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Date: Fri, 9. January 2009 18:23:05

Reuters - The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter.

Date: Mon, 25. August 2008 13:18:00

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....

Date: Sat, 13. February 2010 03:19:01

harrymcc writes "For more than 20 years, Sunnyvale's cavernous, aptly-named Weird Stuff Warehouse has sold an amazing array of salvage and surplus computer products. It's like a tech museum where everything's for sale at bargain-basement prices mdash; from shrinkwrapped Atari 1040ST software to used BetaMAX tapes to 1GB hard drives to mysterious printed circuit boards to Selectric typewriters. I paid a visit to this legendary geek temple and snapped photos of some of the fascinating stuff I came across."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/12/1618226/Silicon-Valleys-Island-of-Misfit-Tech?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/12/1618226"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/12/1618226/Silicon-Valleys-Island-of-Misfit-Tech?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VmHzMYYoJzL9kCqqHh0EuA_A4jQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VmHzMYYoJzL9kCqqHh0EuA_A4jQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VmHzMYYoJzL9kCqqHh0EuA_A4jQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VmHzMYYoJzL9kCqqHh0EuA_A4jQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/PgP4kgH58CY" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 26. June 2009 15:05:07

Xiroth writes "The Australian Federal Communications Ministry has confirmed that they intend to use the planned filter to block the download of games that have been refused by Australia's classification authority, the OFLC. As an Electronic Frontiers Australia spokesman noted, 'This is confirmation that the scope of the mandatory censorship scheme will keep on creeping.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/25/1821235/Australian-Web-Filter-To-Censor-Downloaded-Games?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/06/25/1821235"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/25/1821235/Australian-Web-Filter-To-Censor-Downloaded-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/74I3VH2Atsq7_FjWjzqDWV6HZzc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/74I3VH2Atsq7_FjWjzqDWV6HZzc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/74I3VH2Atsq7_FjWjzqDWV6HZzc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/74I3VH2Atsq7_FjWjzqDWV6HZzc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/7IeC0sdaNbw" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 4. August 2009 13:12:16

Thanks to cheaper development tools, there have been an increasing number of alternative games willing to take more risks. And sometimes, they don't even resemble games. These are the best ?what do you call it?? games.

Date: Thu, 5. June 2008 13:09:24

Independent developers around the world have discovered that forcing themselves to make games under insanely tight deadlines is a great way to get games made. Some of them are awful, but some of them are downright awesome.

Date: Fri, 26. December 2008 17:10:37

The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.

Date: Fri, 26. December 2008 17:10:37

The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.

Date: Sat, 13. March 2010 03:26:56

krou writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming's English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an assistant professor at UW who is part of the group, explains that 'it's a group of people [who] do research on games, do development on games, and keep an archive of games printed matter such as manuals, ... systems, all of it. We really look at games as cultural artifacts; things that reveal theology, things that reveal power. Things that should be studied in the academy.' The English Department has been very open-minded with the project, because they understand that gaming can educate people, and that 'we can expand our notion of what text and study is; the idea that it might be fun doesn't necessarily preclude its study.' Thompson believes that it's important for academia to study gaming, because games could be used in the future as a type of textbook: 'if games can teach, then as teachers shouldn't we understand what kind of teaching's going on?'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F12%2F1536244%2FUniversity-of-Wyoming-Studies-Video-Games" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=University+of+Wyoming+Studies+Video+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcA1DSW" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/12/1536244/University-of-Wyoming-Studies-Video-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1580840amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6qmQYuArHNnNbjPgKmfOXLg6ywE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6qmQYuArHNnNbjPgKmfOXLg6ywE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6qmQYuArHNnNbjPgKmfOXLg6ywE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/6qmQYuArHNnNbjPgKmfOXLg6ywE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NonAg3eASUc" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sun, 11. October 2009 15:06:56

An anonymous reader writes "Rock, Paper, Shotgun points out a new game called Star Guard, a Flash-based platformer for Mac and PC that's a throwback to the early days of computer gaming, yet still entertaining. They describe it thus: 'Its greatest strength, to my mind, is throwing out the old-school traditions of difficulty. It does certainly get tricky, requiring the platformer standbys of carefully timed jumps and learning enemy patterns mdash; there's something of a Metroid vibe to it. But you don't get punished for failing to meet one of its challenges mdash; you're just plunged a few feet back to most recent checkpoint, and carry on. Lives are not finite, but the small mound of green pixels that mark your corpses are a maudlin testament to your ineptitude. However, death is useful mdash; I ritually found myself sending in a suicide spaceman, taking out an enemy or a mine so that the path was clear for my next go. ... However, it doesn't leave people who pride themselves on their gaming skill, and demand their games to be hard, out in the cold. At the end of each level, your score alters dramatically depending on how many times you died.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/10/1134217/emStar-Guardem-mdash-an-Old-School-Platformer-Done-Right?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/10/1134217"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/10/1134217/emStar-Guardem-mdash-an-Old-School-Platformer-Done-Right?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTMR1uo5L71cR9DdmphcDDjmgvg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTMR1uo5L71cR9DdmphcDDjmgvg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTMR1uo5L71cR9DdmphcDDjmgvg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTMR1uo5L71cR9DdmphcDDjmgvg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0HI3XDUZMDA" height="1" width="1"/