More recent casual game releases have plots that feel like they’re lifted from one of those cheap romance novels. So, it really isn’t all that surprising when we hear a company has gotten permission to create a game based on or inspired by one of said books. It isn’t often that a famous author ends up getting tapped for such a game. I-Play’s forthcoming Dying for Daylight is one of those games. They’re working with supernatural romance/mystery author Charlaine Harris.

In case you’ve been shying away from all things “sparkly vampire” related, Charlaine Harris is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series…

Wow! It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from independent developer Mousechief, which makes the announcement of Mecha Edward Rutherfurd. This, in turn, makes Mecha Edward Rutherfurd even more surprising! Okay, I’ll admit it – I’m really taken with the title, Mecha Edward Rutherfurd. I probably shouldn’t get too attached though, since it’s only a working-title. I’m sure the official name will be good too. After all, it’s from the company that came up with the game Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble…

In the Los Angeles Times, writer Alex Pham reports that the San Fernando Library encourages youth to play video games and even invites them to be as loud as they like.

“It lets teens be more comfortable with the library and become familiar with librarians,” San Fernando librarian Lydia Harlan told Pham. “And it’s what kids are into these days.”

In the article, Pham reports that more libraries are turning to video games to connect with technologically savvy youth who might be losing interest in books and stories. In New York, the New York Public Library has even added a collection of books, films, music and maps about video games.

Click through for the full article and a list of recommended books…

The Chicago-based company Überclock hopes to offer consumers a cheap alternative with two new models of customized CPU’s, both of which utilize overclocking to boost system performance

Garage PC enthusiasts of the 1980’s and big CPU manufacturers like Intel needed to find a common ground which would let tech savvy consumers maximize performance without running the risk of destroying their equipment. Intel also wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t be “too easy to take a $170 chip and make it run as fast as the $975 model,” as the product site states.

The compromise is a line of overclock-friendly chips that had a price-graded component called a “multiplier,” which is unchangeable on all of the chip models except, of course, the most expensive one. The higher the multiplier, the easier it is to overclock your PC to ri-god-damn-diculous speeds. According to Überclock, this means “Intel gets to sell its processors at different price points, allows overclockers to do our thing, and manages to give us…

For the gadget-filled getaway known as CES (January 7-10, 2008) in Las Vegas, NV, Gateway unveiled its FX lineup of gaming laptops and desktop PCs and its firs gaming laptop. For the desktop rigs, there is the FX540XT gaming desktop which includes an Intel quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor, 1T byte of storage (dual more »

Alienware has just launched its holiday promotion site featuring a few must-have gaming systems for Christmas. First up is the Area 51-7500 starting at $1,399 or a low monthly payment of $42, the promotion is gearing to attract fans of Crysis offering free wallpaper downloads for the game. But overall just looking at the specs more »