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In a fury, the public greeted the latest craze in gaming consoles as the Playstation 3 hit the entertainment world. Through a series of huge Sony marketing schemes, you could not go anywhere without hearing or feeling the anticipation for a product that promised better graphics, color, sound, and other exciting features. The popularity of the Playstation 3 also made it possible for Ebay resellers and independent retailers to markup the price of owning one of these units, especially in time for the Christmas season.

The desire to get a hold of this popular gaming console drove the public deeper into their pockets, so when the chance to obtain a free Playstation comes about, many will jump at the opportunity. To further the interest in the Playstation 3, Sony held a slew of local and national promotions offered both on the Internet and offline. Others caught on to this particular idea as a way to tap into a lucrative goldmine, offering their own giveaways. Below, you will find some of the ways people may acquire a Playstation at no cost:

Radio
Disc jockeys use promotional giveaways as a common technique to keep radio fans listening. If you periodically check your favorite radio station, you may find a contest involving Playstation 3. For country, jazz, or classical music fans, you might want to linger a bit on radio stations geared towards pop, rock, and hip-hop, which are more likely to offer a free Playstation as an incentive.

Television
News stations often offer giveaways for loyal viewers. It never hurts to see what type of contest or promotional gimmick they are using to increase viewer-ship. Do not feel like catching the news? Pay a visit to their website where contests are also advertised. Most often, you will be asked to fill out a questionnaire in order to participate.

Internet
Although there are numerous websites offering a chance to win a free Playstation through a variety of promotional giveaways, it is important to check the legitimacy of sites. There are tons of impostors, who wish to gain your personal information and will do anything to lure you to the bait. Offering a Playstation at no cost is just the thing to tempt the unsuspecting.

Charities & Fundraising
Some students have been able to win fun items, such as a free Playstation when participating in fundraising and other charity functions. Whether it is selling the most Girl Scout cookies or collecting the highest amount of canned food, some organizations offer prizes for the most productive participants.

Giveaways
Malls, department stores, and especially electronic stores are known for giving away popular gifts or products through a wide range of contests. Sometimes kiosks situated in a store or shopping mall will capture the attention of the public, enticing them to fill out forms for a prize drawing. Since the Playstation 3 is such a popular entertainment system, the chances of encountering such an offer are pretty high.

Participation Reward
On the Internet, there are many opportunities to win prizes through participation. For instance, when you fill out a survey, your personal information can be entered into a prize raffle or drawing. Some websites will increase the number of times your name is entered into a giveaway according to the total amount of surveys you fill out.

With so many places to get your hands on a free playstation, you should go out there and try your luck.

Kelvin Ho runs his PlayStation site athttp://myplaystation.info.

Atari developed one of the most popular and the most best selling gaming systems in the world. In 1977 Atari successfully launched a gaming system that almost everyone in the world wanted. The Atari Video Computer System or VCS created a new way to entertain the young and old alike in the late 70s to the early 90s.

If you played Atari before, you know how crude and simple the graphics were in this gaming system compared to the 3D state-of-the-art graphics with the latest technology in gaming consoles introduced today.

The popularity of Atari lasted for many years. However, with the introduction of a more realistic gaming system today, Atari became a relic. In the 80s, Atari game systems and its game cartridges flew off the shelves of stores worldwide. You can even compare Ataris popularity with the Christmas season craze that you may experience with other popular gaming consoles available in the market today.

However, because of overproduction of gaming cartridges, the market for video games crashed. Even with Ataris success, it was affected by the declining demand in the video game market. By the fall of 1986, Atari gaming systems wasnt available in most retail stores in the US.

However, even after all these years, Atari games are still fun to play. Even old games like Pac-man, Asteroids, Missile Command, and other popular titles Atari produced were still widely available in the video game market. Although it wasnt really available in cartridges like before, it is, however, still being played in the internet.

Today, Atari is now a game developer for PC games and other popular gaming consoles out in the market. They now develop games that can compete with the standards that people are searching for in a game. Popular Atari game titles, such as Neverwinter Nights, Test Drive Unlimited, Age of Pirates and others are now available for PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and others.

These games also have the stunning advanced 3D graphics that most people look for in a game today. With great sound effects and realistic graphic quality, Atari games can really make you want to play their games over and over again.

Atari games are also available in different genres. They have Role Playing Games or RPG, strategy games, action games, first person shooter games, driving games, simulation games, online games, fighting games and they also develop games for kids.

