Microsoft Confirms Aces Closure, Game Studio responsible for Flight Simulator shut down amidst layoffs. Microsoft has confirmed the closure of Aces Game Studio, the internal development studio responsible for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flight Simulator is one of the company’s oldest product lines, stretching back more than 20 years. The closure came amidst the company’s first [...]
Empire Game: Total War is scheduled to ship. Fusing elements of Civilization-style overworld map management and large-scale real-time strategy battles, the formula for Creative Assembly’s Total War series has remained a popular one since the franchise launched with Shogun: Total War back in 2000.
The latest version, Empire: Total War, is set in the 18th Century, [...]
The Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University reported on the 2008 Chinese Robots Competition. The report is as follows: Here you’ll learn the news about Robotics Competitions, Students Robotics Contest, Instructables and RoboGames Robot Contest.
Champions Come from SJTU
In 1 vs. 1 and 2 vs. 2 FIRA football matches in the 2008 Chinese Robots Competition held [...]
Wii Software Online: A new report online this afternoon reveals that one UK hospital is making inventive use of Wii Fit; using Nintendo’s exercise software to help those with prosthetic limbs – via the balance board and the Wiimote.
Senior physiotherapist Lynn Hirst tells us that patients sometimes struggle “getting their weight through the prosthetic limb,” [...]
Do users actually read press coverage of Apple? Apple used and now abused the Macworld organizers? Is it time to kill the Apple press event?
After all the hoopla surrounding Steve Jobs’ absence from Apple’s last Macworld keynote subsided, it was finally time for us all to tune into Phil Schiller’s remarks about the future of [...]
Intel expects revenue for the last quarter of FY 2008 to fall 23%. Intel again downgraded its revenue expectations for the fourth quarter, bringing the total decrease to about 23 percent compared with a year ago. It also wrote down the value of its Clearwire investment to the tune of almost a billion dollars. Intel [...]