Pyrobits - reference guide

Indie game designer earns raves for 'Braid' - Citizen Gamer- msnbc.com : "One of the highest-rated Xbox 360 games of all times isn't some shooting game from some fancy-pants company that makes games by dipping programming code in giant vats filled with hundred dollar bills. And it’s not some action game that tap dances across your TV screen showing off its high-def graphics like some supermodel showing off her expensive new dress."

The Android App store looms | Mobile Content | News by Mobile Entertainment : "A Google blog has revealed details of the Android Market content distribution set-up. It described the aim of the system to ‘help end users find, purchase, download and install content using Google's expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance’."

Google ready to offer in-game ads for web games? | Casual games | News by Casualgaming.biz : "Google's is finally going to commit to in-game advertising, with a target that will include online web-based PC games, according to a report on VentureBeat. 'Sources close to the matter said that the company has developed an in-game advertising technology that allows it to insert video ads into games,' says the report, adding that a demo shows in-game characters themselves presenting ads to players with 'words from our sponsor'-like intros."

Mobile gaming to hit $4.5bn in 2008, says analyst | Casual games news | CasualGaming.biz : "The mobile games market will be worth $4.5 billion in 2008, says analyst Gartner. The bullish projection suggests a 16.1 per cent increase from 2007 revenue of $3.9 billion. It certainly contradicts the generally perceived flatness of the sector. And with EA recently telling ME that the European market generated 100 million downloads last year (that's around $500 million at the very maximum), it looks very optimistic"

the art of play : "Free and open to the public! Games are now generally acknowledged as culturally significant, comparable with film or television in their economic strength if not their public mindshare. But can they be art?Free and open to the public! Games are now generally acknowledged as culturally significant, comparable with film or television in their economic strength if not their public mindshare. But can they be art?"

Novo algoritmo reconhece imagens diminuindo sua resolução : "Pesquisadores do MIT demonstraram que é necessário uma quantidade incrivelmente pequena de pixels para informar exatamente qual é o conteúdo de uma imagem."

The Top Ten Media Attacks of 2007 on the Video Gam - Gaming video : "The Top Ten Media Attacks of 2007 on the Video Gaming Industry. As seen on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=me64O4uvOBY"

How to Photograph Mushrooms, Toadstools and Fungi : "One of my favorite things to photograph is Mushrooms - in this post I’ll give you some tips on how to do it."

XNAnimation Library - Home : "XNAnimation is a skeletal animation library for XNA. This library allows developers to easly manipulate, playback, interpolate and blend animations."

Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide : "Games are a global business. After all, how many other industries could I work in where I live in Australia, work for an American-based company and can be read by anyone from Portugal to the Philippines at the push of a button? Not many. So it's a shame that while information about games is truly global, the games themselves are not."

Gamasutra - GFH: The Real Life Lessons Of WoW 's Corrupted Blood : "At the Games For Health conference in Baltimore, epidemiologist Nina H. Fefferman, Ph.D of Tufts University and Rutgers University spoke on the difficulties in modeling disease origins and control, and how examining MMO populations could solve some of the problems inherent with more traditional models, joking that that she was going to 'use gamers as my 'guinea pigs.''"

PosteRazor - Make your own poster! : "About The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version. It is an open source, GNU licensed project which is hosted on SourceForge.net."

Jogo de computador gratuito poderá render Prêmio Nobel de Medicina : "Cientistas lançaram um jogo de computador cujos resultados poderão render um Prêmio Nobel de Medicina. Em vez de derrotar monstros ou resgatar princesas, o novo jogo gratuito transforma em competição um dos maiores desafios da ciência atual: descobrir como se dá o processo de dobramento das proteínas."

Games: a oportunidade do XNA Challenge para o ensino » Webinsider : "Iniciativa de professores do Instituto de Computação da Unicamp juntou alunos para um teste na férias e acabou nas finais da Imagine Cup 08, competição de games patrocinada pela Microsoft."

Uma web 3D para um mundo tridimensional » Webinsider : "Uma web 3D para um mundo tridimensional 16 de maio de 2008, 12:03 Dentro de pouco tempo veremos mais projetos em 3D interativo na internet e ferramentas capazes de simplificar a forma de criar e interagir neste universo. E uma busca por profissionais que dominem essa disciplina."

Slashdot | Recognizing Scenes Like the Brain Does : "'Researchers at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research have used a biological model to train a computer model to recognize objects, such as cars or people, in busy street scenes. Their innovative approach, which combines neuroscience and artificial intelligence with computer science, mimics how the brain functions to recognize objects in the real world. This versatile model could one day be used for automobile driver's assistance, visual search engines, biomedical imaging analysis, or robots with realistic vision. Here is the researchers' paper in PDF format.'"

Cientistas da Universidade de Washington, Estados Unidos, descobriram que existem verdadeiros buracos negros na Internet, interrupções nas comunicações que impedem que usuários de determinada região geográfica acessem servidores localizados em outra região, mesmo que os servidores estejam funcionando corretamente. Ref.: Inovacao Tecnológica