Posts tagged Microsoft-Surface

Portal and Flight Simulator played on Microsoft Surface

by Alexander Sliwinski (Sep 9th 2010 6:04PM)

Students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab have adapted an "on-screen joystick" for use on Microsoft's Surface table with Portal and Flight Simulator. The DREAM (Dynamically Resizing Ergonomic and Multi-touch) controller is activated by putting five fingers on the table. The ...

D&D rolls with the changes, ported to Microsoft Surface

by Griffin McElroy (Oct 20th 2009 11:05AM)

By the time your average Dungeons and Dragons player has failed his third death save and gone off to that great dungeon in the sky, he or she's spent nearly $800,000 on miniatures and various-sided dice. (Trust us, it adds up.) Keeping that number in mind, we'd like to turn your attention to an ...

Today's most Microsoft Surface-y video: Firefly demo

by Kyle Orland (Feb 28th 2008 5:15PM)

It's been a while since we first speculated on the gaming potential of Microsoft's Surface multi-touch tabletop computer -- long enough, in fact, that that potential has now become somewhat more actual. Sarcastic Gamer has the video of a Carbonated Games demo for Firefly, a simple game that, ...