The Atlantic
By Daniel D. Snyder The most striking thing about The Art of Video Games was how old it made me feel. Walking through the technological retrospective at the Smithsonian's American Museum of Art, I saw the artifacts of my youth, the insatiable Zergling ...
The Atlantic
Smithsonian scores with 'Art of Video Games' exhibit
Los Angeles Times
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is presenting an exhibition of video gameart in Washington, DC Let's take a look some highlights. First up: Pitfall!, 1982, David Crane, Atari VCS, Activision Publishing. (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Super ...
Los Angeles Times
Video game review: Street Fighter X Tekken Ambitious arcade fighting game will ...
New York Daily News
From Street Fighter to Mortal Kombat to Tekken to Virtua Fighter, the arcade fightingvideo game has never been easy, a cold, hard fact of the genre. But Capcom's latest effort, Street Fighter X Tekken, changes that. The most ambitious arcade fighter ...
New York Daily News
The Art of Video Games Take Over The Smithsonian
MTV.com (blog)
The whole video-games-as-art "debate" that sprang up a few years ago. It's such a tedious semantic argument, begging for validation for a 40-year-old industry that has produced both high and low works. I have to imagine cheerleaders on the pro side of ...
MTV.com (blog)
Video Game Stocks: Microsoft to Delay New Xbox to at Least 2013
DailyFinance
Electronic Arts (NYS: EA) : Develops, markets, publishes, and distributes game software and content for video game consoles, personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and electronic readers, hand held game players, and the Internet 5.
A gamer's guide to the iPad
Macworld
by Armando Rodriguez, PCWorld Apple's OS X isn't exactly a gamer's paradise. But the same can't be said about iOS—especially when it comes to the iPad. In some ways the iPad is the perfect gaming handheld: It has great battery life, and games are ...
How video games prepare kids for a bright future job
Bellingham Herald
Kaitlin Albright likes to kill computerized people in video games. She is a native of Caldwell, Kan., a little town on the Oklahoma state line; she is a 19-year-old freshman at Wichita State University. She has killed people in video games since she ...
Portal 2, Battlefield 3 win big at BAFTA video game awards
Ars Technica
By Kyle Orland | Published March 19, 2012 2:55 PM Valve's Portal 2 was awarded three of the top prizes at this year's British Academy of Film and Television Artsvideo game awards Friday, with Battlefield 3 and LittleBigPlanet 2 also receiving ...
Ars Technica
World's Best Video Game Players to Compete for $200000 at Major League Gaming ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest competitive video game league, returns to Columbus, Ohio, from March 23-25 to kick off the ninth annual Pro Circuit season with the MLG Winter Championship.
I Played Myst at the Museum: Visiting The Art of Video Games
Kotaku
This weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC opened the long-awaited exhibit The Art of Video Games. Walking into the museum, one immediately feels the whispered air that says: this is the home of Serious Art. Museums like the ...
Exploring “The Art of Video Games” at the Smithsonian
Piki Geek
The strongest evidence the exhibit provides is the videos of game developers making their case for the controversial art medium, with famous faces such as Nolan Bushnell and Warren Spector describing the role of the developer in giving the gamer an ...
Video games enter the realm of art
NEWS.com.au
"This is not about the art within video games," the avid gamer said. "This is about video gamesthemselves as an artistic medium." The exhibition comes nine months after the US Supreme Court said the First Amendment covered video games, in a landmark ...
Challenge Destiny and Change Fate with Disney*Pixar “Brave: The Video Game”
MarketWatch (press release)
BURBANK, Calif., Mar 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Disney Interactive Media Group announced today that “Brave: The Video Game” is currently in development for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system ...
Disney Interactive announces Brave: The Video Game
GameZone
Disney Interactive today announced Brave: The Video Game is currently in development for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintedo DS, and Mac/PC. Inspired by the upcoming Disney Pixar animated fantasy adventure Brave, the video game has players battling their ...
GameZone
Playing Video Games Can Actually Help Young Children
BSCkids
Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an article that found surprisingly good reasons to let your children play video games. According to a new study from the University of Rochester,video game playing can boost creativity and change the adult ...
2012 Bafta video game awards: a good night for EA... and sequels
The Guardian (blog)
So what can we take from the 2012 Bafta video game awards? Well, it was a good night for Electronic Arts. Portal 2, which EA publishes, claimed best game, best story and best design – a triumvirate that confirms Valve's physics puzzler (at least in the ...
The Guardian (blog)
Video Games Killing Off Violent Japanese Biker Gangs?
