Look at this! Amazing isn’t it? That ruddy great thing is hovering a mile above your head right now, allowing space-science types to fiddle with doohickeys and tinker with whatjamacallits in between updating their twitter accounts and looking down your chimney at you in the bath. This gorgeous image of the international space station was even enough to awe astronauts, according to astronaut Stephen Robinson:
‘To look up and see what humankind could really accomplish in space was just almost impossible to believe. It seemed like science fiction,’.
Anyway, there’s a ton more awesome imagery here, so check it out and help support your local interstellar journeyman!
UFC Undisputed 2009 took a lot of fight fans by surprise last year by being a very enjoyable and accessible game. Can this year’s effort refine the winning formula for a truly knockout title and stave off opposition from EA MMA?
Games forum NeoGaf gets a bad press from some in the games industry, but you have to admire the creative skills of their members. Last year they produced a brilliant tribute to Contra in LittleBigPlanet, but they look set to top that by developing a top-down shooter called “Dudebro™ — My Shit Is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It’s Straight-Up Dawg Time”.
Since 1999, we’ve all been living in the future, and as such have all experienced that common problem: giant automatons crashing down the street, crushing hapless commuters under their atomic feet. Luckily, once we reach the tritanium office bunker, we’re safe…until now that is. Seems Willow Garage, a ‘non-military’ robotics company is intent on inviting tiny robots into the office –meaning hapless loafers like us can stay in bed! The Texas Alpha robot can dock itself, comes with obstacle-avoiding sensors, and has the added bonus of making your previously intimidating boss look like the bastard child of Max Headroom and a Segway.
Telepresence – all the benefit of being in the office with the extra sweetener of not needing to wear pants!
Time to book the end of the year off work with the confirmation that the next part of the Fallout series, ‘New Vegas’ is to be released in the Autumn for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
