DVT linked to video gamer's death

DVT linked to video gamer's death BBC News A man whose son died after playing video games for long periods is campaigning for greater awareness of the risk posed by their excessive use. Chris Staniforth, 20, who would play his console for up to 12 hours, died in May from deep vein thrombosis ...

Opening Day Means More Skepticism than Celebration in Sports Video Games Kotaku Next up on the calendar is Madden NFL 12, a game that, through its outsize reputation and market presence, pays for all of the sins of sports gaming, not just its own. Gamer wariness of publish-and-patch practices may now come home to roost with it, ...

Humans, Orcs, Soldiers Unite for Competitive Weekend NBC Los Angeles Major League Gaming is the world's largest competitive video game league. Thousands of spectators are expected at the Anaheim Convention Center to witness both amateurs and pros compete at three different video games: Halo: Reach, StarCraft2 and Call ...

30 best iPad games CNET (blog) Scott Stein, a New York Jets fan and CNET senior editor, has written about tech, entertainment,video games, and viral culture for outlets including Laptop, Maxim, Esquire, and Men's Journal. He also appears on the Digital City podcast. by Norseman ...

Mark Hamill Tells Us About 'Sushi Girl,' 'The Black Pearl' and 'Arkham City' Moviefone (blog) We talked all about the film, the possibility of doing it as a play (Hamill has an extensive theater history), his voice work as the Joker, video games and his most recent venture, joining Twitter. Moviefone: So tell me a little bit about the movie. ...

Smart Move, Nintendo! GoozerNation (blog) Being a technophile and a gamer, I'm mysteriously drawn to wanting the latest gadgets, consoles, and games. However, thanks in part to the responsibilities of being a husband, father, homeowner, billpayer -- which act as my willpower in those moments ...

Gamer Chris Staniforth's death blamed on DVT By LewisM Gamer Chris Staniforth's death blamed on DVT. July 30, 2011. Gamer Chris Staniforth's death blamed on DVT. A man whose son died after playing video games for long periods is campaigning for greater awareness of the risk posed by their ... Train2Game

Comics Meet Robotics in The Adventures of Retrobot [Kickstarter ... By Erik Johnson Well everyone, a handful of the DIYGamer contingent sets off for Comic-Con this morning, with a car full of audio and video equipment no less. Off the bat I freely admit there's not a lot of actual “on schedule” indie game love going on ... A robot created and programmed to be best friends and play a lot of video games. A tale of friendship and forced separation between socially-inept nerd, robot, and monkey. There was a lot to like. Such scribbling such as “Retrobot sees ... DIYgamer

Pop Rally Presents Arcade, Hosted by Kill Screen By monique zamir Tickets sold out, around a thousand people came, and video games were exhibited on the first three floors and the courtyard of the MoMA. It was an incredible night for gaming, marking its transition from stigmas of sweaty kids playing ... Untapped New York

Xbox addict 'dies from blood clot' | The Raw Story By Agence France-Presse Reports of gamers collapsing after spending 15 hours in front of video games are fairly common throughout Asia. In 2005, a South Korean gamer died after playing online games for three days without taking a break. ... The Raw Story

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College students and the gaming factor - News - The Collegian ... College students and the gaming factor. Video games vs. GPA. Published: Sunday, July 17, 2011. Updated: Monday, July 18, 2011 00:07 ... www.jccollegian.com/.../college-students-and-the-gaming-fact...

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Cool Gamer T-Shirts Sales On The Rise | Max Gamer The people work very hard for their money, and they are beginning to spend it on video games, coolgamer t-shirts, and other gamer swag. The world of the ... maxgamer.net/video.../cool-gamer-t-shirts-sales-on-the-rise

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Sexual Video Games Are Good For Us

Sexual Video Games Are Good For Us Kotaku ... wildly underestimated the volume of folks who were poking around in offbeat video games, recognizing the same archetypes, wondering the same things I wondered. If I'd been a man, perhaps the Aberrant Gamer column wouldn't have been so successful. ...

