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This week in video games: Playing football with 'Madden NFL' Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog) For awhile there we were worried that Madden NFL '12 would be the closest thing to real football fans would get this year. Thankfully that's not the case, but you can still find the newest Madden title on just about any gaming platform under the sun ...

When Playing Video Games At The Office Is Good For Business Worldcrunch Companies are increasingly turning to specialized video games to train their employees on how to sell, manage and lead. It is largely taking the place of now outdated “e-learing” By Thomas Monnerais PARIS - What if video games turned out to be just the ...

2 grants may help extend life of game center collections The Daily News Online Two grants, totalling more than $600000, have been given to the center, which collects, preserves and exhibits video games. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield recently announced a $500000 grant to the Center. "This grant will accelerate ICHEG's already ...

Man, 24, arrested for stealing seven video games Petaluma Argus Courier A Petaluma man was arrested on Friday night after stealing seven Xbox video games, worth around $145, from a local store. After receiving a report of a shoplifting at Kmart, in the Plaza North Shopping Center, police officers searched the surrounding ...

5 Emerging Technologies Soon to Hit the Government Market Government Technology When future historians look back on 2011, they'll certainly conclude that we were a society obsessed with video games, minicomputers masquerading as phones and an endless supply of online distraction. But in a few years, many technologies developed in ...

Technology: Should Google censor a dogfighting game? Los Angeles Times If you believe violent video games should be censored because they dehumanize people, you've got your work cut out for you. For starters, the Supreme Court is decidedly not on your side; see, for example, the decisions in Brown v Entertainment ...

Twister(R) Reimagined for the Digital Generation MarketWatch (press release) Majesco Entertainment Company is a leading developer and publisher of video games for the mass market. Building on more than 20 years of operating history, the company is focused on developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented ...

Fun but pricey new way to play MiamiHerald.com Sifteo Cubes exist in that rare but intriguing realm between digital video games and hands-on-toys. Richard Drew / AP By BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press I am sliding three little cubes around my desk. My goal is to help a penguin named Booker collect ...

Hillis hands out Madden game to teammates The Morning Journal For the first time in the history of Madden video games, a Browns player will grace the cover — the likeable and humble Hillis, who won a fan vote on espn.com for the right to be on the cover. The Browns running back beat out Eagles QB Michael Vick. ...

Gaming Project Helps Inspire Disaffected Teens Back into Education through ... GamePro.com An ambitious project in Rotherham, UK aims to inspire disaffected teens back into education through the use of video games. by Pete Davison "The Frag" is a life skills course which runs in Rotherham, UK. It was set up by a priest named the Reverend ...

LG thinks auto-converting 2D games to 3D ones will sell 3D phones DVICE It sucks for movies, it sucks for video games and it sucks for slapped together 3D photos. LG's special 2D to 3D converter for 3D smartphones can't be good for 3D as a format. 3D is only as good as its content, that's why Avatar still remains the king, ...

The 30 Dumbest Video Games Ever Made It is now estimated that almost 40% of gamers worldwide are women. This means the probability of marrying a hot brunette girl who wears glasses and likes ... superbooyah.com/.../The-30-Dumbest-Video-Games-Ever-Ma...

[Updated] Did OnLive coupon dustup earn gamer good will? | Crave ... OnLive may have earned itself some points with skeptical gamers after a controversy involving retailer GameStop and a coupon for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. news.cnet.com/.../updated-did-onlive-coupon-dustup-earn-ga...

