I got to talk to Zappar CTO and Co-Founder Connell Gauld about the company’s past, present and future. It was a bit of a fan moment for me, as Zappar was what introduced me to Augmented Reality a few years ago. Introduction to AR I first saw AR when Green…
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Participate in the 2014 SL Christmas Expo & Winter Breedables Fair!
The 2014 Second Life Christmas Expo & Winter Breedables Fair will take place on December 4-15 and is the ONLY official Relay For Life of Second Life committee ran event for the holidays! The 2014 Second Life Christmas Expo and Winter Breedable Fair will consist of both holiday and non…
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Retro Monday: “Destroy All Humans!”
Only managed to see one story… This week ended up being full of work related stuff. Some may know that I make videos for myself via my YouTube channel as well as videos and articles for the Torch. This just ended up having me spending pretty much all of this…
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Retro Monday – “SimCity” (1989)
The return of the sh*ts… The hackers that hit many games and services like the Playstation Network, Twitch and “League of Legends” and who issued a bomb threat to SOE president John Smedley have struck again. After a supposed breakup of the group and some arrests by the ‘Feds’, they…
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Week in Game News, 19th September 2014
Microsoft Buys “Minecraft” – Confirmed It was conformed early this week that Microsoft has bought “Minecraft” developer Mojang for $2.5 billion. Rumours of the buy-out were talked about on business news networks like Bloomberg but they were only confirmed last Monday in statements by both Mojang and Microsoft. As part…
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Retro Monday – “Singstar”
Title: “Singstar” Developer: SCE London Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Released: May 2004 “Singstar” was a game from a now by-gone age of party games. It was one of the first games that popularized the system of using a peripheral device to sucker people in and make proprietary tech you had…
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Retro Monday – “HALO: Combat Evolved”
Slow week… This week as been a pretty slow and uneventful week as gaming things go so there isn’t really that much to say for the cold open. Most of the bigger things I’ve already covered but there is one thing I want to talk about, and that is “Playstation…
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Week in Game News, 22nd August 2104
Robin <The Entertainer> Three potential NPC characters that would commemorate the late actor and comedian Robin Williams have appeared in the code of “World of Warcraft’s” latest expansion, ‘Warlords of Draenor‘. A total of three characters have been data-mined from the expansion’s beta build but they have yet to…
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5) Heroes reboot announced The producers behind hit-and-miss TV show Heroes have announced they want to try again. The show hit good ratings in its first season, but when the writer’s strike of 2007 hit, the ratings plummeted. They now feel the show did not get the chance it deserved…
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5) Mysterious bank shutdown On Thursday evening, all of Swedish bank Swedbank’s systems were mysteriously shut off. Neither customers nor employees could access anything that had to do with the bank for 5 hours, starting at 9pm local time. This included bank withdrawals, credit card services, the telephone services and…
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