alien

Photos: 'Amazing Creations' take digital shape

News Wroclaw, Poland, modeled and rendered "Alien biomechanical shapes 00.2 Alien Core" with Luxology's Modo application and did small touch-ups in Photoshop. Looks like alien plant roots," wrote one poster to the CGSociety's online forums.

Tags: fire, art, san, ceo

6 February 2008, 9:46

Games still not part of the Apple fun

News But he certainly does spend plenty of time hunting down alien terrorists in videogames. Anyone who has seen Apple's television and Web ads knows 'PC' is a stodgy business guy. Given the 'cool factor' of the Mac as portrayed in those ubiquitous ads...

16 February 2007, 10:26

500,000 Spore creatures created

News In the first 24 hours that the Spore Creature Creator was available, over 250,000 alien life forms were designed and posted online on the 'Sporepedia'. Will Wright's evolution simulation game Spore might not be getting its first releases until 5...

Tags: creator, creatures, arts, uploaded

20 June 2008, 8:49

Robin Williams raises laughs for 'Spore'

News Maybe "someone who played an alien in a TV series," Wright said to huge laughter, as Williams, the star of the 70s sitcom Mork & Mindy, materialised from the crowd. Question: What do you get when you cross one of the funniest actors of our time...

12 May 2006, 10:23

Tech lights up the Burning Man

News The large, fluorescent-tube arms that made up the kinetic light sculpture called Alien Semaphore flapped when buttons were pushed. "Are those mummified cats? Awesome! Dicky Davies said as a group of drumming, noise-making strangers, the 'Skinny...

9 September 2005, 9:37

Consoles steal buzz from games at E3

News Spore is the giant alien standout, but all this other stuff, like Crysis and World War II stuff, it's just very good," Grossman said. Though the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center are filled with tens of thousands of E3 attendees, the level...

15 May 2006, 11:17

Sun modernises Solaris start-up process

News We'll look less alien in a way that is fundamental, right from the install. Sun Microsystems is revamping the start-up process for its Solaris operating system, scrapping an awkward, elderly approach for one the company promises will be faster...

16 June 2005, 8:51

'Chicken Little' gives glimpse of digital 3D

News Here in my cinema seat, watching Chicken Little and his friends try to evade alien death rays, I'm impressed but unconvinced. For just a moment, I remove my own bright-green 3D glasses, and the screen flattens.

7 November 2005, 10:19

Will next-gen sink small game publishers?

News John Baez, a producer at The Behemoth, the small, independent San Diego publisher of Alien Hominid, agreed. Would sharply rising development costs, game developers worried, make designing games for the impending next-generation consoles...

21 November 2005, 9:51