A Beginner’s Guide To Making Your First Video Game

Game development has exploded over the last few years, and now it seems like everyone is making a video game. You’ve got big studios full of hundreds of people. You’ve got small teams making incredible games. There are more people in independent game development than ever. This is an amazing thing, because everyone brings their unique experience and sensibilities to game design. More »

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It’s Official: Disney Confirms That JJ Abrams Will Direct the Next Star Wars: Episode VII

It’s official guys. Disney has just confirmed that the next Star Wars: Episode VII will be directed by JJ Abrams. One man in control of Star Wars and Star Trek . Amazing. Unbelievable. Crazy! More »

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You Can Run Android 4.0 in Its Entirety Right on Your PC

Running certain Android apps on your desktop is nothing new with Bluestacks , but now you can get the whole dang OS running on your PC as a native application thanks to a little program called WindowsAndroid . More »

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Three Developer Tips for Temple Run 2 Success

Now that Stephen Totilo has painstakingly researched the best way to control Temple Run 2 ( now available on Android ), it’s time to get down to business. You know how to jump, dodge and slide, but do you know how to truly excel? The fine folks at Imangi Studios have shared three tips for racking up a score you’ll be proud to see on the leaderboards. More »

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This Is How DARPA Will Strip Old Satellites for Parts

There’s a bunch of junk orbiting the Earth right now, a bunch of junk that we put there. But not all of the old satellites that are zooming around the planet are totally useless; plenty still have good stuff in them that could be reused and DARPA wants to start mining them . More »

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7 Japanese Kids’ Anime That American Kids Will Never, Ever See

Some of the most popular anime in Japan have never set foot on American shores. Oh sure, we have Naruto and Pokémon and Dragonball Z , but what we don’t have are the kids shows — the Japanese anime equivalent of SpongeBob SquarePants , Dora the Explorer and the like. Why? Because while you’d think they’d be the most adaptable for worldwide audiences –- kids are kids, right? –- they’re actually quite insane. Here are seven anime series that Japanese kids love that no American parent would ever let their kids watch. More »

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DARPA’s SeeMee Satellites Are a Soldier’s On-Demand Eye In the Sky

While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America’s military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That’s why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access to a real-time battlefield mini-map just in like video games. More »

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Archaeologists Mistake Viking Brewhouses For Bathhouses

For years, archaeologists studying Viking remnants and artifacts in Britain had assumed that certain stone structures were bathhouses, or a kind of primitive sauna. But a husband-and-wife team has now thrown this thinking into question by suggesting that they weren’t bathhouses at all — that they were brewhouses where the Vikings made their beer. More »

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The New Backbone of International Trade Is the Single Biggest Movable Thing We’ve Ever Built

You won’t have any trouble finding this Marco Polo in the pool—even with your eyes closed. Five Airbus a380s lined up nose-to-tail still wouldn’t match the length, much less the overwhelming mass, of the world’s largest container ship. More »

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