Anyone else here play Pirates online? My husband and kids have been playing for over a year now. I enjoy the game its alot of fun and I haven't seen anything that I would be concerned of even for my 6 year old playing unmonitiored. However, I am not too happy with the monthly access cost. I don't know much about gaming but is there usually a monthly subscritpion cost for online games? Pirates online charges on 3 different tier options.

I'm not sure if I totally understand the idea here... To me, it sounds like on-demand computer games. They claim, however,

"OnLive is the most powerful game system in the world," said company founder Steve Perlman

"No high-end hardware, no upgrades, no endless downloads, no discs, no recalls, no obsolescence. With OnLive, your video game experience is always state-of-the-art," he declared.

"The real question is what would happen if this actually works as promised? Is it the end of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as console manufacturers?" he asked.

So if you have a XBOX 360 and you have now a "E74" error your not alone. It seems that ever since XBOX's NXE update that the percentage of customers getting that error is on the rise. If you get it your looking at around $100. in repairs. Here are some good reads on the subject:

So yahoo just released the Top 10 Most Controversial Games. I have to admit some games shocked me and some games did not. There were also some that I think should have been on the list but were not.

According to Yahoo these are the TOP 10 Controversial Games:

Ok how much fun does this look like

USB Rocket Launcher

Cubicle warfare just got an upgrade

For the gamer who has everything

Its a gaming vest that makes you feel like you are in the game. If you get shot in the game YOU feel it!

TN Games 3rd Space Gaming Vest

HOW-TO: Make a Nintendo controller into a PC Joystick

by Phillip Torrone

MSI recently announced the launch of their newest gaming notebook. It features Nvidia GEForce GTS 160M graphic card, with 1GB of video Ram, 15.4" widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 320GB hard drive, amongst lots of other good stuff. It's pretty sleek looking also.

So while I was away from the forums, I found this cool wesbite to go where you can kick back and kill some brain cells. So when you're looking to find time in between posting on drop, I thought maybe you guys would get a kick out of iilwy.com or iminlikewithyou.com. They have some cute games that where you can play against others. No downloads are required and it's free to sign up. So get your best games face on and rock out.

Ok here is how the game goes you ask a question and the next person has to guess if its a fact or fiction and in turn they ask a question. So not only are you playing a game but your learning something:
example:
before the 1930's the word oops did not exist or was not used
Fact!
According to the bible the measurements for the ark were the same size as the measurements for the star trak enterprise
Fiction the enterprise was twice as long