New Book Published on Video Game Players and Culture

“Video Gamers”: New Book Published on Video Game Players and Culture Prfire (press release) A new book published by British Sociologist Garry Crawford explores the culture and practices of video gamers. Playing video games is no longer the activity of a small minority of largely adolescent boys, but has become part and parcel of most of our ...

The Messy State of Video Games in Australia Video Game Writers Sure, I could say it's the accents or the strange Aussie necessity to abbreviate absolutely everything, but being the gamer that I am, I'd say the climate surrounding the video game rating system (known as classifications over here), is by far the most ...

Postscript: A female perspective on 'Catherine' Video Game Writers As a female gamer, I'm sick to death of this character in venues other than video games. Please don't start dragging these feather-heads into games. Okay, so if Catherine is not for girls, it must be for guys, right? During the pre-Catherine hype ...

Should sports video games ditch "Overall" player ratings? (plus more on the ... Operation Sports (blog) I think that cutting off overall ratings in sports games would help in many departments determining a player's true value to your team: 1) It will allow the gamer to focus more on the player's individual ratings, and I think this is really important. ...

Top women in video gaming IT News Africa Known by her Xbox360 tag Brookelyn FD, Hattabaugh strikes the fear into any man's heart, as she is from the all-girl gaming team the Frag Dolls, and is a competitive gamer hired by Ubisoft. She has been playing video games since the age of five, ...

Second Party Developers: Moving Onwards and Upwards Instead of Laterally G4 TV (blog) As such they not only owe it not only to the originator, but to gamers to move onward and upward with their art – not laterally. Nationally unacclaimed freelance writer Jonathan Deesing has been writing about video games for dozens of weeks. ...

Prime Minister's Questions – The Game The Independent (blog) However, a little known independent video games developer named Mark Richards, has reinvented the turn based genre by adding the raucous ruling of politics into the mix. He has reconstructed the parliamentary roleplaying that is the Prime Minister's ...

How To Turn Money Management Into A Game Lifehacker Australia By JD Roth on August 9, 2011 at 6:30 am Personal finance blogger JD Roth explains how his love of games has translated into an effective motivator for better money management: I am a gamer. All my life, I've been a fan of games of all sorts. ...

Tabletop Review: Shadowun – Street Legends diehard gamefan Would some of the characters from the 16-bit era Shadowrun video games make it in (No, I will never stop bitching until I get those re-released.)? Would classics like Harlequin, Sam Verner, Striper and more show up in here or would it be just a list of ...

Rotten Apple: Prod Commission targets tech tax Delimiter “It is widely and frustratingly understood by adult gamers in Australia; we are grossly discriminated against when it comes to retail prices on video games (as well as other retail products),” wrote one video gamer in the Productivity Commission's ...

Gamer Pulse By Robb Orr Gamer Pulse. Posted by Robb Orr in Video Games | 3 comments. Gamer Pulse. Do you feel that throbbing? That must mean it is time for another edition of Gamer Pulse, our weekly look at video game news. Kyle Black normally handles these ... Comic Booked

New Video Game Sales Tracking Could Replicate Hollywood Model ... By jgaudiosi An immediate benefit of the relationship to clients of The NPD Group and EEDAR is the integration of The NPD Group's point-of-sale (POS) video games data into EEDAR's widely adopted GamePulse service. ... For fans of games, the days of know how well your games are selling as they're released is likely the next step. Hollywood opens its books to the public. Now it looks like video game data will be out there for gamers to track better, as well. ... GamerLive.TV

Heads-up: New games out this week - VideoGamer.com By contact@videogamer.com (James Orry) VideoGamer.com Plays Article ... 2 See the data centres that power Xbox LIVE. Take a tour of the the data centres that power online gaming. ... Top Games Hub. See VideoGamer.com's top recommended games for any platform or genre. ... VideoGamer.com - All Updates

GAMEfest 2011 Coming Soon « SlimGamer.com – Slim Means Nothing ... By The Bassmonkey Hosted by GAME, Europe's leading specialist video game retailer, reward card holders will be able to play some of the best new video games due out soon, take advantage of special offers, and walk away with some of the best games ... SlimGamer.com - Slim Means Nothing,...

The Big Game: Being a gamer has been an adventure, even more so ... But being a gay gamer has often been an awkward thing to be. For most of their history, video games have been a pretty heterosexual male playground, ... metroweekly.com/news/opinion/?ak=6484

Video Gamer Levels: A New Idea thinking that recognizes a video gamer's identification with virtual reality and the real world. While one video gamer plays video games with no ill ... assets.booklocker.com/pdfs/5589s.pdf