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We are thrilled to announce that legendary Star Trek actor and director Leonard Nimoy will be our special guest at the reveal of the first gameplay footage from Star Trek Online!

Mr. Nimoy will be appearing at our event at the Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas. The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Sunday, August 10 in the Gene Roddenberry Theater at the Las Vegas Hilton.

For those who cannot make the convention, we do not want to leave you out! We will broadcast the even . . . Read more

Internet service providers cannot ration service to heavy users of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission rules this week. The FCC said that Comcast, one of the largest Internet service providers, broke the law when it slowed the transfer of video files among a group of its customers to ensure that other customers had adequate bandwidth. the FCC ruled that Comcast had no right to act as Internet traffic cop.

(From The Week, vol. 8, issue 373, p. 6)

A start-up called Cuil is mounting a challenge to Google's dominance of the Internet search business, said Michael Liedtke in the Associated Press. Processing its first search requests this week, Cuil (pronounced "cool") claims to search more Internet pages than Google does, while presenting results in a more usable form. "Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns -- something that Google does, much to the con . . . Read more

PhotoshopCandy is happy to announce another Corporate Logo Design contest.

Contest will be running from July 25th - August 24th 2008.
During this time the client will be able to see all submissions and will decide upon a winner.
Client will have 7 days to choose a winner after this period.

CONTEST DESCRIPTION: Inspire Events. The Favicon Based on the logo. Favicon size: 16×16 pixels

COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Inspire Events is a full service event planning company specializing in weddings, . . . Read more

Greetings commrads, isn't life in the People's Republic of Napalm Riot grand? Wouldn't it be amazing if we could all connect on some internet based service and talk/kill/ and possible maime each other? We'll thanks to the folks at Microshaft that is now possible. So I'm both stealing Fyrel's idea and hosting a weekend of online gaming. As you can read on http://forum.napalmriot.com/topic/23826/ Please join me, because if we can get enough peopl together we could turn this is to a great tool for . . . Read more

Okay; so LUGRadio is almost gone; but for their final show; they're holding what appears to be a gaming competition. The guys from bytemark.co.uk have put together an awesome setup for this weekend live show, so if your in the UK (near Wolverhampton) then get down to The Lighthouse Media Centre, Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street; as linux geeks talk, and gamers can play!

For More Infomation: http://www.lugradio.org/live/UK2008/

Anyone who plans on picking up the Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, or Courier-Mail on Saturday will be in for a pleasant surprise. Included with the newspaper is a free copy of the full-version Spore Creature Creator. Electronic Arts' local arm has teamed up with the east coast publications to distribute the full version software for the first time in Australia.

Full article: http://www.cnet.com.au/ga…39029655,339290923,00.htm

For further Proof: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap . . . Read more

Vivendi and Activision's merger seems to be knocking down the chances of some games. Among the first victims, Ghostbusters seems to be a target. The publishers will be forming Activision-Blizzard, and have said five games will be coming along for the ride: Crash Bandicoot, Ice Age, Spyro, Prototype, and a yet-to-be-named title.

Ghostbusters is obviously not in the running.

However, someone on the inside did state to Videogaming247 that it's not been canned as yet, and will be offered to o . . . Read more

Cryptic Studios will reveal the first gameplay footage from Star Trek Online on Sunday, August 10, 2008, at the Official Star Trek® Convention in Las Vegas.

The presentation will be at 1:30 p.m. PDT in the Gene Roddenberry Theater. We will also have a webcast available for fans who aren't at the convention. Stay tuned for more details.

(Source: http://www.startrekonline.com/node/66 )

This actually started in February, but I'm just now finding out about it, so I'm filling the Rioters in on it now. Basically, an Intel-sponsored PC version of Havoc's award-winning physics and animation products for download at no charge. The products are now available!

The No-Charge Havok PC download is a binary-only bundle that includes all of the standard features and functionality of both the Havok™ Physics and Havok™ Animation products. The download includes Havok SDK libraries, samp . . . Read more

James Barr of TheGameReviews.com wrote this rather lengthy discussion about whether or not the game industry needs E3, and after reading over it, I think it bear repeating here. So, take a read over what Mr. Barr had to say, and form your own opinions.

