Thank You, Alan Turing

Thank You, Alan Turing

Sep 19, 2009

Who is Alan Turing, and why should you care? If the name sounds familiar but you’re not sure why, you may have heard it in the news recently. The British government issued a full, official apology to him on September 10th 2009 – over fifty five years after he died. What did they apologise for? Why so long after his death? Why is a man who died decades...

Breaking News: Rockstar release new Weazel News video!

Due for release on 29th October, we have here a video from the upcoming Ballad of Gay Tony DLC for GTA IV, which will also be included in Episodes From Liberty City, due the same day. Using their trademark tongue-in-cheek satire, Rockstar give us a glimpse here of the new weaponry we’ll get to play with, as well as some of the characters we might get to...

New Limited Edition Modern Combat Xbox360

As reported across the web, Microsoft have teamed up with Activision to offer a limited edition 250 Gig Xbox 360 styled to fit in with the release of (Call of Duty) Modern Warfare 2. Kotaku have quoted Microsoft saying that the 250 gig hard drive will not be available separately. Maybe because they will release a 320 gig one instead?! Ironically, despite being...

Nintendo Makes Wiiware and DSi Ware Announcements

Yesterday Nintendo announced their up and coming WiiWare and Dsiware content due for release over the autumn and xmas period. The WiiWare service has had a number of notable titles, which have really been picking up in quality and gameplay experience in recent weeks. Games to be released for the system include the sequel to the critically acclaimed LostWinds, a...

Fairytale Fights: developer Q&A

We felt bad interrupting Playlogic while they were putting the finishing touches to Fairytale Fights. They were hacking kittens apart with meat cleavers, to ensure they’d captured cute characters meeting a gory end properly. We had so much fun when we joined in, we almost forgot the questions. CG: Why did you go for bright cartoony graphics rather than,...