Funny. Firaxis games asked some well-known web cartoonists to make Civilization cartoons, the results can be found here.

Whow! This truly is a revolution: there is a new Civilization game coming and this time it comes not to the PC, but to consoles and handhelds.

I have countlessly played basically all versions of Civilization (own Civ I, II, III, IV, Call to Power, Call to Power II, Alpha Centauri and basically all extension packs published), Civ II I almost played full time for a year during my studies.

So I am eagerly awaiting playing the next episode, and am excited I can next year play Civ on my Playstation 3 and in the train with my Playstation Portable as well.

(Click read more for trailer, via QJ.net)

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These great T-shirts will get every game lover in the holiday season spirit.

(Via nu.nl and Popgadget)

Cool! A classical orchestra playing Commodore 64 tunes live.

(Via Bright)

Spend many hours with this game, so nice to see the original commercial of Atari's Pole Position.

(Via BoingBoing)

My recently bought game on my Playstation Portable is Me & My Katamari, the PSP version of the very strange, typically Japanese, but also increasingly popular Katamari games.

A wacky game play, funny but strange songs and a story line only the Japanese can think of: it makes actually a great game!

Click read more for the great intro of the original Katamari game with my favourite Katamari song.

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Now you do not even need to download a Commodore 64 emulator, you can just play those great retro games online at this site.

(Via Flabber)

It keeps surprising me how far the software, games, music and movie industry is willing to go in a battle they can never hope to win. While each new copy protection appears to be hacked within a matter of days, the only thing these kind of unasked copy-protecting schemes are achieving is seriously annoying or even causing damage to customers buying the legal version.

The whole Sony rootkit debacle is a good example of this, but now also the anti-software copying software made by the company StarForce is causing controversy. The company is now even threathening to sue the weblog BoingBoing for publicing criticism about this software.

For me all this controversy is reason enough to first check this list before buying a game. Better be safe than sorry and perhaps this way the entertainment industry learns that it is not smart to annoy just those consumers who ARE actually buying legal copies.

Very funny to see that every copy protection ever invented is bound to be hacked very soon. Now a very ingenious coder has opened up all versions of the PlayStation Portable firmware for homebrew applications, including the 2.6 firmware I am running on my PSP. Maybe I now should give homebrew a try.

Read further here for more information.

What do you get when you subtitle screenshots from Lord of the Rings with chat captions from World of Warcraft? A very funny animated GIF!

• Mirror 1
• Mirror 2
• Original (might be down due to high demand)

(Via Boing Boing)

My all time favourite 8-bit game still is M.U.L.E.. I still sometimes play this game on my original Commodore 128D or a Commodore 64 emulator on my PC or telephone.
Now someone has created a way to play the Atari version of M.U.L.E. online with 4 players! Check the Atari MULE online site for details.

Some Super Mario fan with time enough on his hand is busy writing a Super Mario Opera! You can preview this work in progress at this site.

(Via Boing Boing)

World of Warcraft is getting more and more like real life: now a plague has been running around. Look for details in de WoW forums.

A movie of this plague in action (ED2K link)

Screenshot with appropiate music

Brilliant video by Purepwnage about a World of Warcraft addication going very far. You look great in hires...

(Via Flabber)

One reason my website will probably be less updated the coming period is because of this great but very addictive game: World of Warcraft. This game's abbreviation certainly sounds true: WoW!

Click here to see a screenshot of my character page.