In a bid to boost 3D gaming, Nvidia on Thursday announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops.

It wasn’t a good day again Wednesday for the local sports scene. Once again MotherNature wiped out the entire sports card with icy conditions and sent athletic directors scrambling to make up games.

Nvidia introduced the GTX 295 graphics card, which cranks processing performance close to 2 teraflops.

A Lodi card room is willing to gamble that adding more card games and tables will give them a full house, but a city law is standing in their way. The Wine Country Card Room is trying to change the city's card room ordinance that limits them to only certain games, such as Texas hold 'em poker.

Neither home team was favored in Saturday's wild-card games. Both won, with San Diego stunning Indianapolis in overtime 23-17 and Arizona beating Atlanta 30-24.

Ex-Insomniac programmer Nathan Fouts created one of the standout Xbox Live Community Games in 2D side-scrolling shooter Weapon Of Choice, and explains how in this Gamasutra postmortem. As the sole programmer working on Weapon Of Choice, and with his experience mostly limited to gameplay programming, Fouts saw XNA as a boon to the project, relying on the toolset to handle most of the game's ...

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Eagles coach Andy Reid can't explain it, and perhaps no one can, but recently the road to conference championship games and the Super Bowl has been smoother for wild-card teams.