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Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis For Stupid Fun Club 102

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @07:23PM from the requires-flash-10-for-shame-for-shame dept.

Dave Knott writes "Gamasutra reports that SimCity, Sims and Spore game creator Will Wright is leaving EA/Maxis. He will now be acting as head of Stupid Fun Club, an 'entertainment think tank' that he was previously funding out of his own pocket. From the article: 'The club has focused mainly on designing and building robots, as well as creating video productions based on them. Wright and EA will co-own Stupid Fun Club, which will focus on developing new cross-media IP for games, movies, TV and toys. EA has the right to develop game concepts that emerge from the think tank, and both the company and Wright have an equal stake.'"

Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability 199

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @08:42AM from the because-they-can dept.

cstrep writes "Eight years ago, Opera introduced Mouse Gestures as a way to speed up your interaction with the browser, and focus on what's important: Content. In 2005, Voice Navigation was introduced, and more recently we've worked with Nintendo to create a browser that takes full advantage of the 'Wiimote' and later, the touchscreen in the DSi. Today Opera introduces Face Gestures, a revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with Opera easier on computers with cameras. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. By using an internal technology dubbed 'Face Observation Opera Language,' we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser."

Comment what's new? (Score 1) 360

by dishie on Monday March 30, 2009 @12:21PM (#27389713) Attached to: Command Lines and the Future of Firefox

Isn't the whole internet-thing a big command line-search? You send some (small) text string, and receive more useful text back. But why put it in firefox? It's already possible to to add a custom search, and a default one. Change the default one from google.com to firefox.org/search-cl and let the server guess you're real intension. But hey, doesn't google work that way already?

Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 549

by dishie on Sunday March 01, 2009 @06:28PM (#27033543) Attached to: I would install the following technology in my current/future children:

Linux is the obvious answer - so you could have every one of the other options.

Except the last option, you'll need another OS for that.

Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows 272

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @10:10AM from the pleasant-stroll-through-the-shooting-range dept.

Verunks writes "Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible."

Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released 82

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:01AM from the exit-light-enter-night dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Metallica has announced the setlist for their upcoming Guitar Hero game. They have a wide variety of songs from their different albums. There are 28 Metallica songs and 21 from other artists. They have also confirmed the release date of March 29th. The list includes Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, One, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Fans who pre-order the game will have an opportunity to get an extra bass drum pedal to keep up with Lars Ulrich's beats."

What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly 132

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2009 @05:40AM from the needs-more-website dept.

theodp writes "MAD Magazine is about to put out its 500th issue, but starting with its April publication, the mag is cutting down to only four issues per year. The feedback we've gotten from readers,' quipped Editor John Ficarra, 'is that only every third issue of MAD is funny, so we've decided to just publish those.' MAD Kids and MAD Classics are ceasing publication entirely. Keep up the what-me-worry game face, Alfred!"

Chrome Helping Other Browsers Out, Says Opera CEO 187

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 30, 2008 @10:14AM from the chrome-outnumbers-opera-on-slashdot dept.

Pablo Martinez-Almeida writes "Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner confirms that new entrants in the browser market are raising awareness on the mainstream Internet community about the availability of alternatives to the ubiquitous Internet Explorer. 'How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you? JvT: The effect of Chrome so far has been 20 percent more downloads every day. It's fairly logical when you think about it, because the biggest hurdle we have is all those people that don't realize there's an alternative in the market. Now, with the launch of Chrome there's focus on the choice of browsers in the market.'

Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All 433

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @07:30AM from the well-that-didn't-end-as-planned dept.

gzipped_tar writes to tell us that The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. A while back Codeweavers gave President Bush a challenge to meet one of several goals before he left office. One of these goals was to lower gas prices in the Twin Cities below $2.79 a gallon, which has since transpired. "How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."

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