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Date: Mon, 14. March 2011 11:42:15

What seems like fun and games to Lilly Scott and Katelynn Stevens at Fairyland Elementary School is really a complex process constructing and programming a working robot in the computer lab as a class project.

Date: Fri, 21. May 2010 10:00:00

No techie wants to ditch a computer, even one that's not working -- and you don't have to. We look at 10 ways to recycle old machines, from using them to serve up games and music to giving them second careers as e-mail stations or nodes to help with scientific research.

Date: Thu, 3. July 2008 03:04:56

Aeonite writes "Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games chronicles the rise and fall of the Computer RPG industry, from Akalabeth to Zelda and everything in between. While the bulk of the book is devoted to the genre's "Golden Age" in the late '80s and early '90s, author Matt Barton explores the entire history of CRPGs, from their origins in the mid '70s to the very recent past. While not entirely comprehensive, the book covers not only the major players and award-winners, but also dozens of obscure "also-rans" as well as notable games in related genres." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 4. October 2010 20:31:16

Some of the top paddlers competing in the Commonwealth Games are expected to use their experience in the Delhi Games in preparation for the upcoming Asian Games. - (AHN)

Date: Wed, 14. October 2009 03:05:55

jtogel writes "Many games use 'rubberbanding' to adapt to your skill level, making the game harder if you're a better player and easier if you're not. Just think of Mario Kart and the obvious ways it punishes you for driving too well by giving the people who are hopelessly behind you super-weapons to smack you with. It's also very common to just increase the skill of the NPCs as you get better mdash; see Oblivion. In my research group, we are working on slightly more sophisticated ways to adapt the game to you, including generating new level elements (PDF) based on your playing style (PDF). Now, the question becomes: is this a good thing at all? Some people would claim that adapting the game to you just rewards mediocrity (i.e. you don't get rewarded for playing well). Others would say that it restricts the freedom of expression for the game designer. But still, game players have very different skill levels and skill sets when they come to a game, and we would like to cater to them all. And if you don't see playing skill as one-dimensional, maybe it's possible to do meaningful adaptation. What sort of game adaptation would you like to see?"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/13/078247/Should-Computer-Games-Adapt-To-the-Way-You-Play?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/13/078247"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/13/078247/Should-Computer-Games-Adapt-To-the-Way-You-Play?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bLKgmQMh8onp60R_RgbBOYXCdSo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bLKgmQMh8onp60R_RgbBOYXCdSo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bLKgmQMh8onp60R_RgbBOYXCdSo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bLKgmQMh8onp60R_RgbBOYXCdSo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/QuMuxyo6ow4" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 16. June 2008 03:04:55

scriptedfun writes "The BBC reports that David and Richard Darling, the brother tandem who founded Codemasters back in the mid-'80s from their bedroom, were recently made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for their 'services to the computer games industry.' Their story is definitely inspiring for modern-day independent game developers." Naming such honorees annually is one of the perks of being Queen.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 4. March 2009 19:57:10

Chrch sez stop txtn 4 lent. Or, put another way, the Italian branch of the Roman Catholic Church wants its followers to forswear text messaging, social-networking Web sites and computer games in the run-up to ...

Date: Sun, 3. July 2011 19:00:00

Appolicious - While having apps that can shout out driving directions or read passages from a book are pretty standard, the robotic voice supplying that information no longer has to sound like the computer from War Games.

Date: Thu, 8. April 2010 12:28:28

Reuters - Apple's iPad tablet computer hasn't been out a week yet but there are already over 830 video games that have been developed to suit the large format, high definition, multi-touch screen.

Date: Thu, 30. July 2009 20:04:38

by VixenTorGames Most people know about games like rummy or poker, but what they don't know is that Egyptians actually invented these games (in the interest of full disclosure, I made that up). However, the Egyptian versions of these games did not inc