778 articles on Gaming

  • Valve Wants Schools to Teach With Portals
    Valve, the video game company who brought you the wildly famous brainiac puzzle games Portal and Portal 2, announced last week that it will now be offering Portal 2 and Puzzle Maker free for educators as part of their new Teach with Portals project using Steam for Schools service. This announcement was made at the Games For Change Festival 2012. In their presentation, Valve representatives discussed the enormous positive feedback they had received from the education community and how it was the driving force behind the creation of Teach with Portals.
    06.28.12
  • As Greece Collapses, Gunmen Set Fire to Microsoft
    Three attackers drove a van through the front of Microsoft's offices just north of Athens on Wednesday, marched out security guards at gunpoint, and tried to burn the building to the ground.
    06.27.12
  • Facebook Future-Proofs Data Center With Revamped Network
    When Facebook started work on its new data center in Forest City, North Carolina, the idea was to create pretty much an exact copy of the new-age facility the company had just built on the high-desert of central Oregon. But somewhere along the way, it decided this was a poor idea -- not because the Oregon facility was deficient in any way, but because Facebook's network traffic had changed in a big way and, as is always the case in the internet world, more changes were on the horizon.
    06.26.12
  • How a Nexus Tablet From Google Could Dampen Amazon's Fire
    Google's rumored Nexus tablet is expected to debut this week at the Google I/O developers conference. If it does, it'll face stiff competition from Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. But there is a way it can compete: killer specs at a rock-bottom price.
    06.26.12
  • Women in Technology: Get With the Picture
    As a woman in technology, I hear a lot about the lack of women in the field. While I was in college I noticed that I was usually the only female in the class. My teachers treated me the same and the guys never cared. After I graduated and I started attending events like Microsoft¿s annual Tech Ed, I realized just how much of a minority we are. The thing that keeps catching my attention, though, is how much of an issue people want to make out of it.
    06.26.12
  • And the Winner of the Next Social Networking Jackpot Is...
    The $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer by Microsoft is only the latest acquisition in a string of similar deals. Earlier this month, Salesforce.com spent $689 million to buy Buddy Media, which makes Facebook tools for interacting with customers. Oracle last month bought Virtue, which helps companies coordinate social network posts, for $300 million. And analysts expect acquisitions of "Facebook for business" plays to continue.
    06.26.12
  • Microsoft Pays $1.2B for Corporate Facebook Mimic
    Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer, a San Francisco startup that offers a Facebook-like social network designed specifically for businesses. The acquisition had long been rumored, but on Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it had agreed to purchase the San Francisco startup for $1.2 billion in cash.
    06.25.12
  • Sony's Solo Smartphone: Sharp Shooter, Sleepy Software
    Sony's first non-Ericsson smartphone has a nice camera, a quality screen, and a unique feature that makes it a fine device for enjoying streaming media when you hook it up to your TV. But it's physically modest, and it runs the outdated Gingerbread version of Android.
    06.24.12
  • Harry Potter's Book of Spells on PlayStation 3
    I caught up with Russell Harding, creative director on WonderBook and the Book of Spells title, to find out more about the new product and why they chose E3, rather than the New York Toy Fair to make their announcement. As you can see in the video, he outlined how they were keen to get the new accessory in front of the biggest videogame audience possible and E3 was a good fit for that.
    06.23.12
  • Large and in Charge: Meet the Nintendo 3DS XL
    Okay, I'll admit it; when a new iteration of the Nintendo 3DS handheld didn't make a showing at E3 I got a little cocky. I'd been shrugging off rumors of the "3DS Lite," the "3DS Mark II," practically since the original 3DS hit the market. I said there was no way Nintendo, who recently posted their first annual loss in decades, would bother pushing through a hardware update on what is still essentially a new system. And I was right. Until last night.
    06.22.12
  • Imagine Cup 2012: People's Choice Voting Now Open
    In a couple weeks more than 100 teams of young innovators, entrepreneurs and developers will be traveling from across the globe to Sydney to compete in Imagine Cup 2012. GeekDad will be there to share with you the diverse and fascinating ways that the teams have worked to develop technology driven solutions to deal with the problems and issues facing our world.
    06.22.12


 

 

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