Growing up in the 80's and going to high school in the mid to late 90's has somehow given me and countless other like me a strange set of likes and dislikes.
Likes:He-Man, the Ninja Turtles, the Pee Wees play house theme song and Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez.
Dislikes: The last 4 seasons of Real World, AOL, The Lifetime Channel, that smacky thing you do when you drink pure cranberry juice.
After the most current period of new adjustments, Gamerati will be going through a few minor changes in the near future. Theses change will mostly encompass a few new directions the site will be going in, with an expanding focus on more venues of electronic entertainment, such as movies, television, music, etc.
But we ar not, i repeat NOT, abandoning our beginnings. This is still a site about gaming and will continue to feature gaming, in all of its forms.
We're just expanding our scope. hope you enjoy it.
We're looking at some changes over the next month - mainly, we're going to be moving toward a more community-based approach. Essentially, after we have moved all the reviews and such to the forums, this page will be replaced with the forum index. We'll be skinning the forums, as well, and we will consider making changed to the forum engine depending on the request. Hang on, kids!
Two years ago, we made waves by getting some NDA-free footage of a game from NCSoft that promised to give us the mobile carnage we craved - Auto Assault.
As usual, I'm late to the party - as of 08/31, the AA servers were shut down permanently. A toast, to our Biomek, Human, and Mutant travellers - may we encounter you in the Wastelands again one day.
Hello? Anyone still here? If so, you’ve waited a long time for the return of good writing and reviews of games. And hopefully we will one day get that to you, but for right now all you got is me working the consoles.
Many of you have heard of SETI@Home by now. This project takes the computing power from your PC that would normally go to waste when the machine sits idle, and puts it to work trying to find ET. While I personally think that's a great idea, I think that ClimatePrediction.net has a better idea - using those spare cycles to simulate one of many thousands of possible future climates for our own planet.
I'm not going to go all neo-ecologist here, but I will quote Robin Williams in Man of the Year: "I'm not a tree-hugger, I'm an air-breather!". After reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear a few months ago, I have a lot of doubt in the current handling of a possible severe climate shift in the next few decades. I'm not going to jump in and say that we're all going to be burning in a greenhouse-gas induced hell by the time I collect Social Security, and I'm not going to say that we're all going to be camping the equator, wishing for those balmy winters when it only reached below-freezing temperatures a few days a year. I will say that frankly, we don't have enough data to make any solid conclusions, recent freak weather occurances notwithstanding.
Yet. That's where ClimatePrediction comes in. If you feel like donating your extra idle cycles to the project, go grab the client from CPN's downloads page. Installation is simple, and it will walk you through creating a new account - just put in climateprediction.net as the URL of the project you wish to support. Once you've signed up, feel free to join the Gamerati team. There'll be stats, so you stat whores can brag about how much better your machine is than mine. :) Even if you choose not to support ClimatePrediction, consider donating those wasted cycles to one of the other projects supported by the BOINC client.
Because of the ever-changing industry, things have been a little slow around here, of late. We're going to be addressing this in two ways:
First, we're opening up a branded offering called "Gamerati Consulting". We have expertise in the gaming industry, setting up game servers, web hosting, PHP/MySQL environments, as well as computer and network installation, configuration, troubleshooting and repair. We also have experience in home automation, RFID inventory management, disaster recovery, and physical security auditing. If you think you have a need that we can fill, please call us at 214-929-6583, or email
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Second, we're looking for more members to join our staff. If you live in the Dallas area, and can write English at a 12th grade level (seriously), then send me an email. We need people to cover general gaming news, RPG news, Console news, PC gaming news, and to wrote occasional reviews of products and games. We're also looking for some thought-provoking editorials. If interested, email
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How long before Jack Thompson shows up blaming it on video games?
Our sympathies go to the families of the victims, and our hopes are that Jack will leave this one alone...but we're not holding our breath.
Edit: apparently, we were a little behind today - Kotaku reported at around 3pm that Jack was already spouting his usual nonsense. So I'd like to say I predicted this one, but he beat me to the punch.
The Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars demo has been released by EA, and includes a quick tutorial, a small mission as GDI, and a skirmish mode. Many, many, many sites are hosting the 1.27GB download, but EA is using their new EA Link service to distribute the demo as well, and from our experience, this was the fastest way to get the file. EA Link is comparable to Valve's Steam service, with many extras available for EA games, so it's an added bonus. Get EA Link here.
