Military Bans Video Game That ‘Kills’ U.S. Troops

Medal of Honor by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Calif., hits stores Oct. 12. Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let players switch sides and play the bad guy.

Duke Nukem No Longer Never

After years of being called vaporware and a Shakespearean development story, Duke Nukem Forever is finally being released.

Efficient Gaussian blur with linear sampling by Daniel Rákos

Gaussian blur is an image space effect that is used to create a softly blurred version of the original image. This image then can be used by more sophisticated algorithms to produce effects like bloom, depth-of-field, heat haze or fuzzy glass. In this article I will present how to take ...

Fourth-gen iPod Shuffle dissected

Miniaturisation 1, Repairability 0 The gadget take-apart guys at iFixit.com rate Apple's latest generation of iPod Shuffle at two out ten when evaluating the ease with which the device can be repaired.…

Apple flooded by Japanese iPod battery swaps

Five thousand fixes in three weeks In the three weeks following its offer to replace the batteries in overheating first-generation iPod nanos, Apple Japan swapped out a total of 4,994 suspect cells.…

Tessellation Shaders Tutorial

Philip Rideout posted an overview of tessellation shaders (with demo code) at The Little Grasshopper.

Stereo OpenGL in C++

Extending our free tutorial on Stereoscopic rendering in OpenGL, Binocularity.org has added a C++ version of our software alongside the existing Python download. Detailed instructions for compiling and running the software on a Windows PC are included. This new download supports anaglyph and shutter glasses modes for viewing the output ...

GLFW 2.7 released

GLFW is a portable library for OpenGL application development. It manages windows and OpenGL contexts, resolution switching, keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input, and more. Version 2.7 brings many bug fixes, build system updates and several new features, most notably explicit support for OpenGL 3.2 and later and a new ...

Google’s Logo Turns To Bouncing Balls For Anniversary, Event (Updated)

Google has revamped its logo for yet another special occasion -- this time, its name is made out of a flock of colored balls that bounce away from the cursor when a visitor comes to the Google search page.

Oracle Names Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd Co-President

Oracle Corp. has announced that former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is joining the database software maker as co-president. Oracle said in a statement Monday that Hurd will also serve as a member of the board of directors. He will report to CEO Larry Ellison.