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Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall
Photo Tapping on the screens allows people to access information or video, navigate menus or play games. Webcams are attached to each screen which are linked to a computer and track the movement of fingers on the display's surface - doing away with the... [01 Feb 2008]
NCsoft Powers Massively Multiplayer Online Games With 64-bit Windows Server
White Paper When the company upgraded its popular online game Lineage II, it needed a server computer platform that would sustain hundreds of thousands of user connections to a huge and richly detailed virtual fantasy world. [10 Jan 2008]
Towards the Design of Intelligent Educational Gaming Systems
White Paper Researches on Games in Education have shown that games motivate the learners to try to develop their knowledge whilst they perform in a pleasant virtual world in order to achieve the goals proposed. However, many games are not designed in a way to... [08 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News On the Xbox front, Microsoft touted a number of statistics, including the fact it has sold more than 17.7 million consoles, and the Xbox 360 has generated far more sales of games and accessories than rival consoles. [07 Jan 2008]
Latency Evaluation of Networking Mechanisms for Game Traffic
White Paper However, little work has been done to examine and compare networking techniques with respect to meeting the stringent latency requirements that are common for networked games. Most interactive games need response times between 100 and 1000 ms... [26 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment They start with computer games, problem solving and strategic thinking reinforced by social networking and sharing on a scale never witnessed before. So, I'm off into town to visit the computer store. [29 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap' Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. I'm on the plane. UK in-flight calls get green light [25 Oct 2007]
Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'
News At the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster, the minister said schoolchildren's enthusiasm for computer games should be harnessed to encourage the development of skills in maths and science, the proliferation of which would... [22 Oct 2007]
Shigeru Miyamoto
AS Profile Nintendo has always been admired for pushing the boundaries of computer games entertainment in ways that make gaming accessible to a wide range of players. Shigeru Miyamoto has been at the centre of the creativity behind many of the flagship games... [12 Oct 2007]
Satoru Iwata
AS Profile In the early 1990s, Nintendo led the global games console market. The judges were impressed by Iwata's role in these innovations, concluding he has done much to take computer gaming out of the exclusive realm of the 17-year-old boy's bedroom and... [12 Oct 2007]
Sun's McNealy: 'We're not working on iPhone killer'
News This means web surfing and interactive mobile phone games would look more like the things people are used to on their PCs. Apple has already attempted to do this with its iPhone, which allows people to shrink and magnify web pages so that the pages... [12 Oct 2007]
Gaming Hacks: Download, Compile, and Create an Inform Adventure Hack
White Paper A time was when only programmers played computer games, for only programmers had access to computers. Hackers created the first adventure games, deep in the warrens of SAIL and the stygian halls of MIT. [10 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment And this appears to be one factor that drives them to computer games and the virtual world. Written at Norwich Airport, UK, and dispatched to silicon.com via a public wi-fi service The removal of risk from people's lives is leading to a lack of... [03 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth
Photo Micrsoft is also working with IGT - which makes computer arcade games - on Surface's launch in the US later this year. The domino tags have been placed on the face drawn in the paint programme, prompting the computer to display these strange... [02 Oct 2007]
Naked PCs: The naked truth
News Another reader - an IT buyer from Derby - warned: "Don't try to remove the convenience of buying a PC with its operating system installed, because Mr Joe Public wants simplicity - to take his PC home, switch it on and use it to access www, play... [02 Oct 2007]
