USA TODAY (blog)
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY In another sign that video games are growing as an entertainment medium, the number of colleges offering degrees in video game design is on the rise. But the school most recommended for its video game design curriculum remains ...
USA TODAY (blog)
MIT ranks number two for video game design
Boston.com
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff The college preparation company Princeton Review is out with its latest listings of the nation's top schools for training in video game design, and Massachusetts colleges are well represented.
Boston.com
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff The college preparation company Princeton Review is out with its latest listings of the nation's top schools for training in video game design, and Massachusetts colleges are well represented.
Retro Gamer Pops the Question by Rewriting Metroid
Escapist Magazine
Your lovable antics might have passed for dork back in 2011, but this is 2012, baby, and retro gamerJered McFerron just literally changed the game. No really, he reprogrammed Metroid to propose to his girlfriend. "My girlfriend and I are best friends ...
Turning Dollar Bills Into Works of Video Game Art
By Luke Plunkett
Turning Dollar Bills Into Works of Video Game Art. Reader Thayer likes to take legal tender and draw all over it. While that's technically illegal, we're going to hold off on reporting him to the authorities, because any man who turns Abe Lincoln ...
Kotaku
Announcing Veracode Defender – A tower defense video game
By Fergal Glynn
We just released a retro, 8–bit feel, “tower defense” video game to promote our new reporting capabilities that deliver positive, actionable reports when developers successfully use best practices to eliminate vulnerabilities. To check out the ...
Veracode Blog
Create Video Games As Your Fun Career - BerryHillforCongress ...
By Berry Hill
Gameinformer Magazine mentions that, video game programmers are the “heart and soul” of the industry. They are the ones responsible for creating the code essential for acquiring video games to function. And contrary to usual belief, their ...
BerryHillforCongress.com
Jenova Chen: The Art of Video Games | Hypebeast
By Staff
In recent times of economic uncertainty, video games have managed to carve out a solid portion of the entertainment industry. ... What are the procedures behind video game development? ... Today, people still ask you “are you a gamer?
Hypebeast
How to design video games that support good math learning: Level ...
By Keith Devlin
A major problem with video games, or more generally any mechanized educational delivery system, is that the system has no way of knowing what the player, or student, is learning. That a player who moves up a level in a video game has ...
profkeithdevlin
ScrewAttack - Video Game Vault: Mario Tennis 64 | GoNintendo ...
By RawmeatCowboy
I don't think these guys at ScrewAttack realize that Waluigi's complete lack of a reason for his existence is the reason WHY people love him. He's so incredibly useless that you can't help but cheer for him!
GoNintendo - Console News
The Right Attitude for a Video Game Tester | ivtcscs.org
By admin
The success or failure of a video game tester depends largely on his or her attitude and behavior on the job. Patience and dedication to the job are very important especially at the beginning of the career because contrary to general belief, ...
ivtcscs.org
Retro Gamer celebrates its 100th issue • Retroaction
By Nreive
Back in 2005, it seemed unlikely that Retro Gamer would survive past issue 20, never mind 100. Fortunately, the magazine was revived by its current publishers and still produces the goods to this day, content and design wise. With its 100th ...
Retroaction
Video game booking and heel champions
By Papa Shango
Wrestling fans participate in active discussion on all the major wrestling leagues and events including WWE, ROH & TNA pay per view events, live wrestling streams, wrestling video games, collectibles, and other wrestling related products and ...
WrestlingClique Wrestling Forums
Celebrity Video Game Endorsements: The Bad
I warned you before the marketing world can be peculiar and no more so than in the video gamesindustry. For every Zelda Williams and Alec Baldwin, the history of celebrity endorsements is littered with the flawed creations that tried to marry ...
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Official Retro Gamer Blog » Blog Archive » Retro Gamer Issue 100 ...
By Stu*Bert
Retro Gamer Issue 100 and Issue 1 on sale now. Issue 1, Grand Theft Auto, Sonic The Hedgehog the ZX Spectrum and David Braben lead our 100th issue celebrations. Retro Gamer issue 100 is on sale today and to celebrate this momentous ...
Official Retro Gamer Blog
CAGcast #273: The Wombat Syndrome - Cheap Ass Gamer - Cheap ...
A current listing of cheap video games, video game sales and video game deals: CAG. ... Best Buy, 4. BESTBUY March@Gamer Coupons $5 Mass Effect 2, $5 Rage, $15 Bulletstorm, $45 FFXIII-2 ...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #306: Downloadable Spinal Cords | PC Gamer
Is day-one DLC (like Mass Effect 3′s “From Ashes”) a crime against gamer- manity, or simply an unoffensive, optional bonus? When are developers “allowed ” to ...