The 13 Greatest Comedy Bits About Video Games (So Far) 3 Demetri Martin on Violent Video Games Added by: John Barryman ... 4 Dara O' Baird on Being a Middle-Aged Gamer, Music Games, FPS Crouching Added by: ... www.ranker.com/list/the-13-greatest..._/john-barryman

News: Fable 4 arriving in 2013 ... - Computer and Video Games Computer And Video Games - The latest gaming news, reviews, previews & movies. Sign up to .....4 comments 3544 plays; PC Gamer Diary Day 5 3308 plays ... www.computerandvideogames.com/.../fable-4-arriving-in-201... New This Week in Video Games 8-29-11 Attack of the Fanboy Madden NFL 12 - (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2) Madden NFL 12 continues the rich tradition of the storied franchise by bringing fans closer to the NFL than ever before. Featuring all 32 teams, stadiums, and your favorite players, Madden NFL 12 is True ... Competitive Video Games May Lead to Aggression PsychCentral.com As part of the research, investigators compared a series of experiments in whichvideo games were matched on competitiveness, difficulty, and pace of action. In review, researchers found video game violence alone did not elevate aggressive behavior. ... Sony on 3D Video Games: Gamers Want 3D Done Right 3D TV Earlier this month, another rep from SCEE revealed that using 3D technology on video gamesdoesn't require much direct overhead. Sony doesn't have the pressure to sell “millions more games” because of the large investment in 3D. ... Madden 2012 Reviews: How to Create the Ultimate Gamer Kit Bleacher Report With the release of Madden 12, every gamer is looking to get a leg up on their friends. Here are some pieces to consider when creating the ultimate gamer kit to put you ahead of the competition. Liebl didn't enjoy Madden 11, which makes his review all ... Petroglyph® Taps Live Gamer to Drive the Virtual Economy in Rise of Immortals™ Gamasutra New York, August 30, 2011 - Live Gamer ( www.livegamer.com ), the world's first combined digital commerce and advertising platform for the interactive entertainment industry, announced today that it will power the virtual economy in Rise of Immortals ... Latitude Studies the Gamer of the Future Walyou According to the data, the “new gamer” plays games on their smartphone, with 81% saying they do. Games like Angry Birds are cheap and easily accessible to both experienced gamers and people who might not even consider themselves gamers. ... Advertising in Violent Video Games Results in Poor Recall, Negative Brand ... University of Texas at Austin News AUSTIN, Texas — Embedding advertisements in violent video games leads to lower brand recall and negative brand attitudes suggesting advertisers should think twice about including such ads in a media campaign, according to researchers at The University ... UK video game chart 30 August 2011 Telegraph.co.uk By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor Zumba Fitness's reign is finally over. After ten weeks of claiming the top spot for its own, the Wii fitness title was fast becoming the Love Is All Around of the video games chart. But this week the equivalent of ... Razer Blade: portable gamer computer with SwitchBlade Generation NT (US) Benefitting from an aluminium shell that is only 2.24 centimetres thick, weighing 3.16 kilograms and with the brands black and green colour scheme, this 17.3 inch laptop computer is powered by a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7-2640M processor paired with 8 GB of ... Rugby World Cup 2011 review Telegraph.co.uk By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor I don't know. You wait four years for a rugby game and two show up at once. What are the chances? What could possibly cause such a long cycle? As in 2007, it's taken a world cup for the video game industry to have a ... Soon, learn the art of video games in Mohali Times of India MOHALI: The Union government is soon going to set up a centre of excellence in animation in Mohali through public private partnership (PPP) mode for providing skilled workforce for the flourishing industry. The centre for excellence would offer ... VIDEO GAMES: Behind The Scenes Featurette For X-Men Destiny! Comic Book Movie "X-Men Destiny" allows gamers to control the fate of one of three brand-new mutant characters forced to choose between saving humanity or ensuring its destruction. Players are able to customize the path, powers and development of their character and ... Playing Games So You Don't Have To: Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 Autostraddle These are a few things that plagued some of the “adult” video games that popped up in the late '80s and early '90s. “Adult” might not be the right word for it — it's more like “filled with innuendo and illustrations of fully-covered boobs that only a ... Facebook wants to offer real video games, soak up your spare time Tecca by Mariella Moon | Last updated 10:15PM EDT on August 29, 2011 There might come a time when the Facebook gaming experience isn't dominated by casual games like The Pioneer Trail, FarmVille, or FrontierVille. Facebook's head of game partnerships, ... Otoy's cloud tools can render stunningly realistic games and films (exclusive) VentureBeat Otoy's tools can be used to render extremely realistic “path tracing” scenes for modern video games or films. Otoy will roll out four different tools this year and next for game developers and filmmakers. For consumers, the result will be some ... Record-holding Xbox 360 gamer aims for million achievement points Pocket-lint.com This hasn't dissuaded gamer Raymond Cox, also known as Stallion83, who currently is sitting at over 600000 points and aiming for the million. His efforts have earned him the right to have his name added into the Guinness book of records, ... Nintendo's Early Christmas Presents Gamer UK Moffitt had this to say about the lineup: “Nintendo has something for you this fall, no matter what type of gamer you are, no matter what Nintendo system you're playing,” said Moffitt. “Whether you're looking for a world-spanning epic like The Legend ... Ready Player One: The best game you've ever read Globe and Mail (blog) But the novel's soul is retro video games. Set a few decades hence, the world is a dangerous, overpopulated, energy-deprived hell. The primary escape for most of the population is the OASIS, a virtual reality that's all but indistinguishable from the ... Big Games of 2011: Ubisoft Offers Assassin's Creed Revelations Walkthrough GamerLive.TV 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 ... Confirmed: Commander Shepard Will Be Leaving Us After Mass Effect 3 GamerFront In an interview with PC Gamer, BioWare's Ray Mazyka stated, “After this, Commander Shepard's story is complete.” There's no information on just how Shepard will be leaving the series, which leaves the door wide open to speculation. ...

