Kotaku: google earth

You Seem To Have Got GTAIV In My Google Earth

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:30:00 MST

Reader Sun Scramble was checking out Google Earth the other day and - on a whim, we're sure - punched in 40°42'49.23"N, 73°59'51.44"W. Lo and behold, what did he see? A giant GTAIV ad.

See for yourself, it's right there, dominating the nearby streetscape in Manhattan's Chinatown. Not a bad way to get some free, dorky advertising if you happened to have your ads up at the time.

New Google Earth Adds Easter Egg Flight Sim

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:40:19 MDT

The newest version of Google's 3D Earth mapping tool not only includes Google Sky, sure to be a hit with astronomy dorks, but it also contains a hidden flight simulator. Only two aircraft are currently available in Google Earth 4.2's flight sim (an F-16 jet fighter and the Cirrus SR22 prop plane) but there are plenty of airports and real world locations for one to fly around.

Not a bad deal for zero dollars.

Google Earth Flight Simulator [Marco's Blog via Google Blogoscoped]

Goggles, the Google Earth Flight Sim

egauger — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:20:49 MDT

Here at Kotaku I usually am the one who pounces on these independent game posts, probably because everyone else here is jaded, and covered in an oatmeal-like crust that issues from their sinuses when the term "indie game" is brought up. Especially Bash, who had to be chipped out of his desk chair with an afro pick after I brought Re:Mission into the office.

Enter Goggles, the Google Earth flight simsation that's sweeping the nation. Next time I type something like that, call the police.

In an effort to get a job, Mark Caswell-Daniels decided to create a Flash application that integrates information collected from Google's mapping service, which he had to figure out for himself, to attract attention to his portfolio. The result is this strangely alluring Flash flight sim with which you can fly around the globe to visit destinations of your choosing.

While the app is still in beta, and thus may contain the occasional bug or blank tile, it seems pretty darn functional already. Eliza Gauger

More here [Jay is Games]

Multi-User Tabletop Warcraft 3

brownlee — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:00:19 MDT

I will always suck at RTS games until someone figures out a way not only for me to play them psychically, but invents a drug that will cause extra brain hemispheres to spore, mycelium-like, within my largely fluid filled skull. Who the hell can control a million units in unison? What the crap do I look like, RTS designers? Cylon Briareus?

Edward Tse's table top interface device probably won't make me suck any less, but it sure is a step in the right direction. Edward leads us through the device's potential in Google Earth and Warcraft 3. Oddly enough, Warcraft 3's demonstration is less impressive than Google Earth's... probably due to lack of API or source code. Still, if anyone could ever design an RTS for such a doohickey, this might lift the bar enough for me to shatter my knees limboing under the bar of abject RTS mediocrity. Florian Eckhardt

Edward Tse's Homepage