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Guild Wars 2 beta: All your questions answered | PC Gamer
As soon as we found out that we'd be playing in Guild Wars 2′s beta for an entire weekend, we asked you, our beloved readers, what you wanted to us to find ...
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Escapist Magazine
Your lovable antics might have passed for dork back in 2011, but this is 2012, baby, and retro gamerJered McFerron just literally changed the game. No really, he reprogrammed Metroid to propose to his girlfriend. "My girlfriend and I are best friends ...
Retro Gamer celebrates reaching 100 with “world-first” double issue
Gamasutra
Imagine Publishing is proud to announce that the award-winning Retro Gamer magazine celebrates its 100th issue this month. In what must be a world-first, the publisher has decided to reward its loyal and passionate fans by packaging this historic issue ...
Active video games don't, erm, make kids active
TG Daily
Giving children active video games does nothing to increase the amount of exercise they get, new research has shown. "Simply having active video games available in the store or at home will not by itself contribute to increased physical activity," says ...
TG Daily
Video games help improve eyesight: study
Hamilton Spectator
Video games tend to get a bad rap. They're usually violent. They waste time. The kid should be doing his homework. But a McMaster University researcher has found a silver lining around the joystick. Daphne Maurer, a professor of psychology and ...
Sony, Microsoft Battle Hackers Over Right to 'Jailbreak' Video Game Systems ...
Chicago Tribune
[Love and Warcraft: Spouses Being Pushed Aside For Video Games] A new push by amateur hackers and digital rights activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, could make "jailbreaking" video game consoles legal under a similar ...
Video Games Depict Religion as Violent, Says New Study
Christian Post
By Jonathan Moormann , Christian Post Contributor Recent video games have begun depicting religion as a violent, problematic force, according to research from a new University of Missouri study. Greg Perreault, a doctoral student at University of ...
Video games, TV can create vicious cycle in impulsive children
Ottawa Citizen
By Brian Crecente February 29, 2012 Playing video games both help and hurt with attention issues, according to a study published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture. Playing video games can create a vicious cycle that attracts some ...
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Corporate Killers
San Luis Obispo Tribune
By ELECTRONIC ARTS By Justin Hoeger In 1993, the computer game “Syndicate” envisioned a grim future in which world-spanning corporations send heavily armed cyborg agents on raids against each other, with no regard for civilian life or casualties.
San Luis Obispo Tribune
Moms Talk: Are Video Games Your Home Space Invaders?
Patch.com
My oldest two sons were playing video games while my younger two were engaged in a TV show. I was typing away at the computer and listening to music. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the power went out. Since it was dark outside, we were thrust into total ...
Video game tells story of real-life slave's escape to Canada
Regina Leader-Post
By Dan Neutel, For Postmedia News February 29, 2012 Canadian-made video game Preston. In the game players attempt to safely get Richard Preston, a man who made the actual journey in 1815, to freedom in Nova Scotia. A new video game that allows players ...
New Video Game Store Coming Soon to DPA
Patch.com
A surprise to my children and I we see it's going to be a video game store called Game Hut Video Games. I talked to the owners and they said that they buy. sell and trade all video games and systems plus they will be having birthday parties at the ...
Retro Gamer Celebrates Issue 100 With GTA, Sonic, ZX Spectrum
NowGamer
Retro Gamer issue 100 is on sale now and to celebrate this momentous event it's packaged with the original issue that first appeared in 2004. This makes it an unmissable edition of everyone's favourite retro magazine. In addition to featuring the ...
The Gamer's Notebook
Ventura County Reporter
By Chris ONeal 03/01/2012 In 1999, while most of the world was hunkering down in preparation for the 30th apocalypse, others were raging about Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Episode 1 was to be my generation's connection to the mythology spanning three ...
Ventura County Reporter
Rodeo video game previewed at HLSR
KPRC Houston
Video game developers Woody Addison and Tracey Cearley created the world's first motion-controlled rodeo video game, and they're giving an ongoing demonstration at Reliant Stadium during this year's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
This is not a video game
The Economist
The software was then upgraded so that it could be played like a video game in which “what if” circumstances—foggy night-time fighting against upgraded vehicle armour, say—could be tested. Widely demoed in Washington, DC, during the 1990s, ...
The Economist
Why Mario Is The Most Popular Video Game Character Ever
Business Insider
When you think about video games, one of the first characters that comes to mind is Mario—the chubby little Italian plumber hero that saves his damsel in distress. But what about Mario made his brand such a powerhouse that people connect with so ...
