In April of this year, mobile social network operator and game creator DeNA announced a partnership with Yahoo! Japan to launch a PC web-based gaming platform called Yahoo! Mobage. While developers have been allowed access since January, the Yahoo! Mobage ...

FleaPlus writes "NASA is spending a total of $475,000, split between Masten Space Systems and John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, for a series of seven test flights of the companies' reusable suborbital rockets over the next several months, going to altitudes ...

Every year in September, Apple reveals its new iPod lineup in time for the holiday buying season. This year's event takes place tomorrow, and ...

An anonymous reader noted that the SCO Group is having a bankruptcy auction in October. The article says 'After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million.' ...

Casual gaming company Miniclip has announced the formation of a new smartphone division which will focus exclusively on bringing its library to the iPhone and Android platforms. Former Skype product manager Antonio Sergio Varanda will head up this new department, ...

Robin Williams recently did an interview with Empire Magazine where he stated that he would love to be in a Batman movie playing anyone, and that he was originally offered the roles of both the Joker (which was taken by ...

An anonymous reader writes "Responses to a survey from attendees of the DEFCON 18 conference revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of the sample, was the ...

I know the Star Wars yoga guy has been around for a while, but now that Time magazine has shown his particular brand of yoga from a galaxy far, far away in video form, it's high time I finally featured ...

Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers! This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between car manufacturers. I thought it was pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know Honda ...

Amazon might be getting ready to expand its video offerings, according to a report released this afternoon by The Wall Street Journal. Despite ...

So it’s as if the Nintendo brand isn’t for children any longer.  I hope this shit is rated M for mature.  Geekologie reports that the “geniuses” at Mojowijo have made attachments for the Wiimote that can turn your Wiimote into ...

It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his ...

Prolific mobile games publisher Gameloft (Modern Combat, Asphalt) announced its financial results for the first half of 2010, revealing an 11 percent increase in global sales and iTunes App Store revenue growth of 82 percent. Gameloft's financial statements report that ...

Ant writes "Next Media Animation (NWA) became popular due to its animated and sometimes humorous renderings for world news. Their official videos can be found on YouTube." They start by covering the Tiger Woods animation that made these guys known, ...

When I first saw this thing I assumed it was just some steampunky arm somebody made because they're obsessed with Edward Scissorhands and all around creepy and girls love guys that are creepy (I wanna lick on yo armpits, lady!). ...

​He was an incredibly shitty leader of the Autobots, but he's still one hell of a toy. This Masterpiece Rodimus figure was just revealed in Japan at one of its hobby shows, and Transformers fans are losing their minds over ...

2K Game's Mafia II debuted on top of the UK sales charts for the week ended August 28, pushing last week's strong debut title, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days into second place. Tracking firm Chart-Track announced that Mafia II ...

Many high-technology companies have run afoul of the US' Export Control System, which regulates the overseas sales of items that can be put to ...

​I know a lot of you are Power Rangers fans, so I thought you might want to know that Power Morphicon -- the Power Rangers fan convention, if you couldn't guess -- was held in Pasadena this past weekend. My ...

High Moon Studios revealed it used Scaleform's GFx technology for the user interfaces in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Activision's Transformers: War For Cybertron. The company says High Moon used Scaleform's GFx to speed up the development ...

An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like 'replacing your car's engine while speeding down the highway,' and it can ...

Microsoft is releasing a new controller for its Xbox 360 console later this year that features a subtle redesign. Beyond a matte silver finish and a uniform gray color scheme for the buttons, it addresses user complaints about the old ...

​Let me be clear: Until Ghostbusters 3 actually starts production -- like, real production -- it is Topless Robot's stance that the movie will never be made. I don't care who says what, I don't care what trade mag announces ...

Yeah well this year's gonna be different. You see, I laced his Gatorade with laxatives. His butt's gonna be running fast enough to win the race itself! ...Dammit, guess who just won for the sixth year in a row? ...

US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the ...

Game engine developer Trinigy has integrated Allegorithmic's Substance Air and Redux products into its Vision Engine 8, additions designed to offer online developers faster access to lightweight textures. According to the company, Substance Air enables developers to create small but ...

London-based casual/social gaming start-up Zattikka announced its appointment of Jim McDonagh, who has worked at a variety of developers like NCSoft and Sega Europe, as external producer. McDonagh most recently served as an external producer at Sega Europe, where he ...

It’s no secret that the nerdbastards crew hated, with a passion Louis Leterrier’s remake of Clash of the Titans. Not only did it butt fuck the original 80’s version but it completely raped the ideology of the mythology. It was ...

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes ...

Palm's webOS smartphone platform introduced some compelling innovations when it was first released in 2009. The next major version of ...

Koei's PC free-to-play strategy game Uncharted Waters Online launched in Japan and other Asian territories several years ago, and the game is planned to make its debut in the U.S. in 2010. Although the franchise may be unfamiliar to Western ...

It was only a matter of time: add-ons that turn Wiimotes into sex toys. Why? I don't know, but the penis one definitely looks like a robot's pincers. Thanks but no thanks but okay just this once, ...

[Gamasutra rounds up sister iPhone and iPad site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's portable game platforms, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Tucker Dean, Jason Johnson, and Ryan Hibbeler.] This week, FingerGaming covers NHL ...

We tend to think of bacteria as engaging in chemical warfare only when they attack us, wreaking havoc on our cells. But the ...

An anonymous reader writes "The space age has filled Earth's orbit with all manner of space junk, from spent rocket stages to frozen bags of astronaut urine, and the problem keeps getting worse. NASA's orbital debris experts estimate that there ...