The Make Something Unreal Live 2013 contest pits teams of up and coming game developers against each other to see who can create the best video game. Each team gets a Wellcome Trust scientist that is able to mentor the members as they develop a game based on the theme ‘Mendelian inheritance:genetics and genomics’. Epic Games, the wonderful company behind the award-winning Gears of War ...
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Crystal Dynamics and AMD have created the first ever real-time hair rendering system called TressFX. Even video game characters have bad hair days. Working with hair in any 3D video game has always been a difficult process. For years, developers have drawn thousands of tiny individual strands of computerized hair that each casts a different shadow and moves in its own way. Thanks to Crystal Dynam...
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Gadget Show Live 2013 returns this Easter (April 3-7) with gaming celebrities, new video games, and tournaments. Last falls Gadget Show Live in London was a big hit and coming up in April at the NEC Birmingham be ready for another giant gaming extravaganza. A few of the top names in gaming will be in attendance at this years Gadget Show Live 2013 including; Capcom, Epic Games, Turtle Beach and Coo...
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The Nintendo Wii U system and Google team up to create Wii Street U. This new application will allow players to use their Wii U GamePad controller to travel the world via Wii U. Did I mention it is free? The Wii U and Google combination of Street U will feature map data and 360° panoramic Street View images. Using the touch screen on the Wii U GamePad, players can type in an exact address and inst...
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Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics’ newest game coming out is the highly anticipated and revamped Tomb Raider. [box type=”info” color=”#fff” bg=”#8c0000″ font=”helvetica” head=”Writer’s Thoughts”]I will be honest and say I have never played a single Tomb Raider game but I have been keeping my eye on this one and I am very excite...
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Fans of tanks, massive destruction, and competitiveness get ready to battle across the internet with World of Tanks. The strategy game development team behind World of Tanks, Wargaming, announced their creation of Wargaming.net League. Wargaming hopes to run alongside the great eSports games of now and bring in new competitive players, fans, and professional eSports gamers. Scheduled to launch th...
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With Capcom announcing the release of their Capcom Arcade Cabinet we can expect to relive some very nostalgic memories. Now Capcom has revealed the full list of 8-bit titles that will be available to play on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. We gladly welcome back the 80s. Beginning February 19 and running through early May, 15 8-bit titles will be ready to purchase digitally via individually or in p...
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The release date of Grand Theft Auto V has stirred up a bit of controversy in the gaming community. Having pushed it back from the spring until September; Take-Two appears to be aiming at a next generation console release. I have been looking forward to this game ever since I heard about it a few months ago and if that means waiting until the next generation consoles come out then I am fine with t...
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BlackBerry and Unity Technologies are working together to bring new games to the BlackBerry 10 smartphone. I remember when BlackBerry used to be the latest and greatest phone for businessmen. Prepare thy selves BlackBerry owners. Having over 1.5 million developers working for Unity, BlackBerry is welcome to have them on their team. This alliance will be featured as an add on to BlackBerry devices ...
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Nintendo ended 2012 with a bit of a whimper, earning 2.4 percent less than 2011. So what does that mean for the company that brought us Mario and Zelda this year? Nintendo’s sales from 2012 may not have been as high as 2011 but they managed to turn a profit of 14.5 billion yen. The saving grace for Nintendo’s profits was the Nintendo 3DS, which I have found to be Nintendo’s stron...
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