Video game exhibit, 'Game On 2.0,' brings its history and interactivity to OMSI OregonLive.com Enlarge Dania Maxwell, The Oregonian PORTLAND, OREGON -- July 20, 2011 -- Blake Mullenix accompanies his nephew Elijah Mullenix at OMSI's gaming exhibit, "Game On 2.0." The exhibit is an interactive experience tracking the development of video games ...

Psychologist says blaming games for massacres is "racist" TG Daily ... using video games as the secret underlying culprit is getting boring. So when the tragic events in Norway occurred, everyone easily latched on to the fact that gunman Anders Behring Breivik was agamer. He played World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, ...

This Video Game Documentary Is Looking Fantastic So Far GamerFront Animatronic Ackbar consists of some great people who have a huge passion forgaming. They are currently working on a documentary film about video games that is looking really awesome at this point. The film is called Beyond The Game, and it's something ... GamerFront

Interview: Mets Pitcher Dillon Gee Explains His Love of Video Games Complex.com (blog) Always nice to run into a gamer in an MLB clubhouse. We see a lot of guys on iPads these days, but not many go home to consoles. I'm not amazing. I grew up playingvideo games, and I can get good at some. Whenever I play them a lot, I get good. ... Complex.com (blog)

Japan is More Pumped for the Vita Than the Wii U, But Why? Attack of the Fanboy While this survey isn't necessarily representative of all Japanese gamers and consumers interested in video games, Famitsu is the most widely read and respectedgaming publication in the country. So, let's consider the idea that these numbers may... Attack of the Fanboy

Video Game Quick Hits 7/29/11 Big Shiny Robot! Fans at Comic-Con finally got their hands on some video games that were shown only to the press last month at E3. Games have been delayed, games have moved, Bobby Kotick made an ass of himself again. Well, those last three are typical of any month.... Big Shiny Robot!

End of Legacy: No More Ezio After Assassin's Creed – Revelations? [Videos] International Business Times “Recognized for having some of the richest, most engrossing storytelling in the industry, Assassin's Creed has transcended video games, branching out into other entertainment experiences including comic books, Facebook games, novels, short films and ... International Business Times

Ubisoft Thinks its PC DRM is a "Success" (it is Wrong) Kotaku An Ubisoft representative told PC Gamer earlier today that the company had recently seen "a clear reduction in piracy of our titles which required a persistent online connection, and from that point of view the requirement is a success. ...

The 404 871: Where we're pleading the 14th (podcast) CNET (blog) Jeff Bakalar is an editor for CNET Reviews, getting all the dirt on the gaming industry. After spending a few years in the world of film production, he has settled down and currently lives in New Jersey. He's an avid writer, gamer, and full-time ...

Videogames: A Jack of all Trades PlayStation Universe With technology rapidly advancing every day and the widespread utilization of new ideas, the sky is the limit for video games in health and medicine. A past misconception about videogames is that they encourage laziness and render individuals unwilling ... PlayStation Universe

Blaming Video Games for Violence is “Racist” and ... - GGS Gamer By Tabitha Wang We've all heard it before, and we'll probably keep on hearing it: video games cause violence. Do they really? Some would say they do, some would say they don't. The familiar argument of guns killing people versus people killing people ... GGS Gamer

New Video Games Denote Updated Modded Controllers | Creative Maze By Jason Moddley Halo: Reach, Gears of War 2, and Black Ops have all been highly popular for the industry andgamers alike, and their success has led to a swell in popularity for modded Xbox 360 controllers. Companies that offer modded controllers seek ... Creative Maze

Its time to move on......... | PlayStation® Community Forums By no-reply@playstation.sony.com Socom isn't worth ending my gaming "career" over. Socom 4 is horrible not just as a socom game but a game in general however theres alot of potential good games coming out that you could enjoy if you give it a shot. .... Sorry to say if thats the case your probably not a true gamer anyways. zpr_Roper described the S2 HD fanbase as "small but rabid fanbase ". a true gamer? really? its special to be someone that plays video games these days? does that go at the top of your ... PlayStation® Community Forums...

