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War Hero Discovers Himself in A Computer Game
It’s not every day you discover yourself explicitly recreated in a war game, but that’s exactly what happened to Lt Col Andy Harrison: The decorated officer’s “avatar” stands in full British Army uniform, with body armour and an SA80 rifle in the game, which is set in the fictional war-torn countr
Cheat Sheet 7/14: Sony invests in exclusive downloads, two million people to test CoD community feature
Dig into some more mainstream videogame news! -Check out the new trailer for Paradox’s Pirates of the Black Cove. -Two million people heard the call to beta test Call of Duty Elite. -Sony and Namco unite to form Cellius. -Take a look at this gameplay preview of Steel Chronicle from Konami. -Sony
BBC journalist loses WWII in Hearts of War III, learns experience is the hardest teacher
Back in January, BBC journalist Paul Mason documented his attempt to re-fight WWII in real-time strategy game Hearts of Iron III. Playing as France, Mason was putting a historical theory to the test: if the Allies had declared war in 1938 to defend Czechoslovakia against the Germans, the war might h
The Einstein robot that can emote is just one more step toward Blade Runner
How far do you think robotics have come? Before you can finish saying “ASIMO”, get to know the Einstein-resembling robot which, thanks to scientists at the University of California, has learned various facial expressions by looking in a mirror and mimicking (so to speak): It randomly moved its 30 f
Cheat Sheet 7/13: Capcom plans game debut at ComicCon, EA founder sees Zynga as hope for game innovation
Now let’s zoom through some more mainstream videogame news! – Get the latest details on Team Meat’s The Binding of Isaac. –Watch Tim Schafer pitch Once Upon a Monster to Cookie Monster. –Capcom plans to introduce a new game at ComicCon. –Take a look at these screens for A Game of Thrones: Genesis.
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