computer games game
GAME gets automatic email reading
News Computer games retailer GAME Group has implemented an automated inbound email reader to help its customer services team deal with a growing volume of web enquiries.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The system, supplied by Numero, will manage all inbound... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: Inside the Army's war games
Photo Although the system is based on a commercially available computer game, the MoD has been granted certain rights over unlocking the British vehicles within it. The MoD has turned to computer games to give army drivers sent to the Middle East some... [01 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment In fact, even now I can remember the hot flush of rage I felt when I couldn't get a game to work after spending hours every night for a week inputting a program. Magazines dedicated pages and pages to hundreds of lines of code that enthusiasts... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Simplifies Development of Stunning High-Performance Multimedia Applications
White Paper Computer game developers are constantly challenged to create feature-rich, fast games within shorter product release cycles. To help simplify game programming, Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft DirectX application programming interface... [29 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. [11 Jan 2008]
Towards the Design of Intelligent Educational Gaming Systems
White Paper The paper also describes TALENT, a game to teach computer algorithms that incorporates features from ITS. Researches on Games in Education have shown that games motivate the learners to try to develop their knowledge whilst they perform in a... [09 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News Microsoft is also touting sales of two recent game releases. Gates announced plans for the game console to act as a set-top box at last year's CES. On the Xbox front, Microsoft touted a number of statistics, including the fact it has sold more than... [07 Jan 2008]
Latency Evaluation of Networking Mechanisms for Game Traffic
White Paper Most interactive games need response times between 100 and 1000 ms depending on the game genre. Large improvements in computer technology allow thousands of users to concurrently interact in a virtual game. [27 Dec 2007]
Photos of the year
Photo This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a track within a computer game. The Government Communications Headquarters - aka GCHQ - has launched what it claims is the... [13 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap' The employment game Photos: GCHQ aims to recruit with in-game ads' Next step - the on-line game replaces the interview? I'm on the plane. UK in-flight calls get green light [25 Oct 2007]
Games in Teaching About Mobile Information Systems - An Experience Report
White Paper This paper offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in both areas through the distributed, collaborative development of a mobile game. Given the increasing role of mobile computing and mobile information access, knowledge about these... [02 Jul 2007]
Pocket PC Chess Game Checkmates with .NET Compact Framework
White Paper Beyond the usual man-against-computer play, this game also facilitates remote play over the Internet against other players and against a server. Valentin Iliescu, an independent developer, built a highly graphical chess game for the Pocket PC... [16 Apr 2007]
Second Life added to business 'banned' list
News And the security company's research found 41 per cent of PC users have the same password for all of their computer applications - including games. We're not saying that the game is bad but there's a time and a place for it. [21 Mar 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Encouraging schoolchildren to use computer games may sound like a no-brainer but scientists are developing software that allows kids to build their own games - in a bid to improve their creative and IT skills. [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Schoolkids develop games to aid learning
Photo Scientists are developing software which allows school children to build their own computer games - in a bid to improve their creative and IT skills. The 'Adventure Author' software, currently being developed at the Heriot-Watt University in... [23 Jan 2007]
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