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Not surprisingly, it turns out that there was more to the story behind the mysterious death of a Chinese computer salesman. Apparently, it was a crazy homemade gun that killed him—not an exploding cellphone.
The police have told newspapers that the man was carrying some sort of homemade firing device and nine bullets stashed in a separate bag. They believe that the man accidentally dropped it, causing the gun to discharge or explode—severing his carotid artery and destroying the cellphone he had stashed in his shirt pocket.
That explanation creates more questions than it solves, but for now the authorities have not revealed any further details on the incident or the device he may have been carrying. Is this some sort of cover-up to prevent widespread panic over potentially dangerous cellphone knockoffs or was it simply an unfortunate incident involving a man trying to protect himself in an area where crime rates are skyrocketing? [Telegraph]
Blizzard Entertainment execs?Mike Morhaime, CEO and Co-Founder, Rob Pardo, Senior VP of Game Design, and Frank Pearce, Executive VP of Product Development?took the stage this morning at DICE to talk about the company's history "From Developer To Worldwide Publisher." The three spent a good portion of their "conversation" talking about one of the aspects that makes Blizzard unique, their commitment to quality and gameplay above all else.
Do not double park...
Developer talks shop via Facebook.
The Amazing Spider-Man's lead game designer has shared some gameplay info with rabid fans via the game's official Facebook page.
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Microsoft/Yahoo! get in line…
Jovial Jay Shepard and Chris Wyman are back for another edition of Jedi Journals. Listen in as Jay and Chris sit down with Star Wars authors John Jackson Miller (Knight Errant) and Joe Schreiber (Star Wars: Red Harvest). Plus, the latest news and happenings in the universe of Star Wars novels, comics, and magazines!
Viral marketing is starting to look like one of the best ways to have a lot of fun and get paid for it. Thinkmodo [1] was hired to do a little stunt to promote the Fox 'teens with superopowers' film Chronicle, which opens this week. What the company did was build three custom radio-controlled planes shaped like people, which were then flown through the relatively open airspace around a couple of New York City bridges. The whole effort was filmed, of course, and the result is below.
I'm not sure how well this really promoted Chronicle at the time, but it's a pretty neat-looking video and is probably doing a good job now.
One of the guys at Thinkmodo said,
Since the three main characters of the movie have the ability to fly, we came up with the idea of staging a few “flying people” sightings around NYC. We achieved that illusion by having 3 custom-made aircraft (which were shaped like human beings) fly above designated areas in NYC and NJ.
Chronicle opens in theaters everywhere Friday, February 3rd.
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[1] http://www.thinkmodo.com/
The 3D game development suite adds improved skinning performance on OpenGL, Boolean and byte array parameter support for RPC functions, drag-and-drop to Dock for Unitron text editor, and more.
Apple made its first post-Macworld Expo product announcement on Tuesday, a modest release of four new colors of the company's matchbook-sized iPod shuffle
CricketGaming.net: Results of Cricket Gaming Awards 2010 is out now. Ashes Cricket 2009 wins the best cricket game award while the old cricket game Cricket 07 became the most popular cricket game. From old classics, Brian Lara Cricket 99 won the Best Classic Cricket Game award. The most amazing thing is to see Mindstorm Studios becoming the most promising cricket video game company.
Best Cricket Game - Ashes Cricket 2009
Best Online Cricket Simulation Game - Stick Cricket
Best Online Cricket Management Game - Battrick.org
Best Classic Cricket Game - Brian Lara Cricket 99
Most Popular Cricket Game - EA Sports Cricket 07
Most Promising Company - Mindstorm Studios
IBM and Intel accelerated their horse race in semiconductors when each unveiled over the weekend similar chip-manufacturing advances.
10 new shots posted.
A Federation ship engages and destroys enemy ships.
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Sony Europe's sandbox platformer receives 10 nods for 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, to be handed out Feb. 19 at the DICE Summit in Vegas.
This soldier takes a dead on heart shot from a sniper in what would be a definite kill shot. Luckily this guy was wearing his vest and was able to find cover.
…encryption rules follow latest data debacle
Popular exec wins Pioneer gong at Game Developers' Choice Awards.
The 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards has given its coveted Pioneer prize to Valve's Gabe Newell.
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Icop announced a PC/104 computer module based on a 32-bit, 800MHz x86-compatible SoC (system on chip) that is claimed to run Linux on under two Watts. The "VDX-6354" has 256MB of RAM, 4GB of flash, 10/100 Ethernet, audio, and an onboard VGA controller, says Icop.
And she's still drinking...
WIRED: "With so many potentially awesome games coming out over the next 12 months, it's proven difficult to whittle down our list of the year's most anticipated games to just 20.
