Acting on instinct – it’s something we all do in our daily lives, but very rarely are allowed to do when playing a videogame. Yes, many videogames offer...

May 15, 2008 6:00 AMRPGWatch has posted a new review of Spiderweb Software's Avernum 5. The latest installment in the long running RPG series takes a new direction with...

Last week WHO's flu maven, Keiji Fukuda, said what we and others have been saying for a long time. Flu scientists need to change their research ethics. The world of flu...

Recently I had a weird dream.I dreamt I had to explain to a bunch of "important" people why the film was delayed.Even Dick Williams was there, though I've only met him...

I got a chance to talk with Adam Parrish at the ITP show about his project called the "Autonomous Parapoetic Device". I have to thank him for tearing it completely...

Filed under: iPod Family, Beta Beat, iPhone Really cool stuff today over at ModMyiPhone. The new IntelliScreen software customizes your "Slide to Unlock"...

( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: PG - for sequences of action, some violence and language   Avg. Score: 2.5/5    ...

As mentioned in a previous posting, the practice of patch "rejuvenation" to break out large complex patches (typically Kernel patches) into smaller, simpler...

Filed under: News Of all the things that could have been showcased for Alone in the Dark at Microsoft's Gamers' Day 08, we're not sure we would have picked the two...

Continuing searching palindromic sqaure numbers finds a new record number, a 55 digit parlindromic square:  1373512530649258635292477609^ 2 =...

The Wachowskis have created something that's cheesy and childish but with enough visual beauty and fun race sequences for it to be worth a watch. There’s no...

To continue the discussion about development languages, I want to ask a potentially embarrassing question: has the whole object orientation business been both a...

One of the main features that we shipped in .NET 3.5 is the ability to bind to XLinq directly from XAML. In this post, I will first cover the basics of this new feature,...

Looking for something more interesting than random web vids to pass the time on a slow workday? Consider composing some brainwaves and perhaps even sharing them with...

Ueberschall has released Urbanic Producer Pack, a new 1.3 Gb Hip Hop and RnB sample library. With more than 1120 individual single drum sounds consisting of punch filled:...

2008-04-14: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture), which defines a...

Three Apple patent applications have surfaced at the US Patent and Trademark Office, addressing two drastically different technologies: conference calling and hardware...

I did quite a bit of work for 8.3 on closing holes that allowed improperly encoded data into the database, so it's now quite hard, if not impossible, to get Postgres to...

If a random person walked up to on the street and asked you what your favorite type of gameplay was, what would you say? Jumping from platform to platform? Shooting down...

When developing a build it is often useful to have it in debug mode. Debug mode is when log content is echoed to the screen during the build and all the logs, including...