February 5th at 2 a.m. PST; the public will finally see what Halo Wars is all about. A demo will be available to public in all Xbox Live regions worldwide. Halo Wars is the newest in the line of Halo games, with a slight twist. Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game which will allow […]
This semester students at UC Berkeley can fill their minds with traditional reading, writing, arithmetic and… Starcraft? Class began January 29th, with student instructor Alan Feng at the helm. The Starcraft course is a decal course (a student suggested course, approved by a supporting department or faculty) where students attending will receive actual college credits.
A seven year study, beginning in 1995, with researchers looking at exposure to media content, has shown an increase in the likelihood that young adults with a lot of media exposure are at a higher risk of depression. 4,142 teenagers in 1995 (who had no previous symptoms of depression) were monitored for the study. The
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As of January 27th, Relic’s Warhammer 40K Dawn of War II multiplayer beta is available for the public to download. The beta will feature five multiplayer maps, and all four of the game’s races (Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, and the new Tyranids).You can find the download through Games for Windows – LIVE marketplace and through
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– A study to be published in the January 16th edition of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin indicates that violence and gore do not make games more attractive to players. The report, produced by investigators at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. and Immersyve, a “player-experience” research firm, found that gore in games
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Small startup IST’s generator is hungry — for your trash. While some companies have turned to solar or wind power to cut their power budgets and green their campus, IST’s solution is twofold: cut your waste disposal costs, while also producing green power and heat. The generator, called the Green Energy Machine (GEM), takes up
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PHILADELPHIA (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 videogames, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter. Departing from the recruiting environment of metal tables and uniformed soldiers in a drab military building,
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(Reuters) – Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has cut the price of some processors by as much as 48 percent as it confronts slumping demand and new lower-cost chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Bloomberg reported. The price of Celeron 570 processors, designed for laptops, dropped 48 percent to $70 whereas one of the
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Could the days of the $400 Playstation 3 be numbered? So says financial analyst Michael Pachter, who predicted this week that Sony will trim the price of its cheapest Playstation 3 pack to a “more affordable” $299 in April, and that an Xbox 360 price cut will follow by June. And the Wii? Don’t hold
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