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Christmas on Facebook
- By Iain Simons
- 05 January 2009
Perhaps we are much less tolerant of our extended families who descend on our homes for Christmas Day afternoons? Perhaps the TV wasn’t quite as good as expected?
SFTW: Minotaur China Shop
- By Iain Simons
- 19 December 2008
Try to reconcile your responsibility to the customer experience and success of your business, with your innate, crippling rage... Iain Simon selects another game for you
Going to hell...
- By Iain Simons
- 15 December 2008
Are plans to create a game based on Dante's Inferno likely to burn up or be a roaring success...
SFTW: flOw
- By Iain Simons
- 12 December 2008
Every week Iain Simons chooses a game so you can while away a few hours. This time it's flOw. Enjoy wisely...
Kosmix
- By Iain Simons
- 10 December 2008
What's the difference between a search engine and a browse engine? The latest challenge to the mighty Google, Kosmix, promises to be a window to what's happening on the web
SFTW: Adventure
- By Iain Simons
- 05 December 2008
Each week Iain Simon selects a game so you can while away a few hours. This week it's Adventure. Enjoy wisely...
They're all twittering...
- By Iain Simons
- 04 December 2008
The beauty and shortcomings of microblogging as experienced on Twitter is something Iain Simons would encourage you to try
SFTW: Auditorium
- By Iain Simons
- 28 November 2008
Each week Iain Simons chooses a game for you so you can while away a few hours. This week it's Auditorium. Enjoy responsibly...
America's Army
- By Iain Simons
- 26 November 2008
Stars and Stripes magazine has announced the US Army is about to invest $50m in videogame development over the next 5 years in what is both a PR and recruitment drive
SFTW: Mama Kills Animals
- By Iain Simons
- 21 November 2008
Every week Iain Simons chooses a game so you can while away a few hours at your desk. This week Peta's Mama Kills Animals
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Project Palantir: Facebook Interactions Visualization - information aesthetics
- 05 January 2009
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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 » VentureBeat
After years of speculation about a google operating system for desktops, it happens underneath our noses…
- 03 January 2009
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Following the New Year Zune disaster in which many of the Zune 30 devices were temporarily bricked, Microsoft provides some reassuring answers on Zune Insider
Q: Will you update the firmware before the next leap year (2012)?
Yes.
- 02 January 2009
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New Media Resolutions #6: Anthony Rose, Controller, Vision & Online, BBC
iPlayer boss makes some pledges for ‘09…
- 02 January 2009
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Researchers Want to Team Up With ThePirateBay to Understand Youth Morals
New research in progress investigating the forming of social norms online. Researchers are attempting to recruit sites such as ThePirateBay as collaborators…
- 02 January 2009
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LRB · John Lanchester: Is it Art?
John Lanchester discusses the broader cultural context of videogaming in the LRB
- 01 January 2009
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BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC iPlayer now available on Mac
Finally, the beeb releases a beta of iPlayer for Mac and Linux… Just in time for Christmas Doctor Who…
- 18 December 2008
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WEB WEB BOY
Keita Takahashi’s new project is finally dated. As the official site proclaims, “It’s hard to explain it in detail, so we will skip it here.”
- 16 December 2008
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…and not before ensuring any pesky legal issues around ownership are nailed down…
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
- 15 December 2008
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Electronic Arts announce their ‘new’ I.P.
Guildford, UK – December 15, 2008 – An abducted soul, a lifetime of sins, a journey to the depths of despair. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that EA Redwood Shores, the studio behind hit horror game Dead Space™, is making Dante’s Inferno™ – a third-person action adventure adaptation of the medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
- 15 December 2008
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