Daily Archives: June 18, 2008

Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In Film

Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In Film: This came to one of my interests in our product over a week ago. Forgot to post it. It’s official: nerd has gone mainstream. Click Here For More…

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Death Of A Legend?

Last week saw the announcement that there will be a movie made about the history of Atari and one Nolan Bushnell who will supposedly be played by Leonardo Di Caprio (best start working on that beard Leo). Many folks are … Continue reading

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CGOverdrive 2008: Looking For Budding Talent

LucasArts doing a bit of recruiting The day of June the 17th marks the launch of the CGOverdrive Expo 2008 in the vast metroplex of the Singapore Expo. Presentations and masterclasses on animation techniques are being held for those who … Continue reading

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Atari brings Deer Hunter Tournament to PC, 360 this Fall

Atari brings Deer Hunter Tournament to PC, 360 this Fall 22 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann Jun 17th 2008 11:00PM Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters… Click Here For More…

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Alone in the Dark was “too ambitious” for Atari

Game director David Nadal tells us why the project was originally set for the bin. Now that Alone in the Dark is all done, game director David Nadal has come out to reveal why, in the early stages of development, … Continue reading

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A Boulder Dash Clone in Only 20 Lines of JavaScript

This was my very first entry for the quasi-regular, friendly 20-line JavaScript competition over at OZONE Asylum, for the month of January 2008 . My entry titled “Rockford the Invincible” got the second place among some very impressive entries (I … Continue reading

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Classic Color Palettes: Video Games

While technology may have limited the color palettes of some of the first, and most popular, video games, their colors are no less influential on modern game design and culture as a whole. Just as every note from the music … Continue reading

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Ubisoft to Develop a New Driver Game

Reflections, developers of the Driver games, announced during an piece on the BBC, that they would be creating a new Driver game, which would be published by Atari. The word from Ubisoft is not official, but seems like an obvious … Continue reading

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Ubisoft al lavoro su un nuovo Driver?

Se un gioco su Driver fallisce? Si prova e si riprova ancora. E’ forse questo che sta pensando il nuovo franchise di Ubisoft (forse con Atari c’è stata solamente sfortuna), stando a quanto riferisce una sezione relativa ai videogiochi della … Continue reading

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Do Play With Your Food: uWink Hollywood Debuts

The new 7,300-square-foot Hollywood & Highland location of uWink (its first location is in Woodland Hills) opened to the general public last night. But Monday my friend dotsara and I were able to get a sneak peek of the high-tech … Continue reading

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