Ok, it’s not often we post fan made stuff (we really should do more, making a note for later), but when a project is actually OK’d by Games Workshop (who make Nintendo look easy going on Copyright stuff), I sit up and take note…

Check THIS out:

Ok, this looks epic, but what REALLY stands out is that this was rendered in Real Time, which is a big deal if you make videos

Still no release date for this, but looking THIS cool, I think it’s worth the wait!

NASA Scientists have released 3D renderings for a concept design for a warp drive spaceship currently being prototyped.

Dr Harold “Sonny” White is working on the warp drive program at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre, and along with 3D artist Mark Rademaker, has created a concept for what a future ship capable of allowing us to explore the galaxy might look like, though the project is still at such an early stage that nothing is concrete. The proposed design involves “a sleek ship nestled at the centre of two enormous rings, which create the warp bubble”, with some elements seeing to resemble parts of the famous USS Enterprise from Star Trek.

White has spent his career working on ways to propel spacecrafts to faster than the speed of light, and this model would do so by bending the space around it, making the distance shorter. This means, Diaz writes, that the Enterprise wouldn’t break Einstein’s theory of relativity, as within its little bubble it wouldn’t be moving faster than light.

If that confuses you, think of space as like a train. You, the passenger, are the spaceship in its bubble. Let’s say you walk from carriage to carriage as the train is moving at 300mph. As you walk through the train you never break from your standard walking pace; but imagine someone watching your train go by from outside. To you, you’re moving forward at 3mph; but to the outsider, you’re moving at the same speed as the train. That’s how a warp bubble would work.

NASA are already experimenting with the concept of warp bubbles in small-scale; and it turns out, White and his team are closer to this goal than you might think. White believes that if his work is successful, it will create an engine that could get us to Alpha Centauri in two weeks.

Enterprise, one to beam up.

Microsoft has announced Forza Motorsport 5 Game of the Year edition.

Which will include the original game, plus 18 extra tracks and the Top Gear car pack featuring ten downloadable vehicles.

The game will cost £50/€70/$60 when it launches on July 22.

Do you think Forza 5 deserves GOTY edition?  Personally I do and it is the first new gen racer off the start line.

But let us know below.

Microsoft has announced its plans for Skype Translator, a new tool that aims to break down language barriers by translating spoken words during Skype video calls in real time.

Last week at the Code Conference in California, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Skype corporate vice president Gurdeep Pall demonstrated the feature publicly for the first time, via a conference call conducted between Pall speaking English in California and Diana Heinrichs speaking German in London. Though the translations were not always entirely accurate – many onlookers who understood German described them as “passable at best” – the near-real-time translation into a voice speaking the listener’s language impressed many. Microsoft state that Skype Translator “opens up so many possibilities to make meaningful connections in ways you never could before in education, diplomacy, multilingual families and in business”, and it’s easy to agree.

The company plan to release Skype Translator as a Beta for Windows 8-based devices later this year. Following successful testing, it’s believed the tool will later be offered as an update to existing Skype copies and support Windows 7, although nothing is confirmed beyond Microsoft’s reminder that Skype is “available across a number of devices and computing platforms”.