"Once considered the biggest and greatest gaming event of the year, E3 would be home to the biggest announcements, best looking booth babes, hundreds of upcoming game demo’s and every major player in the game industry would be there; however, . . . Read more

Daedalic has launched the website for it's soon-to-be-released fantasy adventure. The site contains a bit of information about the game and features the impressive artwork and samples from the soundtrack.

According to AdventureGamers.com, in The Whispered World, a young but sincere circus clown named Sadwick experiences a dream that foretells of the end of the world unless he is able to stop it. Despite the doubts of his family and the potential dangers that await, Sadwick sets out with his . . . Read more

GameStooge.com reports that, at San Diego's ComicCon, Kevin Feige (Marvel Studio's President of Production) responded to a question about a new Marvel Vs Capcom with, "Yes. And maybe sooner than you think."

However, it seems that this could all just be hearsay, although one can expect there will be quite a few (thousand) questions to both companies about whether this game is a soon-to-be-released reality, or if it's just in the planning stage.

There is also the possibility it isn't plann . . . Read more

British cooking sensation and all round nice chap Jamie Oliver will be immortalised on the Nintendo DS handheld, thanks to a new 'game' being crafted by Phil Harrison's outfit Atari.

What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver is the name of the cooking guide-game thing, which will see users learning to Cook 100 of Oliver's favourite recipes - some of which are 'pukka', we'd imagine.

Beyond the recipes themselves, the DS title will also include shopping advice, and space to save your own recipes, wh . . . Read more

Microsoft's Xbox Live counterpart for the PC is getting a much needed facelift, according to the GFW head Kevin Unangst. After many missteps and bad press, Microsoft is looking to mend it's ways.

The improvements, coming very soon (although no date has been put), will remove the Gold and Silver tiers to the service, enabling all to use the gold-only servers and TruSkill matchmaking without having to pay the yearly fee.

A version of the Marketplace is also in the pipeline, which will hopefu . . . Read more

From the August 1 issue of The News:"*

Yahoo's separate peace with Icahn (p. 36)

If you can't beat him, put him on your board, said Jim Goldman in CNBC.com. Yahoo this week said it has agreed to appoint "corporate rabble-rouser" Carl Icahn and two allies to its board. Yahoo "really had no choice" but to reach out to Icahn, who wants the Internet firm to cut a deal with Microsoft. "It was clear from the start that Icahn wasn't going away, and with 68 million shares, . . . Read more

Ladies and Gentle-Men.
Speaking with G4, writer Chris Morgan stated that the Gears of War movie may detail the question of how Marcus received his scar. Also, we will see chainsawing and blood-on-the-camera goodness. No release date has been set at the time of this writing, however Chris did state that they are shooting for a 2009 launch.
In non-Comic-Con news , two new video games have been announced from the comic magnate DC. One is a fighting game entitled "Mortal Kombat Vs DC . . . Read more

After the closing of Stage6, gamers flocked to Vimeo to host their high definition, downloadable videos, due to the high definition capabilities and large file upload size. However, the company has decided to ban all video game related videos from being uploaded to the site to allow for more creative content.



http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9996743-2.html

Speaking at GameFest in Seattle, Epic's Mike Capps has been discussing Unreal Engine 4, suggesting the next version of the dominant game engine is in production and will debut "...in the next console generation - our rough guess is 2012 - 2018."

Specifically, Epic president Capps - who introduced a Gamasutra-attended GameFest panel that included notable Unreal Engine 3-using creators such as Gearbox's Randy Pitchford, mentioned that the Unreal Engine tools had a markedly "console focus" going . . . Read more

Nintendo has partnered with FujiFilm to launch the Digital Camera Print Channel, a new service for Japanese Wii consoles that allows users to order prints of their online photos, as well as business cards featuring a user's Mii avatar.

Users can transfer photos to the console from digital cameras and cell phones, and design the products using template sets provided in the new channel, placing orders directly through the new interface.

The current list of offerings include individual photo . . . Read more

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