"Premier Press has released Game Scripting Mastery, the latest addition to their market-leading Game Development series, and the first-ever book to exclusively cover the topic of developing scripting systems for use in games. This advanced but easily accessible resource is the most comprehensive available on the topic, and covers the following:

"Mad Software is pleased to officially announce the release of Mad F/XT 1.0, the fastest real-time 3D visualization and animation package for the desktop PC. Mad F/X's proprietary MAD-EngineT highly exploits DirectX 8.1's hardware shader capabilities therefore running extremely fast on ATI's 8000/9000 and NVidia's GeForce 3/4 based accelerators."

Giving Robots The Gift Of Sight

2002: The Year In Technology

""We are changing how games are published by building the kind of publishing company we want to work with," said Jeff Tunnell, President. The developer owns the intellectual property and collaborates with GarageGames on how their game is marketed. Developers also get 65% of the game's royalties while online distribution keeps the overhead costs to an absolute minimum."

"The developers of top-10 game Zoo Tycoon are looking for a done-it-thrice, profiled-it-twice, ok-with-middleware, buzzword-savvy, tech-for-product's-sake-not-tech's-sake senior 3D graphics engineer. Someone with the ability and desire to drive the aesthetics of our games from an engineer's perspective. Someone who doesn't mind the challenge of getting the low-end 3D cards to look good and perform well, along with the desire and capability to keep up with advances in 3D graphics."

"MAFFia, a very well done arcade shooting game that features Dynamic Sheep Damage, is the uDevGame 2002 Best Gameplay winner. Something interesting to note from his postmortem is that MAFFia was originally developed using MPW and the Mac Toolbox but then converted to Carbon and ProjectBuilder.""

DMCA Critics Say Reform Still Needed

Sony, Matsushita Prep Linux For Consumer Electronics

"DirectIA (Direct Intelligence and Adaptation) is the first artificial life and high-level behavioral engine, conceived by game developers for game developers. Already used in various games and professional applications, DirectIA is a software development kit that encompasses production, tuning and development tools, allowing to rapidly and efficiently incorporate high-level behaviors in your creations."

IBM Laying Storage-brick Foundations

3-D Technology Preserves Ancient Treasures

Creating 3-D Digital Landscapes From 2-D Photos

New Research Explores Past, Present Water On Mars

"Delphi3D has released a demo that shows how to render very high-resolution images (e.g. for use in print). 3D hardware can't generate such images due to the restrictions on the viewport size. The demo shows how to circumvent these restrictions by rendering multiple seamless tiles and then stiching them together."

Saturn's Moon Titan May Hold Clues To Origin Of Life

Sci-Fi Tales Propel Space Tech

"Commonly used in pattern recognition and AI decision systems, the basic structure of DT allows application of IF...THEN type rules to classification, which are easily utilized and interpreted. This article presents a unique method of developing such trees using Evolutionary Programming."

Scientists 'Weigh' Distant World

Smart Email Addresses Could Slice Spam

Hydrogen-Burning SUVs Road-Tested

"SimBionic(TM) is a visual authoring tool and runtime engine for creating complex behaviors, through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). It enables training simulation and game developers to speed their development time, while empowering designers and end users to directly incorporate their knowledge and expertise into the systems. Speeding the simulation development process can accelerate time-to-market for games, and can produce smarter simulations for training systems. And employing a graphical interface for specifying behaviors, so that non-programmer “subject matter experts” can create them, reduces the risk of simulation errors related to miscommunication of content between an expert and a programmer."

Mathematics Unravels Optimum Way of Shoe Lacing

Extrasolar Planet Twice as Big as Jupiter

Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth

Blending The Real And Virtual Worlds

Patent Holders On The Ropes

The Games Wal-Mart Doesn't Play

Digital Image Stored In Single Molecule

San Diego Supercomputer Center Reaches Data Transfer Milestone