UMEngin - Slashdot User

Comment Missing Option: Lagrangian Points (Score 1, Interesting) 508

by UMEngin on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @08:05PM (#32751754) Attached to: NASA Should Focus On Going To..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_points The focus should be some type of hub at one of these points to launch future missions from. Unfortunately, "Mission to nowhere" would be the headline.

Comment Monty Python Style (Score 0) 451

by UMEngin on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @05:22PM (#29446527) Attached to: Favorite seasonal transition?

Missing Option: Winter -> Autumn

Comment Re:I'd watch the olympics if it wasn't done by NBC (Score 0) 399

by UMEngin on Friday August 22, 2008 @03:48PM (#24710859) Attached to: How much Olympic coverage have you watched?

CBC (Canada) has the best coverage. They always showed a great mix of different sports and stayed long enough at each sport to make it worthwhile. I live in metro Detroit and have always watched CBC for its great hockey, non-US news and Olympic coverage, it's too bad that I no longer get the station with ATT U-Verse.

Free 'Ad-Backed' Games the Future? 59

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @01:28PM from the i-think-signs-point-to-yes dept.

MacarooMac writes "EA Games recently announced they are to release a free online version of their PC game 'Battlefield Heroes', supported by in game adverts and micro payments. EA hopes the model of a free game as a download that is supported by advertising could be applied to other franchises it owns. For this particular title, no adverts will appear in the game itself due to incompatibility with the game's fictional world. Instead, adverts will appear on the website and the 'front-end' of the game. But many other titles can and do provide for product placement during game play itself. How long before improvements in video graphics, combined with dynamic, and perhaps even interactive in-game advertising, start to generate revenue increases that enable publishers to substantially reduce the price of their games?" Already a very common model for Eastern online titles, and being adapted here in the states by a number of companies.

BioShock Receives Record-Breaking 12 AIAS Nominations 65

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 18, 2008 @12:25PM from the dang-good-games dept.

dampeal writes "The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences today announced the nominees for the 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards. The nominations for the peer-based awards have been dominated by two blockbuster first-person shooter games, BioShock (2K Games) and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision) by receiving an astounding 10+ nominations from industry leaders and members of the interactive entertainment software business. In addition, finalists in close lead with top nominations include: The Orange Box (Electronic Arts and Valve Software), Rock Band (MTV Games) and Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo of America), all up for the Overall Game of the Year Award."

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