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MEM 2006 Mobile Entertainment Marke1st Annual Video Game Industry Business ForumSex In Video Games ConferenceThe Hollywood and Games Summit
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G D N E T S P O T L I G H T A First-Look at 0 A.D. by Jason Adams posted 6/14/06 Jason Adams interviews Wildfire Games, developers of the historical RTS 0 A.D. |
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The C++ Standard Library Part 1 by Howard "SiCrane" Jeng posted 5/18/06 The first installment in this series covers language features related to the standard library that may be unfamiliar to new programmers. |
| Thursday, June 15, 2006 | |
| Kutaragi on the Cell Processor | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 10:26:03 AM | |
 Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi has suggested that the Cell processor represents a new mindset that would change home appliances into computers.Read More.. | 12 Comments | |
| Next-Gen Battle for Europe | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 10:21:31 AM | |
 A developer working for Microsoft's Game Technology Group has declared that both the US and Japanese gaming markets have reached "saturation point" - and that success in Europe is key to winning the next-gen battle.Read More.. | 3 Comments | |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | |
| PC In-Game Advertising to Exceed $400 Million by 2009 | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:32:41 PM | |
| A new study from market research firm Parks Associates forecasts that PC in-game advertising will top $400 million by 2009. The firm points out that publishers haven't leveraged the medium the way they have with TV. The research also found some interesting differences in how varying demographics perceive in-game ads. Read More.. | 13 Comments | |
| Senate Subcommittee To Examine Game Violence Today | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:24:18 PM | |
| Today at 2:00PM Eastern, the Senate's Subcommittee of Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection will hold a hearing to examine videogame violence. Read More.. | 6 Comments | |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | |
| Indie Titles Coming To Xbox Live and PS3 Hub? | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 1:34:42 PM | |
| UK-based independent developer Introversion, creator of indie titles Uplink and Darwinia, is currently in negotiations with both Microsoft and Sony regarding the possibility of bringing its games to consoles. Read More.. | 7 Comments | |
| Game Art Express Launches First Art Pack | |
| Posted by: DarkMage7 at 6:02:44 AM | |
 Independent and commercial developers have a new resource to ease ever growing art content demands.Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Interview with 3DRealms CEO Scott Miller | |
| Posted by: GameProducer.net at 12:37:09 AM | |
 GameProducer.Net has published a very interesting interview with Scott Miller, CEO of 3D Realms. Scott provides information about game production issues and explains the importance of IPs.Read More.. | 2 Comments | |
| Monday, June 12, 2006 | |
| Sony Patent Application: Electrorheological Fluid Device | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:45:43 PM | |
| You might be enjoying an "electrorheological fluid device" with your PS4 according to a patent application filed by the PlayStation makers. Read More.. | 24 Comments | |
| Microsoft's in-game ad master plan | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:34:08 PM | |
| General Manager of Xbox new media and franchise development explores the merger of industries in Game Advertising Summit keynote. Read More.. | 16 Comments | |
| Sunday, June 11, 2006 | |
| Announcing Graphite 2006 | |
| Posted by: publicENEMY at 4:24:09 AM | |
| Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, GRAPHITE 2006 is the 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and the Southeast Asia, an annual event conducted in the Australasia-SEA region. Following the success of the first Conference in Melbourne, Australia, the second in Singapore and the third in Dunedin, New Zealand, this year’s conference will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read More.. | 3 Comments | |
| Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Patent awarded to Nintendo for in-game message system | |
| Posted by: Tiffany Smith at 7:51:22 PM | |
 A patent for an in-game messaging service which sounds very similar to that of Microsoft's Xbox Live, has been awarded to Nintendo. The patent which was initially filed in 2000, a year before the release of Microsoft's Xbox and two years before the official launch of Xbox Live, describes an in-game messaging service that utilizes a buddy list and can display information about game activities and user status.Read More.. | 25 Comments | |
| Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Europe's first detox clinic for video game addicts to open in July | |
| Posted by: Tiffany Smith at 10:27:29 PM | |
 Europe's first detox clinic for video game addicts is to be opened in Amsterdam next month, offering in-house treatment for people who are addicted to video games.The new program, beginning in July, will run for four to eight weeks and will focus on building patient's interests in alternate activities. Read More.. | 32 Comments | |
| GP2X Dev Kit | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 7:44:21 PM | |
 The GP2X Dev Kits have been updated and are now publically available.Read More.. | 10 Comments | |
| N-Gage Digital Distribution | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 7:51:47 AM | |
| Nokia has announced the launch of a new online retail distribution channel for N-Gage games and content, enabling consumers to access a broad catalogue of titles which can be securely purchased, saved to a memory card and installed on various compatible devices. Read More.. | 5 Comments | |
| Ken Kutaragi: PS3 "Clearly a Computer" | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 7:49:11 AM | |
| Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO Ken Kutaragi goes into detail about how the PlayStation 3 will be highly configurable, and how it is "clearly a computer." Read More.. | 62 Comments | |
| SFXEngine v1.08 Released | |
| Posted by: Mark Sheeky at 6:03:49 AM | |
 Cornutopia Software have announced a major update to their sound effects software, SFXEngine.SFXEngine is a unique modular sound effects creation tool for Windows that uses custom audio plug-ins called Engines to build up a visual chain of effects. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Game Audio Conference announced | |
| Posted by: Music4Games.Net at 12:36:19 AM | |
| The Game Initiative, a producer of conferences for professionals in the computer and video game industry, has announced the first annual Game Audio Conference (GAC), taking place September 6-7, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| UK Serious Games Conference Pranked By Anti-McDonalds Activists | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:43:26 PM | |
| It is being reported that the International Serious Games Event, held in Birmingham, England, has been the victim of a hoax by anti-McDonalds activists. Read More.. | 9 Comments | |
| ATI Unveils "Boundless Gaming" | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:25:25 PM | |
| The graphics card manufacturer ATI is making inroads into the physics processing market by using a single graphics card as a hardware physics processor. Read More.. | 23 Comments | |
| Nintendo Expecting Limited Losses from Launch of Wii | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:14:26 PM | |
| Console maker Nintendo has said it doesn't expect to lose much money on the launch of its new Wii games console. This contrasts with the expected heavy losses to Sony on the launch of its PlayStation 3. Read More.. | 6 Comments | |
| Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | |
| Sony Bundles PS2 With PS3 | |
| Posted by: wheresjbob at 9:13:20 PM | |
| IGN is reporting that Sony will be achieving backwards compatibility on the PlayStation 3 not through software emulation, as previously announced, but through physical hardware. Read More.. | 6 Comments | |
| Blizzard's 'Secret Sauce' | |
| Posted by: dwarfsoft at 5:10:49 PM | |
| The Escapist Magazine is running an article on the foundations of Blizzard, and how a Developer of B-Grade console games go on to be one of the most successful companies of all time. Read More.. | 31 Comments | |
| Telcogames Acquires Fathammer | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 4:45:39 PM | |
| Telcogames, a global publisher, developer and distributor of mobile games, today announced that it has acquired Fathammer, the Helsinki based developer of advanced mobile games. The acquisition establishes Telcogames as the global market leader in mobile smartphone games, and expands the reach of Fathammer's games portfolio further globally. Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| New Microsoft VP of Global Marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Business | |
| Posted by: Leigh Stringer at 12:17:43 PM | |
 Jeff Bell, formerly of the Chrysler Group, has been appointed the new vice president of global marketing for Microsoft's interactive entertainment division, which of course includes the Xbox console.Read More.. | 1 Comments | |
| paxCompiler Version 1.0 Released | |
| Posted by: Alexander Baranovsky at 4:16:04 AM | |
| Version 1.0 of the paxCompiler has been released. paxCompiler is an embeddable compiler of Pascal programming language. The key features of the paxCompiler are: Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| Monday, June 5, 2006 | |
| Turn-Key Real-Time 3D Motion Capture Finally Arrives | |
| Posted by: David at 2:30:37 PM | |
 PhoeniX Technologies Inc. announced today the launch of the revolutionary VZAutoCal solution. This new member of PTI’s suite of Visualeyez 3D motion capture products makes the laborious task of manually calibrating a motion capture system a chore of the past. PTI’s Visualeyez systems already offer one of the most convenient manual system calibration procedures available in the industry, taking just one minute per tracker; now VZAutoCal eliminates even this requirement. A capture subject entering the motion capture area triggers an automatic system calibration which completes within a second; not even an operator is required. In addition, VZAutoCal provides ‘adaptive functionality’. If during a capture session any tracker is moved, man-made or temperature change, the adaptive function automatically recalibrates the system. This keeps the system accurate continuously, so users can carry on with their motion capture without needing to perform any onerous manual recalibration ever again.Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
| GameDev's 4E5 Contest | |
| Posted by: Rob Loach at 1:28:24 PM | |
 It's that time of the year again. GameDev.net brings you the fifth incarnation of the Four Elements contest, refreshed, with a new look and new challenges!Read More.. | 11 Comments | |
| Free Pascal Supports GameBoy Advance | |
| Posted by: Jason McMillen at 12:11:07 PM | |
| Free Pascal 2.1.x now officially supports the GameBoy Advance platform thanks to the efforts of Francesco Lombardi (aka Legolas) through the FPC 4 GBA Initiative. Read More.. | 3 Comments | |
| Comment: Sony Devstation - Trouble ahead for Sony? | |
| Posted by: Sean Baggaley at 10:50:38 AM | |
| A report on IT news site The Inquirer suggests that all is not well in the PS3 development camp... Read More.. | 45 Comments | |
| Sunday, June 4, 2006 | |
| Amateur Developer Gathering „Dusmania 8.0“ | |
| Posted by: Marc Kamradt at 8:37:35 AM | |
 On July, 15th / 16th the German amateur developer gathering called “Dusmania” will be held in Nieder-Roden. Amateur developers from Germany and other European countries gather together to present their current projects and to exchange experience.Read More.. | 0 Comments | |
