Why It Feels Good To Get Inside Master Chief's Helmet

Why It Feels Good To Get Inside Master Chief's Helmet Fast Company BY Nidhi Subbaraman Today Leave it to a psychologist at the University of Essex to discover that the secret sauce in irresistible video games is the characters' personalities--especially those that leave just enough creative space for players to pour...

Every Australian Attorney General Supports R18+ Video Game Rating [Australia ... TFTS (blog) It's a good day to be an Australian gamer, because every Attorney General in the country has thrown their support behind an R18+ rating for mature video games. Those who have been following this story – for ten freakin' years, no less (really? ...

Big Games of 2011: EA Sports Introduces Legends to NHL 12 GamerLive.TV Gamers will even be able to add these greats – in their prime – to any current team. Gretzky, who partnered with EA last year on NHL Slap Shot for Wii, talks about video games in this exclusive video interview. In Be A Legend, gamers will experience ...

F1 Online: The Game to launch in Q1 2012 Videogamer.com "Formula One is a proven major games brand that resonates with players on a global level and is recognised as one the biggest sports licenses in video games. As the worldwide gaming market evolves, 2012 is the perfect time to extend this series to the...

NPD sales figures, Xbox 360 dominates Lazygamer “By crossing the 5 million sales mark, Just Dance 2 joins one of the most exclusive clubs in the world of video games,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Nintendo systems have games for every type ...

Weekly Wrap-Up 8/12/11 GameZone For many guys, gaming with the special girl in their life can be an awesome experience. Whether you're dating a gamer girl (lucky you!) or a woman who doesn't play many video games (aww), here is a list of five awesome games to play together....

The Lawbringer: What WoW can learn from other microtransaction models, part 2 Joystiq by Mathew McCurley Aug 12th 2011 at 4:00PM Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, ...

Why isn't there outrage over game prices? Stuff.co.nz (blog) ... but when gamers complain about high prices of something they love (which we have) it seemingly falls on deaf ears? Is it because, in the mind of society, video games matter less than replica rugby jerseys and rugby in general and many in society ...

FrontierVille Sequel Pioneer Trail Gets Zynga a Little Closer to Making ... Kotaku ... of the rhythms of solo and multiplayer gaming that their prior work has avoided. What to make of Pioneer Trail? It's uncommon for Zynga to make a spin-off to one of its games. It's uncommon for them to ask us to play video games with so few people. ...

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition PopMatters ... movies, and lately, video games. Stepping into the role of PopMatters Multimedia editor in 2006 after having written music and game reviews for two years previous, he has renewed his passion forgaming to levels not seen since his fondly-remembered ...

Tabletop Preview: Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter Campaign Setting diehard gamefan by Alex Lucard - August 12, 2011 | Email the author It's funny, but the city of Neverwinter is probably the most famous area in the world of Toril (where the Forgotten Realms setting takes place) due to video games rather than table topping. ...

Scotland's biggest computer games festival opens in Dundee stv.tv On show will be 15 games produced by developers from around the world, who are fighting for a video games BAFTA in the Dare to be Digital game design competition run by the Abertay University. A professional gamer tournament run on high-end Intel...