Playing highly competitive video games may lead to aggressive behavior

Playing highly competitive video games may lead to aggressive behavior EurekAlert (press release) WASHINGTON – While most research into video games and aggressive behavior has focused on violent games, competitiveness may be the main video game characteristic that influences aggression, according to new research published by the American ...

Maroon and Gamer: The Early State of 3-D The State Press While this is fantastic news for those who haven't purchased one for themselves, this gamer can't help but wonder if there are some other issues at hand. You've probably noticed that Sony has been developing 3-D televisions. ...

VIDEO GAMES: Action Packed New Screens From Spider-Man: Edge Of Time And X-Men ... Comic Book Movie Putting the spotlight on the Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099 and Anti-Venom, check out these great new stills from Edge of Time, along with some cool new shots from X-Men Destiny focusing on Cyclops and Juggernaut... Spider-Man: Edge of Time is a ...

Video Games Live set to tour Australia in 2012 iTech Report The amazingly entertaining Video Games Live will be arriving on Australian shores some time next year, visiting many of the country's major cities. Video Games Live is a much loved concert group that plays theme music from a number of iconic video ...

5 Video Games That Screw Over the Color Blind Houston Press (blog) Hey, at least we can play video games, right? This is the point in the technology that many environments are indistinguishable from real life except by the number of zombies. Well, you'd think so, but there have been some examples of just blatant ...

A Video Game That Teaches You To Make Video Games – Code Hero Rocks Maker... Singularity Hub Use a video game to teach students how to make video games. It's so meta it just might work. In Code Hero, you take the role of a human programmer, roaming through the virtual world of Codia. A friendly AI teaches you some of the basics of your new ...

In Stores This Week: Video Games Big Shiny Robot! With the NFL preseason heating up it's time for the annual release of Madden NFL 12. By all accounts the franchise has slowly been making progress each year, but that's also making the legacy flaws that much more apparent. As much as I love football, ...

And On the Seventh Day They Played Video Games Kotaku One day of the week that no matter what is going on in your life, you always seem to end up playing video games on that day. I didn't intentionally choose a day and schedule time in for it, but I've noticed that Saturday night almost always results in ...

Physical theraphy patients working through pain using video games KTAR.com For rehabilitation the patients are turning to video games to do their exercises and work through the pain. "We're actually putting them in situations where they can practice actual movements that they need to do and get that feedback they need for ...

Video Games: Mortal Kombat vs. Watchmen Comic Book Movie When Quan Chi attempts to create a secret portal to Earth Realm with the assistance of Shinnok, their portal tampers with Dr. Manhattan's tachyon particles in the Watchmen universe. With enough power to distort the space-time continuum, the two realms ...

