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R.U.S.E. Gets Touchy-Feely With Windows 7
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Ubisoft’s upcoming strategy game R.U.S.E. craves your touch, announced as one of the first games to fully support the new multitouch capabilities of Windows 7. More »
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How The Wii Can Help Fight Terrorism
3:00AM Brian Crecente | The war on terrorism can be a real hassle, just ask anyone who has flown recently. Fortunately, science and the Wii have joined forces to try and cut-down on those mammoth airport security lines with the Fidget Monitor. More »
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Sony Starts Push For 3D TVs, 3D PlayStation 3 Games
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | The PlayStation company is putting its electronics might behind 3D television technology, with the company expected to start selling fancy three-dimensional displays next year—with 3D PlayStation 3 games being readied to capitalise on the technology. More »
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Unmanned Aircraft System Hovers Over America’s Army
11:00AM Andrew Freedman | America’s Army 3 is bringing Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System to the digital battlefield, allowing players to experience some of the military’s newest technology. More »
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This Flight Sim Requires 120 Graphics Cards To Run
4:00PM Luke Plunkett | Back when they were popular, flight sims needed some pretty hefty hardware to get them running. But I can’t remember any of them ever needing 120 dedicated graphics cards just to get off the ground. More »
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Army Envisions Future With Master Chief-ified Soldiers
4:00AM Owen Good | Or, maybe they’re Mass Effect-ified. But the U.S. Army’s concept for a soldier in the year 2030 definitely looks video game-ified – especially with its strength-enhancing exoskeleton and… combat drugs? Maybe it’s Helghast-ified? More »
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How Modern TVs Ruin Old Games
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Big, fancy LCD and plasma TVs are just wonderful for 360 & PS3 games (well, most games). But for older games – and by old, we mean old – they’re not so hot. And this is why. More »
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EVE Online Drops Classic Client Support, Welcomes Players To This Century
3:20AM Mike Fahey | CCP has announced plans to phase out the current Classic Client for EVE Online in favour of a new system that could require users to upgrade for the first time in a decade. More »
UK Soldiers to Train on Game That Stinks … Literally
2:30AM Maggie Greene | Well, militaries across the world may soon have a new war game to their arsenal, and it could have a trickle down effect to retail games — British researchers have come up with a game system that incorporates a ’smell box,’ in an attempt to see if they can make training stick better. In what sounds like an unpleasant experience, various smells are triggered as users ‘take an authentic walk’ around hostile areas. If it’s determined this is making training more useful, it could be rolled out next year and be used in training actual soldiers: More »
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