MakeUseOf.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s the early eighties. You and your friends are sitting around trying to figure out what to do on a boring night. One of your friends gets up from the sofa, walks across the shag carpeted, wood-paneled room and into a closet. The room gasps as he pulls out the wood textured, plastic modern marvel [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Thousands of Hmong Americans and their friends will ring in Hmong New Year this weekend and next with two celebrations. The festivities kick off at Gibson Ranch Park today for two days, then resume at Cal Expo Thursday through Nov. 29. Each Hmong community in America holds its own New Year's festival between November and January. Many Hmong go on the New Year's circuit to reconnect with relatives...
the How-To Geek (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
There’s nothing quite as fun as a simple geek trick to show off your awesome skills to those around you. We’ve rounded up the ten best out of all the stupid geek tricks we’ve covered over the years. There’s no point in writing more, let’s just get right to it… Watch Movies in Your Linux Terminal Window The height of pointless geekery is trying to watch movies in...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Video game publisher Atari, together with developer Cryptic Studios, have invited gamers to sign up at StarTrekOnline.com in order to secure themselves a special serial key allowing them free access to the massively multiplayer online game for up to two weeks before the game's release on February 2 in North America and February 5 in Europe.
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's that Atari T-shirt again. I've seen that before. I've not seen this picture before, but it's probably from the low budget BBC Alba remake of The Prisoner . Well done to Sister Chastity for this one, BTW, because now it's a tie at the top of the leaderboard. I'm not going to be around on Monday (I'm going to be on an aeroplane to Israel on a top secret mission), so this one'll have to keep you...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | yesterday
via the BugBrand Blog "The Workshop Oscillator Machine (WOM) kit has just undergone a slight upgrade for a series of workshop events around Norway (Trondheim, Oslo, Bergen). The online documentation and schematics have been updated and again are available for viewing/download via the link above." General update via the BugBrand mailing list: "I've just got back from a short series of...
Blue's News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Atari announces a two-week open beta for Star Trek Online will commence on January 12 and that signups for the test are now being accepted for Cryptic's Trekkie MMORPG on the Star Trek Online Website...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Atari, Inc., one of the world's most recognized videogame publishers, and Cryptic Studios(TM), creators of the acclaimed Champions Online, City of Heroes and City of Villains, announced today the open beta dates for the highly anticipated Star Trek Online for PC. Starting January 12, 2010 thru January 26, 2010 fans will be able to explore the Star Trek Universe and...
TrekToday Headlines (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The box art for the Star Trek: Online MMORPG has been released and a new Twitter contest for creative fans has begun. Atari and Star Trek: Online have announced a Twitter contest where they will be giving away one copy of the Star Trek XI DVD every day through November 22. To enter, submit a famous Star [...]
Wall $treet Folly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Timmy had kind of a tough day on the congressional hot seat, enduring slings and arrows. Here’s one of the exchanges…. Video - Arts - Atari - Expert Witnesses - Business
Blue's News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Atari announces Nemesis Confrontation, a special event for Champions Online, Cryptic's superhero MMORPG that will kick off on November 24. The event will overlap with a free weekend that will run...
JoelComm.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I'm a computer and video gamer from waaaay back. I remember when Pong came out. I owned a Fairchild Channel 1 video game system. That came out just before the Atari 2600 for you video game buffs. I played games on my TRS-80 model 1 computer in 1979. From adventure games and first person shooters to strategy and massively multiplayer online games, I've been there and done that. Computer and video games...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Atari, Inc., one of the world's most recognized videogame publishers, and Cryptic Studios, developers of City of Heroes, City of Villains, Champions Online and Star Trek Online, are pleased to reveal the Nemesis Confrontation event for Champions Online. On November 24, players will face their greatest Nemeses in a battle to protect our universe from being conquered...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NeoEdge has gone through some big changes in the in-game advertising market, which has been battered by the recession and disruptions in casual game sales. Today, the company is announcing that is merging with casual game development firm Offspring. And Offspring’s chief executive Lesley Mansford will become NeoEdge’s new CEO. Mountain View, Calif.-based NeoEdge will continue to offer...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NeoEdge , a company that offers a way to insert video ads into online games, is going through some big changes — in part driven by the recession in the online ad market, but also by the proliferation of other, cheaper games. Today, the company is announcing that is merging with casual game development firm Offspring. And Offspring’s chief executive Lesley Mansford will become NeoEdge’s...
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