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Posted: Monday, April 14, 2008 at 06:02 PM EDT
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that the game client source code for the popular MMO, Eve Online, has been leaked via torrent. In addition to the ...
Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 03:43 PM EDT
An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This ...
Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008 at 08:58 AM EDT
Vigile writes "Despite all good intentions, Intel continues to see a lot of its work on ray tracing countered not only by their competition, as you'd ex...
Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 08:09 PM EDT
simrook writes to tell us that World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, has entered closed alpha testing, as reported by WoWInsider...
Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 05:35 PM EDT
netbuzz writes "A new survey finds that more than half of K-12 students believe that educational video games in school would help them learn (no surpris...
Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008 at 08:45 AM EDT
Stony Stevenson writes "A new study of computer gamers has found that a session in front of World of Warcraft can make players less stressed and more ca...
Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 06:31 PM EDT
Ant writes "Colin Stewart's OC Register Inside Innovation blog has up a post discussing Blizzard Entertainment's success in the games industry. Accordin...
Posted: Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 02:28 AM EDT
azuredrake writes "NCSoft's City of Heroes has just announced that in-game ads are being added to the game, provided by an advertising firm Double Fusio...
Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008 at 12:00 PM EDT
GnomeIllusionist writes "In their continuing tribute to Gary Gygax, Wired has created character sheets for nine celebrities. Apparently, Stephen Hawking...
Posted: Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 06:11 PM EDT
Anonymongoose writes "A researcher at Brookhaven National Lab reckons it could be just a few years before computers can pass through the uncanny valley....
Posted: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 08:29 PM EDT
Wade Roush writes "21, the top movie at the box office last weekend, has everyone talking about the real identities of the MIT blackjack team members fi...
Posted: Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 05:07 PM EDT
Jamie found a NYTimes op-ed by a grad student and a professor from Cornell, outlining some research they did into alternate baseball universes. The goal...
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2008 at 03:40 AM EDT
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from...
Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 12:34 AM EDT
An anonymous reader writes "LARP fans at Bowling Green State University may have to contend with a crippled game of Humans vs. Zombies after the Univers...
Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:44 PM EDT
KentuckyFC writes "A scrambled Rubik's cube can be solved in just 25 moves, regardless of the starting configuration. Tomas Rokicki, a Stanford-trained ...
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