Business Insider
The Top Video Games Of 2011 Recreated With Legos
Forbes
Organizers for the 15th Interactive Achievement Awards approached Alex Kobbs back in October to create a montage of the top video games of the year, animated in LEGO. Alex used clips from some of his earlier animations, including the super-awesome ...
8-Bit Funding is Back and Under New Management
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Crowd-Funding website, 8-Bit Funding returns backed by new management and popular indie game websites, DIY Gamer and Indie Game Mag. 8-Bit Funding was launched in early 2011 as a game focused alternative to other crowd-funding websites and was recently ...
OCZ launches Fatal1ty gamer PSU
CCL Online
The new addition complements OCZ's existing range of solid-state drives and PSUs, and was developed in collaboration with twelve-time world champion gamer Johnathan Wendel, who goes by the pseudonym Fatal1ty. This means it has been specifically ...
The Princeton Review Names Top Undergraduate and Top Graduate Schools to Study ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new list, "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012," recommends 50 schools in all. It names 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate schools in rank order to its respective "top 10" lists and 22 undergraduate and 8 graduate schools as Honorable ...
RIT moves up in rankings for video game design
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester Institute of Technology's video game design programs moved up in The Princeton Review's new annual rankings. RIT finished second among graduate schools offering game design programs and sixth in undergraduate game design, according to the ...
Watch Now: 'Gotham By Gaslight' Video Game Test Footage
Geeks of Doom
In 2009, Chicago-based video game studio Day 1 worked up some ideas about a game based on the graphic novel and pitched the idea to THQ to try to get the ball rolling on a new Batman game. Sadly, they declined. But as a Batman fan, things still worked ...
Geeks of Doom
The Ups and Downs of Indie Video Games
Cincinnati CityBeat
I love video games. Always have, always will. I grew up watching Mario stomp koopas, Link slay moblins and Kirby inhale enemies to copy their powers. Games will always have a special place in my heart. As much as I like the classics and the stuff being ...
Cincinnati CityBeat
Report: "Active" video games are not keeping kids healthy
FOX43.com
A new study says "active" video games, such as virtual boxing, bowling, and even dancing, are not providing kids with actual physical activity. The report says games like these may not help kids meet their daily exercise requirements.
Best schools to study video game design from California to the New York Highlands
TechJournal South
The University of Southern California at Los Angeles and MIT are the top two schools for studying video game design. So says The Princeton Review (www.princetonreview.com) — one of the nation's best-known education services companies, ...
TechJournal South
Journey review round-up: An unmissable gaming experience
Computerandvideogames.com
A truly fantastic example of interactive entertainment, and a title that every gamer worth their salt needs to play. Eurogamer: 9/10 - The studio has poured the deserts, trashed the temples and filled the world with the floating presence of a nameless ...
Newly released video game features Toyo's presence in UFC bouts
Search-Autoparts.com
Toyo's logo makes several cameo appearances in the new Ultimate Fight Club (UFC) "Undisputed 3"video game. Designed for use on Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 systems, participants will find Toyo graphics inside the Octagon when they act out fights at the ...
Kickstarter project offers hundreds of video game inspired tunes for ...
By Mike Schramm
If you've been looking for a way to experience more video game and video game-inspired music, here's a pretty cheap one-way ticket right into the scene. Nubuwo is a site that's been created to cover exactly this kind of music, and over on ...
Joystiq
Gamasutra
Imagine Publishing is proud to announce that the award-winning Retro Gamer magazine celebrates its 100th issue this month. In what must be a world-first, the publisher has decided to reward its loyal and passionate fans by packaging this historic issue ...
Active video games don't, erm, make kids active
TG Daily
Giving children active video games does nothing to increase the amount of exercise they get, new research has shown. "Simply having active video games available in the store or at home will not by itself contribute to increased physical activity," says ...
TG Daily
Video games help improve eyesight: study
Hamilton Spectator
Video games tend to get a bad rap. They're usually violent. They waste time. The kid should be doing his homework. But a McMaster University researcher has found a silver lining around the joystick. Daphne Maurer, a professor of psychology and ...
Sony, Microsoft Battle Hackers Over Right to 'Jailbreak' Video Game Systems ...
Chicago Tribune
[Love and Warcraft: Spouses Being Pushed Aside For Video Games] A new push by amateur hackers and digital rights activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, could make "jailbreaking" video game consoles legal under a similar ...
Video Games Depict Religion as Violent, Says New Study
Christian Post
By Jonathan Moormann , Christian Post Contributor Recent video games have begun depicting religion as a violent, problematic force, according to research from a new University of Missouri study. Greg Perreault, a doctoral student at University of ...
