Spore: The Movie. Sounds like a bad idea
Some adaptations of video games to movies just leave you shaking your head. The Angelina Jolie/Tomb Raider movies made a lot of sense. But Spore?
Electronic Arts announced today that Twentieth Century Fox and EA are teaming up to adapt the game Spore into an animated… Continue Reading
314 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans poorer than last year
Warren Buffett’s wealth took a dive this past year, losing $10 billion in value on his shares in Berkshire Hathaway. At least he’s not alone. More than three-quarters of Forbes’s annual list of the 400 richest Americans lost wealth in the past year.
Buffett tosses around… Continue Reading
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders
Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant…. Continue Reading
Is the video game exercise trend getting overloaded or just starting?
In video games, Nintendo starts the trends and then the copycats pile in. At some point, gamers get jaded and the trend collapses.
Nintendo made the exercise-gaming trend into a phenomenon with Wii Fit, which has sold more than 10 million copies since its launch a… Continue Reading
UC Berkeley’s CITRIS lab: a haven for startups tries to solve big problems
Most university research centers can’t say they’ve produced 76 startups.
But that’s the record of University of California at Berkeley’s micro-fabrication engineering lab. Now a new lab with a new building and a new nano-fabrication facility — the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest… Continue Reading
Game industry maverick Bernie Stolar: unplugged and worried about crappy games
Bernie Stolar, former games evangelist at Google and a veteran of many game companies, is one of those unfiltered loose cannons. He had a fireside chat on Friday with Forbes writer Mary Jane Irwin at the SD Forum games conference at Microsoft’s office in Mountain… Continue Reading
OwnEnergy shoots for $100M to fund wind power
OwnEnergy just brought in an undisclosed amount in first-round funding, but the 1-year-old wind and alternative energy company is already looking ahead to the full $100 million it needs to raise to develop its first project, a 51-megawatt wind farm in north Texas — and… Continue Reading
Vivox scores deals for voice-communication in online games for 38 Studios and Sony
Once considered an afterthought in games, voice communication is becoming a bigger part of the online gaming experience. Now players can use sound strategically in large games known as massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). You can engage in a high-quality group voice chat with a… Continue Reading
Web companies organize massive effort to patch fundamental Internet flaw
The entire underpinnings of the Internet are vulnerable to a major bug in how Internet addresses are managed, security researchers announced today. The problem is so big that dozens of companies and government organizations have secretly synchronized an effort to fix it.
The companies — from… Continue Reading