Feast your eyes on the first Assassin's Creed III Wii U trailer ...
Watch the first Assassin's Creed 3 Wii U trailer here. Assassin's Creed 3 release date ...
www.nintendo-gamer.net/.../first-assassins-creed-3-wii-u-traile...
Can Skylanders Take Video Games to the Next Level?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Enter two newcomers: Skylanders – attempts to bring a unique identity to action figures with the help of rich video game play. Another, Sphero, tries its hand at re-inventing the wheel, introducing a whimsically tricked-out version of…a ball.
Valve's Gabe Newell Is The Newest Video Game Billionaire
Forbes
One of the most respected figures in the video game business, Newell makes his debut on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires after Valve posted a stellar 2011. The Bellevue, Wash. software firm scored hits both as game developer (Portal 2 was a ...
Forbes
Gamer: Sony PlayStation Vita top picks (and games to skip)
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Most of the Vita's launch games exist to show off what the system can do. Mini games, short races, puzzlers; a lot of this initially sounds like phone gaming. But, even with all of Sony's efforts to ape the success of Apple's app store, don't discount ...
This Video Game Controller Pushes Back on Your Thumbs [VIDEO]
Mashable
Meet the video game controller that fights back. Engineers at the University of Utah have designed a console controller with thumb-sticks that lightly pull and push on your fingers to more realistically simulate actions and experiences.
Review: Mass Effect 3 goes where no video game has gone before
New York Daily News
The epic coda to Bioware's space video game trilogy aspires to be more than a mere game. With galactic war as its backdrop, ME3 aims to be equal parts game and film and social commentary. The result is a thoroughly immersive experience, one of the most ...
New York Daily News
Video Game Review: Moving 'Journey' Redefines Gaming Expectations
HollywoodChicago.com
“Journey” has a few recognizable markers (it auto-saves your game for you and even has a rarely-used trophy system), but it truly does defy so many of the basic rules of video games — you don't die, you shouldn't save (the experience is TRULY one that ...
Video games can improve the brain: research
The Australian
Games skills 'decided by brain size' HOW well you play a video game can be predicted by measuring the size of structures in your brain. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Scientists also found that women -- who make up about 42 percent of ...
Paying to Play: Hiring Demand for Video Game Developers Increases
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Recruiters posted more than 1100 online job ads for video game development jobs in the past 60 days, growing 40% year-over-year, according to WANTED Analytics™. New York, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2012 During the past 60 days, more than 1100 job ads were ...
'Assassin's Creed' video game to be set in American Revolutionary War
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Courtesy of Ubisoft Montreal Source: Supplied UBISOFT revealed Monday that the next installment to its blockbuster Assassin's Creed video game franchise will be set during the American Revolution. Assassin's Creed III will be released on ...
NEWS.com.au
'Assassin's Creed' video game to be set in American Revolutionary War
Herald Sun
Image Video Assassin's Creed III UBISOFT revealed Monday that the next installment to its blockbuster Assassin's Creed video game franchise will be set during the American Revolution. Assassin's Creed III will be released on October 30 and star a new ...
Are video games real workouts?
Global Toronto
TORONTO – In the years since the release of Nintendo's Wii video game system in 2006, many researchers have examined whether sports video games can be considered real workouts. Past research shows that on average, kids spend five to seven days each ...
University of Utah Develops a Thumb-Tugging Video Game Controller
PCWorld
By Kevin Lee, PCWorld Mar 7, 2012 10:25 AM [Photo: Markus Montandon, University of Utah] Researchers at the University of Utah have created a new experimental controller that sends force-feedback back directly to your thumbs.
Next-level Video Game Promotion
Consumer Electronics Net
You've made this mind-blowing, edge-of-your-seat, first-of-its-kind video game complete with realistic explosions and three -- count 'em, three -- chase scenes. Now comes the tricky part: Getting the world to know about your masterpiece.
Video-game review: 'Mass Effect 3'
Bellingham Herald
By BILLY O'KEEFE - McClatchy-Tribune Bioware wants everyone to enjoy "Mass Effect 3," which is why it's instituted options that allow players to enjoy it purely as a third-person shooter (with all role-playing upgrades and moral crises handled ...
Players get more pleasure from motion-based video games, Baylor University ...
Science Codex
The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video gamesystems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of "being there" and are more enjoyable, according to findings by communications studies ...
AI designs its own video game
New Scientist
IT IS never going to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty, but then Space Station Invaders is not your typical blockbuster video game. While modern shooters involve hundreds of programmers and cost millions of dollars, this new game is the ...
