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White Paper Using a far-reaching trace of latencies between players on over 3.5 million game consoles, the paper designed Htrae, a latency prediction system for game matchmaking scenarios. The... [16 Sep 2009]
Gearbox Software: HP Workstations Help Game Developer Accelerate Product Development
White Paper Gearbox, based in Plano, TX, has established itself as an industry leader in developing games for consoles and personal computers for such franchises as Half-life, Halo: Combat Evolved, Counter-Strike, James Bond and... [02 Sep 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo Here, teams of Nasa flight controllers sit behind banks of consoles to monitor and direct shuttle missions from the ground tracking station. Flight controllers have shifts that average eight to 12 hours per day in front... [09 Apr 2009]
USB and KVM Switches: The Rise of USB in the Data Center
White Paper The past decade or so have seen the Universal Serial Bus (USB) grow from pipe dream into the de facto standard to power devices such as peripherals, portable memory devices, video game consoles, PDAs,... [18 Mar 2009]
Cisco gives routers defence of their very own
News The company has announced a collaboration with Trend Micro to introduce the Home Network Defender (HND), security software for home network devices including PCs, online game consoles, wi-fi-enabled... [18 Feb 2009]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News Many of the current crop of games industry employees learnt to create programs by getting creative with the home computers of the 1980s and 1990s - hardware such as the Atari ST and Sinclair Spectrum - so the rise of plug-and-play games... [19 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment I'm not sure whether the games consoles that followed will lead to the same flowing of innovation or fond remembrances in 20 or 30 years' time. In fact, even now I can remember the hot flush of rage I felt when I... [22 Apr 2008]
From Shape Creation to Manufacturing Geometry, SurfaceInk Found NX to Be "The Perfect Product Lifecycle Solution" for Every Stage in the Development of a Video Game Accessory
White Paper SurfaceInk wanted to develop ergonomic grip accessory for Zodiac game consoles. The company performed entire digital development process within NX and imported game console data (created... [15 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... [07 Jan 2008]
Accelerate Video Decoding With Generic GPU
White Paper Most modern computers or game consoles are equipped with powerful yet cost-effective Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate graphics operations. Though the graphics engines in these GPUs are... [08 May 2007]
Toxbot hackers sentenced by Dutch court
News The pair used the identity information they collected, which also included eBay and PayPal account details, to purchase PlayStation game consoles, iPods, audio speakers, a graphics card and a camera,... [01 Feb 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Beyond games, another benefit of consoles is in helping parents communicate with their children. This is Computer Space, the first commercial computer game, from 1970. It's the PDP-1, the system which... [28 Nov 2006]
Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit
Photo Running Linux on Microsoft hardware has been the ultimate prize for open source fans and a wiki for the Linux Xbox has been created to port Linux onto Redmond's Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles. And if you're wondering quite... [22 Nov 2006]
Julie Meyer: Microsoft v Sony: A fight to the death?
Comment And of course Microsoft and Sony have done battle before - with Sony the clear winner in the previous generation of game consoles. The need among large technology companies to be all things to all people... [14 Nov 2006]
Development of a 3D Multiplayer Racing Game
White Paper New game consoles are based on network services and there are thoughts of establishing Java as a mainstream technology in game development in the future. Racing games are one of the most... [01 Nov 2006]
