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Among the most memorable aspects in many videogames are the villains that the player must defeat in his/her quest. And among the most interesting subcategories of villains are the computer-based ones that fascinate by being inhuman while striving for humanity, for being a clear representation of “otherness&rdqu... |
23 May 2009
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According to NASA scientists, every 8 minutes – about the time it takes one to read this article – there's a peculiar and still unexplained event going on way overhead. The magnetosphere – the protective magnetic bubble that envelops the planet, Earth's equivalent of the heliosphere &ndash... |
3 November 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Back in videogaming pre-history, when Valve announced that Half Life would become an episodic game, the plan was to release Episode 3 of Half Life 2 in time for Christmas 2007. It's now close to Christmas 2008 and there's no sign of the game coming any time soon. After all, about a year ago, Valve announce... |
16 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Portal has been a huge hit and quickly became a cult favorite with the large gaming community. Its simple gameplay and often difficult puzzles made us rethink the way games are played. With the game having only two characters, the player and the computer AI, dubbed GlaDOS, it really brought a touch of simplicity to t... |
9 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Game Club Cafe is a casual games portal created and maintained by the independent game developer Codeminion. The portal now features a collection of over 50 titles for Mac. Codeminion is well known for titles like Ancient Quest of Saqqarah and Magic Match.According to Konrad Olesiewicz, Codeminion co-owner, Game Club... |
1 October 2008
15:01 GMT |
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As the Beijing Olympics just opened, Google announced the launch of a new website that comprises the latest news in the sports world, videos of the competitions provided by YouTube, or 3D models of the stadiums that host the events, created with the Google SketchUp. The events schedule and a medal count, either for s... |
8 August 2008
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In traditional fashion for big corporate players, Microsoft put on an E3 show that was big on flash and surprisingly low on substance. They're not really to blame as this year's edition saw all the big players hold events where little new stuff was showed and where hyping up already announced projects seeme... |
21 July 2008
09:24 GMT |
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You might get a little shocked, like I am, when you hear that Konami's DanceDanceRevolution franchise is already ten years old! And, in order to have a proper celebration for the first decade of quality dancing, the game's developer and publisher decided to launch a new brand and community portal for DanceD... |
18 June 2008
15:06 GMT |
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I am sure there are lots of people who wish to create video games and have some great ideas regarding how they should be, but most of them don't have the required skills. For these people (and not only, since experts are free to join, too), Electronic Arts has created TheSimsCarnival.com, a games portal which al... |
18 June 2008
03:13 GMT |
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New details have emerged about the pricing and policies of Apple's upcoming distribution service for apps on the iPhone, the App Store. People familiar with Apple's plans claim huge differences between the lowest priced app and the most expensive pricing available to developers ($999.99), while maximum file... |
17 June 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Vivity Labs say that one of the most pleasant ways of keeping your brain fit is playing computer or video games. Of course, not any games - their games, which are developed in collaboration with brain health experts. And you can check all of them (just nine at the moment) by visiting their website.Don't expect, ... |
4 June 2008
02:58 GMT |
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For those (many of you) who like online mobile games, a new portal that plans to offer lots of fun moments is launched: 123play. Coming with a really attractive "don't pay, just play" offer, 123play hosts free, but ad-supported games from well-known publishers like THQ Wireless, Digital Chocolate, RealArcade, In... |
15 April 2008
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The popular mobile portal Mippin offers, starting yesterday, a wide range of free mobile games to its users. In collaboration with Greystripe, a leading ad-supported games distributor, Refresh Mobile, the company that owns Mippin, will provide access to more than 800 mobile titles. For the moment there are 200 ga... |
10 April 2008
09:12 GMT |
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The second edition of Epic's community-oriented contest "Make Something Unreal" is upon us. Epic has revived the contest, which first took place in 2005, and is making a very tempting offer. The winner or winners are going to get an Unreal 3 license for free and the chance to develop a game built around it with ... |
4 April 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Fox, the giant American TV and film company, announced the launch of Fox Entertainment Mobile Network, a new web portal for mobile phones. The new portal was unveiled during CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), and it is set to bring one of the widest ranges of TV programs and video content ever made availabl... |
