The Irrlicht Engine

A high performance open source and cross platform 3D engine for creating realtime 3D applications. Its main targets are to be easy to use, extremely fast, extensible and crash safe. Download it and play with it.

The engine is a quite flexible graphics engine, and it is possible to write lots of different applications with it. Some are: complex 3D simulation applications, first and third person shooter games with indoor and/or outdoor scenes, real time strategy games, 2D games, ...

Start with the tutorial page.

Interesting Site

This is a very resourceful site for Math for Game Development.

PS3 - $900

Will the PS3 be the most expensive console ever made? Merrill Lynch estimates it will cost Sony almost $900 per unit. Furthermore, ML believes that a delay to the Spring 2006 launch is now very likely and that the console may not hit U.S. retail until early 2007.
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This is what happens to those that steal

Game AI Student Web Log Links

· Steven Yates
http://sgdsteven.blogspot.com/
· Antonio Guadagno
http://aofearborn.blogspot.com/
· Wade Carpenter
http://wchammerfoot.blogspot.com/
· Raymond Gonzalez, II
http://immortalelronn.blogspot.com/
· Dominic Acquarulo
http://dom22044.blogspot.com/
· Cody Herrick
http://hellsgate.blog.com/
· Francisco Gonzalez
http://spicjoy.blogspot.com/
· David Smith
http://nevercompromisenevergiveup.blogspot.com/
· Damari Jackson
http://rippaslol.blogspot.com/
· Jonathan Curcio
http://hoopalow2.blogspot.com/

Teach the teachers - video games

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (AP) -- When the principal of Blair Elementary School needed someone to instruct teachers in the use of PlayStations, she turned to the experts -- the students.
The school purchased 23 PlayStations last month to use with educational games for third- through fifth-graders.
But not all the teachers took to the video games -- one became so flustered that she didn't want use them in class, principal Sharon Sand said.
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Apple - Developer Connection - Games

The Macintosh is a great platform for games, with a wide range of options and technologies for game developers. With OpenGL, OpenAL, Velocity Engine, and the Mac OS X development and performance optimization tools, you have everything you need to build or port exciting and compelling games. You can choose to develop with any of three frameworks-Cocoa, Java or Carbon-each of which has advantages that accelerate your game development. Plus, the ADC website provides a wide range of tools, sample code, SDKs, and documentation for developing the best games of today and tomorrow on Mac OS X.

Batman and more...

According to ABC Batman is going to "would hunt down bin Laden and al Qaida in his next DC Comics graphic novel".
Prisoners and Playstion a good thing? Apparently, prisoners are re-inciting their crime with Grand Theft Auto.

DICE awards get Dick Clark touch in '07. DICE Awards, a gaming award cermony, is trying to partner up with legenday Dick Clark so that that awards would be aired for 2007.

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Linux Game Development Center

Linux Game Development Center

According to this site, Disney is going back to the wonderfully world of 2D animation. Yep, that's right more of those wonderfully films of the little mermaid.
Also, http://www.myspace.com/ is now getting double the site hits that google.com says channel 6 WLNS News.

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MindGames

The MindGames group is committed to developing constructive technologies that can expand and improve human potential. They have chosen a gaming framework to explore thier research vision given that much is learned quickly and effectively when a human being is immersed in a virtual environment playing a compelling ‘mind game’.

Check out their projects page.