Wired hat eine Liste der wichtigsten Amigaspiele zusammengestellt. Der erste wahre Spielecomputer wahrscheinlich. Da bekommt man gerade bei Screenshots von Sensible Soccer feuchte Augen.

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Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games

Nach Jahren der vermeintlichen Abstinenz meldet sich der legendäre Computerhersteller Commodore zurück. Ein reiner Gaming-PC soll es sein. Mit satten Tech-Specs und bunten Prints all over:

“After years anguishing as a ghost of gaming year’s gone-by, Commodore is looking to get back into the market with it’s line of high-end custom gaming PC’s, going head-to-head against the likes of Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Voodoo PC.

Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming, commented “The all new Commodore range of PC’s will allow gamers of all levels to enjoy the best that PC gaming has to offer…We wanted to bring something new to the market, in the spirit of our Commodore heritage, and have worked hard to design a fully personalised product.” Indeed, each machine is uniquely painted and customized to the customer’s desire. Styles can range from the buyer’s own submitted artwork to photography, graffiti, or game art”

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Primotech | News | First Pictures and Details of Commodore’s New Gaming PC

Great machinima spoof of last year’s gorgeous Sony Bravia ad. This video is a trailer for the upcoming “Mine 2″, a short movie by Swedish machinima group Snoken Productions using the Battlefield 2 game engine. The predecessor, “Mine“, was released in Summer 2005 and quickly became popular among European gamers and machinima lovers for its pop culture references, refined production values, and because it’s darn funny.

Reminiscent of machinima’s most popular outlet to date, Red vs. Blue, Mine consists of loosely connected war episodes and humorous dialogue in contemporary Iraq, and among other things includes a spoof sequence of Disney’s “The Lion King” and a number of references to Monty Python sketches.

Mine 2 is still under production, a release date has not yet been set.

Watch the Mine 2 Trailer
German Interview with Noken of Snoken Productions

Image by KrisJohn

There has been some talk about the observation that World of Warcraft is more and more used as meeting point in business environments, just as golf used to be — a place where you hang out and socialize with your business partners, where potentially the real deals are made.

People have been talking about these aspects of the game for a while, but the golf connection entered public awareness with a recent interview 1Up.com did with Joi Ito:

Overheard, at brunch: two tech entrepreneur types discussing World of Warcraft. What server are you on? What guild? Oh yeah, me too, I heard it’s a good way to schmooze.

It seems irritating at first that such a phenomenon happens within the rather conservative environment of WoW, when e.g. Second Life seems much more suited as both social environment and playing field for new ideas. On the other hand the typical entrepreneur is probably prone to play competitive games in his spare time, and hence will rather be found playing WoW than slacking in the comparatively noncompetitive environment of Second Life.