We've limited the list to titles that have not yet been released in any territory. This means Final Fantasy XIII and Wario Ware: DIY, for example, don't qualify - although you can already read our extensive coverage of both."
CorneliOS a Web based virtual operating system
that runs on top of a host system and offers
services via HTML or XHTML over the Web. It offers
a secure environment that supports multiple users,
large amounts of data, and timesharing. It offers
a user interface that looks familiar and is easy
to handle and learn, while still introducing some
new concepts. It acts as a software integration
system (especially for Web applications), and
allows users and developers to create their own
applications and to share them.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A fatal bug that crashed the CMS was fixed. A
feature that catches such bugs was implemented. A
new 3-level documentation philosophy is used.
/csr/system/releasenotes was added. Other minor
additions, changes, and fixes were done.
JPK changed the US film release date from TBA to February 18, 2011
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 7, 2008
By Todd Bishop
Las Vegas ? One of Microsoft's key technological positions has taken a blow as a result of Warner's decision to choose Blu-ray in the battle over next-generation DVD formats.
The implications extend beyond movies to the hotly contested video-game console market. That's because Sony has integrated a Blu-ray drive into the PlayStation 3.
Depending on the circumstances, Sony may enjoy a "huge competitive advantage" over Microsoft in the video-game console market if Blu-ray becomes standard, said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities.
The key question, Pachter said, would be timing.
Wow! Mischa Barton is really scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to trying to get publicity. We've already seen her posing for staged "paparazzi" bikini pictures, and now she's posting bikini pictures on her website, in...
Felicia gets blasted while trying to seduce Viewtiful Joe.
Which new villain will The Man of Steel square off with next?
Not what the judges wanted to hear.
A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers. The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play "The Front Page," even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one another led to 35 Pulitzer Prizes, journalism's highest honor.
Indigestion got you turning into a werewolf?
Gamesradar takes a look at 15 games in 2009 you may need to remind yourself about
An official trailer for the game Major League Baseball 2K7.
Rebel. Renegade. The next great hero. The next great adventure.
TV spot for Willow.
The IMAX Corporation has sent out a press release announcing that James Cameron's Avatar is continuing to shatter IMAX box office records. Highlights Include:
Domestic second weekend gross of approximately $8.8 million
International second weekend gross of approximately $3.6 million
IMAX theatres were in 17 of the top 20 locations nationwide
Read the full press release after the jump.
James Cameron's Avatar Continues to Shatter IMAX Box Office Records
IMAX Release Races to $39 million Worldwide in Ten Days
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28, 2009 -- IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron's Avatar continued its record-breaking box office run during its second weekend, grossing approximately $8.8 million from 179 IMAX(R) theatres domestically from December 25 through December 27, 2009, registering approximately 12% of the film's total domestic gross of $75.6 million on less than 3% of the screens. IMAX theatres continued to operate at virtually full capacity all weekend, driving ...
While still devastated by the news of the pending Portman puppy, I'm heartened by the fact that not all moms pack the ruinous junk in the trunk; in fact, some just reach even closer to perfection. Case in point,...
With so much anticipation, how did they go wrong?
Receiving the "Hottest Actress" award of 2010 from Total Film , Gemma Arterton let slip that she will star in Michael Mann's Robert Capa biopic.
GameInformer writes: Jesse Divnich, director of analyst services for Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), believes we may see a glimpse of a new Grand Theft Auto title at E3 in June.
Speaking to Game Informer, Divnich made a big prediction as to what we may see at the industry trade show in June. "I think we're going to hear about another Grand Theft Auto. I think there won't be any playable stuff. I think they'll give you some type of teaser, because we do think that a year from then in 2011 we're going to see another Grand Theft Auto."
CC: It seems that not all MP's hate videogames, as Labour's Tom Watson has revealed in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine UK that he is part of a secret MP Guitar Hero cabal.
Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
Standards Blog: "Yesterday I filed a pro bono amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Federal Trade Commission's petition for writ of certiorari in its suit against Rambus Technologies. I'm pleased to report that 19 standard setting organizations (SSOs), representing over 13,300 members, joined as amici curiae supporting this brief; the list of participants appears later in this blog entry."
THQ hits us with another bout of action from its first-person shooter.
You can now see the latest gameplay trailer from THQ's Frontlines: Fuel of War in our video player.
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Not a whole lot to do but there isn't much else is there?
Dusk-12 (PC)
First look at this new, mutant shooter.
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In the English village of Wall, a young man (Charlie Cox) goes on a journey to woo Victoria (Sienna Miller). During his travels, a falling star (Claire Danes) takes him into a fantasy world that acquaints him with a witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) and a pirate (Robert De Niro).
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