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The New Face of Browser-Based Gaming, Courtesy of Unreal Engine 3
Epic Games likes to show off at the Game Developers Conference. They just did. They wanted to show how their Unreal Engine running in Flash. In a web browser. So they showed us Epic Citadel the tech demo used to show off Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 on the iPhone and iPad. It looked great. And…
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Heavy Rain Maker Shows off Incredible Demo of Kara
Developer David Cage, of Quantic Dream, has just unveiled a demo of their new motion capture tech at this year’s Game Developer Conference, called “Kara.” “Kara” is not a new game, but is more akin to The Casting video that Quantic Dream released several years ago, prior to Heavy Rain. The demo features a scanned…
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Gabe Newell is the (854th) Richest Man on the Planet
Gabe Newell is now the 854th richest person on the planet, reports business website Forbes today. This is Forbes’ 25th annual list of the world’s richest billionaires—a list which cumulates to a record $4.6 trillion amongst its members. Newell’s $1.5 billion net worth places him amongst the 1,225 other billionaires. He joins 128 new list…
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Prototype Motion-Sensing Interface Makes You the Screen
Many of the advances in game-related tech we’ve seen in the past few years have come in the area of control. Touch screens and motion control have become the order of the day on our handheld devices as well as on our home consoles. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University has designed a prototype system,…
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Tera Revolutionizes MMO Combat, But Is That Enough?
My newly-created Priest character descended towards the mystical island upon his majestic flying steed amidst a squadron of legendary heroes. They spoke of the adventures to come, but I wasn’t paying attention; I was focused on the glaring texture seam in the sky behind them. Here were these gorgeous characters flying atop magical beasts —…
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Nuke Any Game With This Microwave Mod
It’s a little funny sometimes when you encounter a thing made to look like a different thing. You get a moment of cognitive dissonance that never quite goes away. Part of your brain always expects a cake shaped like a pizza to taste cheesier and less sweet than it does. So, too, with this older…
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iPhone, iPad Darling Flight Control Gets a Sci-Fi Sequel
In the midst of all today’s iPad news, we’re also hearing about a number of iOS games. Hit game Flight Control is getting a sequel this month. In Flight Control Rocket, rather than coaxing airplanes onto airstrips, players will be docking spaceships. In space. The player will use many of the same techniques and tactics…
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Roccat’s Power-Grid Transforms Your Mobile Phone into the Ultimate PC Gaming Peripheral
What would you pay for a PC gaming accessory that could monitor your PC temperature, control program-specific volume levels, display your instant messages and juggle custom-made shortcut keys without taking you out of the game? Roccat’s Power-Grid app does all of this, and it won’t cost you a dime. Teased via a website that asked,…
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Sometimes it Can Be Hard to Make College Kids Play Video Games
Gaming has a substantial history now, 40 years after Pong first went out into the wide world. Even the Smithsonian is running a detailed exhibit on the art and history of video games, opening later this month. Game studies is growing and maturing rapidly as a research and education field, and game development programs are…
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WTPT: The Inarguably Awesome Robin Williams Movie That Predicted Predator Drones, War Games
Everyone seems to be insisting that Toys was an abomination of a movie. But I liked it! Regardless of our potentially disparate taste in movies (and if so, hmph), one thing seems to be undeniable: Toys looks like a forecast of how the military and air force are using video game concepts to operate predator…
By Tina Amini