Kotaku
In the past, the mainstream media's MO has been: If there's a shooting, blame video games; if kids are having problems, blame video games; if someone farts, blame video games. Like heavy metal and rap music before it, video games are an easy—and often ...
A New Video Games Tax Relief: An Incentive to Build a Sustainable Video Games ...
Gamasutra
The UK video games development sector is an industry of the future. Video game development is the archetypal knowledge-intensive sector. 72 per cent of a typical development studio's workforce is qualified to degree level.
Unpacking Pac-Man: The Curator of the Smithsonian's Video Game Show on the ...
ARTINFO
by Benjamin Sutton Video game art isn't just for the hackers and the Cory Arcangels of the new media avant-garde anymore. The first major exhibition devoted to the art of video games ever organized by a major American museum — the Smithsonian Musuem ...
ARTINFO
Top 10 video game design schools - UNM ranked No. 9
Bizjournals.com
The University of New Mexico has been named one of the top 10 schools for undergraduatevideo game design. The ranking, by the Princeton Review , was based on a 2011 survey of administrators at 150 institutions offering game design coursework and/or ...
Sleeping Dogs Looks Like the Shiny, Vulgar Hong Kong Gangster Video Game I've ...
Kotaku
Desperation, vengeance and duty all come together in hypnotic fashion when you watch a crime thriller from countries like Hong Kong or Korea and the recipe for crazy action is one that's ripe for translation into video games.
Merida From Brave: The Video Game (Photo: Business Wire)
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 03/19/12 - 09:00 AM EDT Disney Interactive Media Group announced today that “Brave: The Video Game” is currently in development for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from ...
Opinion: Video Game companies are taking it too far with on-disc DLC
Nerd Reactor
*My views and opinions do not reflect the website, but I do believe there are many who would agree this is getting quite ridiculous. Honestly, I think DLC is one of the best things that we can get in this generation. It adds value to our games long ...
Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military ...
By Alex Rayner, The Guardian
“For decades the military has been using video-game technology,” says Nina Huntemann, associate professor of communication and journalism at Suffolk University in Boston and a computer games specialist. “Every branch of the US armed forces and many, many police departments are using retooled video games to ... he saw active duty in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to enlisting, Crump was also a keen gamer. “I learned my tactics playing games in the 80s,” he says.
The Raw Story
Kotaku
This weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC opened the long-awaited exhibit The Art of Video Games. Walking into the museum, one immediately feels the whispered air that says: this is the home of Serious Art. Museums like the ...
Exploring “The Art of Video Games” at the Smithsonian
Piki Geek
The strongest evidence the exhibit provides is the videos of game developers making their case for the controversial art medium, with famous faces such as Nolan Bushnell and Warren Spector describing the role of the developer in giving the gamer an ...
Video games enter the realm of art
NEWS.com.au
"This is not about the art within video games," the avid gamer said. "This is about video gamesthemselves as an artistic medium." The exhibition comes nine months after the US Supreme Court said the First Amendment covered video games, in a landmark ...
Challenge Destiny and Change Fate with Disney*Pixar “Brave: The Video Game”
MarketWatch (press release)
BURBANK, Calif., Mar 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Disney Interactive Media Group announced today that “Brave: The Video Game” is currently in development for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system ...
Disney Interactive announces Brave: The Video Game
GameZone
Disney Interactive today announced Brave: The Video Game is currently in development for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintedo DS, and Mac/PC. Inspired by the upcoming Disney Pixar animated fantasy adventure Brave, the video game has players battling their ...
GameZone
Playing Video Games Can Actually Help Young Children
BSCkids
Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an article that found surprisingly good reasons to let your children play video games. According to a new study from the University of Rochester,video game playing can boost creativity and change the adult ...
2012 Bafta video game awards: a good night for EA... and sequels
The Guardian (blog)
So what can we take from the 2012 Bafta video game awards? Well, it was a good night for Electronic Arts. Portal 2, which EA publishes, claimed best game, best story and best design – a triumvirate that confirms Valve's physics puzzler (at least in the ...
The Guardian (blog)
Video Games Killing Off Violent Japanese Biker Gangs?
Kotaku
In the past, the mainstream media's MO has been: If there's a shooting, blame video games; if kids are having problems, blame video games; if someone farts, blame video games. Like heavy metal and rap music before it, video games are an easy—and often ...
A New Video Games Tax Relief: An Incentive to Build a Sustainable Video Games ...
Gamasutra
The UK video games development sector is an industry of the future. Video game development is the archetypal knowledge-intensive sector. 72 per cent of a typical development studio's workforce is qualified to degree level.
