Majesco's Marker Man Adventures Sounds Crayon Physics-ish [Marker Man Adventures] What does it mean when you win the Independent Games Festival? Our own Brian Ashcraft looked at the issue earlier this year, checking out a list of IGF 2008 finalists topped by Petri Purho's Crayon Physics Deluxe, a game in which you crayon-sketch objects and use their physics to solve puzzles. Apparently, [..]
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OLPC Physics Game Jam [Olpc] On the weekend of August 29-31, teams of game developers will join the OLPC Physics Game Jam in a race to create a unique physics-based game for the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop. An OLPC Jam is a sort of intense wor [..]
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UK physics chief next for the chop in funding bloodbath? Select committee evidence ‘inaccurate, unconvincing and unacceptable’
Professor Keith Mason, the man in charge of scything £80m from the UK’s physics research budget, has been sharply criticised by MPs investigating cutbacks which have forced job losses in labs and threaten to shut down many projects.
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Not So Alone In The Dark Anymore [Gallery] It's nice to see some more of the characters that are appearing in Atari's relaunch of Alone In The Dark. Up until now I swear that every bit of media I've seen was either showcasing the physics or just sho [..]
Basic lesson: Microsoft listens to its users Visual Basic for Applications is headed back to Office for the Mac in a future release. So what does that mean for the VBA-using Office user of today? MacWorld [..]
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An iPhone 3G Lesson For Clueless Carriers (AAPL) We were surprised when Canadian wireless carrier Rogers said it would charge its iPhone customers $100 per month for a decent-size mobile Internet plan. More shocking: The excuses they [..]
Yes, Alone in the Dark 360 is Being Patched [Alone In The Dark] Pretty much anyone who reviewed Alone in the Dark on the Xbox 360 heaped hatred on the game's controls and camera system, and developer Eden Studios have learned their lesson. Not only is the forthcoming PS3 version going to have better movement and non-claustrophobic views, the [..]
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Damage coming to GT5 Prologue, weather possible for final release Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Driving
There's something peculiar about the ability to drive 120 mph into a wall and not see a single scratch on your car. The Gran Turismo series has always been fond of that physics an [..]