]> http://rpgcrossings.com/taxonomy/term/40/0 News stories, press releases and general announcements. en http://rpgcrossings.com/story/gamerchix_unite_a_plea_to_microsoft_live <p>GamerchiX Unite!</p> <p>By: Kelly Adams<br /> GiN Editorials Correspondent</p> <p>I'm 33 years old, married for 12 years, and a female gamer. As a woman, I put up with the occasional idiot male in public, but they are rare. As a female gamer, I've put up with the idiot males since I first went onto Xbox Live with my own screen name. It seems to never end. Thankfully good guys are out there but the bad ones are really starting to ruin the experience of matchmaking on Live. Allow me to walk you through what a female gamer is subjected to. You may hear one of the following comments:</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:02:44 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/atlas_of_eslin_released_for_epic_rpg <p>June 23, 2008 (Bozeman, MT) – Dark Matter Studios, producer of the well-received fantasy rpg <a href="http://epicrpg.com">Epic Role Playing</a>, has released its latest offering, the <b >Atlas of Eslin</b>. Weighing in at over 300 pages, the Atlas contains eight continents’ worth of diverse cultures, compelling story hooks and varied professions.</p> Pen & Paper Fantasy Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:58:29 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/dragons_still_rule_lair_dungeons_dragons_rulebook_release_brings_throng_to_local_store <p>By Dylan Miracle</p> <p>Thursday night, Dungeons and Dragons fans gathered at Dragon's Lair on North Burnet for the midnight release of the fourth-edition Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. In case you don't know, Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where players make characters and play in a heroic fantasy world invented and maintained by the Dungeon Master<a href="glossary#term48" title="game master: (n) In the world of the RPG, the GameMaster creates the setting, goals and stated conditions of the game, referees the rules, keeps track of the various game events, and controls the monsters and non-player characters that the players run up against. GMs running Dungeons and Dragons are typically called Dungeon Masters or DMs. GMs running White Wolf and some other games are called Storytellers. Other games also use referee, narrator or moderator."><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a>, usually the most megalomaniacal of your friends. The players decide the actions of their characters. The success or failure of the actions are determined by a roll of a die - often a 20-sided die rolled to see if your long sword cleaves the head off a goblin<a href="glossary#term212" title="goblin: In the Dungeons &amp; Dragons fantasy role-playing game, goblins are a very common and fairly weak race of humanoid monsters. Goblins and kobolds are often the first type of non-human monsters that low-level player characters will face. In D&amp;D, unlike in many other fantasy role playing games, goblins aren&#039;t smaller cousins of orcs, but are a part of the related species collectively referred to as goblinoids. Other such races include hobgoblins and bugbears."><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a>.</p> Dungeons and Dragons High Fantasy Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:29:59 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/battlestar_galactica_coming_to_mobile_via_glu_mobile <p>Hit Sci-Fi TV series<a href="glossary#term52" title="campaign: A campaign is an ongoing storyline revolving about a continuous group of characters. It is generally made up of a series of adventures within a specific setting. Since the word &#039;campaign&#039; implies a series of military conquests, games wishing to distance themselves from such martial pursuits have alternate names for their campaigns. For example, Ars Magica campaigns are known as sagas and Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns are known as chronicles. Several games, attempting to invoke the serial dramas of television, have used the term series. "><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a> BSG is coming to mobile gaming through Glu Mobile. Yeah you read right, Battlestar Galactica will be a mobile game, and one that has been waited for for some time, and it is almost ready. U.S. mobile gamers can already play this heroic sci-fi based game, but those of us over here will unfortunately have to wait a little while longer.</p> Science Fiction Glen A Larson's Battlestar Galactica Setting Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:56:18 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/video_games_bridge_generation_gap_between_fathers_sons <p>Remember when father and son bonding meant playing catch, shooting hoops and fishing? In today’s digital world there’s a new addition to traditional father/son activities-playing video games. Dads who grew up playing classic videogames from the ‘80s are passing their love of gaming onto their offspring, resulting in shared fun and the opportunity for fathers to be positive role models.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:54:25 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/multicore_passive_cooling_technology_from_gigabyte <p>by Techtree News Staff</p> <p>Gigabyte has today announced their latest multi-core passive cooling technology, which is built upon the foundation of the company's popular Silent-Pipe series<a href="glossary#term52" title="campaign: A campaign is an ongoing storyline revolving about a continuous group of characters. It is generally made up of a series of adventures within a specific setting. Since the word &#039;campaign&#039; implies a series of military conquests, games wishing to distance themselves from such martial pursuits have alternate names for their campaigns. For example, Ars Magica campaigns are known as sagas and Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns are known as chronicles. Several games, attempting to invoke the serial dramas of television, have used the term series. "><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a>. The technology promises maximum VGA cooling performance.