These days, it is difficult to stop and take stock of the world we live in.  Along with all the technological advances made in just the last 20 years, videogames have become a part of everyday life for many people.

It will be if TAGES has anything to say about it. They believe that they have a system that will make game cracking a thing of the past. While they do not claim their Tages Dynamic Virtual Machine (TDVM) is completely uncrackable they do believe that it will make cracking so time intensive that crackers will turn to games that are easier to open. This means that game companies who use the TDVM could maximize their profits, increase their sales and lower their worries. It could also mean that game prices could stabilize because many publishers have claimed the level of piracy of their games as one of the reasons for increased game prices (along with larger development costs do to larger and more graphically intense games).

Servan Keondijan was a part of Rendermorphics back in the early days of 3D gaming. He helped develop Direct3D for Microsoft and now is CEO of Qube Software who hope to bring a full-featured, adaptable, standardized middleware solution to 3D graphics for games in the near future. He had some interesting insight into the future and I thought I would share it with you.

Portugal proved last night that EA can't predict the future accurately in football (soccer for you Americans) when they were unable to defend against the German "blitzkrieg" and lost 2-3 in Euro 2008.  

Here's the complete walkthrough for the Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian game for the Xbox 360. Of course, there are spoilers. 

Last weekend on NPR's On The Media program they featured an interview with Dr. Skip Rizzo, a research scientist at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, about treating Iraq veterans for various mental health issues related to combat.