PCD World Championship Darts 2009 out in May

PDC World Championship Darts 2009 is announced and will be available for Wii and DS on May 29.
Oxygen Games said they have dramatically increased accuracy and realism of the game, and that the gameplay has consequently improved compared to the old version. Reportedly, at the special preview event recently held in London, some of the [...]

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Virtual worlds and real Human Rights

On May 6, in Strasbourg, France, a workshop will be organized by the Council of Europe and its European Audiovisual Observatory, with the goal to explore the guidelines interpreting Human Rights in an online context.
Two sets of guidelines have been published the last October. The documents are the following :

The Human Rights Guidelines for Online [...]

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Disabled people and virtual reality

AbleGamers, a community for disabled gamers (can't help noticing the wordplay), did, and MSNBC reported about, an "one question interview" with 81 game developers at the latest GDC. The question asked was "Have you ever thought about how disabled people play video games?". 80 people and 1 douche bag, they say, because someone actually laughed [...]

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Crysis Wars, this week for free!

Electronic Arts and Crytek started yesterday a campaign for promoting their products, by - giving one away for a week!
OK, let's put the things right. CrysisWars, an expanded multiplayer experience of the Crysis universe, is available on a free trial during the week, from April 9 to April 17 (next friday). More precisely, players can [...]

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Mobile 3D gaming potentials

Two interesting articles about mobile 3D game development appeared lately on IntoMobile and TouchArcade.
They are somewhat summarizing the actual tendencies and development directions in the field, and also giving a nice set of examples illustrating the state of the art.
Roughly, two things are happening. Phones are becoming more and more capable of running real quake-likes [...]

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