Gamer's Verdict: UFC Undisputed 3
Sherdog.com
Ever since I started following MMA, I have craved a video game experience that was “as real as it gets.” After two attempts at mimicking the Ultimate Fighting Championship's brand of fighting, THQ finally got it right.
Sherdog.com
Video Game History 101 at the Arizona Popular Culture Experience
Phoenix New Times (blog)
"Video games have been with us for a long time," says Stephen Martinez, Arizona Popular Culture Experience docent and tour guide. "Most statistics show that your average gamer is about 32 years old. It's something they've been doing for most of their ...
Winners of the Pocket Gamer Awards 2012 revealed
Gamasutra
Bath, UK – 7 th March 2012 – Exploding champagne bottles couldn't drown out the fact PocketGamer has unveiled the winners of the site's 2012 awards at a special event at GDC in San Francisco last night, made possible thanks to sponsors iDreamSky, ...
Sometimes it Can Be Hard to Make College Kids Play Video Games
Kotaku
So video game history is clearly important... but how can one actually manage to teach it? Media deteriorate, for one thing; to play an original 1985 game on an original 1985 Nintendo isn't necessarily feasible. Some games and their context are simply ...
The following video games are among those released this week, according to ...
Youngstown Vindicator
“happily divorced” (10:30 PM, TV LAND): No longer the nasally character in “The Nanny,” Fran Drescher is now the nasally character in “Happily Divorced,” which opens its second season tonight. The opener has Fran fretting over a potential confrontation ...
Video game with same-sex romance having a massive effect on parents
ABC 57 News
“Video games have done a lot to make a variety of lifestyles more accessible to the mainstream; and I am very much behind that,” said Zieger. “At BioWare, we have always wanted to give our players the choice to shape their own, personal story in a wide ...
Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs developing therapeutic video games to ...
Boston.com
By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist It's a pretty counter-intuitive concept, but what if playing video games could actually help improve conditions like depression or ADHD? A low-profile Boston start-up called Akili Interactive Labs is developing its own ...
Active Video Games Don't Make Kids More Fit: Study
EDGEOnTheNet
A new study found kids given active video games were no more physically fit than those given traditional games they could play just sitting on the couch. Dr. Holly Phillips reports. A study conducted by Pediatrics links sleep-disordered breathing ...
Release of Mass Effect 3 sparks supernova in video-game galaxy
Dose.ca
Kayleigh Krasowski-Olmstead painted herself blue and dressed as an alien to wait in line for hours outside the Game Stop store at Southgate Shopping Centre for a chance to buy the new video game Mass Effect 3 on Monday. The last hope for life in our ...
Video game controller tugs on your thumbs
New Scientist (blog)
A prototype video game controller that tugs on your thumbs as you play could make games feel more realistic by simulating the pull of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves. The new controller, created by researchers at the ...
New Scientist (blog)
2012 Pokémon Video Game World Championships EU Entrants Revealed
Electronic Theatre
this summer, as the victors of the recent European leg of the 2012 Pokémon Video Game National Championships have won competition places and Travel Awards, and will now join the 2012 PokémonVideo Game World Championships taking place this August in ...
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent | paidContent
By Jeff Roberts
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game. But one lawyer says the patent in ...
paidContent
Forbes
One of the most respected figures in the video game business, Newell makes his debut on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires after Valve posted a stellar 2011. The Bellevue, Wash. software firm scored hits both as game developer (Portal 2 was a ...
Forbes
Gamer: Sony PlayStation Vita top picks (and games to skip)
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Most of the Vita's launch games exist to show off what the system can do. Mini games, short races, puzzlers; a lot of this initially sounds like phone gaming. But, even with all of Sony's efforts to ape the success of Apple's app store, don't discount ...
This Video Game Controller Pushes Back on Your Thumbs [VIDEO]
Mashable
Meet the video game controller that fights back. Engineers at the University of Utah have designed a console controller with thumb-sticks that lightly pull and push on your fingers to more realistically simulate actions and experiences.
Review: Mass Effect 3 goes where no video game has gone before
New York Daily News
The epic coda to Bioware's space video game trilogy aspires to be more than a mere game. With galactic war as its backdrop, ME3 aims to be equal parts game and film and social commentary. The result is a thoroughly immersive experience, one of the most ...
New York Daily News
Video Game Review: Moving 'Journey' Redefines Gaming Expectations
HollywoodChicago.com
“Journey” has a few recognizable markers (it auto-saves your game for you and even has a rarely-used trophy system), but it truly does defy so many of the basic rules of video games — you don't die, you shouldn't save (the experience is TRULY one that ...
