Is It Real -- Or Is It Augmented Reality? At IAAPA Attractions Expo 2008, Total Immersions 3D Live Show Conjures ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ORLANDO, Fla.----A theme park attraction delivering the same experience over and over? Quite ho-hum. Imagine, instead, a live show that brings guests into the story, enabling them to interact with 3D characters in real-time -- and is never the same twice.

Educational Feature: 10 Trends in Game Design (Gamasutra)
Aspiring game designer and 3D artist David McClure considers 10 trends in game design that are gaining popularity, based on how and where they have been used -- primarily, in games that have seen great commercial success. His article, "10 Trends in Game Design," has been posted on Gamasutra's sister web site dedicated to educational and career-related issues in game development, ...

Apple Pins Its Hopes on Gaming (1up.com)
Back when I was in college -- way back in early 1997, I'm afraid -- I wrote a well-reasoned letter to the online arm of Ultra Game Players magazine in defense of Nintendo, whose star was starting to take on a distinct tinge of tarnish among the nascent online hardcore gaming fanbase. The N64's strong launch had deteriorated into the likes of Yoshi's Story , with little but Star Fox ...

The Future Of iPhone Games: Apple, EA, Ngmoco Talk (Gamasutra)
With the success of the iPhone (and the iPod Touch, which can also access the App Store), there has been a huge influx of games to the platform, which is currently the best-selling U.S. consumer mobile phone. At a recent San Francisco briefing, Apple's senior director of marketing for iPhone, Bob Borchers, showcased a range of upcoming iPhone game titles, and laid out his company's vision of ...

Mac Gaming News - Penumbra Expansion Requiem Arrives For Mac (The Mac Observer)
Frictional Games on Monday released Requiem, the final game in its Penumbra series of first-person psychological horror games.Billed as a puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague, Requiem features nine levels fill of physics-based puzzles and extra details...