A glimpse at the Playstation II, which will have data processing abilities that far outstrip the fastest Pentium chip. The machine's revolutionary chip, the product of a joint venture by Toshiba and Sony, has been dubbed the Emotion Engine by its creators. As the competition for sales grows more intense, game companies will probably have to merge to stay viable. The group investigates the vigilance of VG vendors, rentors, arcade owners and more. Wired News Violent Games, Violent Kids Wired takes a closer look at Senator Lieberman's campaign against video game violence.
Salon looks at the open sourcing of the video game.
In this old, but still relevant article by one of our Dialog participants, Wired talks to the obsessed programmers, designers and artists at id software about the popularity of Doom and the difficulty of making Quake. An excerpt from the book by the same name, written by two MIT researchers. J.C. Herz looks at what happened when a TV news program used footage from Electronic Art's strategy simulation games to depict an attack in the Persian Gulf. Every year there's a new crop of clones, hoping to easily cash in on slightly modified versions of popular games. But, as the president of Pop Top Software points out, original games and genres offer the chance for more creative development, have greater franchise potential, and are often cheaper to produce.