What is a 'gamer' in 2011?

What is a 'gamer' in 2011?
CNN (blog)
CNN Geek Out recently spoke to hardcore gamer Morgan Webb, host of “X-Play” on G4, and asked her what it means to be a gamer and about the state of gaming in 2011. “Unfortunately, it is a more confusing word now because there are so many different ...

The 10 Most Innovative Video Games of 2011 - Popular Mechanics
2011 was a milestone year in innovative games, thanks in large part to the diversity of new platforms: Devices like the Nintendo 3DS finally hit their stride, indie ...
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Techmeme: Steve Jobs on video games as the future of learning ...
The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page.
www.techmeme.com/111223/p34

5 Video Games With the Worst Bugs of 2011 | N4G
With video games becoming more complicated to develop over time, the bugs that accompany these games will become more apparent....or hilarious. ...
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Game Hunters' top 10 video games of 2011
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina and Mike Snider, USA TODAY This year in video games was all about variety. The blockbuster releases of 2011 represented a wide range of genres from action-adventure to first-person shooter, as well as a diverse selection of platforms...

USA TODAY

Keeping us entertained in 2012: The movies, albums, video games and books to ...
PennLive.com (blog)
With that in mind, here's a look at some books, movies, video games and music we're looking forward to checking out in the early months of 2012. (Remember, though, all dates are subject to change.) "The Iron Lady" Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher, ...

PennLive.com (blog)

2011 Offered Many Video Games to Be Thankful For
The Ledger
By Kyle Kennedy There are a lot of games that I don't get the chance to play each year, so I just like to discuss my favorites rather than try and determine the “best.” You could say these titles were the best at swallowing my free time and delivering ...

Top 10 Sci-Fi Video Games Of 2011
Science Fiction
'Skyrim' is my top game of 2011 because it is a unique experience that transcends what most video games are. Developer and Publisher: Bethesda Softworks. Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 (played). Rated M. Genre: Fantasy RPG. Release Date: November 11, ...

Science Fiction

Yes: Video games corrode education system's foundation
Duluth News Tribune
Video games of all sorts are ruining the foundations of our educational system. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at the post-secondary level. From early childhood through pre-teen years and into early adulthood, people who play video games are ...

Gentile cites positive, negative effects of video games in Nature Reviews article
HealthCanal.com
AMES, Iowa -- Douglas Gentile says his own research has found both positive and negative effects from playing video games. And the Iowa State University associate professor of psychology cites examples of both in a new article he coauthored in the ...

Telegraph video game awards 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
It's been a great year for video games, with some exciting and technically impressive titles across a range of platforms. The Telegraph awards the biggest and best of 2011. Portal 2 was a masterclass in collaboration. The brilliance of its level design ...

Telegraph.co.uk

The Flickcast Presents: The Best Video Games of 2011 – Part 1
The Flickcast
by John Carle, Dec 27 2011 2011 was one heck of a year for gaming. Once again, the Call of Duty franchise set records for the largest entertainment launch in history. A game that was only in Beta was able to sell millions of copies and spawn an ungodly...

The Flickcast

Best of 2011: Skyrim, Batman and Portal 2 our top picks
Financial Post
The National Post and FP Tech Desk take a look back at the year in video gameswith our most frequent contributors picking their top three games of the year. The world of Skyrim is all encompassing and open, and I don't think I've ever experienced a ...

Financial Post

The Ridiculous Saga of Ocean Marketing
GamerLive.TV
Your acting like a douchbag not that it matters pax east pax west , e3 , CES , Gamer Con , SSXW ,Comic Con, Germany I'm all over the place. If we want to be there we will be there with industry badges or with a booth you think I can't team up with ...

More money than sense: Chinese man spends $16000 on sword for virtual martial ...
Daily Mail
By David Gerges Whilst the season of giving might be over for yet another year, it seems one computer gamer has marked the end of the festivities by treating himself to one final Christmas gift. The avid gamer spent a staggering $16000 on a virtual ...