On Costumes, Video Games, and the Art of Pretending PopMatters On a sort of diagonal slant, related but not immediately, is the topic of nostalgic video games. An art gallery in my neighborhood, SUPER IAM8BIT, recently re-opened its doors with a group show sampling works inspired by early video games. ...

They Came, They Saw, They PAXed Seattlest A full 72-hours of the yearly gamer take-over of downtown Seattle has come to a close. The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX Prime 2011) washed over the Washington State Convention Center leaving locals and tourists not involved in the event asking, ...

Lawyer Suspended for Spending Too Much Time Playing His Video Games Technabob (blog) But for this certain guy, it was video games. If you know someone who's had an addiction or is currently battling one, then you might already be familiar with some of the signs and symptoms of addiction. Video game addiction doesn't really sound as ...

Video games and creative culture: independent or bound by a common shoestring? The Conversation The very idea of an independent video game breaks with the most popular narrative of what video games are: things for young men and boys… Daniel Golding spoke at and chaired a panel at Freeplay 2011. Our goal is to ensure the content is not ...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review JOE It's natural for players to see a mini-map and health bar at all times for their character invideo games, yet here the game's protagonist sees it too. Furthermore, XP and credits earned during the game can unlock a flurry of abilities, ...

The Dell XPS 8300 Is Your Gamer Family's Deal of the Day Gizmodo After I moved out not too long ago, my family found themselves in need of a new computer. Obviously, they have a host of options, but they happen to be PC people and don't want to spend too much on just the essentials. BUT my little sister likes MMOs, ...

Video Games Live Is Bringing Their Orchestra To YOUR Home Town! Kotaku Australia By Mark Serrels on August 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM Most video game orchestras, if they come over to Australia, head to Sydney — Melbourne if you're lucky — not Video Games Live. These guys are bringing their awesome show to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, ...

Red Sun Gamer Episode 8 – Welcome To The World Of Pandora's Tower Siliconera By Red Sun Gamer . August 28, 2011 . 1:30pm After sampling the game, we reckon we wouldn't be off the mark to interpret the ambiguous sub-title, Kimi no moto e kaeru made, Until I Return to Your Side, as, until Ende returns to Seres's side with a chunk ...

Do games really need in-game collectibles? GoozerNation (blog) It provides an opportunity to make the gamer play through a second time to find everything and get a prize. The element of collecting GTA IV's pigeons seems to lean toward this. In the end, in-game collectibles can be fun, but some games overuse them...

Contre Jour Pocket Gamer by Will Wilson You'll often come across a review in the Pocket Gamer containing a statement along the lines of 'it's like Angry Birds' or 'much as Cut the Rope works'. Some may call it lazy, but in terms of getting across how a game plays it's a far ...

Zynga IPO Reportedly Delayed Thanks to Market Downturn Reuters By Brent Lang at TheWrap Investors have been waiting breathlessly for Zynga to make its public debut next month, but the social media gamer's IPO has been pushed back until November, the New York Post reports. A spokesperson for Zynga declined to ...

Does Patriot now offer the best deal on DDR3-1600 currently on the market? PC Perspectives According to Legion Hardware the Patriot Gamer 2 DDR3-1600 is the best value on RAM going. They back that claim up with the Gamer 2 1600MHz @ 9-9-9-24 costing only $53 and keeping up with kits costing almost twice as much. They also managed to tighten ...

Photos of babes in bikinis (and as little text as humanly possible) Metromix New York ... an introduction to the metal as you race through some pixelated city streets? These are just a few of the wonderful things you'll be giving your loved ones (or more likely yourself) if you heed our advice about the biggest video games of the season.

PAX Prime 2011: Rocksmith Impressions & Video Platform Nation Or, if you already play and are a gamer (like myself), have you ever had the desire to use your guitar shredding skills in a video game? If so, you are in luck because from what I saw Ubisoft's Rocksmith, our wish has come true. ...