3 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Cellufun announced that it will provide, from now on, free mobile games for AOL's new mobile gaming portal. This is great news for all mobile gamers, but also for Cellufun, fresh winner of the 2008 Global Mobile Award for the Best Mobile Game (received at MWC 2008), with one of it latest titles: Call of the Phar... |
31 March 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Portal is a first-person action/puzzle video game developed by the Valve Corporation. The game was released in the bundle package The Orange Box for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on October 9, 2007, and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007.The Windows version of the game is also available for download separate... |
26 March 2008
09:06 GMT |
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The Orange Box was one of the big gaming hits of 2007. And as it was developed by Valve, it was a very neatly presented package, with very little issues and bugs to annoy the end user. But the cross-platform launch of the game was bound to create some problems.Recently, Electronic Arts announced it was releasing the ... |
25 March 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Valve is a shrewd, shrewd company. First they create one of the defining games of the '90s with Half Life. Then, they create a digital distribution channel that threatens traditional disk-in-a-case games with extinction, codenamed Steam. And then, they release The Orange Box, a compendium of titles packaged toge... |
14 March 2008
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Gore Verbisnki is the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, the movie that made hundreds of millions of dollars on the back of an old pirate story twisted by the mind of the director. And recently, the same Verbinski has given a speech at the DICE 2008 summit in which he encouraged game developers to go a little "cra... |
12 March 2008
04:19 GMT |
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If there were any reasons left to doubt Valve's The Orange Box success or real value, they were all wiped out right now, with the announcement that over 100 different awards were received by the multi-platform, multi-game offering. About half of these awards consisted in "Game of The Year" honor, while the remai... |
11 March 2008
05:05 GMT |
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The acquisition policy of Google is shady at best. Until the deal is resolved, there's no confirmation of talks, no inside sources leaking information of any nature, it's basically no fun to poke around in the dark whenever a rumor appears. Nevertheless, the situation is a haven for those with nothing bette... |
22 February 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Just before the GDCA announced Portal was this year's GOTY, a lesser known event had taken place on the same stage. The IGF rewarded independent or indie developers for the games they had created in 2007. Where's the hype, where's the drama, where's the relevance? Well, a couple of years ago, a te... |
22 February 2008
06:30 GMT |
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The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is an annual event that allows game developers to meet, exchange ideas, make deals, demonstrate technology, show off games, act all geeky and, last but not least, dish out some awards.As the event in San Francisco keeps getting bigger, with some in the industry calling ... |
21 February 2008
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The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain, its new ad-supported Disney.co.uk portal for mobile phones, which brings the Disney digital entertainment experience closer to mobile consumers. Following Disney's philosophy to provide compelling content anytime a... |
13 February 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Recent reports surrounding the Yahoo-selling-out story have revealed that the American public corporation's chief executive and co-founder, Jerry Yang, is not exactly a big Microsoft fan (not that Yang wouldn't consider an alternative to that feeling, should Microsoft double their offer). More companies are... |
5 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Valve's Steam gamers seem to play more on NVIDIA hardware than all the other graphic platforms combined, according to a Steam Hardware Survey. And this is a reason for freebies, or at least this is what Valve and NVIDIA have come up with in what is more a marketing move than a "we love the gamers" statement. Thi... |
10 January 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Who says you can't play games on Linux? Of course you can! Well... not all of them, but at least some of the nicer ones, such as Half-Life 2, Counter Strike or Unreal Tournament. Today's guide will teach you, step-by-step, how to install and play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode T... |
24 December 2007
23:18 GMT |
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The Internet is no longer a safe place and we all know it. But the web is divided into two parts: the safe side and the dangerous side. Today, we're talking about the first one which is obviously preferred by all of us. The safe Internet usually contains famous websites such as Google and Yahoo which provide onl... |
7 November 2007
06:16 GMT |
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Following the recent releases of the AOL portal in multiple European countries including Sweden, Italy or Spain, the parent company continued its expansion with some new improvements added to the Indian side of the firm. AOL announced today that it rolled out new languages for AOL India as well as the availability of... |