With the different kinds of games available that Atari produces, you can be sure that you will never run out of great game titles from Atari. If you get tired of an Atari game, you simply have to go out and buy another popular title developed by Atari.

However, fun as all the new games Atari is developing now, the old games, such as Missile Command, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Tempers, Battlefield and other popular game titles back in the 70s and 80s are still fun to play with. People who grew up in the Atari era have searched for the old gaming titles in the internet and play it online.

These games can still be played in your PC by just having an active internet connection and logging on to www.atari.com. Or, you can purchase the old Atari Video Computer System or VCS in the internet. Today, the game system still exists and people still buys them. Even the cartridges are for sale.

If you want to play old video games the old school way, then purchasing an Atari Video Computer System is the best way to do it. Relive the 80s and play hundreds of different games developed by Atari.

All you need to do is plug the Atari VCS to your TV, plug in your favorite Atari game cartridge and play like you did when you were a child. If you have children, try to let them join the fun by letting them play too.

Atari games are widely available for download in the internet. Old games can be downloaded and played in your computer. But, if you want to play with these old and simple games like in the 70s and 80s, purchase an Atari VCS gaming console in the internet.

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It’s an age-old question that will only get more and more intense in the coming year as the Xbox 360 is in full swing and the PS3 and Revolution release. Which is better? What system is right for me? I would suggest both systems if you can possibly do it.

Computer gaming is more expensive now days so you must make the right choices in the equipment and games you select. Computer gaming is best for Real Time Strategy (RTS) games.

Others are First Person Shooters (FPS), Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORG), Flight Simulation games, and Point and Click Adventure games.

Warhammer Mark of Chaos is the eagerly awaited RTS (Real Time Strategy) game by Namco Bandai. The game is fairly simple to get used to (after about half an hour you will probably be used to most of the basic controls)

Basically, its mostly drag and click but there are some useful rotating/zooming options (all explained in the tutorial, which is a must for first-time players) and if a quick view reset is required, all you have to do is tap the Space Bar on your keyboard.

Both the Empire and the Chaos campaigns are very similar, you move along a pre-determined battle path and fight battle after battle, meet and help a besieged town, duel an enemy hero and defeat and encampment of enemies.

Ninety-Nine Nights (or as its affectionately known, N3), is the latest in a stream of action titles from Phantagram, their most famous franchise being the mix between RTS and action, Kingdom Under Fire.

Here is the most complete list that I could gather on real time strategy games. In no particular order they are: Act of War, A Force More Powerful, Age of Empires series, Age of Kings, Age of Mythology, Alien Nations, Ancient Art of War, Armies of Exigo.

Axis & Allies, Battlefield Command, Battle for Middle Earth series, Battle Realms, Battlefield 40K, Black & White, Caesar III, Close Combat series, Codename: Panzers, Command & Conquer series (one of my personal favorites), C&C Generals, Company of Heroes, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Cossacks series, Dark Planet, Dark Reign, Darwinia, Dawn of War, DefCon.

Dune, Dune 2000, Dungeon Keeper II, Earth 2150 series, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Empire Earth series, Empires Mod, Europa Universalis II, Evil Genius, Field Ops, Galaxy Andromeda.

Great Empires Collection II, Ground Control series, Halo Wars, gemonia, Heaven & Hell, Heroes of Might & Magic series, Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm, Homeworld 2, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, Imperial Glory.

Impossible Creatures and so many more I do not know if I will be able to list them all. Oh Well, there is only about one more paragraph of them left so I will continue. Wow, such a wide selection.

Others are: KKND series, Kohan series, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, Majesty, Medieval Lords, Medieval: Total War, Metal Fatigue, Myth series, Natural Selection, Mod Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, O.R.B., Outforce, The Perimeter, Pharoah, Populous series, Powermonger. Are you still with me?

This comprehensive list will give you many more ideas of what is available! More include: Railroad Tycoon series, Real War, Rise of Nations, Rise of Legends, Rome: Total War, Sacrifice Settlers III, Shattered Union, SimCity series, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, StarCraft, Startopia, Star Trek: Armada 2 (another one of my personal favorites).

Star Wars: Empire at War, Stronghold: Crusader, Submarine Titans, Sudden Strike series, Supreme Commander, Supreme Ruler 2010, Sword of the Stars, Theatre of War, Total Annihilation, Total War Series, Tropico series, Utopia, Victoria, WarCraft series, WarCraft III, Warlords Battlecry series, War of the Ring, War on Terror.

