Video games help parents bond with children

Smartphone and video games 'help parents to bond with children' Telegraph.co.uk Playing video games and using smartphones are helping parents and children bond, according to new university research. Four in five parents described playing video games with their children as “quality time”, while 32 per cent of parents play computer...

Wreck-It Ralph is Disney's Love Letter to Video Games IGN The story of a bad guy from an 8-bit video game who dreams of the glory of being a good guy, the film takes us inside the world of video games from the point of view of the characters themselves. The opening scene of Wreck-It Ralph tells you all you ...

Disney's Wreck-It Ralph footage promises a hilarious journey into old-school ... io9 This movie might just do for video games what Toy Story did for toys. At yesterday's D23 presentation, Disney animation head honcho John Lasseter introduced the first four minutes from Disney's upcoming computer animated film. ...

Kinect and Move: One Year Later GoozerNation (blog) Most core gamers painted the picture that the Move and Kinect were nothing more than casual gamer peripherals, but do we still feel the same way? We all shifted uncomfortably during the motion-control segments of E3 and facepalmed at the "Lightsaber, ...

Motion Sports Adrenaline Adds More Extreme Wired News By Andy Robertson These days video games affect every part of life, from online dating to self improvement and even health and fitness. But sometimes we forget they are supposed to be about letting us do things that we wouldn't normally be able to. ...

Kids learn computer programming at Hack the Future San Francisco Chronicle They could learn how to control a robot, create their own video games or how to solder from Al Alcorn, creator of the classic Pong and regarded as the father of video gaming. "This whole thing is inspired by a lot of young engineers wanting to share ...

The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Will Smith column Middle East North Africa Financial Network $59.99 Most of my time in the fictional realm of video games is spent in one of three ways -- punching people, shooting people or driving over them. And though these elements often are combined and sifted to follow a specific plot or game-play model, ...

Grand Theft Auto: Iran Digitaltrends.com History has always been a supple and fertile breeding ground for video games. World War II has been milked so hard that there may not be a single battle left that has not been digitally recreated in some form, while other genres like the Wild West seem ...

A Brief History of Mobile Gaming Business Insider When technology is placed in the hands of a gamer, it will not take long before they will figure out a way to install, code, or fabricate a game. This is the very scenario that spawned the world of mobile gaming, a niche market in an industry that nets ...

Cipher Prime pushes hexagons in abstract iPad puzzler Fractal: Make Blooms Not War Pocket Gamer by Jon Jordan Best known for its arch, abstract, music-oriented releases such as Auditorium (a Pocket Gamer Gold award winner) and Pulse: Volume One, US start up Cipher Prime's original game was actually a puzzler. Sure, it was an abstract puzzler with ...

WWE '12: 6 Ways to Make It the Best WWE Game of All Time Bleacher Report From my experience writing on this section of Bleacher Report, I have come to realize that wrestling and video games are huge topics of discussion. And with THQ and the WWE set to release the new WWE '12 game this November, I thought it would be a good ...

PC Preview - 'Hard Reset' WorthPlaying.com I'm primarily a PC gamer, though I own and play pretty much all modern platforms. When I'm not shooting up the place in the online arena, I can be found working in the IT field, which has just as many computers but far less shooting. ...

CONAN Scribe Joshua Oppenheimer Offers Update on Live-Action VOLTRON Film The Daily BLAM By Pietro Filipponi Relativity Media recently purchased distribution rights for the popular 80's property which includes working for a new animated series, video games and feature film. Premiering in 1984, Voltron: Defender of the Universe took ...

"El Shaddai" lets you beat the holy heck out of the heavenly host IFC Video games have gone to rarefied places for inspiration before. There was that 8-bit "Great Gatsby" game a few months back and Electronic Arts put out a game inspired by "Dante's Inferno" some years ago. Celestial folklore from Japanese mythology has...

Diablo III Console Port Still Not Announced, but is "Going to be Awesome" Co-Optimus.com First they say they have no plans, and millions of console gamer weep. Now all of a sudden they are “'very, very serious' about Diablo for consoles,” according to Kotaku. The developer revealed this public change of attitude at their Gamescom press ...

Cadbury creates world's first interactive video game off chocolate wrapper The Independent In what the brand claims to be a world first, Cadbury is taking the wraps off plans to create an interactive packaging that will allow consumers to play video games virtually with the swipe of their smartphone. Augmented reality is the latest trend to ...

Adult Swim shows the sappy side of gaming in SUPER iam8bit article Joystiq by Jessica Conditt on Aug 20th 2011 10:30PM For an after-hours comedy network, Adult Swim takes its video games very seriously; its article on the SUPER iam8bit gallery presents the show as if the most imaginative pages from our childhood diaries were ...

