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A cutting-edge West Lothian technology firm is set to take off, thanks to a funding boost.

Bathgate-based aB Simulations, whose work includes producing flight simulators and other immersive projection theatres, has secured £10,000 development funding from the Inspired and SEEKIT initiatives.



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The medieval mystery of Nine Men's Morris investigated at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire

When archaeologists working through the Victorian spoil heaps at Creswell Crags in 2006 uncovered a stone with a familiar carved geometric pattern, it opened yet another aspect of the ever-developing story of the important prehistoric caves.
What the experts from Sheffield University had unearthed was in fact a medieval incarnation of the strategy board game Nine Men's Morris, which had been popular since Roman times.
Its discovery provided a glimpse into medieval activity at the Crags, which is the most important cluster of caves inhabited during the last Ice Age and the scene of paleolithic finds ranging from stone tools to cave paintings.

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Diaspora is a single and multiplayer space fighter combat game set in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica universe.
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Dundee-based video games developer Realtime Worlds has been placed in administration, resulting in 170 job losses being made by the APB developer.
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Realtime Worlds is a software technology company specialising in the entertainment sector. Our talented team have a tremendous history of creating some of the world's best selling video games, including the 2007 double-BAFTA winning hit 'Crackdown', and the global hit franchises 'Lemmings' and 'Grand Theft Auto'.
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NASA Invites Gamers To Explore Moonbase Alpha

While NASA might not be returning to the real moon any time soon, the virtual moon is anyone's game in Moonbase Alpha, a multiplayer lunar exploration adventure game, now available for free download via Steam.
Every day gamers perform feats they never could in real life via the games they play. Now NASA is doing the same thing with the games they create! In Moonbase Alpha, NASA returns to the surface of the moon with a mind to conduct research, explore, and eventually colonise the surface of the moon. To that end, the organisation establishes a self-sufficient base on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.

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A 3D Immersive NASA Exploration Game

Moonbase Alpha is the first of two commercial-quality NASA games developed in partnership with commercial game developers.
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NASA Invites Journalists, Video Game Experts To Review Online Game

News media and video game reviewers have an opportunity to preview a new NASA video game, Moonbase Alpha, in advance of its worldwide release.
Moonbase Alpha is a game with single and multiplayer options where players step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Their mission is to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a nearby meteor strike cripples a solar array and life support equipment.
NASA will release the game on Valve's Steam network on Tuesday, July 6. The Army Game Studio produced the game with development by Virtual Heroes, a division of Applied Research Associates in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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AstroDriller3020 Released and Demo

Asteroids to drill and gems to collect
Chronic Logic has announced the release of AstroDriller3020, a physics based arcade style space drilling simulation developed for PC and Mac.

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'America's Army 3' Rolls Out Massive Update, Adds New Features, Fixes Bugs

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