When HighWay Gamers was created, many people turned their backs on it, people from WGN, and WWG were very skeptical about our future as a community.

Yet we as a community have proven time and time again our continued strength and friendship despite whatever problems have been thrown our way.

We have celebrated births, and birthdays, we have morned losses of family and friends, we listen, we talk, we play and we laugh.

Today we as a community celebrate our 2nd birthday, and although the number “2″ may not seem big, or impressive, considering how we came to be, its an incredible milestone!

In 14 months we achieved 3 very successful “meets”, including a road trip,  summer camping, and a winter weekender.  This is one accompishment not many other online communitys can boast about, and next month our community will come together again.

We continue to play a variety of games, and join in the fun on our teamspeak server. Fireblade continues to be an ass, and I continue to keep him in line (well…try).

So to everyone who plays a part in HighWay Gamers, we say THANKYOU, and that we couldnt be more proud of you, our friends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HWG!!!!!!

Windows 7

watch the new microsoft operating system be tested (and crash) plus info on why its different to Vista

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“Firm Adds Smell To Video Games”

Researchers in Birmingham, UK have been developing new technology to add smells to the virtual world of video games.

To read more and watch news video go HERE

Source BBC NEWS

Spore is an “attack on Christian values”
Anti-Spore site “can not allow the gaming industry to poison the minds of our children”

“This entire game is propaganda aimed directly at our children to teach them evolution instead of creationism, or ‘intelligent design’ if you go for stupid PC terms.

Read More and have your say HERE

Confirmed: Ensemble Studios To Close After Halo Wars Completion

Microsoft plans to shut down subsidiary developer Ensemble Studios after the release of its upcoming release Halo Wars, Gamasutra has learned from industry sources.

Tying up with comments made by our sources suggesting layoffs at the studio today, Shacknews is also reporting that developers attached to the Halo Wars project have been offered incentives to remain at Ensemble until the game ships. Its last announced release projection was early 2009.

Founded in 1995 and located in Dallas, Ensemble is known for its long-running Age of Empires series of historically-themed PC real-time strategy games. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

The company’s most recent full game, Age of Empires III for PC, was a commercial success with over two million copies sold, but it is less clear how its two subsequent expansion packs fared.

Speaking to Gamasutra, a Microsoft representative declined to issue a statement but claimed an official response is en route.

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“This is City 7, a mod project for Half-Life 2, that’s seen the Canadian city re-imagined as one of humanity’s last remaining cattle pens in the wake of the Combine invasion. There’s a cooky plot involving Gordon, Dr. Kleiner and a faulty teleporter, but really, this is more of a chance for Toronto residents (or visitors with fond memories) to indulge in a little (bleak) escapism. Players will be able to visit the Eaton Center, Mel Lastman Square, Dundas Square, St. Michael’s Hospital and the TTC system, all en route to CN Tower, which is City 7’s citadel, of sorts.”

I got a kick out of seeing this,especially after the road trip 

article

http://kotaku.com/gaming/half_life-2/toronto-rebuilt-in-half+life-2-325783.php 

Main Site

http://www.torontoconflict.com/download.htm 

187 MAME-emulated games, a 24-inch LCD, cupholders and a built-in kegerator.If they make a PC version and if it could hold any kind of liquid than the Gamerator would be the only piece of furniture in my living room. Yours now for $2K on eBay.

http://techdigest.tv/2007/11/the_187game_arc.html

The PC edition of Epic’s grimy cover-based shooter Gears of War (PC, X360) has gone gold, Microsoft announced today. The title will hit retail stores November 6, almost one year exactly after its November 7 release last fall on Xbox 360.

In its PC form, Gears has several additional goodies for gamers: five new singleplayer chapters, a new Annex multiplayer game mode, three new multiplayer maps, and a game editor. You also get to throw down with the Brumak, that big scary thing you never actually got to fight in the 360 version.

The entirety of Xbox 360 downloadable content will be included on the disc as well, and the package will retail for $49.99. For more on the title, check out the Shack’s own thorough preview. Check it our here

Hello everyone,

I’m afraid that this thread is not as much an update with news in it, but rather an update about the news. I’m sure you have all noticed that our newsupdates have gone from being weekly, to coming once every two weeks, to once every month. Now, this is due to a lot of factors, but one thing that certainly has something to do with it is the type of replies that our updates have generated in the past few months. Especially the last newsupdate recieved almost exclusively comments regarding the lack of releasedate and the (apparent?) imminent end of the world. So, we have, as a team, decided to stop our official newsupdates until we have completed our first release and are able to give you all a solid and definate releasedate…

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 Looks like they are gonna have a Big thing on “Future Weapons” about Halo 3 tonight on the Discovery Channel.I might just have to watch that tonight.

Check it out here