Civilization Revolution offers a feature they call "Game of the week." Each week they pick a civilization for the players to be, and a map, and everyone plays the same game with their scores going up onto the great leaderboard in the sky. I

I used to avoid the Civilization games, because so many people I knew were completely obsessed with them and played constantly. However, the FreeCiv game in Linux finally sucked me in. After a few years of playing that on and off, I find myself repea

Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of Transgaming Technologies, makes an excellent case on why games need to be taken more seriously under Linux.

Have you ever ever finished something and thought it worked out so well that you truly rock?

Those of you who follow my blog might have read my notes from the 2005 WIGI conference in Seattle. This was an excellent and informative gathering for anyone who wants to get into games, not just women. The next one is on February 18 in San Francisco

If you were going to purchase a game controller for use with Linux, what would it be?

For your convenience, I decided to make a quick page that points to each of the five part series on the Women in Games International conference I attended in 2005.

This is in some ways a "higher level" talk in that these are high level executives sharing their thoughts and experiences. It was a nice way to end the day, kind of looking at the future and other aspects of the industry.

Ryan Gordon, otherwise known as Icculus, has posted an announcement warning that from now on he's going to be targeting newish versions of glibc for his game ports.

As I mentioned before, the game industry has a higher employee turnover even than professional sports. This panel covered both the reasons for this and potential solutions.

This article touches on many of the points I've been mentioning in my series of notes from the WIGI conference:Video game industry needs to be more creative, says veteran developerI do think maybe the new, small side of the game market with mobile ga

This seminar focused on the longer term, the types of things that people in the various career tracks should be good at and the type of work they do.

There are a number of ways to break down my notes here since they moved up and down the panel. Since you, dear reader, are likely interested in just one or maybe two particular types of work within the game industry, I'm going to break them down by t

So, on September 10, almost a month ago now, I went down to Microsoft's Redmond, WA campus to attend the Women in Games International summit. I took a lot of notes and this post is the first in a series I'll do here on my blog about what I learned.

I mentioned attending the WIGI conference in a previous entry, and have been waiting for the resulting article to go up before proceeding with my little series on breaking into games. It's now up, check out Gaming Open Source to take a look at where

I attended a Women in Games International conference recently and ended up taking quite copious notes, way more than I could use for the article I was working on. I figure I'll do a series of posts here on my blog with the rest.

Following in Id Software's tradition of releasing the source code to its older games under the GPL, the code to Quake III Arena and Quake III Team Arena is now available for download.

I've still got Cedega running World of Warcraft rather nicely, and my husband's experiments have finally turned fruitful. Since he has a much newer ATI card than I do, it was worth his while to track down the new 2.6 ATI drivers. He had to do some se

I've got WoW playing much better now! The crash every time I entered a building was the well-known "mini map bug" (the little local area map up in the corner has to change to the interior map when you enter the building, so if the map break

When you're me and the spouse expresses interest in no longer dual booting, and instead running World of Warcraft under Cedega since it's supposed to be possible, you end up in one of those "I guess I can take a break from my work and forgo slee

A friend of mine pointed out an article on Linux gaming from Jo Shields at Hexus.net. In this article, Jo talks about taking a Linux machine to a large LAN party where most of the people are using Windows, talks about how Linux fits into the whole ga