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NVISION 2008: 55 Hours of Awesome
Next Monday, August 25th, graphics chip maker NVIDIA will kick off NVISION 2008. NVISION is a three-day long mega-event that draws gamers, graphic artists, game designers, and industry heads together to discuss, experience, and explore the present and future of gaming. Held in the San Jose Convention Center at the heart of Silicon Valley, this is ground zero for the computer and gaming industry. Packed with celebrity appearances, demonstrations and tutorials by leaders in the industry, and a whole lot of gaming, there’s plenty of ground to cover. Here’s a preview of the event: and stay tuned, as GotGame News will be in the thick of things live, with up-to-the minute updates all next week!
Do you hear an echo of a Mario coin out of the corner of your dream when you first wake in the morning? Have you ever tried to use your company stapler to secure the perfect headshot? Do you tell your girlfriend that you have a “headache” so you can crawl back to the PS3 without protest? If so, you just might be able to make the grade in the ultimate test of gamer commitment!
Any time you channel surf, chances are you’ll run across a reality show. They’ve pretty much massacred any attempts at originality on television, but simultaneously proven that truth really is stranger than fiction. These shameless train wrecks of shows have won over many gawkers, but both friends and foes of this phenomenon find joy in ripping them to shreds.
When playing the WoW beta and into the fresh release, the game lacked any real endgame content beyond Blackrock Spire. So, I began leveling on a PvP server. I leveled to about twenty and had to stop — I couldn’t afford the booze to medicate myself from the awful game play. I was killed, camped, killed, camped – did I mention I was killed and camped? So, is there a reason to level on PvP server in WoW?
Soon after video games were created, Star Wars titles started hitting the shelves.
Pop idols have Simon Cowell. Chefs have Gordon Ramsay. Parents have the old crones from Nanny 911. The hottest trend in entertainment is watching British know-it-alls verbally assault poor saps whose only crime is to dare to live out their dreams, if not just get by. For the video game industry, Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation fills that void. The series has grown to such popularity that many online publications simply embed the videos into their news posts in order to boost traffic by riding its coat tails, and making up for their own lack of original content. This article may not be much different.
Nintendo continues its trend of being the craziest game company out there with its leap into online communication. Other companies played it safe by handing out the tried-and-true headsets to their hoards of online participants, but Nintendo took its time. When your products are printing money, what’s the rush?
I remember being in my elementary school library trying to study with the distracting and ever-present threat of losing an axle in Oregon Trail. Those even less ambitious would spend the hour hunting the “Trail“, coming home with no more than twelve pounds of gopher meat and a B-minus. The true academics would forever ask the question, “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?” I don’t know about you, but I never did figure out where the hell she was; fortunately, today’s kids have a slew of new ways to not learn.