Day X Exists, a Web game, was created to promote the movie “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie and due on July 23. LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures has been hard at work on a project with a complex script about spies and terrorists, filming on location and using props that include a rented airplane. Is it [...]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2010) — Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the world's largest multi-disciplinary computing grid, supporting the research of thousands of scientists and bringing together to the processing power of hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The grid and the software that glues it all together, known as middleware, is designed to run [...]
Apple iPads are prepared for purchase during an iPad launch event at the Apple retail store in San Francisco, California April 3, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters Life!) – Apple's iPad tablet computer hasn't been out a week yet but there are already over 830 video games that have been developed to [...]
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. Credit: REUTERS/Handout (Reuters) – OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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