“What’s shocking - and I would say to me completely immoral - is that 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution,” Mr Egeland said. “Every day people are maimed, wounded and are killed by these ordnance.”
The Guardian on Israel’s [...]
You should probably pay more attention to the mod community, you know. Especially when they’re putting out games of this quality. Blue Lotus is a mod for Rome: Total War - you take charge of the Chinese empire, looking to repel an invasion of demons, imps, and all things wicked. It’s based on authentic [...]
The food service at Microsoft’s GC06 booth is apparently an incredible cultural conflict for all involved; Microsoft’s Michael Wolf will later admit to me that for the first few days of the conference, the German hostesses who had been hired to serve them completely denied access to any Americans attempting to enter the booth’s kitchen, [...]
Toribash is the funniest fighting game since Mortal Kombat. Except in Toribash, you decide the fatalities. It’s dubbed a ‘turn based fighting game’ - you contract and and relax the muscles of your chosen combatant, attempting to bash the face, head, neck, arms, groin, or anywhere in reach of your opponent. There’s an ungainly rag-doll physics [...]
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“US space agency Nasa has named its new manned exploration craft Orion.
The vehicle is being developed to take human space explorers back to the Moon and potentially then on to Mars.
It is hoped the name Orion could eventually mean as much for manned space exploration as Apollo did in the 1960s and 1970s.
Its first manned [...]
Guitar Hero has changed everything. A year ago, I’d point and laugh at this. But now it’s all about the fretwanking.
I’ve started messing with Perplex City. It’s an ARG, or ‘alternate reality game’, that has one fairly major hook: there’s a chance of winning 10 grand if you find a missing McGuffin (in this case, the ‘Receda Cube’).
It works on four levels. Firstly, there’s the grand mystery of the cube - whodunnit, whytheydunnit, and wheretheyleftit. Then, [...]
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