Unpacking Pac-Man: The Curator of the Smithsonian's Video Game Show on the ...
ARTINFO
by Benjamin Sutton Video game art isn't just for the hackers and the Cory Arcangels of the new media avant-garde anymore. The first major exhibition devoted to the art of video games ever organized by a major American museum — the Smithsonian Musuem ...
ARTINFO
Top 10 video game design schools - UNM ranked No. 9
Bizjournals.com
The University of New Mexico has been named one of the top 10 schools for undergraduatevideo game design. The ranking, by the Princeton Review , was based on a 2011 survey of administrators at 150 institutions offering game design coursework and/or ...
Sleeping Dogs Looks Like the Shiny, Vulgar Hong Kong Gangster Video Game I've ...
Kotaku
Desperation, vengeance and duty all come together in hypnotic fashion when you watch a crime thriller from countries like Hong Kong or Korea and the recipe for crazy action is one that's ripe for translation into video games.
Merida From Brave: The Video Game (Photo: Business Wire)
TheStreet.com (press release)
By Business Wire 03/19/12 - 09:00 AM EDT Disney Interactive Media Group announced today that “Brave: The Video Game” is currently in development for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from ...
Opinion: Video Game companies are taking it too far with on-disc DLC
Nerd Reactor
*My views and opinions do not reflect the website, but I do believe there are many who would agree this is getting quite ridiculous. Honestly, I think DLC is one of the best things that we can get in this generation. It adds value to our games long ...
Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military ...
By Alex Rayner, The Guardian
“For decades the military has been using video-game technology,” says Nina Huntemann, associate professor of communication and journalism at Suffolk University in Boston and a computer games specialist. “Every branch of the US armed forces and many, many police departments are using retooled video games to ... he saw active duty in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to enlisting, Crump was also a keen gamer. “I learned my tactics playing games in the 80s,” he says.
The Raw Story
Disney Pixar Announces Brave: The Video Game - News - www ...
By Jeff Cork
Pixar's upcoming movie Brave is hitting theaters this summer, and Disney Pixar has announced that a game is in the works, too. In Brave: The Video Game, players will take on the role of Merida, the game's spunky heroine. If that doesn't float ...
News
Video Games Live Goes 'Off the Grid' | GamePolitics
By james_fudge
Video Games Live has typically been a "big city" event that fine folks in smaller cities and towns rarely ever get to experience. But the organizers of the video game music event want to change that by going "off the grid" to bring the show to ...
GamePolitics blogs
UK: TIGA – A New Video Games Tax Relief Letter - This Is Xbox
By Jason Andrews
The UK video games development sector is an industry of the future. Video game development is the archetypal knowledge-intensive sector. 72 per cent of a typical development studio's workforce is qualified to degree level. The industry is a ...
This Is Xbox
Appreciate Your Video Game Hobby With Video Game Rental Kiosk ...
By Mike Raciti
Video games have elevated in demand among all ages around the globe in recent instances. Their varieties and flexibility in prices have made them extra reachable towards the typical masses. As a result, video game rental kiosks have also ...
The Wise Directory
PC Gamer UK – April 2012-P2P » Releaselog | RLSLOG.net
By Aad
Pc Gamer Dvd Magazine The UK's best, and best-selling, PC games magazine. Trusted by both the public and the industry to deliver the most authoritative, honest, informative and entertaining reviews, PC Gamer is the ultimate buyers' guide ...
Releaselog | RLSLOG.net
Video Games Live Coming to Small Towns « The Electric Playground
By staff
Fans can sign up on the official VGL website for a chance to bring the show to their town, and also give suggestions about what classic video game tunes they'd like to hear. Tommy says that playing in small town venues offers a much more up ...
The Electric Playground
Sunday Ad Video Game Deals (3/18/12 to 3/24 ... - Cheap Ass Gamer
Best Buy discounts Soul Calibur V, Soul Calibur V, and SSX to $39.99 each. The Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 Headset drops to $119.99. GameStop offers Once Upon a Monster for $19.99 and an additional $10 bonus credit with 3 game ...
Cheap Ass Gamer (US Feed)
World's Best Video Game Players – Compete for $200000 | Static ...
By Jack Arnold
Movie, Music, Video Games, Comics. ... Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest competitive video game league, returns to Columbus, Ohio, from March 23-25 to kick off the ninth annual Pro Circuit season with the MLG Winter Championship. Coming off the most successful Pro Circuit season to date, thousands of eSports fans will descend upon the SMG-managed Greater Columbus Convention Center as more than 1000 of the world's best players compete in a three- day ...
Static Multimedia
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