Warrior Kings: Battles, Wartime Command, Warzone 2100, WWII: Frontline Command, Z: Steel Soldiers, Zeus: Master of Olympus. Now try saying all that three times really fast!! I hope I have not forgotten any and I also don’t think I duplicated any so there you have it, the whole list.

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A neat new feature in Eye of the North is the concept of tracking your progress in special books. Once completed these books can be handed in to NPCs in exchange for reputation points.

There are three books you can collect and complete:
* The Hero’s Handbook
* The Master Dungeon Guide
* Zho’s Journal

You can obtain the Hero’s Handbook and the Master Dungeon Guide from the following NPCs:
* Gedrel of Ascalon, in the Eye of the North
* Kodan, in Gunnar’s Hold
* Tyr the Skaald, in Gunnar’s Hold
* Lexx, in Rata Sum

Ask them about “written evidence” and they will give you the books. Once accepted, these two books will be customised to your character. If you place them in storage you can request another book, although at the moment completed quests and dungeons will only be updated in the first book you have.

It is suspected that at some point you will be able to place the books somewhere in the Hall of Monuments, which would explain why you can have more than one copy.

The Master Dungeon Guide will document your progress in the following dungeons:
* Catacombs of Kathandrax - Page 1
* Rragar’s Menagerie - Page 2
* Cathedral of Flames - Page 3
* Ooze Pit - Page 4
* Darkrime Delves - Page 5
* Frostmaw’s Burrows - Page 6
* Sepulchre of Dragrimmar - Page 7
* Raven’s Point - Page 8
* Vloxen Excavations - Page 9
* Bogroot Growths - Page 10
* Bloodstone Caves - Page 11
* Shards of Orr - Page 12
* Oola’s Lab - Page 13
* Arachni’s Haunt - Page 14
* Slaver’s Exile - Page 15
* Fronis Irontoe’s Lair - Page 16
* Secret Lair of the Snowmen - Page 17
* Heart of the Shiverpeaks - Page 18

Annoyingly, any dungeons that were completed during the Sneak Peek preview weekend won’t appear in the Master Dungeon Guide. With a recent update, you can now pay the above NPCs 100 gold for each missing page to be added.

Any dungeons and quests that you have completed since starting Eye of the North (after the official launch) will automatically show up in the books when you acquire them.

Zho’s Journal is a special book that can only be gained once you have defeated Zho in the Norn Fighting Tournament.

Zho’s Journal can only be acquired once per character. When you receive any of the books, they are customised to your character.

The Hero’s Handbook contains details for each of the Primary Quests you complete. As you finish them, a summary of the quest is entered in the Handbook.

The Master Dungeon Guide is used to keep track of each of the dungeons you complete. Again, as each one is finished, a summary of the dungeon is written into the Guide.

When the Hero’s Handbook or the Master Dungeon Guide is completely full, you can hand it in to one of the NPCs to receive 2500 reputation points for that NPC’s race. So, if you wanted to boost your Asuran Title Track, you’d hand the completed Hero’s Handbook in to Lexx in Rata Sum.

Zho’s Journal is a special item, primarily of interest to Rangers or those characters who have Ranger as a secondary profession. The Journal documents Zho’s journey in hatching a Black Moa egg and can be used to acquire and hatch your own Black Moa egg.

To complete this you must have all 3 chapters of Guild Wars, as Zho has journeyed to them all to accomplish this task. If you do try and hatch your own Black Moa chick, bear in mind that there are no quests, and NPCs will have no icons above them, showing who to talk to. You will need to read through the Journal and use it to work out where to go and who to talk to.

If you’ve ever played table top RPGs, you may have noticed that The Hero’s Handbook and the Master Dungeon Guide are references to the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master’s Guide from Dungeons & Dragons. Even the colours match up to the current editions!

Tom Kranz is an keen and experienced games player, and has been playing Guild Wars since the beta and it’s UK release. He runs a Guild Wars blog about Eye of the North at http://eyeofthenorth-gw.blogspot.com/

Online games are the games that can be played with the help of Internet technology. There are mass varieties of net games to choose with. You can play complicated games promptly with the help of a rapid Internet connection. These games rely on Internet as well as technology develops them very quickly. Through online gaming, you can subjugate a rival of such a nature who doesn’t yet live in this world.

