Feed New York Times: Vivendi to Acquire Control of Activision (nytimes.com)
The $1.7 billion deal creates the biggest independent video game publisher.
Submission + - Blizzard and Activision merge (bbc.co.uk)
Vicksplace writes: "The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry.
Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (£9.15bn)."
Submission + - Riding Shotgun with the Google Street View Beetle (popularmechanics.com)
longacre writes: "Popular Mechanics takes a ride in an Immersive Media VW Beetle, one of the six cars that drives around America shooting images for Google Maps Street View. Mounted on the roof is the $45,000 Dodeca 2360 video camera, whose 11 lenses record a 360 degree field of view at 30 frames per second, sucking up as many as 200 miles of city scenes per day. The setup takes up the whole back seat and part of the front passenger seat, and is all controlled with an off-the-shelf Logitech game controller. Includes a cool interactive raw video of a drive through Manhattan."
Comment Problem. (Score 2, Interesting) 428
I do not live in the US, and I do not live in any of the (major) cities given. If I were actually interested, what would I do?
