Archive for June 4th, 2003

Arnie & T3 scribes team up for “Westworld” remake

Variety reports that Michael Ferris and John Brancato, who rewrote the screenplay for “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” will now write the script for “Westworld” for Warner Bros., a planned remake which will star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ferris and Brancato also wrote “Catwoman” for Warner Bros.
“Westworld” would mark the third high profile project for the [...]

Palm to acquire Handspring, spin off software unit

Palm Inc., the leading maker of personal digital assistants, plans to acquire Handspring Inc., the two companies said Wednesday. Palm’s board also gave final approval to the spin-off of PalmSource, the unit that makes the Palm operating system for handhelds. After the completion of the spin-off, Mountain View-based Handspring and Milpitas-based Palm would [...]

Games Are Covered by 1st Amendment

According to the Circuit Court, “If the First Amendment is versatile enough to “shield the paintings of Jackson Pollock, music of Arthur Schoenberg, or Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll”, we see no reason why the pictures, graphic design, concept art, sounds, music, stories, and narrative present in video games are not entitled to a similar [...]

Half-Life 2 Preview

Gamehelper also has the obligatory look at Half-Life 2:
We were given the opportunity to admire Valve’s long toiling at this years Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3) fashioned in a makeshift mini-theater which could be quite easily found at ATI’s booth. The demo was run on a Radeon 9800 PRO, coupled with almost certainly a 3.06GHz [...]

Girls Teach Teen Cyber Gab To FBI Agents

Back when I was in high school, my after school jobs involved delivering newspapers and playing dungeons and dragons. Three junior high school girls already have a much more exciting after school job. They’re teaching FBI agents how to chat online like teenagers. As the FBI continues to try to track down online pedophiles [...]