What’s your egoSurf ranking?
As if bloggers didn’t have enough ways to fret about their popularityegoSurf: A tool to precisely calibrate how much of a winner — or loser — you are in the blogosphere.
Type in your name, the URL of your blog, and egoSurf will crank out a number on the dial showing your [...]

collision detection: The Xbox 360 and the Uncanny Valley:
Monsters of Photorealism by Clive ThompsonMy hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they’ve crafted a genuinely horrific monster. When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed its cadaverous eyes on me, I [...]

Forming part of the ongoing Teaching with Games project, EA and NESTA Futurelabs have announced the results of a recent MORI poll, revealing that almost sixty per cent of UK educators support using videogames in education.
In stark contrast to the perpetual media frenzy over the potential negative effects of videogames on the developing minds of [...]

A Government spokesperson has told website GamesIndustry.biz that planned talks to discuss the regulation of online gaming are part of a strategy to stamp out an “underbelly” of poorly regulated websites.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is intending to invite representatives from around the globe to attend the talks, which will focus on online [...]

THE Government’s £1.3 billion flagship scheme to boost research and development is failing to encourage new research in almost half of the businesses it helps, a survey has shown.Just 57 per cent of businesses who use R&D tax credits said that they felt the credits were an incentive to undertake further R&D, a survey conducted [...]