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GDC Day 3

Day three of the GDC brings us to the first day of the Conference and Expo portion and out of the Tutorial section. The audience has grown substantially and it is difficult to find any place to sit and drink a cup of joe or get wireless access (forget that …

GDC: Day 1

I spent the first day of the GDC in a tutorial given by members of the Sony Online and AE1 teams about "Running Massively Multiplayer Games". The class was attended by about 70 people, most of whom were in the process of developing or releasing an MMO. The class …

Motor City Online spins out

Although this news is slightly dated (a bit over a week now), I only heard about it yesterday. Motor City Online has been axed effective the end of August. For those unfamiliar, the game is a Massively Multiplayer Online(MMO) car racing game, where players race to win money, to …


PlayStation 3 write-up at Inquirer

Sounds more like a supercomputer than a game machine, but here are the basics:"...the computers are made of cells, each one containing a CPU, which will probably be a PowerPC, and eight APUs (vector processors) each with 128K of memory. It will run at 4GHz, producing a not inconsiderable …