</p> Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:24:26 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/prominent_gamer_girls_break_ranks_announce_new_co_ed_gaming_clan_dso_delta_special_ops <p>ORLANDO, FL, May 18, 2008 - When the group leaders of the largest and arguably most successful Division of the popular Girl-Gaming Clan “PMS” decided to leave the clan and form their own group of like-minded gamers, few knew it would develop into what it has. Virtually the entire Delta Division of PMS chose to leave with their long-standing division leaders. The exodus inspired the name of the new clan: Delta Special Ops (DSO). Although currently the clan is comprised of mostly female members, the founders have elected that DSO be a co-ed gaming clan and the male participant numbers are steadily rising.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Tue, 20 May 2008 21:53:15 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/boom_blox_nintendo_wii <p>Grade: A-</p> <p> Finally, a must-have game for the Wii made by someone other than Nintendo. It's also one of the few games for Nintendo's next-gen system that makes intuitive, fun use of the Wii motion controllers by allowing players to build and knock down (or blow up) virtual blocks.</p> Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Tue, 20 May 2008 21:42:44 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/a_gamers_dream_come_true_win_a_sweet_system_from_diamond_multimedia <p>CHATSWORTH, CA--(Marketwire - May 16, 2008) - Diamond Multimedia (<a href="http://www.diamondmm.com">www.diamondmm.com</a>), a leading manufacturer of PC<a href="glossary#term53" title="character: A role-playing game character is a fictional person (or other entitiy) that inhabits the game&#039;s universe. They are typically divided into player characters, who are controlled by the players, and non-player characters, who are controlled by the GM. In any given game, there are far more NPCs than PCs, as NPCs comprise every individual in the fantasy world who is not playing at the moment. Both types of characters typically follow the same rules for creation, interests, abilities and hit points. Some monsters and odd creatures may not be available as player characters, depending on the game system. "><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a> graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, introduced today the Sweet System Sweepstakes which will run until the end of August, 2008.</p> Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sat, 17 May 2008 13:50:23 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/konami_to_release_rock_revolution_this_october <p>Posted on Game Pro</p> <p>Unveiled at the Konami Gamer's Night on Wednesday, Rock Revolution was confirmed for release on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and DS. The rhythm game will feature 40 cover songs on the disc (sorry purists, no master tracks here), promises "the most realistic drum peripheral on the market," and support both bass and guitar in addition to drums but exclude vocals.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sat, 17 May 2008 13:41:16 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/six_snotty_comments_pc_gamer_us_on_gears_2 <p>Straight From PC<a href="glossary#term53" title="character: A role-playing game character is a fictional person (or other entitiy) that inhabits the game&#039;s universe. They are typically divided into player characters, who are controlled by the players, and non-player characters, who are controlled by the GM. In any given game, there are far more NPCs than PCs, as NPCs comprise every individual in the fantasy world who is not playing at the moment. Both types of characters typically follow the same rules for creation, interests, abilities and hit points. Some monsters and odd creatures may not be available as player characters, depending on the game system. "><img src="modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a> Gamer US: Last week, Gears of War 2's Lead Designer, Cliff Bleszinski, debuted GOW2 gameplay to a completely unsurprised public. We paid attention, but only because we had nothing better to do - after all, what do we want with your sloppy seconds? Here's our six snotty comments about your stupid 360 exclusive.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Fri, 16 May 2008 22:18:26 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/texas_gamer_wins_21m_award_in_patent_suit_against_nintendo <p>By Marilyn Tennissen </p> <p>LUFKIN -- A small East Texas gaming company has won a $21 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case against Nintendo.</p> <p>After deliberating for a full day, federal jurors found in favor of Anascape Ltd. of Tyler on Wednesday, May 14. The original lawsuit, filed July 31, 2006, in the Lufkin Division of the Eastern District of Texas, alleged that the giant game maker infringed on Anascape patents when designing controllers for the Nintendo Wii and GameCube systems. U.S. District Judge Ron Clark presided over the trial.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Fri, 16 May 2008 22:14:20 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/aussie_man_builds_huge_nintendo_controller <p>An Australian gamer has built a huge fully-functioning Nintendo controller which doubles up as a coffee table and storage unit. </p> <p>The giant NES controller has the retro feel of the hugely popular 1980s games console – just a whole lot bigger.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Tue, 13 May 2008 21:11:04 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/mothers_day_gifts_for_gamer_moms <p>Moms are special. None of us would be here without them. This article offers some great ideas for gamer Moms of all types. So, in case you didn't get her anything yet, check this out: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/games-for-all-k.html">http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/games-for-all-k.html</a></p> Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sun, 11 May 2008 18:21:10 -0400 http://rpgcrossings.com/story/ps3_outsells_xbox_360_in_europe <p>Sony's PlayStation 3 games console has outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Europe, according to figures released by Sony. The BBC News has the story.</p> <p> "We have been consistently outselling our closest competitor [Xbox 360] since October 2007, even with the latest price point," said Mr Reeves.</p> PC / Console Games Hot Off The Press (Gamer News) Sun, 11 May 2008 18:10:49 -0400