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Sony has officially named its motion controller the PlayStation Move and the release date is still set for the fall of 2010, in time for the holidays, with support coming in the form of SOCOM 4 and a host of more casual titles.

Microsoft has for some time said that Project Natal is also coming during the fall, with Fable… (more…)

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced back in February that it planned on making available at the MIX10 conference a wide range of details and tools for the development of Windows Phone 7, and the first batch of them were unveiled on Monday, during the first day of the event. The new tools are being released only a week after the … (more…)

Filed under: Features, Simulation

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That’s why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we’re sure that you’ll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

Flight simulators are among the most niche of the niche games. They focus on a particular genre (flying combat) and take it to such an extremely realistic level that most players can’t get into the game. However, there is one flight simulator that manages to be both realistic and fun to a general audience. Released in 2001 by Ubisoft, it was before a time of restrictive DRM and needless DLC, and even now sits as an example of what continued support can do for a game’s legacy. I’m talking about IL-2 Sturmovik, and its attention to detail in every aspect of the game makes it a classic of the flying combat genre.

Download the IL-2 Sturmovik demo right here on Big Download (more…)

A collaborative scientific effort, featuring researchers from the United States and Australia, has recently made a very interesting discovery in the Southern Ocean. It would appear that winds in this area have the ability to trigger variations in the deepest layer of surface water responsible for regulating the way in which the sea and the… (more…)

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The conflict between Jason West and Vince Zampella, the two Infinity Ward leaders, and Activision Blizzard is far from being over and its continuation and fallout could actually have a clear negative impact on the future success of the Call of Duty franchise. This is the main conclusion that Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pach… (more…)

Filed under: Culture

Near the end of GDC 2010 on Saturday, a mysterious lecture given by a person only identified by the name “Phaedrus”. As it turned out the speech was made by none other than Will Wright. The creator of The Sims and Spore has techically been out of the Computer game development business for a year since leaving EA and forming Stupid Fun Club.

As reported on by Joystiq, Wright spend his GDC speech time on, among other things, the rise of social gaming. While you may see tens of millions of people playing Farmville now, Wright stated that it may not be the “next big thing” in gaming. He stated, “It gets a lot of attention, of course, because investors, when they’re looking to invest in something, they’re looking to invest in the steep part of this curve.”Still, Wright predicts that social gaming could end up “doing about the quarter of the market, really.” (more…)

TrailRunner is a route-planning software application developed by Berbie specifically for Mac users who like to stay in shape. Now at version 3.0 build 512, the program fixes the Google Terrain map source, and adds a button in activity details to recalculate calories, to name some of the changes.

According to Berbie, the Google Terrai… (more…)

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While we didn’t get to attend this year’s Game Developers Conference, our sister sites Joystiq and Massively were out in force checking out the games and the lectures being shown in the past week in San Fransisco. Our big mothership Joystiq had quite a few features that are of interest to Big Download readers from GDC 2010. That includes some on-site with Mafia II, Civilization V, and the next Mass Effect 2 DLC.

Our MMO centric sister site Massively did their thing too, dawg. Their GDC 2010 features included some more info on the upcoming Battlestar Galactica Online game, a chat with 38 Studios’ author R.A. Salvatore, an interview about Dungeons and Dragons Online, a DC Universe Online chat and more. Look for even more GDC coverage from both sites in the next week. (more…)

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is at this point the home of two very important space vehicles, each of which still needs to prove its worth in a first test flight. If the missions are successful, then one of the spacecraft would ensure that uninterrupted access of American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), whereas the other… (more…)