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Project CARS Receives Substantial Patch
Project CARS crowd funding development model gave backers the opportunity to provide feedback and ask for changes to the handling model as well as other tweaks. The ability to work so closely with the development team resulted in a game which reflected the style of its core audience. Unfortunately, Project…
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Watch This Amazing Journey From the Sun to Jupiter at the Speed of Light
Have you ever wondered how it’s like to travel through our solar system? Yeah, it may be boring and it may take years and years if you’re not travelling at the speed of light, but how about a virtual journey? If your answer is yes, then let animator Alphonse Swinehart…
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Interstellar Travel and Time Travel? Never! Says Killjoy Hawking
The major tropes upon which most science fiction is based, time travel and visiting other worlds, will never be achieved by humankind, according to professional bonfire urinator (and astrophysicists) Professor Stephen Hawking. In a BBC interview with comedian (and physicist) Dara Ó Briain, Professor Hawking said that traveling back in…
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How Hard did Iron Man Hit the Hulk in Age of Ultron?
The highest grossing movie of 2015, Avengers: Age of Ultron has been out around a week now; sorry USA, you get it tomorrow. In this time, the world has been given a cinematic master class in how movies should look, big and brash to put it bluntly. However, there is…
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Would You Play DOTA2 in Third-Person Shooter Mode?
Well, well… I’ve been thinking about a Dota 2 FPS-style mode for a long time now (but didn’t actually do anything about it). However, it looks like a modder out there created something similar and, if you ask me, it has transforms the gameplay into something like World of Warcraft.…
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Welcome to the Future – Boeing Patents Laser Forcefield!
Boeing just patented the technology for a “method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc,” which is a fancy was of saying force field. While we’re still a long was from having the kind of protective bubble seen in Sci-Fi shows and movies such as Star Trek, this is…
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NVIDIA Just Made Its PhysX Source Code Free
‘Free’ looks like the word everyone is using recently when it comes to technology. After we saw Epic make its Unreal Engine 4 available for free, it now looks like NVIDIA is taking the same approach with its PhysX technology by giving away its source code for free. While some…
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Battlefield 4 Winter Patch Rolls Out, Brings Helicopter Physics and Mantle Optimizations
The long-awaited winter patch for Battlefield 4 has just been released by DICE. The change log states that the patch brings AMD Mantle optimizations and a few graphical improvements aimed at PC users. Also, the patch brings a new game mode, namely Squad Obliteration. Anti-cheat measures have seen a few improvements…
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Disney Research Creates Impossible Spinning Tops
It isn’t easy to get an uneven object to spin, at least not for very long. We’ve all tried spinning our pen or what else is around us while on the phone or other down times. Disney Research employees must have done the same. They have come up with a…
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Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots
There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a prototype of such a robot. While we won’t see any T-800’s running around anytime soon, we might see…
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Domino’s Pizza Delivery, Now With Added Physics
Domino’s have been using some simple physics principles to ensure that your pizza doesn’t suffer any damage in transit. Using their Steady Pizza technology, the use a gyroscope mechanism to ensure that the pizza stays level, even when the delivery bike is going up a steep hill, over bumps, or…
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Havok Physics To Power Up Latest Ubisoft Titles
The Havok Physics Engine has been announced to power a number of next-gen Ubisoft titles such as the new Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. With the help of the Havok Physics, Ubisoft Montreal development team was able to bring a high level of immersion to the massive world of Assassin’s…
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Nobel Prize In Physics For Higgs Boson Scientists
One of the greatest scientific experiments to have ever been undertaken has captured the imagination of millions around the world over the last few decades, the search for the Higgs Boson (often wrongly referred to as the God Particle). This ranged from people who wanted a deeper understanding of how…
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Co-op Action RPG “Legends of Aethereus” Now Available On Steam
We don’t normally cover too much news about PC role playing games, but the latest release from the team at ThreeGates has grabbed my attention. Legends of Aethereus uses physics-based combat that is said to offer a unique playstyle that makes it stand out from the usual hack and slash…
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Fighter Within Launching On Xbox One – Powered By Havok Physics
Havok, a leading provider of game technology, announced today that it has licensed its suite of middleware to power Fighter Within – the upcoming brawler game for the Xbox One. Developed for Kinect for Xbox One by DAOKA Studios, Fighter Within utilizes Havok’s Physics, Animation Studio, Cloth, and Destruction technologies…
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