GANG announces nominations for 10th annual awards in game audio
The Game Audio Network Guild (which translates to the convenient acronym of GANG) has announced its nominees for the 10th annual GANG Awards to be held at GDC, honoring the best music and audio in interactive entertainment over the last year. You can see all of the nominees in the press release after the break. As you might imagine, Battlefield 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Portal 2 are all nominated, all of which boasted very excellent and memorable aural experiences.
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German court upholds ruling against Apple, clears Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N for sale
Apple’s legal team has been dealt another blow in Germany, where a court today shot down the company’s requests for a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N. In a statement issued this morning, the Dusseldorf Regional Court said it found “clear differences” between the 10.1N and Apple’s iPad,
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Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous sources think so
Is the long, treacherous wait for the iPad 3 nearly at an end? That’s what anonymous sources tell All Things D. The site caught wind that an Apple event next month will host the announcement of the company’s latest tablet. The event is said to be slated for the first week of March at that popular Apple haunt,
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Hacker spites Symantec, puts pcAnywhere’s source code out in the open
Symantec said that folks running its pcAnywhere utility were at an “increased risk” when it revealed that the company had been hacked and its source codes pilfered, and advised customers to stop using pcAnywhere for the time being.
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Lotus F1 Team reboots with 2012 E20 [w/video]
What’s in a name? That depends who you ask. For the folks at Lotus, a name matters a great deal. That’s why it fought so hard to regain control of its brand from the team now known as Caterham, and why it is launching racing programs in top series around the world under that same name. For the F1 team that has most recently adopted it, however, the name is less relevant than the winning form to which it hopes to return.
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LensBoost Updates to v1.1.610, Rebuilt With More Speed and Enhanced Performance
LensBoost is by far my favorite editing app for my BlackBerry, it’s like your BlackBerry’s Photo Lens on steroids. LensBoost updated today and has been rebuilt and refinished to be even better. If you haven’t checked out LensBoost, you are really missing out…we’ll show you what’s new and what it does.
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With federal loans blocked, Fisker halts work on Project Nina, lays off 66 workers
Fisker Automotive’s bumpy 2011 appears to have given way to an even rockier 2012. A little more than a month after recalling 239 of its Karma plug-ins, Fisker has now stopped working on its second electric vehicle, following the US government’s decision to suspend its federal loans. The manufacturer confirmed the news in an email yesterday
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Glasses-free 3DeeScreen augments Windows 7 displays, lets Peter Gabriel get in your eyes
Glasses-free 3DTVs sporting 4K resolution don’t exactly match up to the everyman’s budget. Still, the tech needs to trickle down to the masses somehow and it appears Spatial View’s keen to take up that three-dimensional, plebeian mantle. Available today, the outfit’s inventively titled 3DeeScreen snaps onto 15.6-inch laptops of the
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Globe and Mail reveals early details on Apple iTV: Siri wants to hear you shout at the big game
iTV rumors continue to swirl around the shady backwaters of the internet, but it’s not often national papers of record decide to wade in — Canada’s, no less. According to an anonymous source who spilled the beans to the Globe and Mail, Apple’s TV set will include Siri-powered voice control, with the virtual assistant also helping in those ever-pressing “programming
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Report: Jaffe leaves Eat Sleep Play, layoffs hit developer
Eat Sleep Play, which will shortly ship Twisted Metal, has reportedly laid off eight employees. The Salt Lake City Tribune also reports that co-founder David Jaffe is also out and is expected to pursue “casual games.” Jaffe responded to the “rumor” of him making casual games after Twisted Metal as “highly exaggerated.”
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