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Main - Incredible Portal Fan Film Is Spectacularly Awesome. Main - Liberated Games. Main - Ultimate FPS Simulator Actually Shoots You. October 18th, 2011 by Shane McGlaun This is the most awesome, intense, realistic (and painful) video game simulator I have ever seen.

Main - Ultimate FPS Simulator Actually Shoots You

It’s not a fancy driving or flight simulator; this is a simulator for FPS games. It looks like you could train real soldiers in this thing. The dome screen uses five HD resolution projectors and a lot more. The Ultimate FPS Simulator rig was set up for UK Channel 5′s The Gadget Show. In the center of the room is an omni-directional treadmill that controls where the player moves to on the screen. If you happen to live in the UK, tune in to Channel 5 on October 24th at 8pm to see more of the Ultimate FPS Simulator rig in action. Zelda Legends - Storyline - Continuity Theories - Parallel Timeline Theory - Time Line. Open source physics engines. A physics engine is a simulator used to create a virtual environment that incorporates laws from the physical world.

Open source physics engines

That virtual environment can include objects with accompanying forces applied to them (such as gravity) in addition to interactions between objects, such as collisions. A physics engine simulates Newtonian physics in a simulated environment and manages those forces and interactions. One of the most advertised applications of a physics engine is in the entertainment and game industry (see Figure 1), where the physics engine provides a real-time simulation of the game environment (including the player and other objects that may be present). Prior to their use in games, physics engines found a number of applications in the scientific domain, from large-scale simulations of celestial bodies, to weather simulations, all the way down to small-scale simulations to visualize the behavior of nanoparticles and their associated forces.

View topic - Big List of Free Games for the PC Thread. View topic - Propaganda Games. Closure. Ryse. Z-Type. The Dorklyst: The 6 Worst Attempts At Realism In Videogame History. For much of gaming history, publishers tossed around the word "realistic" as if it were a synonym for "quality.

The Dorklyst: The 6 Worst Attempts At Realism In Videogame History

" Some developers seemed to believe games would only be perfect once they had replicated every bowel movement, popped zit, and sweaty handshake found in real life. Winners of the Extra Credits Innovation Awards. Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) Welcome ECA Member!

Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA)

If this is your first time visiting, we'd like to take the opportunity to welcome you, as you are now part of a cool organization that represents consumers that play computer and video games. With your annual dues fee you’ll get a voice that re-defines the mass market’s perception of gamers and negative stereotype as well as receive very many awesome discounts! Enjoy the community, the contest and the discounts! If you're a returning member, please check back frequently, as we're regularly adding new and exciting discounts, trials, offers and promotions from current and new partners.

The Evolution of Mario. Every single Mario ever made: collected here is what Mario looks like in every single game that has ever featured Mario.

The Evolution of Mario

Scroll down to see a timeline view of Mario. His initial appearance was in the Donkey Kong arcade game of 1981, at which time he was called Jump Man. This includes every Nintendo gaming system, including rare ones such as the Game and Watch, Virtual Boy, and Stellaview. If you like this, check out the Evolution of Zelda and Link. 3101. Games Online SNES and NES Emulator.

Top 30 best free games you should play today. 26.

Top 30 best free games you should play today

Wing Commander Saga A stunning fan-sequel to one of the PC's most beloved space simulators. Wing Commander Saga offers a huge new campaign you don't need to have played the original games to enjoy, with 55 missions, cut-scenes, full voiceovers, and more, all based on the Freespace 2 engine. Is this the best fan-made Mario game ever? Pokemon Tower Defense : Gamerfish – Play Free Online Flash Games. HasHe sc2 Terran on Justin. The Wednesday 10: Franchises We Want Resurrected. It's not unusual to be reflective at the end of the year.

