A screengrab courtesy of OnLive, a new videogame company aiming to challenge the big three console makers by providing a "cloud-based" gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time.
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(Reuters) – OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge [...]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Some parents might see video games as an impediment to children keeping up with their schoolwork. James Gee, however, thinks video games are some of the best learning environments around. He says that if schools adopted some of the strategies that games use, they could educate children more effectively.
"Commercial video [...]
Richard Garriott, creator of the long-running Ultima game series, is banking on the growing social gaming market.
Garriott’s new venture is a company called Portalarium. The firm, founded with longtime collaborators Dallas Snell and Fred Schmidt, aims to return to Garriott’s roots in the game business, GamesIndustry.biz reports. That means working with “small development teams, low [...]
ATI Radeon HD 5570
When AMD released its $49–$59 ATI Radeon HD 5450last week, we concluded that its gaming performance—even at the Everyman resolution of 1,280 by 1,024—was so weak that it wasn't really a sensible choice for anyone who had even a passing interest in playing more than mainstream titles like World of Warcraft or [...]
ARE you a natural sleuth? An online game promoting the new movie Sherlock Holmes is offering players a new sort of gaming experience. The aim is to interview suspects – as Dr Watson or Holmes – to solve a robbery at the British Museum. Thanks to novel conversational "chatbots" embedded in the game, players can [...]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2009) — Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC.
The GPU cluster will be able to speed up the reconstruction of 3-D images, such [...]
Some shops opened with a fanfare then quietly closed.
Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going.
Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype. Even those without a cartoon version of [...]
Visitors play the game "Karma" based on the Second World War at an exhibition stand at the Games Convention Online 2009 fair in the eastern German city of Leipzig in this July 31, 2009 file photo.
REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Portraying Leonardo da Vinci or World War II in a video game is [...]
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A massive multi-player version of the popular property game Monopoly has been launched online.
The property game was made popular by its more traditional form.
Monopoly City Streets, developed by toymaker Hasbro, will go live on 9 September for four months.
The free game uses Google Maps or the open source Open Street Map as the playing board.
The [...]
In this video game image released by Activision, a scene from ‘
Guitar Hero 5,’ is shown.
(AP Photo/Activision)
WASHINGTON – When you’re a real-life guitarist like Billy Squier, seeing fans trying to emulate your behavior in a video game can be weird.
Squier, whose "Lonely Is the Night" was in "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the ’80s" and returns [...]
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