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| | As more Q1 fiscal reports keep rolling in, it's clear that Sony stands out among the gaming pack, thanks in part to a significant rise is PS3 Sales. Unfortunately, Nintendo and Capcom didn't fare so well. [ATTACH=RIGHT]16254[/ATTACH][B]Sony[/B] Sony bounced back from a 1st quarter loss of $426 million last year, … |
| | cant decide which is best, caanoo has the best specs, dsi has the most fun games, and the psp go looks the slickest...can you see my dilema. |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]16160[/ATTACH][URL="http://www.gamestop.com"]GameStop[/URL], the world's largest game retailer, has acquired [URL="http://www.kongregate.com/"]Kongregate[/URL], a free online game aggregator that aggregates independent games, as well as producing some of its own, such as the steampunk MMO [URL="http://remnantsofskystone.com/"]Remnants of Skystone[/URL], developed for Kongregate by Flipline Studios. Kongregate's 10 million monthly visitors socialize and compete via its … |
 | Here is my practise with [URL="http://www.boggled.org/"]boggle [/URL]letter square non-overlapping word finder after some drastic debugging and cleaning. I think it is reasonable speed also. Comments wellcome. |
 | First there was the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story285531.html"]Google Pac-Man game[/URL] to waste a bit of online time, now Google has dropped an Easter Egg game into YouTube in the shape of the classic Snake. Yes, you can now play Snake on YouTube right in the middle of watching a video, right there in … |
| | I'm trying to get my Wii online. I'm trying to enter my router. I have the address as 192.168.1.1 When I enter that, the window comes up. When I leave the user blank and the password as "admin," it does nothing. After 3 tries a window pops up and says … |
| | Hello everyone! I want a program for creating games and I want to learn both the graphics and the coding aspects of it. This isn't a big deal, it'll only be for home use and entertainment, so I definitely don't want to spend money on it. I use Linux-Ubuntu. I … |
 | A Halo: Reach branded console was unveiled yesterday at Comic-Con to the rejoicing of millions of people still driving their mom’s minivan and living off three-year-old caches of Mountain Dew’s Game Fuel. [ATTACH]16053[/ATTACH] For $399 USD and £249.99 respectively, the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo: Reach Bundle includes a custom … |
| | [ATTACH=right]16067[/ATTACH]As if carpal tunnel, driving while texting and the possibility that your cell phone might be seeding a tumor in your brain weren't enough, meet another new ailment of the information age -- [URL="http://text-neck.com"]Text Neck[/URL]. The phrase was coined by Florida chiropractor, exercise physiologist and entrepreneur Dean Fishman, who tells … |
| | [ATTACH]16085[/ATTACH] Capcom held its Street Fighter IV press conference an 12 PST today at Comic-Con San Diego, and as expected, confirmed and debunked a few rumors. In the end, it was a great conference for Street Fighter fans, and a reality-check for fans of the ill-fated Darkstalkers series last seen … |
| | [ATTACH]16041[/ATTACH] [B]Comic-Con Round-Up, Street Fighter Edition.[/B] [B]Street-Fighter Mania:[/B] Street Fighter has been the center of much speculation lately. There are rumors of two new titles in the versus-series, as well as character additions to the already announced, Marvel vs. Capcom 3. It was only a few years ago that there … |
| | Xbox Live’s third annual Summer of Arcade, presenting the biggest and best smash hits of the season, kicks off today with the release of Limbo. A short description on the Xbox Live Marketplace leads way into a marvelously morose journey: “Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO.” That’s … |
| | i've been thinking, what is the easiest way to make a game...flash(albeit mostly 2d). what platform has the most games... any thing w/ flash suupport. what format has the most devs...flash. look at kongregate, miniclip, armor games, they recieve a new game everyday. there are alot of markets out there...open … |
| | Today, gaming industry execs and fans will gather at Epic Games' Headquarters in Cary, N.C. and this time, they're not checking out the giant slide in the lobby. They're supporting Governor Perdue and witness the signing of House Bill 1973 - tax incentives for the digital entertainment industry. [ATTACH=RIGHT]16060[/ATTACH]North Carolina … |
| | For my intro to programming class i have to design a game where a ball is shot at an angle and hits squares that are worth points. I have two questions 1.How do you get the ball to move. I was given this code but I don't know if I … |
| | No doubt, by now you have heard of Microsoft’s latest addition to their Xbox 360, the Kinect controller-less …uhh controller. Instead of a standard handheld controller, the Kinect is a stationary sensor bar that sits in front of your TV. While the Kinect has been compared to the Nintendo Wii’s … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]15945[/ATTACH]Team Ninja, widely known for their Ninja Gaiden titles, are in charge of the latest entry in the Metroid series, known as Metroid: Other M. The series director Yoshio Sakamoto and two Team Ninja cohorts reveal their intentions and aspirations for the revamp of Nintendo fans' favorite space vixen and …  |
