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Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit 48

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 04, 2009 @07:14AM from the how-it's-done dept.

As a follow-up to Epic Games' release of a free version of the Unreal Engine last month, the company has now posted over 160 video tutorials which demonstrate the various uses of the Unreal Development Kit. Roughly 20 hours of footage were created by technical education company 3D Buzz, with topics ranging from user interface to game physics to cinematics.

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:32PM from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts 202

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:23AM from the been-doing-a-lot-of-extra-credit-lately dept.

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks." Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

New Fable II DLC Coming May 12th 26

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 30, 2009 @01:42PM from the more-and-better dept.

Lionhead Studios today announced that their next section of downloadable content for Fable II, called See the Future, will be available on May 12th. The new content will include new quests, monsters and items, a Colosseum, and alter egos for the player's dog. Peter Molyneux also hinted at a connection to the next Fable game, saying, "... it would be pretty poor to say See the Future if it didn't have some connection." Further details are available in the latest in Lionhead's series of developer diaries.

Comment not the way (Score 1) 604

by noahmach on Monday April 03, 2000 @01:52PM (#1154210) Attached to: Microsoft Loses

I am as dissatisfied with the poor performance of Microsoft products as anyone else, but I don't think that this is the way to beat them. Wouldn't it be more satisfying to have Microsoft go down because it was replaced by superior software than because of an act of government? I don't see why anyone would think of Microsoft as a monopoly when there are other commercially available products that provide similar if not insanely superior results. Just because most people don't want to, or don't know how to use these other operating systems doesn't mean that they don't exist. We are proof of that. I could be wrong, it has been known to happen every one in a while }:-{

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