Daily Mail

Sony's PS Vita launches in Hong Kong, steals show at gamer event
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
The move helped PS Vita steal the annual four-day show that features the latest video games, scantily clad models and “cosplayers” elaborately dressed up as Japanese anime characters. Thirty booths exhibited PS Vita games such as Uncharted and Gravity ...

Virgin Gaming's Million-Dollar Challenge
ESPN (blog)
By Jon Robinson EA Sports Think you're the best "Madden" gamer? Enter the EA Sports Challenge and find out. It's one thing to beat your buddy at "Madden" on a desperation Hail Marry with lunch on the line. But do you have what it takes to beat the best ...

ESPN (blog)

The Top Five Tools for the Facebook Gamer
Games.com News (blog)
by Joe Osborne, Posted Dec 27th 2011 11:05AM Look, we both know that you played the hell out of your favorite Facebook games this holiday. (And you lucky bastards that have off all week are probably playing right now.) So, tell us if this is you: You ...

Video: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles covers “Video Games”
Consequence of Sound
Titus Andronicus' now-beardless frontman Patrick Stickles has become something of a cover-seur of late, so it only makes sense he tackles Internet's most infamous track of 2011: Lana Del Rey's ”Video Games”. While it may seem otherwise based on the ...

WATCH: Patrick Stickles covers Lana Del Rey's "Video Games"
ChartAttack
Recorded at his parent's house today on Boxing Day, the cleanly shaven Stickles sang and showed off his piano skills on "Video Games." He may have been really out of tune, which he pointed out on Twitter, but he did a pretty decent job on the song. ...

ChartAttack

Patrick Stickles Covers “Video Games”
Stereogum
The latest aboard the “Video Games” cover bandwagon is Titus Andronicus' now-beardless (!!!) Patrick Stickles, who recorded the cover in his parent's living room earlier today. Does the fact that it's not at all punk as fuck — he plays a piano and ...

Interview with Strange Loop Games
GoozerNation
Goozernation: What made you decide to start developing video games? John Krajewski: This was very early for me. I had a Commodore 64 when I was a kid and some of the games were written in BASIC, and I was able to see all the instructions to them. ...

GoozerNation

The Red Cross has threatened to prosecute gamers for war crimes.
Forbes
Video games can be violent, and thanks to all the shooting, maiming, and killing going on in many titles moralists of all stripes have deemed them a Very Serious Problem for young people. Many of the most popular titles immerse players into wartorn ...

The Itch to Play Online Poker
Poker Player Online
by Paul “Dr. Pauly” McGuire “You'll never make money playing video games!” That's a direct quote from my mother 30 years ago. She was frustrated with my newly-formed addiction to video games and preferred I hit the books instead of playing Atari with ...

Poker Player Online

No: There's no one to blame but yourself for missing class
Duluth News Tribune
Video games are the reason for students' struggles in school as much as food is to blame for people's weight issues. Jimmy Bellamy is a News Tribune columnist and multimedia editor. . ...

BioWare Talks Writing for The Old Republic
DeltaGamer
PC Gamer got the chance to sit down with the game's lead writer, Daniel Erickson, to find out just how BioWare's TOR team went about writing the huge amount of dialogue for players to enjoy. It starts with the plot summary which is very much like a ...

DeltaGamer

North Pole Offices Flooded with Complaints from Angry Children Who Received ...
Evening Transcript (satire)
By BC Bass ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Bennington Vale Evening Transcript) -- Postal workers at the North Pole were inundated today by millions of letters from children who received video game systems, smart phones, tablets and other "in-demand" items instead ...

Cake Mania: My Story
Pocket Gamer
Indeed, this is the second game from the series this year to land on Pocket Gamer's desk. If you're worried that this level of output will inevitably entail repetition, you might be relieved to learn that the franchise has changed hands. ...

Mobile phones, computers, televisions playing havoc on kids-ASSOCHAM
TelecomTiger
Technological gadgets like cell phones, computers and televisions and video gamesare playing havoc on children aged between 10 and 18 leading to social isolation, insomnia, depression, anxiety and obesity. The reason for this is that these gadgets are ...

