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Some amazing water effects in Epic's latest Unreal Engine by Tim Marman

I've had a few "wow" moments in Call of Duty 4, which certainly rivals Gears of War as one of the prettiest games around on the 360. But after seeing the water effects that Epic demonstrated at GDC this week, all I can say is wow. (via X3F ...
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Having trouble connecting to games on Xbox Live through a router? by Tim Marman

If you are having trouble connecting to games through a router, and you don't have issues when you go directly to the cable modem, you can set your Xbox as the DMZ host. Background Basically, your cable connection gives you a single IP address that the...

Taxing Virtual Economies? by Tim Marman

A congressional committee is exploring the idea of taxing in-game virtual economies . This is not a tax on the sale of video games themselves ( especially violent ones ), nor is it a tax on the sale of virtual assets in a real market like eBay. As Mike...

Street Fighter II is out on Xbox Live Arcade by Tim Marman

As expected, Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting was released this morning. Oh, this is just what I need as I wait to waste all my time on Madden later this month. The game is true to the original, which is perhaps my biggest complaint with all of these...
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