Gamer Girl's Top 5 Games Of All Time – GizmoFusion By Krista About Krista - I'm what most gamerz call the perfect girl. I love video games, tech, am a geek, and I know when to flirt it. If you like my articles let me know! Related Posts. Add to Delicious · Digg · submit to reddit · espn-3-xbox ... GizmoFusion

Geekay Games launches first online games store in Middle East

Geekay Games launches first online games store in Middle East AME Info GeekayGames.Com will be the first online games store in the Middle East to stock a wide range ofvideo games software, hardware and branded accessories. Anything that a Gamer 'core or casual' may require, they will have them. Using the Internet is now ...

Reliving Pac-man and Asteroids Glory Days Courtesy of The Free Video Games Project Savings.com (blog) The cost to spend hours in a classic arcade playing the likes of Galaga, Frogger, or Pac-Man was one quarter or fifty cents if you were really the ultimate gamer. And a few quarters more if you were on novice level. The Free Video Games Project takes ...

Game therapy: Helping the disabled to play Humans Invent For thousands of disabled and colour blind gamers it's “Game Over” before they can even hit the start button. But now games developers and charities are pulling together to make video gamesmore inclusive. As you read this, thousands of players are ...

What is Japan's Fetish This Week? S&M Kotaku But as difficult Japanese games like Demon's Souls have proven, video games can also bend players to their will. "I have strong masochistic tendencies," Omi told Kotaku. That's why, as agamer, she's drawn to characters who have elements she doesn't. ...

Motorola Droid 3 smartphone review shows impressive features on the newest 3G ... Video Gaming Pros The dual core 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP chip is frequently found in demanding gamer's laptops and tablets, and has plenty of power for a mobile phone's needs. Actually a full 27% faster than the Droid 2, this is one fast phone. ...

Project Ten Dollar, Third Party Initiatives, and the Rise of Digital Distribution Gaming Bus However, with video games and other media, buying something does not entitle one to these things. In fact, these initiatives have been made exclusively to prevent me from doing these things. They do not want to sell me a product; instead, ...

Focus – THE MIKE ROSS STORY – A Movie Review ringsidereport.com “Focus: A Documentary” follows the story of Mike Ross, a professional gamer who specializes in Street Fighter IV. It doesn't delve into the specifics of Street Fighter as a game so much as analyzing the community that has been built around it. ...

Jair Jurrjens dominates PlayStation like he does the mound ESPN (blog) "Life can be so stressful at times that playing video games is a way for me to escape everything, go into my own world and have fun." Jurrjens said, breaking down his love for gaming. "Growing up, I was on PlayStation so much, I needed to get Lasik ...

Nintendo announces new price cut for 3DS GamerGaia You are getting a family friendly device with ready-to-use, glasse-free 3D capabilities and high-resgaming capabilities; not to mention that 3DS owners have access to titles that are known as the staples and benchmarks in video games design, ...

Interview: Why IndieCity Is More Than Just An Indies-Only Steam Gamasutra Instead we're going for all of the weird and wonderful games out there and are aiming to appeal togamers who want to see just what video games are capable of." "No doubt we will have promotions too, but we don't want to encourage mass-deductions just ...

Got Game: Angry Birds Gets Serious About Ads MediaPost Publications In some cases, Cormier explains rich media or interactive ads will take the gamer out of the game to the brand's landing page. Mobile gaming revenue will exceed $16 billion in 2016, as in-app payments grow, according to ABI Research. ...

Adults only: NSW off its game Central Western Daily Orange computer gamer and Leading Edge technician Ben Yeomans said NSW needed to stop being a nanny-state and get with the times. “You can buy R-rated films and books, so why not games?” Mr Yeomans said. “It's ultimately parents' responsibility to ...

In Other News – July 28, 2011 – Hot Cosplay Pic After The Jump Edition Lazygamer So what's your favorite gaming snack? In Other News: We have an extra hot Mileena cosplay pic after the jump, take a look at the ultra hot Female Shepard that they should put in ME3 instead and women say that video games aren't “just for boys” anymore. ...

Remembering the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of MS-DOS Kotaku While it wasn't exactly easy to learn the secrets of MS-DOS, once a gamer had become reasonably familiar with how it ran, they could exploit its raw flexibility to customise their software to an extent rarely possible today. MS-DOS became so synonymous ...

