LA Noire developer enters administration

LA Noire developer enters administration Telegraph.co.uk By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor Team Bondi, the Australian developer behind the successful video game LA Noire has entered administration, according to a report from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. The Sydney-based developer has ...

Video games, arena rock inspire Protomen Quad City Times The Nashville-based band The Protomen is quickly allowing its legend to spread, inaccuracies and all. "There's a lot of hearsay and mystique about the band," said violinist, guitarist and sometime-keyboard player Sir Dr. Robert Bakker. ...

VIDEO GAMES: New Box Art For X-Men: Destiny Revealed Comic Book Movie The upcoming video game based of the popular Marvel comic series, X-Men: Destiny now has official box art released by Marvel... X-Men: Destiny is an upcoming video game based on the X-Men comic book series. It is currently being developed by Silicon...

Driver: San Francisco Review JOE Crucially, each mode is accessible to those that tire of gamer-punishing driver sims, as the shift mechanic ensures that every player is never too far from the action. If there's one aspect of Driver: San Francisco that justifies its purchase, ...

PlayStation 3 on track to clean up this holiday season Lazygamer Our favourite video games analyst, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter believes just that. "IF Microsoft does nothing, I think PS3 will outsell Xbox 360," he said to IndustryGamers. He does, however think that Microsoft is more than a little worried about ...

Game review - Madden NFL 12 Examiner.com Even though Madden 12 has some downsides, it is still worth buying, unless you already have Madden 11 and/or do not care about football video games. For those who don't fit those qualifications, this game is perfect for you and can be purchased here in ...

'Night of Nerdery' at The Doylestown Bookshop Sept. 28 phillyBurbs.com (blog) I've never been much of a gamer. My hand-eye coordination is severely lacking, and if you tried to explain the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, I would probably wind up in some kind of coma just trying to make sense of it all. But, I'm currently reading ...

Video games inspired by Bollywood Bollywood Mantra Bollywood seems to be matching the steps in marketing and promotion of a movie with Hollywood, with the instances of release of movie based video games on the rise. With the recent release of the Play station version of Shahrukh Khan's upcoming movie...

'Magic Mike' Casts Gamer Girl Olivia Munn Get The Big Picture (blog) The very beautiful and self-proclaimed gamer girl, Olivia Munn, is negotiating for a role in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper film, Magic Mike. Olivia Munn, who was formally known as the co-host of Attack of the Show (AOTS) on G4, is set to play Amber ...

Australian Developer Nnooo Returns to WiiWare with escapeVektor: Chapter 1 Aussie-Gamer.com “There are 30 levels to play and a medal system which will challenge the most hardcore gamer”, said Watt. “We've also gone for that retro arcade feel and backed it up with some great music. In addition, bonus levels open up if you own our other WiiWare ...

The new Xbox Dashboard update to improve Kinect and controller experiences Lazygamer We can't make it too easy for people, so we made it easier for someone who's not agamer or a tech enthusiast and then it'll be easier for the gamer too". "I think it's a pretty happy medium and that's been our goal since the launch of Kinect, ...

The Glowing Stars taps Game Boy for its chiptune San Francisco Chronicle The Glowing Stars is one of a handful of bands that have found a reason to recycle old video games. Sounds from 8-bit video games are called chiptunes, and the Glowing Stars' chiptune of choice is Nintendo's Game Boy. Because the members of the duo ...

Hollywood Jobs: Greg Rice, Video Game Developer Crushable He called me from his office in San Francisco to chat about what it's like to play video games for a living, where he finds inspiration, and the direction the industry is headed. I'm continually amazed by how complex video games are these days. ...

Can't we all just love one another? Even Oedipus had a mother! Australian Gamer ... comes to video games. Mainly because there's too many people think that they are journalists, or writers, but they're not. They're bloggers, nothing more. Personally, I'd never ever use the j-word to describe what I do here at Australian Gamer (and ...

Fifa 12 Preview and More Bitbag I play the game all the time, watch the game all the time, and enjoy video games based on the game. It has been a while since I got into a Fifa Game (the last one I enjoy greatly was 2002). A decade later and Fifa is again the pinnacle football game. ...

Author: Gaming Is Mature And Helps Us "Pursue Our Passions" PSX Extreme Most adult gamers view video games as a mature mass medium, one that can go toe-to-toe with other entertainment venues like movies, music, and books. And in fact, the benefits often go beyond mere entertainment. However, we usually don't get a lot of ...

Game On Stores While the average Facebook gamer is a 43-year-old woman, according to the Information Solutions Group's 2010 Social Gaming Research, most of the consumer-buying population of Facebook plays these games. According to market research firm eMarketer, ...

Adventure World is Zynga's Take on Tomb Raider—and Another Step Toward "Real ... Kotaku Zynga's latest Facebook game, Adventure World, is another step towards the company's inevitable future: they're teaching their millions of players how to play—and enjoy—"real" video games. We're not Zynga haters around here—at least not by default. ...

Music Review: The Greatest Bits' Donkey Kong Country Album Nintendo Gal The Greatest Bits (TGB) is a Dutch DJ/Producer who specializes in the retro era of video games. Taking his love of video games and knowledge of music production, he's created 3 albums all harkening back to the heyday of the 8-bit era. ...

Facebook Adding Streaming Music Services Hollywood Reporter The social network is preparing to make its site a major hub for music, movies and video games. NEW YORK – Facebook has told media executives in recent days that it will start letting streaming music services, such as Spotify and Rdio, publish user ...

Sony announces head-mounted personal HD & 3D viewer TechSpot By Jose Vilches Sony is ushering in the future (the one we imagined in the 90s) with a new head-mounted "personal viewer" that allows users to enjoy an immersive experience when watching movies, playing video games and listening to music. ...

