We’ve all seen tons of Hollywood recreations of the events that took place in World War II and the gaming industry has also had its fun exploiting some of the most impressive military actions that shaped the course of the war. This time around, Eidos Hungary did a bang up job recreating some of the most epic... |
20 August 2011
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Marine researchers at the University of California in San Diego's (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography propose in a new study that some of the collapse events that affected the Antarctic ice sheet in 2009 may have been triggered by extremely long oceanic waves. Lead scientists Peter Bromirski says that the... |
14 February 2010
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A new scientific investigation of the Bering Strait – connecting Russia and North America – has confirmed the long-held belief that even relatively small geographical features can have a considerable influence on global weather patterns. For the past 100,000 years, the feature has played an important role... |
11 January 2010
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Eidos Interactive, which is now owned by Square Enix, is announcing that it plans to release a demo version of Battlestations: Pacific on April 30 on both Xbox Live and the Games for Windows Live Markeplace.In the upcoming demo for Battlestations: Pacific, players will get access to a mission taken from the American ... |
24 April 2009
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A panel of US appeal judges ruled on Friday that the US government did not have to pay for the damage it had caused on two Pacific atolls, Bikini and Enewetak, places where the country ran an extensive nuclear testing program between 1946 and 1958, detonating more than 67 warheads. At the height of the Cold War, this... |
2 February 2009
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Increased worldwide temperatures, triggered by global warming and climate change, would take a heavy toll on the Pacific region, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations announced on Tuesday. The Pacific islands will be the most severely affected, as their yearly harvests are heavily dependen... |
3 December 2008
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The Hawaii islands is the product of the volcanoes. The archipelago, located 4,000 km (2,500 mi) away from California, was unknown to the Europeans until the voyages of James Cook, who stepped on the islands in 1778 (later, he was killed by the natives, during a visit in the archipelago). Cook named Hawaii the Sandw... |
4 April 2008
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Today publisher Eidos Interactive announced that their 2007 war simulator Battlestations: Midway is set to get a sequel in the form of Battlestations: Pacific, sometime in 2008. The game is set to continue the realistic and gritty simulation of the War in the Pacific that the original game kicked off.Both the America... |
29 February 2008
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Vanuatu (formerly called New Hebrides before gaining independence in 1980) is located in southwestern Pacific, half way between Australia and Fiji. The archipelago is made of 80 islands and has a "Y" shape. The islands appeared following the crash of tectonic plates, forming huge mountains that are mainly covered by ... |
12 December 2007
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Before Columbus and the Vikings, other sailors could have entered the Americas: the Polynesians. This is strongly suggested by chickens grown by tribes in Peru and Chile, which do not have European ancestry, but Polynesian, but also by some cultural facts common to tribes of the Amazon and Malayo-Polynesians from Ind... |
1 October 2007
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First there were the German U-boats at your disposal in Silent Hunter III. The WWII inspired simulation games got to a new level at the time with a wonderful story straight from the bottom of the ocean. After a quick skydive from the Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Ubisoft promises a new time expensive adventure o... |
13 April 2007
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The deadliest conflict in the history books was definitely the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945 the global population has decreased by over 62 millions (that's about 2.5%; also take into consideration that about 37 millions of the casualties were civilians). Spanning pretty much of the whole globe, World ... |
20 March 2007
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