Need for Speed The Run Preview Operation Sports As for the narrative behind why you are racing, I'll continue to be skeptical of it simply because racing games and storytelling do not have a great track record in video games; the ideas usually are just too at odds with each other to really co-exist. ...

Mario, Master Chief take out Angry Birds, mob style In-Game (blog) (subscription) Stay up to speed with news and reviews on video games for the PC, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, iPhone, iPad, Droid, Facebook and more. Don't mess with the Godfather of gaming. If Mario has his way, the Angry Birds will be sleeping with the ...

The Gamer Studio | Head to Head: Are Downloadable Games as Good as ... Video games strive to give gamers the most realistic experience it can muster. There is always a dosage of exaggeration, as there should be (these are video games), but I'm engaged the most when I feel like I am the main character, ... The Gamer Studio RSS Feed

THQ pulls the plug on Red Faction franchise | GGS Gamer By David Campbell Perhaps THQ hoped this would breathe fresh life back into the series, though it seems have been a novelty for gamers at most. It's kinda sad when something like this happens to a franchise that has become so recognisable in video games ... GGS Gamer

Review: Bastion Shows Downloadable Games How it's Done. | GamerLive.TV By pnachum He started a personal blog during the Summer of 2010 and moved on to other gaming sites in the Spring of 2011, mostly focusing on reviews and industry trends. Other than playing video games, he also plays drumset and studies Economics ... GamerLive.TV

The Book of Unwritten Tales Might Be Another Sleeper Indie Hit ... By Allen Park An avid SoCal gamer for 20+ years, Allen's earliest gaming memory is unboxing his brand-spankin new NES, starting up Duck Hunt, and trying to shoot the dog. Even though he's a multiconsole owner, he's a PC gamer above all, a Valve fanboy that has more unplayed than played games on his Steam account. He's a sucker for weird, quirky, indie games, ... ShockCast Episode 73 – “Movies, Comics and Books Based on Video Games: How to Do Them Right”. by Chad Awkerman ... DualShockers

Gamergeddon 2nd year anniversary giveaway – Day 1 By Dave Cole To enter all you need to do is tell us what annoys you the most in video games. My (Dave C) personal annoyances are unnecessary time limits and swimming sections found in games. Tell us your annoyances in games and the reason why in the ... Gamergeddon

Nintendo Hates Shooters: Will it Kill the Wii U's Chances? | Game ... By Nadia Oxford “I would personally feel sad if all video games became something like that.” No doubt Iwata has been giving a lot of thought to shooter games in recent months. The core gaming experience is not defined by shooters, not by a long shot ... Game Industry News, Interviews...

Supremacy MMA Takes the Fight to the Streets ... - Terminal Gamer. By JP 505 Games is a global publisher of video games, publishing games for all ages across multiple platforms including, Xbox 360® video game entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system, Nintendo Wii™ and ... Terminal Gamer

PS3 News: Sony experimenting with virtual reality gaming ... Computer And Video Games news: Sony experimenting with virtual reality gaming. www.computerandvideogames.com/.../sony-experimenting-wi...

NECA Reveals Their First Series Of Products Based ... - Shogun Gamer NECA Reveals Their First Series Of Products Based On Valve's Video Games ... NECA won't have any surprises but it will finally give gamers something they've ... shogungamer.com/.../neca-reveals-their-first-series-products-b...

Survey: Women Enjoy Video Games More Than Sex | For Gamers By ... For Gamers By Gamers Daily ... Survey: Women Enjoy Video Games More Than Sex. More articles by Hardcore Gamer ». Written by: Hardcore Gamer ... www.forgamersbygamersdaily.com/.../survey-women-enjoy-v...

Gamers Lead Successful Lives - Macon Video Games | Examiner.com Video games are often given a bad rap. Many people believe that video games only distract people from reality with a fake world. Gamers are often perceived ... www.examiner.com/video...in.../gamers-lead-successful-lives

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UK gamers 'spend 1.8 years playing video games' | Ebuyer.com UK gamers 'spend 1.8 years playing video games'. Friday 15th July 2011. Fans of the Xbox, PS3 and other consoles spend an average of 1.8 years of their ... www.ebuyer.com/.../UK-gamers-spend-1.8-years-playing-vide...

