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Hide the Gamer Within (if you must)
Sep 8th
Fifty percent of gamers are between the ages of 18 and 49, with 32 being the average age of a gamer. This means that gamers aren’t just pimply, anti-social teenagers, but adults with professional lives and families. So for those times, when those games and consoles need to be put away and hidden from view, there’s the Arcane table from Surface Tensions. It looks like a coffee table, but has a pull-out arcade controls and and optional built-in media center PC. The table comes with a 26-inch LDC screen and over 100 licensed games from Taito, Midway and Atari. The computer inside also has Windows 7 and stereo 30-watt speakers, so its capable of playing music and movies as well. It’s also priced at over $5000, and that’s without the full PC media center and just the vintage games. It’s an extra thousand to get the PC. Images of the table after the break
Ideabing Daily Roundup: Gaming Condoms Edition
Jul 10th
Brilliant: Making Staircases Fun NSFW: Play Condoms Brings Some Geeky Fun To The Bedroom Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle Demonstrator Makes 1st Flight
IBM Builds Animation Cloud for Multimedia Development Corporation
Jul 5th
Cloud based game development was coming to the fore, we know. Now IBM has jumped into this arena in full force. They have actually built an animation cloud for Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC), a Malaysia based company. This means animate anywhere, everywhere. SaaS is the future and the entertainment industry is jumping into the cloud. Makes sense, this helps companies reduce cost of investing in individual workstations for developers and rather invest on creating content. Full press release after the break.
Video: Now Feel “Virtual” Things
Jul 3rd
When was the last time you wanted to touch a 3D object in a video game? A team at the Gify University in Japan has developed a haptic feedback system for interacting with virtual 3D objects. Real 3D kick boxing anyone? The technology also sounds promising for those in the medical interactivity field. Video of the system at work after the break.
Ideabing Exclusive: Interview With Cloud Based Game Dev Platform WildPockets’ CEO Shanna Tellerman
May 31st
We had written about an awesome cloud based game development ecosystem WildPockets. Today we sit down with WildPockets CEO Shanna Tellerman for an interview on the platform, the team behind WildPockets, CMU, the future of gaming and Apple’s role in the future of gaming. Full interview after the break.
Fragging in the Sub-continent
Apr 16th
Gaming is finally getting the recognition it deserves. From being more than mere entertainement, please recollect the first days of Pong, to the current days of COD Modern Warfare 2 (three words for that…OMG), gaming has become recognized world over as a business and an art. India is not far behind when it comes to not only being the largest market for games and gaming consoles, but is now a major hub for games development and game testing. With numerous entrepreneurs coming out of premier business and technology schools like the IIM’s and IITs, games development in India is all set to pull a Veni,Vidi, Frag.
