adventures

Consortium to make space-tour vehicles

News Space Adventures, the company that has sent tourists into space on Russian rockets, is teaming up with Prodea, an investment firm founded by the Ansari family, to develop a fleet of suborbital, reusable spacecraft for space tourism.

17 February 2006, 8:57

News.blog: Google co-founder books space flight

News Previously, Space Adventures, which has been around for 10 years, has bought seats aboard already scheduled Russian missions to the Brin has put down a $5m (£2.5m) deposit to book a flight into space with the space tourism company Space Adventures.

Tags: international, training, clients, station

12 June 2008, 9:16

Photos: Machinima Festival fuses games with films

News A screenshot from The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn, which won the coveted Best Picture award at the Machinima Festival 'Mackie' Awards. Made by KBS Productions, it was 'filmed' using the PC-based flight simulator game Lock On...

9 November 2006, 11:15

GTA IV hits one million UK sales

News In the first week it was top of the charts, as a total of 926,000 gamers joined in Niko's adventures in Liberty City. This week, UK official sales tracking body Chart-Track revealed that Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV is still number one, and has...

Tags: cent, sales, iv, chart

14 May 2008, 8:47

Microsoft PR: No Xbox 360 price drop

News However, just like the Christmas release of the final chapter in the Master Chief's Covenant-blasting adventures, a budget-priced PS3 is now only the stuff of nerd dreams. Until May, conventional wisdom in the videogame world was that, when...

28 June 2006, 10:24

'Grand Theft Auto IV' release date announced

News The latest iteration of Grand Theft Auto follows the adventures of new character Nikolai Bellic as he searches Liberty City for an as-yet-unnamed person from his past. One of the most anticipated games of 2008 has been given a firm release date.

Tags: date, interactive, auto, theft

24 January 2008, 13:59

A virtual world with peer-to-peer style

News Developers are hoping to construct a sprawling virtual world that runs on its inhabitants' own linked computers, rather than relying on powerful central servers like those that run Web sites or EverQuest's fantasy adventures.

10 May 2005, 8:35

Photos: Top ten holiday gadgets

News You can also upload them to a photo blog so the folks back home can follow your adventures. There are loads of gadgets that can make relaxing by a pool even more fun. CNET.co.uk has picked ten of the best.

26 July 2006, 10:55

'Fat Man Walking' gains Web following

News Vaught's Web journal offers both gruelling and enlightening accounts of his adventures on the road, from the loss of three toenails due to the weight on his feet, to being sick with dehydration, to the kindness of perfect strangers who have come...

25 July 2005, 9:33