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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Doom
How do game developers hack it?
All-nighters, 18-hour days, sleeping at the office -- John Romero's posse keeps up a "death schedule" to get Daikatana out of beta.
The waiting game
Will John Romero's Daikatana ever hit the shelves? When it does, will first-person shooter players still care?
Pretty pretty bang bang
Is Quake 3 too beautiful to live up to its promise as the "ultimate death-match game"?
Games don't kill people -- do they?
Before we rush to damn the video-game industry, let's remember: There's both bad and good in blowing up pixels.
Quake, Doom and blood lust
Violent games aren't a problem, says the computer gaming press -- while lovingly hawking the latest innovations in pixelated gore.
The shooters and the shrinks
After Littleton, the media declared that studies show computer games lead to violence. What studies?
Doom, Quake and mass murder
Gamers search their souls after discovering the Littleton killers were part of their clan.
21st Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere.
Prank takes down anti-impeachment site; Id's Carmack loves, hates the Mac; The truth about Chinese movie-title translations; Haiku error messages surface in Microsoft courtroom!
Shoot to thrill
"Unreal" takes the first-person shooter game to the next graphic level. But is that enough?
21st: "Ate My Balls" ate my balls.
How one nutty meme took over cyberspace. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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