You can classify online games into 4 groups such as games that are played with the help of email, text-based games, games that are played directly by a browser window easily at web address and vastly graphical visual games with the help of a stand-alone software packages that allow the client to play together or against each other through an Internet link like counter-strike, world of war-craft and ever-quest. Counter Strike, Quake, Half Life and War Craft are the leading names in the market of Online Multiplayer Game where numerous instant messaging customers also join in large numbers with their individual games.

When did Internet gaming begin? Even though quake-world was very popular for online games during 1996 but the Internet was initially being came into action for playing multi user dungeons and email games still when the Internet was in its early years. In 1978 first time Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle created the multi user dungeons at Essex University.

What do I require to start playing Online games? To start playing online games initial requirement is an Internet connection after that you will require to select from a developing range of hardware that ranges from individual computers to consoles for playing games. This can be depending on the nature of games that you prefer to play. Lastly you require the software necessary for that game and for an online-only game you need an account as well as the game suppliers.

For some other cases, a system like X-Fire or Game-Spy is the most suitable method to get energetic hook up or game servers among other players. While playing Internet games, you must download with the accurate plug-in that matches with your browser because accurate plug has numerous Graphics. In case your Internet link is sluggish, then it will certainly take more time in loading.

What are the most popular online games? In case you comprise with free of charge games and browser games, it will be not easy to reply this in a few words. Arcade games, pool and card games and gambling games all are tremendously admired between Internet clients. One type of marketable titles that can be extremely victorious online would contain Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Quake, Ultima, Ever-Quest, Lineage and World of War-craft.

How do Online games work? The working of online games depend mostly on the type of game you’re discussing about, in other way in a nutshell, they apply Internet technology to moreover permit populace to play a game in a straight line in a Web browser, permit two or more than two players to take part in the similar game from far-flung physical locations, or together

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On November 16th, Playstation 3 celebrates its first birthday. The newest addition to the Playstation family officially became one year old, and despite an admittedly slow start, business is definitely on the rise. According to a report by GameDaily, PS3 sales has reach 5.6 million units worldwide, out of which 2 million of those sales came in North America. As part of Sony’s strategy to increase their market share, it plans to release around 160 new Playsyation 3 title before the end of the fiscal year.

But when it comes to us, the game console users, a fair question to ask is; is the PS3 still worth for me?

There are many features to the Playstation 3 that have many saying “I want it” With its Boasting Blu-Ray and up to a 60 Gigabyte of hard drive, PS3 is moving ahead to become the gaming system that will be sitting on the top of the video game world for years to come. However, some don’t believe all the hype.

The Playstation family of game consoles began its dominance of the video game world in 1994 with the Playstation 2 following suit in the year 2000. In the early 2006, Sony reported that the end of the Playstation 2 was at hand and with the launch of the Playstation 3, a new generation of video gaming was about to hit the market. So this has left many asking if the high price tag on the PS3 is worth paying. There are several exceptional reasons, which include the following:

Its Blu-Ray technology is utilized on the new PS3 games and it will allow the usage of six times more data than traditional game discs. This will provide for video games that boast incredibly complex game playing graphics. Blu-Ray technology will likely aide in bringing back a number of forever-favorite classic video game titles.

Playstation fans and current console owners don’t have to go out and purchase an entirely new collection of games, since the PS3 is equipped to play - not only Playstation games - but PS2 games as well, leveraging on a vast collection of games already in the market.

Gamers are now able to connect with other game-playing fanatics online in addition to being able to download quite a bit of content from the Internet, something that Microsoft has a strong hand with its Xbox Live. This multiplayer game playing capability makes the PS3 appealing to large numbers of video game playing fanatics by allowing video game systems to be able to compete with a huge majority of personal computer games.

You have the option of paying out less money with the base Playstation 3 model, although you get fewer features. A 20 Gigabyte model of the PS3 can be had for around $500 while the often harder to find 60 Gigabyte model weighs in at $600.

Now while most avid gamers will tell you that the Playstation 3 is second to none in the video game industry right now, there are a couple of bad points to the system. In order to get the superior graphic capabilities of the PS3, you need to have a deep wallet as the PS3 retails at $600.

The Playstation and the Playstation 2 simply don’t compare. While the earlier PS2 sported a light weigh slim case, the PS3 weighs in at a heftier eleven pounds. So while there are many that may not see the point of spending so much money on a video gaming system, if you are a hardcore video game enthusiast you simply can’t compare the gaming experience that the PS3 can provide you with.

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