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Xbox 360’s Processor Delivers Budget Supercomputing
A team of researchers pulled off some supercomputing on the cheap using a single Xbox 360’s graphical processing unit, instead of an array of processors operating in tandem, the BBC reports. The researchers, at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, think they’re the first to repurpose the processors as an inexpensive substitute for…
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AT&T tells Feds that Gaming is not “Broadband”
The games industry is unhappy that AT&T, in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, described real-time online video gaming as an “aspirational service” of broadband communications and not a core need. The dustup comes as the FCC is seeking to define the term “broadband,” which isn’t just an academic debate. The definition the FCC…
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Beatles: Rock Band Required Six Months of Lawyerin’
When you’re building something like The Beatles: Rock Band, the development cycle isn’t entirely on the coding end. A team of lawyers for the Beatles worked for six months on the likenesses, names and trademarks that went into the game. The Lawyer, a legal industry site, reports that the U.K. firm Eversheds handled a slew…
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I Remember The Lizzies Being Sexier…
The Lizzies were a revelation in women’s lib as far as gang warfare is concerned, but you’d never know it from watching this trailer about them in the upcoming The Warriors: Street Brawl game. Far better to watch this video instead, if you want to know what the Lizzies were about. However, you should still…
By AJ Glasser