31 October 2007
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Ask.com and PriceRunner announced they have reached an agreement to launch a UK shopping portal which is supposed to allow the local consumers to buy stuff straight from their computer. The juicy part is that the two companies plan to offer 200 different product categories which might represent one of the largest UK ... |
30 October 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Following AOL's recent efforts to increase its European presence, the company launched a new version of its portal, especially addressed to Swedish users. As usual, the new web portal comes with lots of features including an instant messaging client, news, video sharing service and what seems to be the most attr... |
30 October 2007
16:06 GMT |
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A deal which was confirmed in 2005 is now causing serious headaches for Sohu.com, a Chinese Internet portal which obtained the rights to create the website and the logo for the upcoming competition. But this wasn't the fact that upset the competition. According to AFP, Sohu.com claims it owns the exclusive right... |
23 October 2007
05:47 GMT |
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New day, new rumors concerning the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo. It seems like Yahoo wants to design a HDTV Internet portal for the Japanese users but the company's officials didn't say a word about this piece of speculation. Trading Market reported that Yahoo wants to design this portal until the end of the... |
3 October 2007
05:39 GMT |
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After the company recently launched its Italian portal, AOL continues its expansion in Europe and rolls out the Spanish version of the website which offers the same functions as the main page. The company already announced that AOL wants to evolve into the European market, aiming to release no less than 14 versions o... |
19 September 2007
06:38 GMT |
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3GX and Youpark yesterday announced a collaboration that led to the launching of Dogandbonegames.com, a portal offering high-quality Java games for all those who want fun in their lives. The portal looks nice, it's easy navigable and, of course, the games are ordered by categories like Action, Adventure, Sports... |
4 September 2007
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It's well known the fact that Yahoo lost the battle against the rival Google when it comes to the online video platforms. But it seems that the Sunnyvale company doesn't plan to resign and is now trying a different move that might change the content of numerous other websites: it introduced a new technology... |
24 August 2007
05:43 GMT |
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If you had any doubts on the fact that Google works on its official homepage, this is the info that will blow your minds in case you're a classic search engine lover. (Un)fortunately, it seems like the Mountain View company prepares something that will surely challenge Yahoo, the owner of one of the largest Inte... |
25 July 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Develop Magazine, well known as the only European monthly print publication aimed exclusively at the development community, has just unveiled a brand new website, located here. The official report informs that it'll quickly become the only online destination for anyone involved in the creation, commissioning and... |
17 July 2007
06:28 GMT |
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VoIP has announced that they will launch a new version of the Click4Me service, with more evolved features and easier to use technology. This application is free, which makes it even more popular among mobile phone owners who want to enjoy a free-calls experience.Clik4Me makes it possible for people to connect with e... |
11 July 2007
06:06 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo is now trying a different strategy to make its portal more attractive for the Internet users: it places non-Yahoo links straight on the main page of the company. The first link that doesn't belong to Yahoo and that was placed on the portal is owned by TechCrunch. According to this com... |
28 May 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Thanks to one of Filefront.com's users, there is serious reason to believe that Half Life 2 Episode 2 is nearing final stages of completion and that gamers should be expecting it soon. Quite a big amount of details are being disclosed in the article from which I extracted some pieces, indicating that a hoax is p... |
10 May 2007
17:41 GMT |
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Yo, Chinese music lovers, I am sorry for you. If you're not sorry for yourselves yet, you will be, unfortunately. Sina.com, one of China's biggest portals running in multiple online fields plans the release of a new platform for online music, downloads and other wireless value-added services (according to S... |
16 March 2007
11:57 GMT |
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Yahoo revealed today a brand new beta version of My Yahoo, a product designed by the giant portal meant to add some configuration options for the Yahoo users. Let me explain better the concept of My Yahoo. As you surely know, Yahoo is the most visited portal on the Internet because it provides instant access to news,... |
10 March 2007
03:00 GMT |
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