Personality And Play Styles: A Unified Model Gamasutra Numerous models of gamer psychology have been proposed and debated over the past couple of decades. One of the earliest and simplest has proven to be one of the most referenced and most enduring: the Bartle Types. I believe this is because the Bartle ...

PAX Prime 2011 Pulls in 70K Attendees Crave Online By Erik Norris This past weekend we were knee deep in video games at PAX Prime 2011 in Seattle, Washington. So were roughly 70000 other gaming enthusiasts, PAX business operations head Robert Khoo told website Neowin. This makes PAX Prime 2011 the ...

Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Video Games Like Video Games ... By Cheezburger Network memes - Yo Dawg, I Heard Your Video Games Like Video Games... Memebase: Rage Comics, Forever...

Couple Video Games, Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Pacman Series, Ico ... By admin We have rounded some of these video games that you can consider playing with your spouse to enjoy the twosome of these video games. For more information and get ultimate assistance from our tech experts, call iYogi at 8778790613. MizWhiz.com

10 Shooters Every PC Gamer Must Play | GameFront By CJ Miozzi We pondered over the past two decades of FPS history and put together this list of 10 shooters that every PC gamer must play. Some of these games redefined the genre, while others relied solely on sheer quality, but they all have one thing in ... GameFront

PC.Gamer.Magazine.October.2011.Retail.Ebook ... - OneDDL By dewlap PC Gamer's plucky reporters are on the scene to cover the Caped Crusader's ass-kicking adventures in Batman: Arkham City in a huge hands-on story that covers a ton of new crime-fighting gadgets and Catwoman's debut. You'd think that'd ... OneDDL - Rapidshare, megaupload,...

Playing video games helps adults with lazy eye | UC Health By alecrosenberg Yet, a pilot study by vision researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that playing video games can help improve the vision of adults with amblyopia, or lazy eye. The study found that participants experienced marked ... UC Health

True Gamer of the Week: Cathlin Sentz | GamerFitNation.com By Brittanyf A little about Cathlin. I work for HAVAmedia as the Community Manager for N4G.com and Admin for the NewsBoiler Network. GamerFitNation.com

Gamer Limit Review: Xenoblade Chronicles | Gamer Limit By Kyle MacGregor In its heyday, the JRPG was one of the the most well loved, paradigmatic experiences in the entire medium of videogames. Unfortunately, all empires must. Gamer Limit

Battlefield 3 single-player campaign is longer than Modern Warfare ... By Matthew Humphries For this gamer, it's still all about the single-player campaign, which I expect to be several hours in length, hopefully double digits long and involving gameplay that doesn't get tired. When Modern Warfare 2 got released there were some groans ... Geek.com

Bloodrayne Betrayal Ready for Primetime With New ... - GGS Gamer By Joseph Haygood Sep 1, 2011. Not much news to report here, but Way Forward is ready to release Bloodrayne Betrayal for XBLA and PSN next week, and they gave us a new batch of screenshots from the teen-rated bloodfest. The new screens show off more of ... GGS Gamer Dan Trachtenberg's 'Portal' catches gamer love, Hollywood buzz Los Angeles Times A lot of video games are inherently cinematic, like Halo and Killzone, but Portal is not. So there was something that was very challenging about that to me. There are also things you never get to see in the game, like when [the movie's protagonist] ... Competition in video games, not violence, causes aggression: study Montreal Gazette By Derek Abma, Postmedia News September 1, 2011 2:53 PM Video games can lead to aggressive behaviour, but it's the competitive aspect of them rather than violent content that leads to this, suggests new Canadian-led research. Video games can lead to ... Activision Blizzard chief says “we've never been better positioned” in video games VentureBeat Activision Blizzard chief executive is ready to burst out of the video game business and take over the entertainment industry. In an analyst event ahead of the company's Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles, CEO Bobby Kotick said the company has “never ... Video Games: Madden gains ground, loses ground with '12' Oshkosh Northwestern Looking over the past three "Madden" video games I've reviewed, it's pretty much been the same thing. I praise the new additions EA Sports has added, note a couple flaws, and promise that next year's game will be close to perfect. ... The five must-have video games of fall LSU The Reveille The fall season has typically been for video games what summer is for movies, and this fall seems to be one of the busiest in recent history. To help navigate this madness, Keith Burregi, manager of Play N Trade Games on Bluebonnet Boulevard, ... Video games risk kids to identity theft Times of India WASHINGTON: With the gaining popularity of online video gaming, chances are that you your child is putting his or her own identity, as well as yours, at risk, according to an expert. Adam Levin, chairman and founder of IDTheft911, said that parents ... Summer 2011 video games Student Life Summer is an oddly quiet time for video game releases. While Hollywood tends to release their latest and loudest titles during the summer, video game publishers choose to hold their sure-fire successes and big name sequels for the fall, right in time ... Nvidia Experiments with Video Games Streaming from PC to Tablet. X-bit Labs by Anton Shilov Nvidia Corp. said recently that it had begun experimenting with streaming of video games from personal computers to tablets. The technology will help tablet computers to obtain performance and feature-set of modern graphics adapters on ... NHL 12 and the 17 Best Hockey Video Games of All Time Bleacher Report Playing hockey video games has always been a stellar way to kill time during the offseason (and in between periods if you're really feeling antsy). Some of the games have been better than the others. There have been some really bad hockey games, ... 7 Emulators That Can Play Classic Video Games Zeropaid We've been testing, prodding and, well, having a perfectly good excuse to play somevideo games for the last two weeks. If you wondered how to play some of those oldschool video games on a computer, you've come to the right article. ...