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Video game schools and students are in demand
USA TODAY
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY The number of colleges offering degrees in video gamedesign nearly doubled last year, further cementing games as a vibrant entertainment medium. Test drive: Electronic Arts exec Frank Gibeau tries out the video game Tales...
USA TODAY
'Mass Effect 3': a new type of video game
The Brandeis Hoot
By Zach Reid On March 6, the third and final installment in Bioware's epic “Mass Effect” trilogy will hit shelves in retailers across America, and legions of fans will conclude the five-year story arc that has spanned not only three video games, ...
Video games warrant preservation
Bowdoin Orient
The very first video game ever made, Willy Higginbotham's 1958 "Tennis for Two," doesn't exist today in any form. We don't even have a picture of what it looked like. Admittedly, some companies have recently begun to preserve their heritage through ...
Video game degrees soar in popularity
Tucson Citizen
01, 2012, under USA Today News The number of colleges offering degrees in video game design nearly doubled last year, further cementing games as a vibrant entertainment medium. Yet the school most recommended for its video game design curricula remains ...
'Game of Thrones' Video Game: When Will Details Be Released?
International Business Times
Bigpoint, developer of the browser-based video game, said it will be discussing details of the MMORPG at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which runs from March 7 through March 9. "With a rich and complex story, expressed through an ...
Call of duty: Online video game bonds White Sox catchers AJ Pierzynski, Tyler ...
Washington Post
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Chicago White Sox catchers AJ Pierzynski and Tyler Flowers spent time in the offseason getting to know each other. Not by chatting over a burger and a beer, though. They hooked up online playing the video war game “Call of Duty.
New video game follows real-life story of man escaping slavery
Edmonton Journal
A new video game that allows players to control the actions of a man escaping slavery in the American South for freedom in Nova Scotia made its world première this week in Halifax. The game, titled Preston, was meticulously researched, ...
The Paw Print: "Revolutionary" Video Game Revealed
my.hsj.org
Video game enthusiasts were recently delighted to hear that French developer Ubisoft Entertainment has slated its third major installment in the Assassin's Creed series for an October 30 th release date. 'Assassin's Creed III' is set to feature a new ...
Video-game vets offer peek at 'Techpocalypse,' based on real-world map data
GeekWire
Indie video-game startup Anomaly Labs is getting close to finishing its first game, “Techpocalypse” — an HTML5-based cooperative game that lets players band together in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by machines. Here's the twist: The game uses ...
GeekWire
The Smithsonian adds a video game exhibit
New Game Network
The Smithsonian American Art Museum plans to unveil a new exhibit this month, "The Art of Video Games," which is one of the first in the world to examine the evolution of video games as an art form. Sponsored in part by ESA, the exhibit opens on March ...
Gaming Gets Recognized: The Art Institute of Vancouver Listed as a Top Ten ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Princeton Review has announced their "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012," ranking The Art Institute of Vancouver, BC, Canada number five on the top 10 of the list ...
Video game potential not maximized
UT Daily Beacon
Video games even have a noticeable presence in the US GDP, contributing about $5 billion. Yet the term “video game” itself has a strong stigma about it left over from the earliest years; a stigma that, compared to the movie industry, simply hasn't ...
UT Daily Beacon
Arcade gamer sets longevity record with 68.5 hour game on Q*bert arcade machine
Examiner.com
"Somehow I stumbled across the fact that video games have been included in the book recently, which led me to re-kindle my love of the arcade game Q*bert." This Q*bert run was intended to be a dry run for Heemskerk to make a run at 80 hours of play ...
U's video game design program ranks 3rd in nation
KSL-TV
But that's not the case for the University for Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering program, one of the top ranked video game design programs in the nation. The U.'svideo game design program Thursday was ranked third by the Princeton Review, ...
KSL-TV
Biodiversity in new video games
Varsity Online
by Patrick O'Grady A University team is researching the potential of raising awareness by incorporating biodiversity into video games. Back in November, Charlie Brooker wrote in The Guardian with characteristic subtlety: “The trouble with video games ...