TelecomTiger

Plymouth Whalers Kid's Day Matinee - Fun For the Family, Great Hockey
MLive.com (blog)
By Pete Krupsky But somewhere between Christmas Day and the New Year, thevideo games have been played, the card games have gone so far and it's time to work off the holiday snacks. Maybe it's time for a local day-trip. The Plymouth Whalers are...

MLive.com (blog)

Is Lana Del Rey The New Amy Winehouse?
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Lana Del Rey — Elizabeth Grant (or Lizzy Grant) — has been named as 'one to watch for 2012' by many music critics, with her single 'Video Games' ear-marked by many as the top highlight of the entire music year. In the view of this (sometimes woefully ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

What's On Your Mind? Toys R Us, Bally Total Fitness, Travel Zoo
Consumer Affairs
Monday was a big day for returns and not a good day for Sandra, of Baltimore, Md, who discovered that Toys R Us does not do returns on opened video games. “I brought my son, who is five, a DSI 3D game console for Christmas but when he opened it up the ...

Consumer Affairs

Technology is game-changer in lives of today's boys
The Columbian
By Zachary Kaufman Darian Sund, 9, would play video games for hours if his father, David Sund, right, (with daughter Megan, 3) didn't set a time limit. Eight- to 18-year-olds spent an average of 1 hour and 13 minutes per day playing video games, ...

Tips for finishing Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception on Crushing
bettor.com (blog)
... gamer could play to either enjoy and/or challenge themselves and Crushing difficulty can prove a tough task for many. Nathan Drake is one of the most resourceful, and not to mention lucky, heroes that the world of video games has been blessed with. ...

This Gamer Girl Manifesto PWNS [VIDEO] | The Mary Sue
By Jill Pantozzi
Whether you refer to yourself as a Gamer Girl, a Girl Gamer or simply a Gamer, it's likely you've been singled out at one point or another for being a woman who plays video games. It might have been in a positive way but more often than not, ...
The Mary Sue

Silver Swans – “Video Games” (Lana Del Rey cover) at Pretty Much ...
By Genevieve Oliver
In other Lana Del Rey news, San Francisco's Silver Swans have brought their masterful cover treatment (they've also recorded their own takes on tracks by.
PMA | Pretty Much Amazing

ISU professor calls video games “powerful learning tools” – both ...
By From a Media Release
From Iowa State University: AMES, Iowa - Douglas Gentile says his own research has found both positive and negative effects from playing video games. And t...
Eastern Iowa Health

Starhawk Beta Open To Public In January 2012 - Video Games ...
By Josh
The Best 25 Video Games of the Year lists have begun! And wait until you see the Best Overall List… It's a doozey! :D ... #1 in the Top 25 Must-Play Video Games is… Assassin's Creed 3 Release Date · Battlefield 4 Announced By EA · Beyond ...
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Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 82: Have a Claymore ...
By Shanghai Six
Front Towards Gamer Christmas special with the FTG Crew discussing Game of the Year choices. We promise you'll shoot your eye out!
Front Towards Gamer

Big Top THD review - Android reviews | Pocket Gamer
Like real life big tops, this game is stuck in the past and lacks the kind of creative thrills modern punters crave.
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Gamer Workouts: Circuit Training for Women | GamerFitNation.com
By Antoinette Padilla
GamerFitNation's Antoinette Padilla designed a Circuit Training routine designed especially for women. Ladies get ready for the challenge you are ready?
GamerFitNation.com

Games: Free Wii Video Games Donwload
By Fani
Looking for Nintendo Wii Video Games? Here video games nintendo wii information for you. Including review of PS2 Video Games, Xbox, PSP, Nintendo. Yes, it's all here. Just visit:http://www.videogames-101.com. I'm confident you'll find my ...
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Playing Video Games at Work - Evil Avatar
Playing Video Games at Work News Items. ... Go Back, Evil Avatar > Daily Gaming News > News Items · Reload this Page Playing Video Games at Work ...
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