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Want To Take Classes From Professor Warren Spector?
Want to take classes from Professor Warren Spector? The University of Texas has created the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy. Spector will guide its curriculum and Paul Sams, Blizzard’s chief operating officer, is also an instructor. Admitted students pay no tuition and get a $US10,000 stipend.
Drug Smuggler Hides Cocaine In Xbox 360, Fails
Carlos Valenzuela was driving around Texas the other day, minding his own business, when he forgot to signal a turn at an intersection. For this oversight, he was pulled over, and probably would have got off with a warning/ticket if he hadn’t, you know, had three enormous bricks of cocaine inside his car. Two of them hidden inside an Xbox 360 console.
One Man Getting Hit By A Bus Is Another Man’s Frogger Flash Game
At the University of Texas “every Friday before finals there’s a thing called ‘Foam Sword Friday’,” writes Austin H., a computer sciences major at the university. Students go to the university district’s main drag, cross the street during a red light, and then battle it out with foam swords.
Ultima Creator’s House For Sale For A Cool $4 Mil
EA Sports Shows Everyone How You Lobby A Texas Governor
When it comes to negotiations , EA Sports doesn’t mess around. They they know what matters most, and in Texas, that means football.
Here’s How You Handle Looking And Turning In A Motion-Control FPS
Head- and eye-tracking will be the next big breakthrough in motion-controlled gaming. Forza Motorsport 4 will deliver it via Kinect. But for first-person shooters, we’re still stuck controlling our look with our arms, an act as unnatural as it is inconvenient. Some University of Texas students have whipped up a solution for that.




