Video games can improve the brain: research
The Australian
Games skills 'decided by brain size' HOW well you play a video game can be predicted by measuring the size of structures in your brain. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Scientists also found that women -- who make up about 42 percent of ...
Paying to Play: Hiring Demand for Video Game Developers Increases
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Recruiters posted more than 1100 online job ads for video game development jobs in the past 60 days, growing 40% year-over-year, according to WANTED Analytics™. New York, NY (PRWEB) March 07, 2012 During the past 60 days, more than 1100 job ads were ...
'Assassin's Creed' video game to be set in American Revolutionary War
NEWS.com.au
Picture: Courtesy of Ubisoft Montreal Source: Supplied UBISOFT revealed Monday that the next installment to its blockbuster Assassin's Creed video game franchise will be set during the American Revolution. Assassin's Creed III will be released on ...
NEWS.com.au
'Assassin's Creed' video game to be set in American Revolutionary War
Herald Sun
Image Video Assassin's Creed III UBISOFT revealed Monday that the next installment to its blockbuster Assassin's Creed video game franchise will be set during the American Revolution. Assassin's Creed III will be released on October 30 and star a new ...
Are video games real workouts?
Global Toronto
TORONTO – In the years since the release of Nintendo's Wii video game system in 2006, many researchers have examined whether sports video games can be considered real workouts. Past research shows that on average, kids spend five to seven days each ...
University of Utah Develops a Thumb-Tugging Video Game Controller
PCWorld
By Kevin Lee, PCWorld Mar 7, 2012 10:25 AM [Photo: Markus Montandon, University of Utah] Researchers at the University of Utah have created a new experimental controller that sends force-feedback back directly to your thumbs.
Next-level Video Game Promotion
Consumer Electronics Net
You've made this mind-blowing, edge-of-your-seat, first-of-its-kind video game complete with realistic explosions and three -- count 'em, three -- chase scenes. Now comes the tricky part: Getting the world to know about your masterpiece.
Video-game review: 'Mass Effect 3'
Bellingham Herald
By BILLY O'KEEFE - McClatchy-Tribune Bioware wants everyone to enjoy "Mass Effect 3," which is why it's instituted options that allow players to enjoy it purely as a third-person shooter (with all role-playing upgrades and moral crises handled ...
Players get more pleasure from motion-based video games, Baylor University ...
Science Codex
The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video gamesystems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of "being there" and are more enjoyable, according to findings by communications studies ...
AI designs its own video game
New Scientist
IT IS never going to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty, but then Space Station Invaders is not your typical blockbuster video game. While modern shooters involve hundreds of programmers and cost millions of dollars, this new game is the ...
Gamer's Verdict: UFC Undisputed 3
Sherdog.com
Ever since I started following MMA, I have craved a video game experience that was “as real as it gets.” After two attempts at mimicking the Ultimate Fighting Championship's brand of fighting, THQ finally got it right.
Sherdog.com
Video Game History 101 at the Arizona Popular Culture Experience
Phoenix New Times (blog)
"Video games have been with us for a long time," says Stephen Martinez, Arizona Popular Culture Experience docent and tour guide. "Most statistics show that your average gamer is about 32 years old. It's something they've been doing for most of their ...
Winners of the Pocket Gamer Awards 2012 revealed
Gamasutra
Bath, UK – 7 th March 2012 – Exploding champagne bottles couldn't drown out the fact PocketGamer has unveiled the winners of the site's 2012 awards at a special event at GDC in San Francisco last night, made possible thanks to sponsors iDreamSky, ...
Sometimes it Can Be Hard to Make College Kids Play Video Games
Kotaku
So video game history is clearly important... but how can one actually manage to teach it? Media deteriorate, for one thing; to play an original 1985 game on an original 1985 Nintendo isn't necessarily feasible. Some games and their context are simply ...
The following video games are among those released this week, according to ...
Youngstown Vindicator
“happily divorced” (10:30 PM, TV LAND): No longer the nasally character in “The Nanny,” Fran Drescher is now the nasally character in “Happily Divorced,” which opens its second season tonight. The opener has Fran fretting over a potential confrontation ...
Video game with same-sex romance having a massive effect on parents
ABC 57 News
“Video games have done a lot to make a variety of lifestyles more accessible to the mainstream; and I am very much behind that,” said Zieger. “At BioWare, we have always wanted to give our players the choice to shape their own, personal story in a wide ...
Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs developing therapeutic video games to ...
