| Kapaun-Topeka final Quest round to air today
The Quest championship academic match between Kapaun Mount Carmel and Topeka West high school will be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. today on KPTS Channel 8. To get to the championship game, Kapaun defeated Ottawa in the quarterfinals, Blue Valley North in the semifinals and Bishop Carroll in the finals. Topeka West defeated Wichita East in the finals. The statewide contest allows teams of high school students to compete in answering questions about art, literature, history, math, science and other topics. Kapaun team members, all seniors, are Cooper Lewis, son of Hiram and Bronwen Lewis; Joe McDonough, son of J.C. and Susan McDonough; Matthew Marks, son of James and Teresa Marks; and Sam Spiess, son of Jim and Jane Spiess The coach is Chris Van Sickel.
CIVILIZATION FRANCHISE MOVING TO CONSOLES
2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that it will publish Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, the first next generation game designed by world famous game designer Sid Meier. Slated for a spring 2008 release for next generation consoles and handhelds, Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution is being developed by Firaxis Games, 2Ks world-renowned development studio. Sid Meier put computer gaming on the map when he delivered Civilization to the gaming world, launching the God Game genre and creating one of the most award-winning and addictive strategy series of all time, including Sid Meiers Civilization IV, the Gamespy and GameSpot 2005 Game of the Year. Driven by sheer passion for the game concept, Meier is now handcrafting a brand-new Civilization experience designed and built from scratch for next gen consoles and handhelds.
SPARKLE Introduces Value-priced Calibre P850 Graphic card with ...
Taipei, Taiwan (Tech Messenger) -- SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announces Calibre P850 graphic card . Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics processing unit (GPU), the Calibre P850 graphic card brings excellent DirectX 10 gaming performance to entry level users.
Based on NVIDIA's next generation G86 architecture, the Calibre P850 graphic card adopts innovative unified architecture, dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. Built upon technologies such as NVIDIA Lumenex Engine, providing support for DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology for physics computation and GigaThread Technology for extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
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