Our kids' glorious new age of distraction Salon Over the last few years, there's been a lot of concern that new forms of technology, like smart phones, video games and the Internet, are ruining the next generation of kids -- that they can't concentrate on anything, that they're always distracted. ...

Who Owns Madden's Virtual Playbook? Kotaku They have all the secrets to make you a better Madden gamer. "SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OVER THE COMPETITION," says the website. "DOMINATE ONLINE." It sounds like a huckster pitch from any of the numerous, unofficial, strategy sites dedicated, ...

GURL GAMERZ Cornwall Community News I'd like to begin this article by stating straight off the bat that there's nothing wrong with being female and playing video games. Lord knows that every relationship I've ever been in I've worked fervently to get them to be player 2, ...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – review The Guardian When first-person RPG Deus Ex came along in 2000, it set a new standard for video games as entertainment. The hyperbole that accompanies much of today's output – "expansive", "immersing", "emotive" – was first fully realised in its shadowy, ...

Playing The Red Box: Confessions of a First Time DM (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) Wired News But the road from casual gamer to D&D enthusiast wasn't as easy as simply reading through the Dungeon Masters guide and having a go at it. I had help. And I needed it. Not only am I new to Dungeons and Dragons, I also elected to be our DM. ...

The man behind Limbo gets the rapid-fire question treatment Develop What do you enjoy about the video games industry today? You can find good things in a lot of industries, but what I really like about games in particular, and where I work now, is the number of creative people. It is a lot of fun. ...

WarGames remake is on target TG Daily ... was about a young gamer who, while trying to pirate some unreleased video games, inadvertently hacked into NORAD, and started up a wargames simulation, which tricked the advanced system into thinking that a war with Russia had begun. ...

Five Controller Smashing Videogame Moments Sabotage Times I consider myself a hardcore gamer. You'll never catch me sobbing like a spanked child when faced with a challenge. Nope, not me. My dinkle twitches into life whenever I'm confronted with an awkward Xbox achievement. Cheating is unthinkable; the last ...

New Releases: August 21–27 (Revolutionizing Humans Edition) Piki Geek I think I can finally feel the cool breeze of Fall rolling in, as releases are really starting to pick back up in the wide world of video games. This week sees the release of the long-anticipated Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the prequel to the beloved ...

Resistance 3 leaked 2 weeks before release – to Reddit user BeefJack I am currently in a “stealth” area and it doesn't feel like other stealth games (to me at least). The rest of us will be able to get our hands on Resistance 3 from September 6th in the US and 9th in the UK and Europe. Thanks to Legit Gamer for pointing ...

Muzyka: BioWare to throw previous Dragon Age games into a blender for next title Joystiq by Jessica Conditt on Aug 21st 2011 2:30PM Dragon Age 3 is going to blend the best features of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka told PC Gamer at Gamescom. After Dragon Age 2's inconclusive, varied review scores, ...

Video game releases: 'Deus Ex Human Revolution,' 'Rugby World Cup 2011' The Independent Early reviews gave it 94% (PC Gamer, GamesMaster), 8/10 (OPM), and 10/10 (OXM UK). Essentially the same as the Nintendo DS's SMT: Devil Survivor, though the extra $10 nets enhanced graphics, the 3DS's 3D effect, voicework throughout, and an epilogue. ...

John Carmack Talks Rage and Mario IGN by Ryan Clements Gamasutra's Kris Graft conducted an extensive interview with John Carmack today discussing Carmack's work on Rage, the technology that powers it, and a few other topics including our biological limitations when we play video games. ...

New Research Explores What Makes Video Games Fun | GamerLive.TV By jgaudiosi How do you create fun computer games while also incorporating the right set of features, while making them reliable, maintainable, and robust? The September/October issue of IEEE Software on “Engineering Fun” tackles that challenging ... GamerLive.TV

Video Games: Good Things Come in 3′s | Hawkins Consulting By Jeffrey Hawkins Video Games: Good Things Come in 3's Fall brings hotly anticipated sequels. ... Hawkins Consulting

Forthcoming Kinect Motion Video games 2011 | Swingandalongdrive.com By tod There are four new upcoming Kinect action video games coming to Xbox Kinect in the second 50 % of 2011. The very first is Kung Fu Panda 2 and this will be released on Might 24th 2011, this is a Kinect motion fighting video game aimed at ... Swingandalongdrive.com

Video Games: There's No Escape - Digg No matter what you're doing these days, there's probably a way to play games close at hand. digg.com/news/gaming/video_games_there_s_no_escape

A Gamer's Week: August 21 - Softpedia This was the week of Gamescom 2011, the Cologne, Germany based trade event which provides the European counterpart to the United States E3 trade show and we ... news.softpedia.com/.../A-Gamer-s-Week-August-21-217636.s...