Nintendo released information Friday about its new gaming system, due out in 2006. In 1889, Nintendo started as a playing card company. Today, Nintendo is the longest running company in the video game console industry, and its future just got a lot brighter…

Podcasts are now available for download on The Daily Evergreen Web site. The podcasts feature two to five minute recordings of daily news stories from The Evergreen. The free audio files are updated daily and can be found at www.dailyevergreen.com/podcast_info…

Women can be reintroduced to video games with these four steps, if they aren’t already better than you. Women began the ’90s loving video games. Games like “Super Mario Brothers,” “Zelda,” “Donkey Kong” and “Sonic the Hedgehog” appealed to men and women alike…

The new Incredible Hulk video game may be simple, but it entertains, and destroying a city still is a blast. The Hulk is back, and he’s doing what he does best. Smashing things. Breaking stuff. Engaging in a massive onslaught of all-out destruction…

While most video game-based movies have not been good, three more are on the way with a bit more promise. In the past, when video games have crossed the into the realm of cinema, the results have been, well, horrible. Games like “Street Fighter,” “Mortal Kombat” and even “Super Mario Brothers” have been made into films…

Welcome to your college career. You’re poor. Get used to it. Unless you’re one of the lucky bastards with insane amounts of financial aid, you’ve got a budget to stick to. So save some money while still playing some of the best games of the past few years…

The Xbox 360 is coming. Eventually. Microsoft announced Wednesday that it would be releasing two versions of the highly anticipated Xbox 360, its new gaming console scheduled for release later this year. Microsoft will release a premium version which will cost $399…

The network and cable news media organizations are getting uppity. The Internet is a scary thing, especially to those organizations who rely on numbers and massive amounts of viewers to survive. The old ways of receiving news are under attack. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing…

Gamers, start packing your wallets and clearing room in your entertainment center the next generation of gaming systems have been announced. Sony and Microsoft lead the pack with the upcoming releases of the Xbox 2 and the PlayStation 3. These new systems will be released late this year…

Today, millions of people worldwide have access to a limitless wealth of information through devices, which can be smaller than a human hand. A 10-pound laptop computer allows Internet users to not only be mobile while accessing the ’Net, but also allows for input and addition to the ’Net in the form of text…

Once in a while, there comes an advance in technology that simply blows away all competition. Sony’s PSP (Playstation Portable) is one of these advancements. This little device, measuring 6.7 by 3 inches and weighing .62 pounds, is what every gamer was dreaming of at age 11…

Ngugi wa Thiong’o one, of the world’s renowned anti-colonial and anti-racist writers and activists, spoke yesterday evening in the Fine Arts Auditorium. He touched on the topic of scholars in a post-colonial world during the Comparative Ethnic Studies Speaker Series…

The use of the Global Positioning System, known as GPS, has grown a lot in recent years. Currently, GPS technology can be found in cars, planes, boats, phones and handheld devices, along with numerous other technologies. GPS uses a network of satellites to triangulate and calculate the location of a GPS-enabled device…

Granite slabs are making a return to Glenn Terrell Mall – and they’re thicker than the previous blocks. The last set of granite slabs of the granite walkway cracked from vehicle travel and natural wear and tear. The old granite was broken up last fall, and the area was converted to blacktop for the winter…

Ever since Paris Hilton’s Sidekick fiasco, in which her T-Mobile Sidekick was remotely accessed, and her phone book, pictures and personal information were posted online, consumers have began to worry more and more about the possibility of widespread cell phone hacking…