| | It only took Sony four years, but they’ve finally created their version of the Wii killer: a glowing magic wand lollipop known to the world as the PlayStation Move. Requiring Sony's PlayStation Eye camera to deliver the experience dubbed by some as the most advanced motion controlled gaming to date … |
| | Setup: PC desktop GT5656 Windows vista home premium 3gb ddr2 dual channel 500 gb hard disk AMD athlon 64x2 6000+ Hello, I turn my computer on and it gives me the "Launch System Repair" and "log into windows vista menu" When I choose either option the computer shuts down. When … |
| | The Consumerist is currently running a [URL="http://consumerist.com/5160187/identifying-yourself-as-a-lesbian-gets-you-banned-on-xbox-live"]story[/URL] about how a gamer was first harassed by other players and then booted off Xbox Live by Microsoft. Her crime? Admitting she was a lesbian in her gamer profile. According to the report she was harassed online by other gamers and when she … |
| | Sales for the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour titles from Electronic Arts have plummeted 68% from last years edition of the game and people have begun pointing fingers at the entitled golfer's promiscuity. It sure is easy to pass the buck when the accused is steeping in scandal, but that … |
| | Hi, just recently playing mmos on my pc, namely 'fusionfall', graphically it is a good game but it is very slow. So i was wondering if there are any other browser based mmos you could recommend? i dont want to download anything as my computer is slow enough already! Not … |
| | Big bucks, no whammies, and STARCRAFT II! At least that’s Activision Blizzard CEO’s Bobby Kotick’s take. According to a recent [I]Wall Street Journal[/I] interview with Kotick, Activision Blizzard has exceeded an already belt-busting budget of $100 million on their soon-to-be industry-leading cash cow. Released in March of 1998, the science … |
| | At a recent Q&A session in front of investors at E3, Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aime adamantly defended the Wii console’s pace to break the record-setting game sale trends of the Playstation 2, claiming that his console is at the “high watermark” of its existence, with software sales numbers … |
| | A recent study by Texas A&M International University found that contrary to popular belief, violent video games can actually aid in alleviating stress. The beneficial findings are a sharp contrast to the otherwise bleak shadow cast in recent years by narrow-minded big wigs trying to get ahead in the polls … |
| | Peter Molyneux, the man behind Lionhead Studios and the fantasy based series, Fable, spoke at a TED Global (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference in Oxford on Tuesday, reintroducing Milo, the “virtual human” software that utilizes Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect controller for the Xbox 360. This is the first time Milo has …  |
 | Hi, long time no C. I have started using the Irrlicht gaming engine but have bumped into a problem which has been bugging me for the past 6 hours flat. I have a variable containing a std::string but it needs to be converted to a (const wchar_t *) string. Does … |
| | A new game development company, [URL="http://www.direwolfdigital.com/"]Dire Wolf Digital,[/URL] has officially announced itself to the world today and could be prepared to make a big splash in the gaming world come 2011. [ATTACH=right]15818[/ATTACH]The company shows some strong potential given their current make-up of seasoned veterans in the gaming and business world … |
 | Hi all, hope you are well. I own a Toshiba p100 notebook with vista business. The GPU is an nvidia 7600 geforce go and I have noticed that the fan for the GPU only spins when booting up. The moment Vista begins loading, the fan stops and doesnt come back … |
 | [ATTACH=right]15788[/ATTACH]High-end video accelerator tools now make password recovery twentyfold faster than the current top of the line quad-core CPUs. Unlike current recovery tools, such as those offered by Intel, [URL="http://www.nvidia.com/object/fermi_architecture.html"]these new Fermi-based video boards[/URL] exceed benchmark speeds of even previous NVIDIA Tesla solutions based on the previous-generation chipsets. CPUs will … |
| | My budget is 1,500 Singapore Dollars. I want to get a computer for gaming but i do not trust Dell as i have heard and read about them thus i chose to choose a computer /laptop from Toshiba but i do not know what intel core/ motherboard and graphics i … |
| | My name is Melandra and I am probably a bit unusual in that rather than being any kind of a computer technician myself, I work for a company that supplies you technicians with translation of your video game text, software and help files etc. when you want to reach overseas …  |
 | Hello, I have a simple idea for a gaming application tool. I would like to create a small tool for an online game that I play. [B] The tools objective will just be to alert the user through a sound that will play as soon as there is any type … |
