Year: 2008

Playing with blocks isn’t just for kids anymore.

Viqua Games has released First Class Flurry for Mac OS X. It’s a new
time-management casual game that lets players experience the job of a
flight attendant as they help bring a bankrupt airline back to the
top of the airline industry.

In First Class Flurry, players control the airline’s top flight
attendant Claire as she attends to the needs of passengers.

FairCom Corp., a provider of database technology, has released the
latest generation of their database development toolkit, c-treeACE
Professional, in conjunction with new releases of their c-treeACE
database servers.

InstantAction, the web site for gamers that combines the intensity of
videogames with the accessibility of the web, announced the
introduction of the InstantAction open beta for Mac OS X users. Mac
gamers can register and play Rokkitball, Marble Blast Online, Think
Tanks and the new FPS, Fallen Empire: Legions at
http://www.instantaction.com/mac.

“Mac gamers have always been underserved by the games industry,” says
Andy Yang, general manager of InstantAction.com.

Students now have access to training in Autodesk Maya at the click of
a mouse, with the launch of Escape Studios’ computer graphics (CG)
online learning tool.