The Gaming Paradox: There just aren’t enough Free and Open Source video games – Network World

I have, of late, become rather inflexible in my demand for Free and Open Source Software in all aspects of my life. Hell. I’m even at the point where I can’t seem to write the words “Free Software” without capitalizing the first letters of each…

GamesBeat 2015 snares Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine as a new speaker – VentureBeat

Our latest speaker, Graeme Devine looks like a character from Game of Thrones. The chief creative officer and vice president of games at Magic Leap is one more among the cast of characters from gaming who will talk at our GamesBeat 2015 conference at the Grand Hyatt…

‘Star Wars’ BB-8 droid to be sold as working robot – Toronto Sun

GLENDALE, Calif. — If it weren’t for someone willing to entertain a new idea, the new Star Wars droid, BB-8, wouldn’t be rolling into living rooms this holiday season. The robot — which looks like a mechanical head on a spinning ball — was the…