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Videogames that stick it to 'The Man'

News Big corporations beware: some videogame developers are on a mission to skewer your reputation. For several years, hard-core gamers have complained that big consumer brands are increasingly being featured in their virtual game worlds.

6 February 2006, 10:07

Man lays out $100,000 for online resort

News Jon Jacobs imagines he can bring in more than $1.6m (£920,0000) a year in revenue -- all on a one-time $100,000 investment in something that exists only in the realm of ones and zeroes. Jacobs, an independent film director, recently invested six...

11 November 2005, 9:37

Microsoft sues German firm over spam

News Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the linchpin of a spam gang. The man has allegedly been running spam-for-sale sites and a business renting servers, labelled 'bulk mailers', to spam companies.

22 June 2005, 8:30

Comic creation for artless Spidey fans

News The role of comic book auteur will soon be within easy grasp of Spider-Man fans -- even if their artistic talent extends to stick figures rather than web slingers. When Planetwide releases the Marvel Heroes version of Comic Book Creator in August...

19 July 2006, 10:12

Video sites in ongoing battle against smut

News The text accompanying the video says a man has stolen a pair of women's underwear. The clip, first posted on video-sharing site YouTube on 31 May and viewed more than 1,500 times over six days, shows a man standing in what appears to be a dimly lit...

20 June 2006, 10:23

Gates to step down from Microsoft

News Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company. Gates explained that he has been working part time for the Bill & Melinda Gates...

16 June 2006, 10:51

eBay buyer's stolen item ruling reversed

News A German court has overturned the conviction of a man who was found guilty of purchasing stolen goods over eBay, in a case which may have hurt the online auctioneer's business in its top market after the US.

1 October 2007, 9:36

Photos: Make your own Marvel comic

News The packaging for Comic Book Creator's new Marvel Heroes edition, which lets comic enthusiasts create their own storylines featuring Wolverine, Spider-Man and Elektra. Here, a blank set of cells is ready for some webtastic Spider-Man action.

19 July 2006, 10:36

UK record industry victory over file sharing

News In the first case, a man from King's Lynn was ordered to stop file sharing illegally and told to make an immediate payment of £5,000 to the BPI, the British record industry's trade association. The High Court rejected the man's defence that the BPI...

30 January 2006, 9:04

Special-effects masters put magic in ILM

News One major component of the work on Dead Man's Chest that earned Knoll and Hickel their Oscar nomination was ILM's motion-capture technology. And for the two ILM animation specialists nominated for their work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's...

26 January 2007, 10:07

Film eulogises 80s arcade superstars

News Out of this 1980s scene emerged a class of player that gained fame and a following as top scorers of popular games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong Jr. It was an article on Bill Mitchell, who had played the world's first perfect game...

18 January 2007, 9:07

'Robo-legs' help amputees get around

News For people who see Clapp for the first time, he is an object of wonderment: a young man walking tall on shiny robotic legs. It's one thing to see a man with a Terminator leg," Harrison said, referring to the cybernetic character played by Arnold...

27 June 2005, 10:13

Sony: No UK PS3 price cut

News Instead, a new bundle called the 'value pack' will be made available, which will include a 60GB PS3, two controllers and two games -- Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm, which have been by far the most popular PS3 games in the UK.

13 July 2007, 8:48

Longing for simpler games at E3

News He was busying himself with a game of Pac-Man on an Atari 2600. Nearby, a woman played Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo console, while a man gave up after a short stint at Mortal Kombat II on a Sega Genesis machine.

11 May 2006, 10:06

Photos: Art of the video game

News But a closer look reveals a man looking from a rooftop to a man dead on the street below. Into the Pixel is a juried exhibition that recognises videogame artists for their creative achievements. The exhibit, now in its third year, was on display 10...

16 May 2006, 12:03

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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