win32.zip)    * Source code distribution for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (stella-1.4.1-src.tar.gz)    * Source code in SRPM format for Linux RPM-based systems (stella-1.4.1-1.src.rpm)  PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ASKING FOR ROM IMAGES TO USE WITH STELLA! ALL SUCH REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED!  New in this Release ===================    * Fixed PAL sound issues.  PAL games now should sound correct (no distortion     or missing sounds), but some games may still run too fast.  This is still     a work-in-progress, and will be fixed in Stella 1.5.    * Cleaned up the SDL event gathering loop.  This should hopefully fix the     problems with "double-pumping events" reported by some Windows users.     Event gathering and dispatching is now much faster as well.    * Fixed a bug where the Control or Alt keys could be assigned to some event,     but they could never be used.  Control/Alt can now be used for any event.    * Updated stella.pro file to work with the latest Good2600 ROMset release     (Thanks go to Voch for helping to maintain the stella.pro file).    * For the Windows port; removed requirement for ROM files to be named *.bin     in the StellaX frontend.  The ROM's can now have any name, but ZIP-files are     not yet supported.    * For the Windows port; fixed the problems with the included modified SDL     library and Windows 98 users.  Stella should now run in Windows 98.    * For the OSX port; added preference to allow user to select the directory     in which ROM images are stored.  This sets the default directory to start     the browsing for a ROM in, and doesn't preclude the user from selecting a     file outside that directory.    * For the OSX port; fixed preferences bug where Preferences changed before     a game was opened were not being saved.
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The fourth-quarter deluge of top-quality games continued today, with Atari announcing that Sid Meier&#39;s Pirates! had shipped to stores.
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I spent large chunks of last year playing the same AAA video games everyone else played: "BioShock," "Rock Band," "Super Mario Galaxy" and so on. But if I actually kept track of my gaming hours, I wouldn't be surprised to find that I spent just as much time enjoying the simpler delights of Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade.
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Blog: Sotheby's is hosting an auction for a lot of video game memorabilia from Dig Dug, Pong and others.
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Second time lucky? Ex-Gizmondo exec Carl Freer is to revive the ill-fated handheld games console, which could be back on sale by May for just $99 if he gets his way.â¦
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Tycho:  Gamespot is saying there's a reproducible crash in the new Tiger Woods for the 360, and that the Gamernet functionality doesn't work there either.  PS3 version sounds clean.    Next year, can you guys make sure you put your crash bugs into the demo, too?  It would really help the consumer make an educated decision.    It's so weird; we had problems with the last one, but it never occurred to us that the next one could be worse.  That is to say, I expect inertia.  I don't expect it to break before I even get the Goddamned thing home.      (CW)TB
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A cable channel plans to resurrect each of the 1,230 regular-season games listed on the league's defunct 2004-2005 schedule by setting them in motion on a video game console.
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Blog: The software maker will cover the game console for up to three years for certain hardware failures. Microsoft says it is taking a charge of more than a billion dollars to cover the cost of the move, which followed an investigation into reports of problems
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Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era  arcade games are being restored for Moscow's newest museum,  just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent  playing games like "Tankodrom" and "Sniper."
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Three years ago, the city lost its legal battle to remove violent video games from public arcades in Indianapolis. As defeats go, this one was in some respects a crusher.