Yahoo! News - 'Game Nights' Gaining Popularity in Bars

For those of us who grew up playing board games - long before the computer game era - this is heartening. While I'm cool with the notion of a LAN party, how can you beat a night at a coffee house playing Cranium?

While some of the games certainly push the edges on taste from my personal perspective, it is from a personal perspective. I'd like to see something done about movies and glamorizing smoking before we worry about games. That's just me though.

Yahoo! News - Lawmakers Attack Violent Video Games

And the good times for DRIV3R keep on rollin'.

Following on the coattails of yesterday's news that DRIV3R is tops in Australia, we find out that it's tops in France, Germany and the UK. If that weren't enough (and if you own stock in Atari, it isn't), GameDAILY is reporting that the PS2 version and the Xbox version are numbers 1 & 3 respectively on Home Video Essentials list of top renting videogames for the week ending June 27, 2004.

I just might have to rent and review this one.

Now if only they'd fly me over to verify this: DRIV3R TOPS THE CHARTS IN AUSTRALIA

Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) announced today that DRIV3R has dominated the charts in Australia, ranking #1 on multiple Australian gaming charts. (Source: GFK)

After only four days on sale, according to GFK, DRIV3R has secured the #1 position across All Formats and is ranked #1 on PlayStation2 and #1 on Xbox.

Developed by Atari’s Reflections Interactive, DRIV3R is the third installment of the hugely successful Driver franchise, which has sold in excess of 12 million units worldwide to date. DRIV3R is currently available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft.