Pop quiz: What's the only thing the Sony PlayStation 3 has going for it that competitors can't copy? That's right: the Blu-ray disc, Sony's triumphant HD video distribution platform. Problem is, though Blu-ray has proven to be an adequate solution for transporting HD movies, its 50GB of capacity doesn't lend much to games that are designed [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
You may not know who Emote Games is, but that doesn't make what they're doing any less impressive. In an era of development dominated by licensing outside code to eliminate development time and reduce costs, there has been one element which has always remained largely in the developers' hands: character and avatar creation. Coined "Participate," the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
They can do some goshdarned amazing stuff with technology these days, those motherfathers. Microsoft, always vigilant and sensible when it comes to inappropriate material on their networks, has just been awarded a new patent for "real-time censoring of audio streams," according to Ars Technica. According to the text of the patent itself, this technology would [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 1, 2008
"It reminds me of the circumstances attendant upon the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year ’34. Do you remember the case, Gregson?" "No, sir." "Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun." -- A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle Those who try to apply analysis to make predictions about an [...]
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