SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Pac Man: a horror story”, url: “http://www.drzy.com/2008/08/15/pac-man-a-horror-story/” });

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The previously mentioned 20 minute gameplay video… in HD:

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The big announcement that Blizzard has been keying up to is indeed that Diablo III is in development.  This makes me happier than Starcraft 2, although I’m sure  will enjoy both immensely.  The official Diablo III website has a 20 minute gameplay video already, and it looks really great.  The bread and butter of the [...]

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The Call of Duty : World at War trailer was just released, along with the revamped callofduty.com website.  The new game will take place in the Pacific theater of World War 2.

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Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity » If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.
SvSIP » SvSIP is [...]

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Nuclear Dawn - Welcome » Half-Life 2 mod
Drawn to be alive » inventive mod
Darsana » standalone multiplayer medieval game
Troubleshooting a Peer to Peer Networking » on Windows machines
Htaccess file - Rewrite »
Pepakura Designer » Turn 3d computer models into paper models
University of Texas Videogame Archive »
South Austin Museum of Popular Culture »
Vulcan [...]

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Nintendo announced WiiWare, which allows anyone with some developer moxie to produce games for the Wii.
“Independent developers armed with small budgets and big ideas will be able to get their original games into the marketplace to see if we can find the next smash hit,” said Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. “WiiWare brings new [...]

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I am getting so sick of this thorn-in-the-side, supposed copy-protection program. I really really wish software producers would not be so lazy about copy protection and find a better way rather than schluffing it off to this inept third party program.
In the last few months I have had troubles with Command and Conquer 3 [...]

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Bloomberg catches a blurb from a Microsoft executive.
“We are well aware that the sweet spot of the market is really 199 bucks,” said David Hufford, a director of Xbox product management.
This would definitely make me buy one. I want a Wii as well, but man, there are some very good games for the XBOX360 [...]

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Here’s a robot done by some GarageGeeks guys that physically plays Guitar Hero. They call it Guitar Heronoid. With the help of some optical color sensors, a programmed “brain”, and some, uh, “extra” appendages (one hand with an extra finger for that elusive orange guitar button) it powers through the songs like a [...]

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Geomerics is a company dedicated to computer graphics and other algorithms. They have recently unveiled their Enlighten engine which coordinates several of their software/middleware advances to provide enhanced lighting in games. The foremost of these is their real-time radiosity, which serves to compute lighting, shadows, radiosity and others at run-time and on existing [...]

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Telltale Games is on-track to release a new Sam and Max game this fall. After much todo over at LucasArts involving the Sam and Max license and the dropping of the game Sam & Max Freelance Police.
There’s a trailer up on the main site that has the same personality and feel as [...]

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A book I missed, it happens much more often than I would like. Luckily it is now posted in its entirety here. Interviews with creators of those old games that you always remember, even if you need a little reminder. Back when coding a game took only one person. Back when [...]

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Most people who come here know I am an avid gamer, especially first-person shooters, and have been for the majority of my life. And I am not alone, gaming has been a phenomenon for at least 2 decades on personal computers.
Why, then, has it taken until the last couple years that keyboards geared for [...]

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I was on fileshack the other day trying to get the Neocron demo… and I look at the “most popular downloads” list. I see something called Tenebrae among the usual crowd of Halflife mods and Quake patches. I click on it and it is a small 3 meg file that supposedly adds stencil shadows, bump [...]

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