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David Jaffe Says Feature Overload Makes Skyrim Attractive

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most successful game launches of 2011 and one of the most engaging experiences for role-playing game lovers to engage with. One developer believes that much of its attraction is not about the open-world structure but about the number of mechanics that players need to deal wit...

14 February 2012
17:41 GMT

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Gets World Travel Trailer

The developer 38 Studios and publisher Electronic Arts have released yet another trailer for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the mix between open world action and role playing that they will soon release, showing the player a Guide to the various attractions that the protagonist will find in the world of the game. Am...

31 January 2012
12:21 GMT

The Witcher 2 Diary – A World Made Alive

The Witcher 2 is one of the few games in the last couple of years that have managed to really take a world, populate it with characters and then breathe life into it, making it engaging and appealing beyond the inherent limitations of the video game as a medium.The Witcher 2 cannot escape from being compared to Drago...

30 May 2011
20:01 GMT

MVWorldviewer - Dynamic World Map for Your Desktop

The weather report represents a constant in our lives while news about storms and earthquakes frequently make the headlines. Still we don't always fully realize the magnitude of these phenomena. MVWorldviewer is able to put things into perspective by displaying a real time representation of the Earth.Although al...

13 October 2010
12:51 GMT

Need for Speed World Is in Beta

Electronic Arts has announced that it is launching a new beta stage for Need for Speed World, the MMO based on the long running racing franchise. The new stage is expected to run until Wednesday, June 30, and will allow the developers at EA Black Box and EA Singapore to get some feedback from the gaming community abo...

29 June 2010
04:36 GMT

Centuries-Old Map Has China in the Middle

The US Library of Congress, in Washington DC, currently displays a very old map, created by an Italian more than 400 years ago, and depicting China as the middle of the world. The artifact is incredibly valuable for our understanding of the geopolitics of the time. It also yields a clearer insight into the way the As...

14 January 2010
05:47 GMT

NASA to Save the World Again

When one thinks about the problems the world is facing today, one thinks of financial crisis, tense international relationships or pollution, but there are, actually, many people who would wish to have to worry only on these accounts. Changing all these wouldn't affect the fact that about 1 of 8 persons in the w...

31 October 2008
04:07 GMT

U.N. Wants YouTube Help in Fight Against Hunger

The World Food Program (WFP) launched yesterday a contest for "edgy 30 or 60 second video(s) that will make the online community buzz about global hunger." The main targets of this campaign are the raising of the awareness level of the so-called "YouTube generation" in connection to world hunger and deliver the reali...

22 November 2007
10:50 GMT

Dubai Rises to the Sky: Burj Dubai Is Now the Tallest Building in the World

The tallest building in the world is taking the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, closer to the sky, as it has just overthrown the former champion, the 1,671 ft (449 m) tall Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan.Building the world's tallest buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades....

23 July 2007
02:48 GMT

Which Are the New Seven Wonders of the World?

Forget about the Great Pyramid or the Hanging Gardens. Now the top of the Seven Wonders of the World contains The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal and also three architectural masterworks from Latin America (Peru's Machu Picchu, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico...

9 July 2007
02:48 GMT

The Most Realistic 3-D Virtual Tours of Ancient Egypt or Rome

Do you feel like visiting ancient Roman vestiges or the Egyptian pyramids? Or maybe you already have, but the thousand-year-old remnants failed to impress you like the originals would have?The experience of walking through the original Roman Colosseum or the Egyptian pyramids is unfortunately not available in real l...

16 May 2007
10:47 GMT

Second Life - A Virtual World In Space

The synthetic world known as Second Life is more than a game, it has things that are not of this world, including floating launch pads, mini-planets, space shuttles and an international space station. More is on the way: environments that look and feel like the moon, for instance, or simulated lava tubes that could ...

31 March 2007
05:04 GMT

FIFA World Cup 2002 Cheats (Xbox)

An amalgamation between the game engines of FIFA 2002 and FIFA 2003, the game still incorporates the power bar for shots and crosses but with a steeper learning curve and higher chances of being penalized by the match referee. The national team kits are accurate along with player likeness and the stadia of the 2002 F...

23 March 2007
06:38 GMT


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