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- Play the original Star Trek video game from 1971
- Journey with us now back to the halcyon days of 1971, when men coded on paper tape and punch cards, and the ASCII-based adventures of the Starship Enterpise are yours for the asking. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Video Game, Video, Star Trek, Starfleet, Games, Corporate Communications, C#, Personal Technology, Marketing, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Photos: A real hockey hero becomes a virtual game star
- NHL All-Star Rick Nash joins a 2K Sports film crew for a motion-capturing session that will be used in the development of the video game publisher's forthcoming NHL 2K9. by CNET News.com
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Video Game, Photograph, NHL, NHL All-Star Rick Nash, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, CNET News.com, news, video games
- Image galleries 2008-06-02
- Video games and the current state of AI
- I finally found time to play the video game F.E.A.R. a few months ago, and I was initially impressed by the artificial intelligence AI. The enemy soldiers appeared to work together towards a common goal (i.e., finding and killing my character); they seemed to use realistic tactics (such as taking...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Video Game, Video, AII, F.E.A.R., Doull, Games, Personal Technology, Justin James
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- The mouse mentality holds down mobile apps
- The mouse defines, in large part, how we compute -- which is great for most needs. Having that "common ground" in terms of the interface is wonderful for probably 90 percent of the applications out there. The problem is the other 10 percent of applications that would be much better...
- Tags: Console, Mouse, Mobile, Problem, Video Game, Holdup, Mice, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Justin James
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Unboxing Rock Band
- Photos of me unboxing the Rock Band bundle for the XBOX 360. by Shawn Morton
- Tags: xbox360, rock band, game, video game, TechRepublic Inc., Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Image galleries 2007-12-04
- Activision Blizzard, the new $18 billion video game company
- Vivendi-owned online gaming heavyweight Blizzard and U.S.-based Activision announced a partnership that will result in a $18 billion video gaming company -- Activision Blizzard. An excerpt from NY Times: The deal combines Activision and Vivendi Games, companies with different areas of strength in the booming video...
- Tags: Vivendi Universal, Video Game, Activision Inc., Video, Gaming Industry, Games, Personal Technology, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Geek Gifts 2007: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- Photos of the hardware and software available in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for the XBOX 360. by Shawn Morton
- Tags: xbox360, guitar hero, video game, game, TechRepublic Inc., Legend, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Image galleries 2007-12-03
- DigitalLife 2007 a playland for tech lovers
- CNET's Rich DeMuro walks around the show floor at DigitalLife 2007 at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center, where new tech for the digital lifestyle was on display at every corner.
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., digitallife, lifestyle, tech, technology, nyc, new york, rich demuro, gaming, dell, video conferencing, video game, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-28
- The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
- One of these kids are doing their own thing!From what I can see, out of all of these games, only a few games that made the list also comes with a monthly price! Doesn't matter how many copies of WoW you sell, it's all about revenues generated monthly! Which one...
- Tags: Games, video, dbl_dee@..., video game, game
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- 'Halo 3' midnight launch in NY
- Completing the "Halo" trilogy, "Halo 3" launches at midnight Tuesday.
- Tags: Halo 3, halo, midnight, Microsoft, game, video game, launch, master chief, caroline mccathy, new york, nyc, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-25
- The top 25 best-selling video games...EVER!
- Whilst everyone is going nuts over today's release of Halo 3, how about we reign in the "most successful video game ever" hyperbole and take a walk down sales-figure lane to recall the 25 best-selling video games of all time. And before you predict H:3's eventual place on a revised...
- Tags: Game, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo GameBoy, Video Game, Video, Sony Playstation, Copy, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Hackers compromise Homeland Security computers
- What have your experiences been like with such contractors?a better questionwhy is the DHS using software designed from the get go to be vulnerable?If they had professional quality software instead of MS' home user software [ doesn't matter which version of windows, they are all designed for video gaming only...
- Tags: Games, Hacking, paulmah@..., homeland security, video game, Homeland Security computer, game, hacker, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Sensationalism in China or a real problem with Internet addiction?
- Can someone die from playing a video game?In the latest news story about Internet addiction in China, a 30-yr-old man dropped dead from exhaustion after playing online video games at an Internet cafe for three days straight. One of my co-workers thinks that the Chinese government is making this up....
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Sonja Thompson, Internet Addiction, video game, game, Chinese Government, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Studying fear with video games
- Get indexed by Yahoo. How to ...Apple's System Preferences console serves as the Macintosh's counterpart to Windows' Control Panel. Erik Eckel shows us how multiple common desktop and http://www.lyrics-ru.com/tekct/tom-waits/index.phphttp://www.lyrics-ru.com/tekct/george-michael/index.php
- Tags: Games, Desktops, lyrics_ru@..., video game, video, Apple Inc., game
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Studying fear with video games
- Studying fear with the aid of a video game is what Dean Mobbs, a PhD candidate in University College London's imaging neuroscience department, and his colleagues have reported in Science. Here's a quote from Scientific American: Mobbs and his colleagues report in...
- Tags: Shock, Video Game, Video, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Photos: Scanning brain waves
- Upstart EmSense reads people's brain waves to gauge their emotional response to advertisements and video games.
- Tags: Games, brain wave, Upstart EmSense, video game, photograph, advertisement, game, video
- Image galleries 2007-08-22
- Video: Nintendo shows off Wii Fit to bring together exercise and video games
- Can Nintendo make exercise fun with Wii Fit?Nintendo is preparing to launch Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board in order to make exercise more fun:http://blogs.techrepublic.com/gadgets/?p=113What do you think about Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board? Do you like the idea of using video games to make exercise more...
- Tags: Games, Jason Hiner, video game, video, Nintendo Wii, Wii Fit, game, Nintendo Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- Video: Nintendo shows off Wii Fit to bring together exercise and video games
- This four-minute video clip from CNET shows the new Wii Fit video game that Nintendo is getting ready to launch with the goal of bringing together video games and exercise and trying to make exercise more fun. The game is played with the new Wii Balance Board, a new wireless...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- (Images: Art of the video game)
- Uh............Cyan Worlds, anyone? Aren't they directly responsible for raising the bar of game graphics?RE: (Images: Art of the video game)This article might have included the development platform / applications used to create the images which would be of interest to novice developers.Regards,JCR
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, jgmsys@..., game, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Behind the scenes at the World Series of Video Games
- It's summer! And you know what that means: The World Series of Video Games WSVG, this time kicking off its U.S. run in Louisville, KY, home to our very own TechRepublic. This year, just like last year, WSVG has teamed up with LANWAR, Inc. and its annual MillionManLan gaming event...
- Tags: Game, Event, Video Game, Video, WSVG, LANWAR Inc., BYOC, Q, Games, Networking, Personal Technology, Anthony Sullivan
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