Boston.com
By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist It's a pretty counter-intuitive concept, but what if playing video games could actually help improve conditions like depression or ADHD? A low-profile Boston start-up called Akili Interactive Labs is developing its own ...
Active Video Games Don't Make Kids More Fit: Study
EDGEOnTheNet
A new study found kids given active video games were no more physically fit than those given traditional games they could play just sitting on the couch. Dr. Holly Phillips reports. A study conducted by Pediatrics links sleep-disordered breathing ...
Release of Mass Effect 3 sparks supernova in video-game galaxy
Dose.ca
Kayleigh Krasowski-Olmstead painted herself blue and dressed as an alien to wait in line for hours outside the Game Stop store at Southgate Shopping Centre for a chance to buy the new video game Mass Effect 3 on Monday. The last hope for life in our ...
Video game controller tugs on your thumbs
New Scientist (blog)
A prototype video game controller that tugs on your thumbs as you play could make games feel more realistic by simulating the pull of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves. The new controller, created by researchers at the ...
New Scientist (blog)
2012 Pokémon Video Game World Championships EU Entrants Revealed
Electronic Theatre
this summer, as the victors of the recent European leg of the 2012 Pokémon Video Game National Championships have won competition places and Travel Awards, and will now join the 2012 PokémonVideo Game World Championships taking place this August in ...
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent | paidContent
By Jeff Roberts
A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments—the process that lets players buy and sell virtual items within a video game. But one lawyer says the patent in ...
paidContent
If Video Game Characters Found More Practical Solutions | Cracked ...
Video games often make you shoot your way through miles of deadly enemies in order to find the key to unlock the door you could have easily shot open in the first place. A look at the easy solutions that would solve video game problems in ...
Cracked: All Posts
Ralph Baer, video game inventor, who turns 90 years old this week ...
By adafruit
Ralph Baer, the father of video games, turns 90 years old on Thursday. One of his early inventions, the Magnavox Odyssey, was the first home video game system. It turns 40 years old this year. I photographed and interviewed Ralph over the ...
adafruit industries blog
Sleepless night for some video game enthusiasts : News ...
"Over the last 10 years or so at the minimum video games have really come full circle from a niche thing that only certain people did into really a public mainstream kind of thing," said GameStop Manager Bryan Doody. "Video game sales ...
Upper Michigan's Source - TV6 News
Paying to Play: Hiring Demand for Video Game Developers ...
By Abby Lombardi
During the past 60 days, more than 1100 job ads were posted online for Video Game Programmers and Developers, according to WANTED Analytics™ (www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the ...
WA: Press Room
By Abby Lombardi
During the past 60 days, more than 1100 job ads were posted online for Video Game Programmers and Developers, according to WANTED Analytics™ (www.wantedanalytics.com), the leading source of real-time business intelligence for the ...
WA: Press Room
Girls And Video Games | Playstation
By PinkStarz
I understand that there are only 1%-2% of girls that play video games, but why does the environment always change when we play video games? .... girls and boys playing what ist the difference is only a video game so let´s have fun :3 .... A girl gamer is usually more polite as well. now i can't give a real ratio because most gamers simply don't own a mic, or the voice changers really can confuse a person( 5 year olds with a higher pitch than justin beiber) so the truth of the matter can't ...
Playstation
New Video Game Releases : 03/07/12 - Guys Gab
By Trent
March 7th, 2012 Trent Posted in Video Games · Tweet. We're back with another batch of new video game releases this week, and this week is out of control! There's a TON of new games out this week, I just need to find time to play them all.
Guys Gab
Video game review: Tekken 3D Prime Edition | Toledo Newspaper
By Michael Siebenaler
Video game review: Tekken 3D Prime Edition. Written by Michael Siebenaler ... Edition, video gamereview. This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 3:07 pm and is filed under Arts and Life, Video Game Review, Video games.
Toledo Newspaper
Jewelry for Gamer Geeks | GeekDad | Wired.com
Jewelry for Gamer Geeks. By Michael ... He enjoys board games, RPGs, video games, fantasy and sf literature, cooking, camping, and comics. He lives in ...
www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/board-game-jewelry/
One Per Cent: Planet-sized video game gets its first release
A video game capable of rendering an entire planet in 3D brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "open world". Outerra lets players fly all the way from space ...
www.newscientist.com/.../planet-sized-video-game-gets-i.html
Girls And Video Games | N4G
PinkStarz from Playstationgang.com asks guys why the environment changes when a girl is playing with them. PinkStarz also goes into detail with a few of her ...
n4g.com/news/955600/girls-and-video-games
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