Since the announcement of Micrsoft's next generation Xbox One gaming and entertainment console earlier this week, we've received several inquiries about our thoughts on how it's announced features, particularly the cloud computing and DRM aspects, will affect how we deal with it in the archive. Below are my (Dave's) initial thoughts:I've been following somewhat the information about the Xbox One since its announcement earlier this week. While we don't have many...
Which is to say that the much-requested Battlefield 3 is now available in the archive.I don't know if the game has a dancing Pat Benatar, but if it did that would be kind of awesome...
A recent Wired article highlights the use of the Kinect as a terrain imaging tool, to capture data for anything from glaciers to asteroids. According to Tedesco, one of the scientists mentioned in the article, the Kinect works as a much more affordable way to capture the kind of data they need. It also helps inspire students to do related research because the Kinect is a tool that they're likely already familiar with, and doesn't seem as imposing as more complicated imaging equipment.
Yes, we finally have the CVGA copy of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (for Xbox 360).
Microsoft has just finished announcing the direction that they're going to be taking in the coming year...
A semi-regular round-up of interesting video game links from around the Interwebs.
Not all of our games in the CVGA can be found on the shelves. We've purchased a handful of downloadable-only games for the PS3 & Xbox 360 that can be played on our systems—no disc required!