World news about “Game” published by euronews.
A spring bath for BerlinersSwimmers braved 3 °C waters as they took a dip at Berlin’s Strandbad Wannsee lido, marking the start of Germany’s annual swimming season. REUTERS/Tobias… 30/03/2013
What if Europe was the world of Game of Thrones?The highly anticipated third season of Game of Thrones starts on Sunday, March 31. As fans all around the world struggle to contain their excitement, the… 28/03/2013
The million dollar made to order robot A fearsome looking gigantic robot that is a plaything. To enjoy you simply climb aboard as the torso doubles as a cockpit from where you can sit back and… 05/12/2012
The whirlwind of the first day of schoolA schoolchild waits to enter a class in a primary school in Marseille on the start of the new school year in France. Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters 04/09/2012
Tokyo Toy Show record – nocomment Tokyo’s annual Toy Show kicked off with 10,000 wooden ‘Stick bombs’ displaced like dominoes, surpassing the previous world record three times over. 15/06/2012
Naughty or nice: toymakers gear up For toy makers it is never too early to think about Christmas and that is what they have been doing at New York’s International Toy Fair, which is the… 14/02/2012
Key facts about “El Gordo”– Spain’s Christmas Draw shares 2.25 billion euros in prizes. - The chances of winning something are 5.3% 1st prize: €4,000,000 2nd prize… 22/12/2011
Three-way split for record jackpotThe largest lottery jackpot in history will be split at least three ways say officials – but there is still no word on who the lucky winners are. Just three… 31/03/2012
Hope, luck and prayers for largest-ever US lottery jackpotThere was a flurry of ticket sales, as Americans hope they will be the lucky one to scoop the country’s largest ever lottery jackpot of 500 million dollars… 29/03/2012
‘Millonarios, hombre!’ Village fetes Spain’s El GordoThe excitement was palpable in Spain for the result of ‘El Gordo’ – the Fat One – the traditional Christmas lottery. Who had won the top prize? The answer… 22/12/2011
Back in the Day: the world’s first crossword!December 21, 1913 The New York World newspaper publishes the first ever example of a crossword. The diamond-shaped puzzle (see picture) was created by… 20/12/2011
Back in the Day: machine beats chess grandmasterMay 11, 1997. IBM’s Deep Blue wins the deciding sixth game of a chess match against Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer had ever beaten a reigning world… 10/05/2011
Now Scrabble’s got ‘innit’ in itIt is not going down well with language purists but the list of words that are acceptable in Scrabble has been extended to include modern slang. The first… 09/05/2011
Lotto fever soars in ItalyIt is being called Lotto-Tourism. Hundreds of Germans, Austrians and other foreigners have been racing to Italy by plane, car and train to buy tickets for the… 13/08/2009
Education & business find uses for Serious GamesComputer games are beginning to break out from their console and entertainment world, and finding more constructive applications in the worlds of business and… 24/11/2008
