Categories Posted inin Technology Last Day of Work debuts Virtual Families simulation Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 10, 2009 1 min It’s taken a while, but The Sims finally has a clone. Last Day of Work, a San Francisco casual game developer, has unveiled Virtual...
Categories Posted inin Technology Game review: Flower for the PlayStation 3 breathes life into stale games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 9, 2009 3 min If you took the most beautiful scenery in mega-hit video games such as Halo 3, Gears of War 2, and Resistance 2 — and...
Categories Posted inin Technology Scene Systems reconstructs scenes such as Sully’s crash landing Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 9, 2009 2 min When big bucks are at stake, law firms will often pay computer animators a lot of money to reconstruct crime scenes or other events...
Categories Posted inin Technology Gentlemen, start your next-generation game console rumors Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 9, 2009 4 min The video game console wars have been kind of boring lately, with no hot rumors to talk about. But Charlie Demerjian of the Inquirer...
Categories Posted inin Technology SGN launches its mafia game for the iPhone Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 7, 2009 1 min Social Gaming Network is joining the mafia game fray on the iPhone today with the launch of Mafia: Respect & Retribution. The social networking...
Categories Posted inin Technology Microsoft rebrands SkyBox to rhyme with “iPhone”? Posted byby GamesBeat February 6, 2009 1 min Microsoft is expected to unveil its mobile cloud sync service known as SkyBox at the Mobile World Congress event in Spain later this month....
Categories Posted inin Technology “The Race for a New Game Machine” book chronicles the Sony-Microsoft-IBM love triangle Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 6, 2009 14 min The shenanigans between Sony, Microsoft and IBM in the game business will probably go down as one of the great corporate love triangles of...
Categories Posted inin Technology Image Metrics makes it easier and cheaper to put real faces in games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 5, 2009 2 min We’ve said before that the last great challenge in computer animation and video games will be to render realistic human faces. As it stands now,...
Categories Posted inin Technology PlaySpan makes virtual goods transactions more convenient Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 5, 2009 1 min In-game commerce network PlaySpan is taking one of the hassles out of trading virtual goods. In the past, gamers had to engineer a risky...
Categories Posted inin Technology Netflix movie downloads are a success on Xbox 360 Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 5, 2009 2 min Microsoft said today that more than a million Xbox 360 users have downloaded the Netflix application via Xbox Live since the alliance was launched...