Google is going after the TV, with the launch of it’s Windows-only Google Gadget, the Google Media Server. Finding photos, music and video, Google Media Server makes content from your PC available over your network to DLNA devices, such as the Playstation 3 and most Media Center PCs. Unfortunately at this time the Xbox 360 (or Nintendo Wii), though supporting DLNA, is not supported due to signing issues. According to a Google Media Server developer comment, Google Legal did not allow developers to ‘trick’ the Xbox 360 into believing the GMS was signed (for DRM purposes) into believing it were a Microsoft Product, though the developer pointed out there were ways around the internet to achieve this on your own.

The Google Media Server acts as a bridge, allowing you to serve up videos, music and photos as well as Picasa Web Albums and favorite YouTube videos to your Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices. No word on when they’ll start streaming Google Ads to your TV however.

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The team behind the Austrian 3d graphics library/engine Irrlicht happily announced the 1.1 release of their core engine as well as the 0.3 release of their free real-time graphics editor, irrEdit. For those unfamiliar with Irrlicht, it’s an open source, completely cross-platform high-performance 3D graphics engine written in C++ (and available in .NET language), using D3D, OpenGL and it’s own software renderer. The community and thus support for Irrlicht is impressive with thousands of users in and out of the games industry around the world.

Changelist after the jump..

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