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Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

Empire: Total War is a Strategy Fan's Wet Dream

Let me give you an idea of how absurdly detailed Empire: Total War is: the game accurately models buoyancy. Every musket ball is accurately modeled using the game's physics engine. The land battle maps are generated from NASA satellite imagery.

First Prince of Persia In-game Trailer Released

The first Prince of Persia in-game trailer was today released by publisher Ubisoft. The two minute video features a glimpse of the series' new illustrative art style and duel-focused combat system. "We wanted [Prince of Persia] to feel like a

Evening Reading

Count me in as a satisfied iBrick owner! Hopefully this thing gets fixed by the time I fly out to E3 this weekend! Your life has less value...

Evening Reading

So while working on cleaning up a bunch of video stuff around here as we prep to finally unify the video system around here, we came across a...

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So as there were just a few too many quirks with the video player we had been using here the last couple of months, we've swapped around again....

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Lots of explosions this weekend! Also fire! Yeah! NBC olympics new media Keep the web free! Are you happy? Free speech online?...

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Lots of explosions this weekend! Also fire! Yeah! Judge orders YouTube viewers reveal Dude, big storm Calorie fighting with...

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The guy up in my front office, he smells really kinda bad. It's awkward because he's all friendly and stuff. If you're going to stink, could you...

Hello, Meet Lola