I love the newer generation of consoles, I love the enhanced life-like graphics and I love the online aspects of them. Especially the Xbox 360 Live Arcade experience is something unique and can not be matched by any of the other current consoles like the Wii or the PS3.

But there is something about the older generation of consoles that makes them more timeless, easier to use and their gameplay is guaranteed to last a couple of decades - provided the circuit boards don't corrode etc. Will this be the same with the newer generation of consoles?

Read more about what I think about that subject, I am very curious about what do you think?

Inspired by Bill I wanted to take some casual and somewhat decent unedited photos of my study / rec room / video game area and the rest of the room so like Bill I can more easily refer to specific items when discussing them.

The discussion on Pinball in some of the other threads have inspired me to go look for some nice Pinball games that I personally think are worth checking out. When I was a kid we had our own true full-size pinball machine back home it was a gift to my dad somewhere in the 70's. It was a simple machine and I can't remember the name of it.

Rumor has it that the rpg of Polish origins will be coming to x360 and PS3. It will be based on the so called 'enhanced edition'.

It seems that a large amount of Japanese Shmups (Shoot 'm ups) have been ported to the xbox 360 and Microsoft is holding some sort of December Shmup fest according to

I have great news! The now infamous book on the first 15 years of US home videogames and computers - what I believe will be the most comprehensive work of its kind ever created - has finally found a new publisher. Matt and I are very excited to be working with Andrew Rollings and Hiive Books, well known for The Commodore 64 Book - 1982 to 199x and The ZX Spectrum Book - 1982 to 199x. We're confident Andrew and Hiive will give the material the layout/design and distribution that this deserves. We'll begin work on the book again in late August of this year, after we finish off the previously mentioned book for Focal/Elsevier. As always, we'll keep you posted on the status of this and other exciting projects. By the way, thanks to AA member Harmik for the heads-up on reaching out to Hiive!

Germany, is well known for being one of the largest strong-holds for PC-gaming over here in Europe. Well things have changed...

Microsoft has decided to make some of the XNA games available for download to non-developers. This is a FREE preview to ALL Xbox LIVE members.

In an article about the influences of console games on the development of DX10 PC based video games PC News interviews Mark Rein - CEO of Epic Games and he had some interesting things to say - read more!