Varsity Online
The Falconer: Loving lives for gamer life
my.hsj.org
When not playing video games, Loving spends time with his girlfriend, watch movies on Netflix, listens to brutal death metal, and goes to concerts. Loving has a seasonal job at South Wales Golf Course and sometimes helps his father, a carpenter, ...
Retro Gamer celebrate their 100th issue
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It's not often you hear about a 100th birthday, but Retro Gamer magazine has reached that ripe old age. To celebrate, they're re-printing their first ever issue and packaging it so it's included with every copy of the 100th issue – making it the most ...
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USC is the top Video Game Design school for third year in a row
Warp Zoned
The University of Southern California (USC) has topped a Princeton Review report as the best undergraduate and graduate Video Game Design program for the third straight year. Actually, many schools that appeared on the 2011 list made a repeat ...
Video Game Review: Jump Back in the Cage with Jam-Packed 'Mortal Kombat...
HollywoodChicago.com
CHICAGO – I forgot how much I love the new “Mortal Kombat.” It truly is one of the most consistently entertaining fighting games of the last several years. It's a must-own for fans of the franchise and even those who left it behind years ago should ...
HollywoodChicago.com
Gamer: Rangers win 3-2 without Ryan Callahan
Newsday (blog)
Click here Gamer: Rangers win 3-2 without Ryan Callahan Thursday March 1, 2012 11:12 PM By Steve Zipay RALEIGH---In the midst of post-game player interviews tonight, coach John Tortorella made a rare appearance---to congratulate Marty Biron with a slap ...
Newsday (blog)
Prototype 2: Uncontrolled open-world carnage
Computerandvideogames.com
You run into some pretty interesting characters in the video games medium. Speedy hedgehogs, portly plumbers, Lombax tinkerers and lollygagging Rabbids are just some of the creatures that front titles and franchises. Let's also not forget the army of ...
Obama: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'
The Atlantic Wire
Goldberg gets Obama to admit that he's had enough of Republican criticisms about his defense strategy ("These aren't video games that we're playing here."), it's his strong message to Israel and Iran (and the American people) that's caught our (and the ...
The Atlantic Wire
Where are the video games, Chuck?
Toledo Blade
He is the man credited with bringing the video game Pong to the masses. He also founded Atari. And Bushnell wanted a place for kids to play his coin-operated games, which at that point were most often found in pool halls, back rooms in bars, ...
Toledo Blade
Health Matters: Active Video Games
WCTV
In today's Health Matters, video games that get you up and moving may not be helping kids meet their daily exercise requirements. Researchers at Baylor College of medicine passed out activevideo game consoles to nearly 80 kids who didn't already have ...
Betting the House: Video Game Card Games
Piki Geek
It's a remarkable thing to program a unique card game, complete with its own set of rules and parameters, inside of a video game that you're also designing. While most might skip the time it takes to learn a game within a game, the fact that it exists ...
Is Japan's development scene doomed?
Computerandvideogames.com
Video games constitute a great starting point for a bit of UK-Japanese cultural exchange, since both countries have healthy development scenes which are more influential on a global basis than you might expect given the relatively small size of the ...
March 2012 video game releases
NDSU The Spectrum
By Steven Strom In the past few years, March has become an important time for gaming. Games that would otherwise be released in those hurried days between August and December, when Christmas shoppers roam the Earth like locusts, let slip their release ...
SSX Retrospective: How EA's franchise got back on board
JOE
SSX, or 'Snowboarding Supercross' as it probably doesn't want to be known, has come a long way since its 2000 debut at the height of the extreme sports' domination over thevideo games industry. At the turn of the century the world wasn't just obsessed ...
JOE
The Art of Video Games | Cool Material
By Mike Newman
The Art of Video Games. When we used to play Pitfall, Donkey Kong or any other video game, clearly we never thought we were looking at art on par with the work of Picasso or Da Vinci. No, we were looking at something far more beautiful.
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BURNAWAY » Art World: The Art of Video Games
By Katherine Concepcion
A number of notable museums have held exhibitions focused around video games, and even the National Endowment for the Arts expanded their grants to make some video game developers eligible for government funding. ... Anderson is not much of a video gamer himself and prefers using the aesthetics of video games as “ways of talking about how we see things or how things are presented for us, and to see them in the world around us through the prism of what I find in video ...