The Wednesday 10: Franchises We Want Resurrected

As the IGN team looks back, we realize just how many games we would've loved to see, but didn't, in 2008. We all have games that we adored playing years ago, and there are plenty of franchises that we'd love to see resurrected. So, we came up with a list of games that we think deserve to come back. In fact, in some cases we demand it. Read up on our list, and feel free to suggest the franchises that you want resurrected in the comments below.

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Five games that make you think about life

I do, usually at about three in the morning after a marathon session of slaughtering undead in Sacred 2. It is a sad fact that most the computer games I play are about as intellectually stimulating as a fart. A Compilation of When Cheese Fails in Starcraft 2. So I know at least a few of you out there are fellow Starcraft 2 players like myself.

A Compilation of When Cheese Fails in Starcraft 2

But for the uninitiated, “cheese” is a term where someone uses an incredibly unorthodox tactic to try and get an early win in a game, and it’s generally frowned upon as being a dick move in the game. But it’s not illegal to be a dick on the internet, as that’s proven to me every day, and so it will always keep happening. But sometimes there are glorious games when cheese fails. A Collection of Retro Portal 2 Posters. Oh crap, I skipped a day of Portal 2 related content this week?

A Collection of Retro Portal 2 Posters

Well I suppose I’d better make up for it by posting a whole damn gallery of the stuff. But seriously, this poster series is definitely worth featuring, and contains some really cool designs by Flickr-ist wd.farmer. Love. GameLog. Pdf (application/pdf Object) Photo - What Donkey Kong Taught Us - National Console Game. Donkey Kong, gaming's favorite simian hero, has made a huge impact in pop culture over the past few decades. Still going strong, the ape even recently starred in the hit title, Donkey Kong Kountry Returns for the Wii. Whether he's hurling barrels at a construction site, smashing them to rescue his monkey pal (Diddy Kong) , or blasting himself out of them - The famed gorilla has become a black belt at all forms of barrel usage. Alongside seeming ageless classic gameplay, Donkey Kong has managed to stay in the hearts of gamers because he's quite the dynamic character.

Donkey Kong began his career as a villian in the original, self titled, arcade game where he stole Jumpman's (who later became Mario) girlfriend and carried her to the top of a construction site. Years later, DK would find himself as the hero when his island's banana supply gets stolen. Gaming Made Me: Age Of Empires II. By Brendan Caldwell on February 19th, 2011 at 6:00 pm. Hello! Schedule - North American Star League. Osu! - Beatmap Listing. The 122 Best PC Games Of The Last 22 Years. Top Ten Recent Annoying Trends in the Games Industry - gamrFeed.

By Stephen Kelley, posted on 13 January 2011 / 85,390 Views With the economy getting fairly rough and the games industry getting hit with a multitude of closures and layoffs, it’s no surprise that game companies have reverted to “make a quick buck mode” these days. This has caused more than a few annoying trends to pop up within the industry whether it be on the publisher side or the developer side.

Without further ado, here is a list of the top ten recent annoying trends in the games industry. Relying on post release support far too much Post-release support is a great thing for gamers and developers alike. Paying for “add-ons” that are just part of the game blocked off Another trend is for these guys to release DLC immediately after the release of the game, making folks suspect that it honestly could have been on the disk, but the consumer is getting gouged for that extra little bit of cash.

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There's much more where this came from, so if you like this article: Niko Bellic has libertarian free will in different area codes. Matt’s recent post on morality in first person shooters provoked my thoughts more than a little bit. Echo Bazaar! 20 free PC games you must play. Flowchartfinal.jpg (JPEG Image, 4686x2144 pixels) - Scaled (28%) Main Page - Gameontology. 5 ways Ocarina of Time changed video games forever. Catechumen Video Game for PC / Windows.

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Video Games May Be Perverse, but They're Also Pretend. TheLittleOne. SpyParty – A Spy Game About Subtle Behavior. Issue 1101, 2011. By Mikael Jakobsson, Olli Sotamaa The guest editors introduce this special issue on game reward systems by discussing its origin, the focus, the need for further studies, and by presenting the included papers.

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