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Infamous Platforms launches line of powerful gaming computers

2008-08-21 10:41:55 by davidlaprad in Adrenaline Vault
 
...computers and high-performance servers, announced today the launch of its new division, Infamous Platforms , which will offer video gamers access to advanced computing technology that will run todays most demanding video games Through its new Infamous Platforms division, video gamers can now benefit from M&A Technologys 25 years of...
 
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Infamous Platforms launches line of powerful gaming computers

2008-08-21 10:41:55 by davidlaprad in Adrenaline Vault
 
...computers and high-performance servers, announced today the launch of its new division, Infamous Platforms , which will offer gamers access to advanced computing technology that will run todays most demanding video games Through its new Infamous Platforms division, video gamers can now benefit from M&A Technologys 25 years of experience, deep...
 
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Are Laptop Computers Dying?

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2007-12-23 20:05:41 by Chris Morrell in Gomeler.com
...Computers Dying? , and thought a bit about it. Technology evangelists have been warning of the death of the desktop PC for years but its pretty certain that there is still a pretty steady demand for these bulky yet cheap platforms. Desktop sales may not be at the level of their dominance in the 1990s but Id say that a balance has been...
 
Tags: laptop, frankly laptops, laptops, desktop, desktop sales, 2ghz dualcore laptop, power consumption, power, portable devices
 
 
 
 
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Carnegie Mellon: Play GWAP and help computers get smarter

2008-05-20 07:22:00 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...Computers get smarter 3. Everyone benefits When you log in to a game, you are partnered with a remote peer that is being presented the same tasks as as you are, whether it's finding a dog in a picture or deciding whether or not a baby moose is cuter than a fat girl's sweet 16 photos. The results are compared in a timed round, and you are...
 
Tags: gwap, games, online games, gwap games, system, perform menial tasks, tasks, full-blown combo system, game
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': The Adventures of Load Runner in the 198th Decade

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2008-10-20 00:00:53 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...computers, making Load Runner both extremely dated and extremely valuable as a historical curio. Remember, this was a time when computers were seen as "the future" (exactly what kind of future, nobody had fully worked out yet) and half a dozen 8-bit PCs were vying for consumer dominance. The results are just as chaotic as the local...
 
Tags: load runner, game, comic, sports comic, load runner comics, humor comic, load runner include, british comic magazine, computer
 
 
 
 
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Revolutionary: Special Effects

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2008-08-13 23:00:00 by Mike Sylvester in Nintendo Wii Fanboy
...computers and game consoles become more powerful, many of these methods and effects make their way into the realm of realtime rendering. Ten years ago, the opening cutscene for Super Mario Galaxy would have needed to be rendered by a cluster of computers and converted into full motion video Even though the Wii is not pushing graphical...
 
Tags: wii, wii wares, wii graphics, beautiful games, effects, beautiful, games, super mario galaxy, party games
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Sterling on the Game Industry in 2043

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2008-09-17 15:05:00 by Chris Baker in Wired: Game|Life
...computers, and it's got entertainment. That's your chosen line of work, that's what you call it. That's how you define what you do Well, that's not, in fact, what you do. Those are just two old-fashioned words that you still use, about what you do. First, you can forget the computers. The word "computer," in the future, that just holds you...
 
Tags: computer bottle, mental computer bottle, computer, stupid, computer entertainment, entertainment, chips, game development, computers
 
 
 
 
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Excerpt: How Turning Players Into Data Processors Is Changing The Game

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2008-10-18 08:00:58 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...computers cannot identify on their own The book's authors, which include Gamasutra/GameSetWatch contributor and Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade staffer Edery, particularly recommended these intriguing sections of their new title, dealing with the last of the three examples mentioned above The ESP Game It turns out that there are many areas where...
 
Tags: innovation game player, player, innovation game, innovation, innovation games, game, esp game, players, human computation games
 
 
 
 
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Counting Rupees: The Network is the Platform

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2008-12-16 18:00:00 by Jeff Engel in Joystiq
...Computers were getting smarter and more powerful and seemed to be moving away from the DUMB terminals of the past to more application-oriented, personal computing. At the time, most people probably weren't considering that an incredibly powerful, pervasive, interconnected web of servers and computers allowing for petabytes of data all over...
 
Tags: network, people, people care, rupees, microsoft, microsoft xbox, computers, web, platform