Dark Horse Promises MASS EFFECT 3 Secrets in New Art Book Newsarama By Seth Robison, Newsarama Contributor The line between comic books and video games continues to blur and the recent announcement of The Art of Mass Effect only confirms that trend, as does the presence of Dark Horse Comics Editor Dave Marshall the ...

Cinemaware Announces New Website Gamespy.com By Mike Sharkey | Aug 29, 2011 Cinemaware holds a special place in many a gamers' heart as the studio that brought Hollywood to video games with immersive, innovative titles like Defender of the Crown and Rocket Ranger. We're happy to report that ...

Blame player, not game Times of India Now, that may be a fine cautionary tale, and sure to give plenty of ammunition to those habituated to shouting from the rooftops about how dangerous video games are. But it's both unfair and illogical to think one man's excess applies to one and all. ...

Zap this silliness Regina Leader-Post Every govCernment has to be careful about its spending, but Saskatchewan's has misfired in zapping the purchase of video games for youth in custody. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation found the paltry sum of $1616.97 was spent over a four-year period on ...

Facebook wants to mimic consoles, feature wider range of games ZDNet (blog) Facebook wants to feature a wider selection range of video games, including first-person shooters, sports titles, and social games. In order to tempt more users to its platform, the company wants to offer different types of games like those found on ...

Punitive policy costs society StarPhoenix What's worse than the short-sighted and punitive thinking behind the Canadian Taxpayers Federation raising a fuss about youth detention facilities buying video games for use by children is the alacrity with which the Saskatchewan government acted to ...

Big Fish gets hardboiled again in iOS puzzler Nick Chase & the Deadly Diamond Pocket Gamer by Jon Jordan Thanks to its gumshoe setting, the original Nick Chase (a Pocket Gamer Gold awardee) was something of a crossover experience - a hidden object/mini-game title for people who didn't think they liked the genre. ...

Harmful escape from reality Times of India As Van Cleave's case shows, the effect of video games on grown-ups is as bad. Studies record how addiction to gaming can cause the breakdown of careers, health and social lives. In a shocking instance, a South Korean couple addicted to gaming neglected ...

Teen copes with summer of surgery Salisbury Post Sarah Campbell / Salisbury Post Samual Wyrick, Sam Killian and Macey Beattie spent a good portion of their summer break playing video games while Killian recovered from open heart surgery. Sarah Campbell / Salisbury Post Samual Wyrick looks on as Seth ...

This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3 VentureBeat The Raspberry Pi computer is a single-board computer that's capable of rendering video games like Quake 3 at a 1920 pixel by 1080 pixel monitor resolution. The game cruises along at around 20 frames per second with the lighting and geometrical details ...

A Very Oil On Whyte Preview Of EA Sports' NHL 12 Oil On Whyte Fast forward eighteen annual video games later. You'll soon find yourself in 2012, andvideo games have changed ever so slightly. Grab a cold one and join me as I go on a preview of EA Sports' NHL 2012. Let me start by saying that I think EA Sports ...

In Other News – August 29, 2011 Lazygamer It's times like these when you remember why it rocks so much to be a gamer (and don't forget what's still coming). In Other News: 10 tips to help you finish every game, tweak Deus Ex to run like a dream on your PC, Uncharted 3 gameplay video and ...

Zeebo raises $17M, plans to move away from gaming VatorNews Education and gaming are two industries that don't appear to go together, especially when you consider statistics that show that more screen time (including computer andvideo games) has a direct correlation with poor performance in school. ...

PAX 2011: The Future of DRAGON AGE Panel Newsarama Laidlaw then suddenly closed the floor to questions and began to speak about how the Dragon Age franchise is expanding beyond the video games: into the pen and paper RPG and even an animated project being worked on with Funimation. ...

Review: Game Dev Story (iPad) 2D-X Everyone who has fancied themselves gamer have at one point dreamed of crafting their very own video games. After all, with so many games sopping in the juice called suck, their ideas would succeed because they know games better than some passionless ...