| Dungeon Runners Interview with NCsoft Audio Director/Composer ...
Tracy W. Bush is an award winning sound designer and composer, and is currently the Audio Director for NCsoft. Prior to joining NCsoft in 2004, he was a composer and sound designer at Blizzard, where he worked on such AAA titles as StarCraft, StarCraft: Brood War, Diablo II, WarCraft III, WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, and World of WarCraft. Previous to his video game career, he worked in technical support and Information Technology positions in San Francisco, and spent evenings and weekends playing piano for small parties, singing in a cappella groups, and stage acting. M4G caught up with Tracy W. Bush (no relation to current US President George W. Bush) to discuss his eclectic score for the recently released free-to-download and play, MMO Dungeon Runners. M4G: First of all, please tell us about your musical background and how you got started working in the video game industry?
Tracy W.
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.
Travel Briefs: Regional Day Trips
BUTLER, Ohio -- Young skiers and snowboarders can train in the summer now at Ohio Dreams Action Sports Camp. Campers ages 7-17 can learn freestyle tricks while riding down a synthetic snow surface and jumping into a swimming pool.
Water landings are cushioned by the technology used in springboard diver training.
Other action sports offered at the camp include skateboarding, BMX bicycling, inline skating and water-skiing. Wake boarders and water-skiers train at nearby Pleasant Hill Lake. For information, visit www.ohiodreams.com.
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