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Comic creation for artless Spidey fans

News Software maker Planetwide Games has signed a licensing deal with Marvel Entertainment to allow the use of Spidey, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk and other Marvel characters in a new version of Planetwide's Comic Book Creator, a...

19 July 2006, 10:12

News.blog: 'WoW Burning Crusade' collector's edition revealed

News Contained in the spiffy box -- Blizzard released a similar collector's edition box with the original version of WoW in late 2004 that these days fetches in excess of $300 (£160) on eBay -- the collector's edition will include the game on CD and...

5 October 2006, 10:41

Photos: Do it yourself at Maker Faire

News The group, which also includes Jeremy Rosen, brings art bicycles to parades and other events. Jillian Northrop shows off 'Art Art Credit: Daniel Terdiman/News.com Members of the 'Lifesize Mousetrap' crew make sure the contraption works properly.

Tags: maker, students, art, golf

22 October 2007, 10:04

Microsoft has Linux-related patents rejected

News The rejections come after a re-examination of the patents was sought by the Public Patent Foundation, which argued that they were invalid because there was "prior art", that is, evidence that others had done similar work before Microsoft's patent...

6 October 2005, 8:51

Tech lights up the Burning Man

News I've had a lot of amazing performances and connections and early morning conversations with people who want to challenge the art and interact with the art and that's been really phenomenal and great," he said.

9 September 2005, 9:37

Sundance holds screening in 'Second Life'

News In 2004, as Kurtz was preparing for a Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition that would let audiences test whether food had been genetically modified, his wife, Hope, died suddenly of heart failure.

25 January 2007, 7:41

Games set for high-profile UK awards

News Speaking at the launch event, the chairman of BAFTA, Hilary Bevan-Jones, said that the expansion of the videogame awards to the level of their prestigious counterparts in film and television was a recognition that "this art form has truly come of...

5 September 2006, 9:49

News.blog: Maker Faire a geek's dream

News Among them, Google co-founder Larry Page -- or so I was told by someone who claimed to have been standing in front of the mega-billionaire in a food line -- as well as some of the biggest names in the world of Burning Man art.

24 April 2006, 9:20

News.blog: Hands-on with Zune software

News It nicely handled the importing and sorting of the music, including the album art I already had. Many other albums showed up with the tag 'searching for art', while others said 'paste art here'. Want to get a sense of Zune before it arrives in the UK?

15 November 2006, 9:48

Nintendo boss: Wii have a supply problem

News It looks like some people are [saying] Nintendo is not incorporating state-of-the-art technologies into its products," Iwata said. We are using state-of-the-art technologies to realise the compact-size Wii console with low power consumption.

8 May 2007, 10:24

UK judge frowns on software patents

News One aspect of the patentability of computer programs that Jacob said gives him "considerable concern" is the searching for prior art. It's been said that searching for prior art is all going to be sorted out and will be very easy in due course -- I...

16 January 2006, 9:33

Reverse engineering Marlon Brando's cheeks

News For example, said Jeff Paul, an animation instructor at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, animation studios like Pixar or PDI work manually. For example, she explained, she and the Godfather game's art director and two other lead...

7 March 2006, 10:52

Wearable game weaves clues into clothes

News Blending fashion with art"I was really attracted to the mix of urban culture-based graphics and the attention to detail and the quality, as well," said Grace Kim, an assistant buyer at Evo Seattle, one of the first stores that will carry the Edoc...

22 February 2006, 9:45

Google tries to patent Web syndication ads

News Because syndication is a relatively new and populated field, Google may find it difficult to prove that no one else came up with the ad technology first, a burden known as "prior art". There is a lot of prior art they would have to get around...

1 August 2005, 9:28

Comic book software promotes film

News But in July, said Short, SOE will release new art packs that will include as many as 3,000 new art items, including many brand-new renderings of creatures from the games. And by including that art with players' own game screen shots, art creations...

7 June 2006, 10:32