News tagged with gaming software

Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20

Twenty years ago Japan's Nintendo Co. launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Building real security with virtual worlds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Apple brings iPad features to the Mac

Apple released a preview version of its new Macintosh operating system on Thursday, bringing some features of the iPad to the personal computer.

Technology / Software

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Apple says it is expanding iPhone features

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is updating its software for iPhones so that users can cut, copy and paste text - a basic computing feature that many people had lamented was missing from the gadget that seems to do everything.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Videogame makers seek footing on shifting landscape

Videogame makers from around the globe are gathering to seek paths to fortune and glory on a landscape upset by social networks, smartphones, tablet computers, and the Internet "cloud."

Technology / Software

created Feb 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Long-delayed Duke Nukem videogame hits in June

The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday.

Technology / Software

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Android phones to pit vampires against slayers

Facial recognition startup Viewdle on Wednesday began letting Android smartphone users see which of the people around them are vampires and which are vampire slayers.

Technology / Software

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Game Theory: Researchers examine what makes video games click with players -- or not

Every Friday afternoon, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab opens its doors to anyone who wishes to drop by and play. On one such recent day, Jason Begy, a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies program ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

China launches crackdown on online gaming

China has launched a campaign to crack down on online games operating illegally and featuring content deemed to be unhealthy, state media reported Friday, in the nation's latest Internet clean-up effort.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Review: Super Bowl online decent, won't replace TV

(AP) -- The television set won't be the only place to watch video of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday. For the first time, U.S. football fans will be able to watch the Super Bowl ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New tool improves productivity, quality when translating software

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a software tool that will make it faster and easier to translate video games and other software into different languages for use in various international markets ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Virtual training for real combat

I zipped up the flak jacket, put on an Army helmet and snapped a pair of goggles over my eyes.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Students tackle world's woes at Microsoft Imagine Cup

Hundreds of thousands of college students from around the world vied in a Microsoft challenge to find ways that technology can help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Technology / Other

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Learn to play by playing Songs2See

Recorder, guitar, piano or violin - many children and young people learn to play these popular instruments. It requires a lot of practice to read note after note from the sheet music and then strike the right ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Take-Two announces next 'Grand Theft Auto'

(AP) -- Take-Two is confirming that its RockStar North studio is deep in development of the next installment of the wildly popular "Grand Theft Auto" shooter series.

Technology / Software

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0