Online Games

Get out your red pencils and calendars, NBA fans. The league released its 2008-09 schedule on Wednesday, and there is no shortage of intriguing matchups. Here is our early list (in chronological order) of 15 games you won't want to miss:  

Tiger Woods putting for a gold medal in golf? India battling with Australia in the final of the Olympic cricket Twenty20 final? Could that be the future of the Games?  

Companies are using digital games to train young employees.  

The department store chain has created an online game to lure young women to the brand  

ATLANTA & SHANGHAI, China----CDC Games, a business unit of CDC Corporation , and pioneer of the "free-to-play, pay for merchandise" model for online games in China, today announced Digimon, its upcoming online game, has secured the No. 1 ranking for the last several weeks in Baidu, the top search...  

Meteor Games, LLC, an independent game studio created by Neopets founders Adam Powell and Donna Williams, is developing Twin Skies, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game that will target players of all ages with all new content, accessible gameplay and advanced socializing options.  

BANGKOK, Aug 4 (Bernama)-- The online game, 'Grand Theft Auto', depicts a criminal killing a motorist for his car to flee from the police dragnet.  

Bangkok - Inspired by the online game Grand Auto Theft, a 19-year-old Thai boy over the weekend stabbed a taxi driver to death, media reports said Monday. Polwat Chinno, a 12th grade high-school student, was arrested at 2:30 am Sunday as he was attem...  

- revealed details on (CBT) for its new online game title FunFun. It is the third online game developed and published following their Free to Play MMORPG titles Cronous and Sho Online.  

A Mathayom 6 student stabbed a taxi driver to death yesterday, acting out a robbery he copied from the online game Grand Theft Auto. Neighbours called police to Soi Charan Sanitwong 77 in Bang Phlad district about 2.30am after being woken by a constantly blowing car horn and saw people struggling...  

Travis Pastrana returned to the gold medal podium at the X Games on Sunday after an off-year, winning the Rally Car Racing Super Special, the final event of the action sports showcase.  

Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.  

Global leadling MMORPG value-added service provider www.swagvault.com launches its ”2008 Olympic Games Sales Promotion & Prize Give-Away Event”! In this event, you will have chances to win great prizes like Free Coupon Codes, iPhone 3G & "Large 2008 Olympic Beijing Mascot "FUWA" Plush Dolls...  

– CipSoft, mostly known as the developer and publisher of the free MMORPG Tibia reveals the title of its new online game: Fiction Fighters.  

BEIJING, China (AP) -- A week before the start of the Beijing Olympics, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that the caliber of athletic competition and enhanced friendship among nations, not political disputes, will determine whether the games are a success.