BURNAWAY
War is Not a Video Game to President Barack Obama
By Mike Fahey
War is Not a Video Game to President Barack Obama Defending his preference for peace in an in-depth interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, President Obama updates the tried-and-true 'war is not a game'. Eventually we'll have a ...
Kotaku
USC continues to rank first in video game design | Daily Trojan
By rpflores
Tags. This article is tagged: dornsife college of letters arts & sciences, game design, interactive media division, school of cinematic arts, The Princeton Review, tracy fullerton, video games, viterbi school of engineering ...
Daily Trojan
Video Game Deal: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean | Geeks of Doom
By Empress Eve
As part of Amazon's weekly video game deals, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean for Nintendo DS is on sale for only $14.99 (that's 50% off the list price of $29.99). Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, March 3, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while ...
Geeks of Doom
Oklahoma's proposed violent video game tax rejected | 2dayBlog
By Rie
Goto comments Leave a comment. Oklahoma's proposed violent video game tax rejected. A proposed bill that would see a 1 percent surtax placed on violent video games sold in Oklahoma has been defeated. Proposed by House Rep William ...
2dayBlog
Endless stream of video game sequels threatens to squelch players ...
By The Times-Picayune
The glut of video game sequels is starting to make their producers seem as if they're clinging to old ideas. I'm about to review "Twisted Metal," "Rayman Origins" and "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom." If I'm not mistaken, this is roughly the 14th ...
New Orleans Entertainment News
Natural Threat: Ominous Shores (Video Game) | Horror Movie, DVD ...
By Kenny King
Tweet. Kenny King's picture. Reviewed by Kenny King March 1st, 2012. Natural Threat: Ominous Shores Developed and Published by Alawar Entertainment. Not Rated. Available for PC ...
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The Scared Gamer - The Awesomer
By Lambert V.
(NSFW: Language) YouTuber PewDiePie records himself while he plays horror video games like the infamous Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Remember: disembodied limbs don't make for good sidekicks.
The Awesomer
University of Utah boasts 3rd best video game design program in ...
By hbraithwaite
The U.'s video game design program Thursday was ranked third by the Princeton Review, behind the University of Southern California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's a slip from their second place ranking in 2011, but it's far from game over for the program, still the top ranked public school on the list. Students tinkered on their laptops with video games they will submit for a capstone project Thursday during class in the Warnock Engineering Building. The games ...
Higher Ed Utah
Latino Gamer: Can Role-Playing Games Heal? - Latina Lista
By Marisa
Latino Gamer. After reading The Function of Role-playing Games by Sarah Lynne Bowman (2011), I felt it was most appropriate to begin a longer discussion about the healing powers of video gamesrather than a single review of the issues she raises in her work. In the subsequent parts I will discuss her .... But, in a video game can such a form of “healing” become realized if the world in which social interactions takes place is a virtual one? The next post will cover how video games ...
Latina Lista
Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 92: PS Vita Weather Balloons ...
By Shanghai Six
Flipdock regails the crew with stories of his Playstation Vita, Londoner Gamergirl kicks the Dead Island Ryder White downloadable content directly in the nuts, Shanghai talks about Syndicate, Batman continues to heap praise on Hero ...
Front Towards Gamer
Video games depict religion as violent, problematized, MU study ...
In the past few years, the video game industry has grown from a niche market into ... Many video games have begun incorporating religion as a key aspect to plot ...
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Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More: Study ...
Want a “special brain snack” to boost your test scores? Typically, performance enhancers would be frowned on by school authorities, but in one Florida ...
healthland.time.com/.../wii-wont-active-video-games-dont-ma...
Video Games: Goods Or Services? - Slashdot
silentbrad points out an article about the gradual shift of video games from being ' goods' to being 'services.' They spoke with games lawyer Jas Purewal, who ...
games.slashdot.org/.../video-games-goods-or-services?...
'Active' Video Games May Not Boost Kids' Fitness: Study - Yahoo ...
Fitness video games had been tested in laboratory settings, according to the study ... "We were interested in seeing what the effect of getting a new video game ...
news.yahoo.com/active-video-games-may-not-boost-kids-fitne...
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