| | hey guys ...i m making a project of "CHESS GAME"..... in which to identify any pieces of chess board ,i had used described mechanism....(see code of array) ... but it actually not working...it takes garbage value...it is working only for the "Rook"... i can't understand this behavior...so plz help me …  |
| | Hi all, I just wanted to see if anyone here could clear up a few questions about DRM, notably SecuROM, in games and its effects on one's system stability. I've read many conflicting reports and information on this subject, and several things have come to light. Many people say that … |
| | Hi, I'm new to this forum, and had already run Belarc Advisor to get info on my computer before coming here. Now I just wish I could read it. I think it's the same info I'd get with cpu-z too though. Dell Inspiron 1100 running Windows XP SP3 2.4 Ghz … |
| | Well, I am actually making a custom 2d turn based gaming engine in Java. So far I have actually gotten a solid based down, the ability to load a seamless game world (no instances) as well as a layered world, with a terrain layer, buildings layer, unit layer then an … |
| | I seriously dont get it ..what is best ?...a ps3 graphics card ...(which i heard was like 8800gt) or the xbox 360 custom ati card which is equivelent to the (4870) i think ...........or custom built pc i have both xbox360 a and pc with crossfire sli (ati 4870 ) … |
 | Just [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story283037.html"]weeks [/URL]after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales came under criticism for being overly zealous about removing information, particularly images, that could be considered to be child pornography from the electronic encyclopedia, the site is being accused by Fox News of harboring pedophiles. "Wikipedia has become home base for a loose … |
 | Back this morning from an excellent evening hosted by Toshiba listening to Bruno Beusch, managing director of [URL="http://www.gamehotel.net"]gamehotel[/URL]. He gave a talk about how games were becoming increasingly pervasive and was quite persuasive; the thing that really caught my attention, however, was the idea that game makers would be able … |
| | Two headlines grabbed my attention today. The first proclaiming that Linux sucks while the second announced it was possible to boot into a full Linux OS in less than a single solitary second. Paul Rako [URL="http://www.edn.com/article/CA6720353.html"]reports[/URL] that one company, an embedded-Linux specialist called MontaVista Software, has gone step further than … |
| | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has just sat down after speaking for an hour to deliver the coalition Government's 'Emergency Budget' to a crowded and noisy House of Commons - and it's not good news for the games industry. Of interest to those in the IT industry in … |
| | Ok, so I'm trying to make a constructor for a text-based game for a monster. Here is the code for it: [CODE]public class Methods { String name; //characteristics of monsters int bodyPoints, mindPoints, attack, defense; public Monster(String name, int bodyPoints, int mindPoints, int attack, int defense) { this.name=name; this.bodyPoints=bodyPoints; this.mindPoints=mindPoints; … |
| | I am trying to refresh part of my page using ajax and it works fine in FireFox but when I test it IE I get an error at "document.getElementById('ipb_table_reload').innerHTML = response;" which says "Unknown runtime error" the webpage can be found [url=http://www.trident-gaming.net/forums/index.php?app=ccs&module=pages§ion=pages&id=22]here[/url]. I have tried googling this error and everything … |
| | My site is a kid-based gaming site. I don't want users to be able to enter bad words. I don't want a filter that censors them, but one that if a bad word is found, redirects them to a Filtered Word page. On my previous one, words like hello or … |
| | I need to code a program for my friend and it has been giving me some difficulties. This needs to have two classes, one called Tester and another called Game. And the data in the Game class needs to be pulled to the tester class after the calculations are finished. …  |
| | Hi, Just joined the community so here's my intro! Name: Steve Nickname: StoneTheCrows Height: 5'10" Weight: Too high Hair: grey (Whats left of it LOL) Eyes: Varies (Really) Location: UK Age: 53 Hobbies: RC Planes ([I]Just started as I need a hobby that doesn't involve staring at a screen[/I]), Online … |
| | First of all, I would like to intoduce myself here, as this is my first post. I am a 16 year old male from Pittsburgh, PA, US. My biggest intrests in life are gaming, and hardware, so I love places like this :cheesy:. Anyway, there is one problem that has … |
| | I made a Roguelike game with SFML in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and got it to compile fine in both configurations. However, when I run it in Debug mode in either, I get an error message. Debug says: [quote] This Application has failed to start because the Application configuration is …  |
| | I'm looking for a good introductory book for 2D OpenGL Game Programming. The only books on OpenGL I've seen were on 3D. Does anyone know of a good 2D OpenGL Book? Thanks in advance, EpicAsian |
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