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Sherry's Soapbox: Video Games: The Stigma of Gaming | ygosolopuc Whether you do console games or play on the computer, moderation in gaming is of course important. Video games can be rather addicting, and no gamer really ... ygosolopuc.wordpress.com/.../sherrys-soapbox-video-games-t...

eSports a/k/a electronic sports

A Briefing on eSports GamerFront ... short for electronic sports, represent the various competitive gaming scenes. From fighting games, MMO arena player-versus-player, first-person shooters, or real time strategy, there exists a competitive scene for almost every genre of video games. ...

MLG Pro Gamers Flock to So Cal with $120000 Up for Grabs GamerLive.TV From July 29-31, competitors from around the globe will battle for more than $120000 in prizes and stipends playing some of the most popular video games of all time including the record-setting Call of Duty: Black Ops on PlayStation 3, ...

Ways to Save Money as a Gamer: Gamer-conomy TekGoblin ... it's tough to be a gamer and be able to play the games you want when they are still relatively new. I am a thrifty shopper and anyone of my friends and family will tell you right away that I find deals and find them to benefit me, with video games. ...

'From Dust' Review Game Rant Video games as a medium allow users to escape into a fantasy world where the rules of reality don't apply. They can transport gamers to far away locales, place them in the shoes of powerful heroes, or even allow them to play god. ...

Let Off Some Steam: I'll Be Over Here… Playing Video Games Kotaku Australia People who play video games are sometimes referred to by that awful label 'gamer'. Yet nobody who goes to their cinema once a week is called a 'movie-watcher'. That would be ridiculous because everybody goes to the movies. There's no need for them to ...

A Plea for More of the Strange, Weird and Fringe Geekosystem This is the current lamentable situation of the modern gamer. There are so many games that are just paint-by-number rip-offs or less direct clones of other noteworthy franchises. Often enough, even the games that they rip-off are clones themselves. ...

Stop blaming video games for terrorism Examiner.com Because of this, there are times when being a gamer is a taboo. I began playing video games in the early to mid 1990's. I have seen them evolve from the lightheartedness of Super Mario Brothers to the violence of the Grand Theft Auto. ...

We want better games, women say SBS More and more women are turning to gaming. Many love the mental challenge of video games, like using their hand-to-eye coordination. But they want a game with good female characters, a game that plays well with a good story to it. ...

G4TV.com premieres G4 Films Wednesday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) By Stanley A. Miller II of the Journal Sentinel G4TV.com, the gaming website, today announced it will launch its first star of G4 Films on Wednesday, a new project to find, develop, produce and license full and short films about video games. ...

Review : Boulder Dash XL Xbox 360 Digest PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Rockford™ and Crystal™, heroes of First Star Software's Boulder Dash®, one of the greatest classic video games, get their bits and bytes together to make their Next Gen-Debut. Back in the 80's, when hairstyles were wild and music ...

Lunch Break Links: Classic Story Covers Re-Imagined and Long Island Rages U Weekly (blog) *Following the theme of re-imagined children book covers; here are a bunch of video games redrawn as if they were classic books. I admit I'm not a huge gamer, so a lot of these went over my head, but they're still pretty cool looking. ...

Do you want to be on TV like I was? Lazygamer ... and all that nonsense, but the plan for next week is to have a panel of gamers connected via Skype who they will cut to every now and then to chat with and that is when your moms can finally be proud of you for playing all those video games. ...

Reviewed: Alice – The Madness Returns IT News Africa So it's with great enthusiasm that McGee ventured forth for another trip to Wonderland, this time producing the sequel Alice: Madness Returns through Electronic Arts. The madness did truly return, as any gamer can attest who only saw the game's opening ...

Office scandal: I picked a cubicle over an office Salon After a few weeks of watching "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," listening to Electric Light Orchestra's "Discovery," and programming primitive video games in BASIC on his TRS-80 Radio Shack computer, JP told me about Dungeons & Dragons. "Elves? ...