Video games, TV can create vicious cycle in impulsive children
Ottawa Citizen
By Brian Crecente February 29, 2012 Playing video games both help and hurt with attention issues, according to a study published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture. Playing video games can create a vicious cycle that attracts some ...
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Corporate Killers
San Luis Obispo Tribune
By ELECTRONIC ARTS By Justin Hoeger In 1993, the computer game “Syndicate” envisioned a grim future in which world-spanning corporations send heavily armed cyborg agents on raids against each other, with no regard for civilian life or casualties.
San Luis Obispo Tribune
Moms Talk: Are Video Games Your Home Space Invaders?
Patch.com
My oldest two sons were playing video games while my younger two were engaged in a TV show. I was typing away at the computer and listening to music. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the power went out. Since it was dark outside, we were thrust into total ...
Video game tells story of real-life slave's escape to Canada
Regina Leader-Post
By Dan Neutel, For Postmedia News February 29, 2012 Canadian-made video game Preston. In the game players attempt to safely get Richard Preston, a man who made the actual journey in 1815, to freedom in Nova Scotia. A new video game that allows players ...
New Video Game Store Coming Soon to DPA
Patch.com
A surprise to my children and I we see it's going to be a video game store called Game Hut Video Games. I talked to the owners and they said that they buy. sell and trade all video games and systems plus they will be having birthday parties at the ...
Retro Gamer Celebrates Issue 100 With GTA, Sonic, ZX Spectrum
NowGamer
Retro Gamer issue 100 is on sale now and to celebrate this momentous event it's packaged with the original issue that first appeared in 2004. This makes it an unmissable edition of everyone's favourite retro magazine. In addition to featuring the ...
The Gamer's Notebook
Ventura County Reporter
By Chris ONeal 03/01/2012 In 1999, while most of the world was hunkering down in preparation for the 30th apocalypse, others were raging about Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Episode 1 was to be my generation's connection to the mythology spanning three ...
Ventura County Reporter
Rodeo video game previewed at HLSR
KPRC Houston
Video game developers Woody Addison and Tracey Cearley created the world's first motion-controlled rodeo video game, and they're giving an ongoing demonstration at Reliant Stadium during this year's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
This is not a video game
The Economist
The software was then upgraded so that it could be played like a video game in which “what if” circumstances—foggy night-time fighting against upgraded vehicle armour, say—could be tested. Widely demoed in Washington, DC, during the 1990s, ...
The Economist
Why Mario Is The Most Popular Video Game Character Ever
Business Insider
When you think about video games, one of the first characters that comes to mind is Mario—the chubby little Italian plumber hero that saves his damsel in distress. But what about Mario made his brand such a powerhouse that people connect with so ...
Business Insider
The Top Video Games Of 2011 Recreated With Legos
Forbes
Organizers for the 15th Interactive Achievement Awards approached Alex Kobbs back in October to create a montage of the top video games of the year, animated in LEGO. Alex used clips from some of his earlier animations, including the super-awesome ...
8-Bit Funding is Back and Under New Management
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Crowd-Funding website, 8-Bit Funding returns backed by new management and popular indie game websites, DIY Gamer and Indie Game Mag. 8-Bit Funding was launched in early 2011 as a game focused alternative to other crowd-funding websites and was recently ...
OCZ launches Fatal1ty gamer PSU
CCL Online
The new addition complements OCZ's existing range of solid-state drives and PSUs, and was developed in collaboration with twelve-time world champion gamer Johnathan Wendel, who goes by the pseudonym Fatal1ty. This means it has been specifically ...
The Princeton Review Names Top Undergraduate and Top Graduate Schools to Study ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new list, "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012," recommends 50 schools in all. It names 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate schools in rank order to its respective "top 10" lists and 22 undergraduate and 8 graduate schools as Honorable ...
RIT moves up in rankings for video game design
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester Institute of Technology's video game design programs moved up in The Princeton Review's new annual rankings. RIT finished second among graduate schools offering game design programs and sixth in undergraduate game design, according to the ...
Watch Now: 'Gotham By Gaslight' Video Game Test Footage
Geeks of Doom
In 2009, Chicago-based video game studio Day 1 worked up some ideas about a game based on the graphic novel and pitched the idea to THQ to try to get the ball rolling on a new Batman game. Sadly, they declined. But as a Batman fan, things still worked ...
Geeks of Doom
The Ups and Downs of Indie Video Games
Cincinnati CityBeat
I love video games. Always have, always will. I grew up watching Mario stomp koopas, Link slay moblins and Kirby inhale enemies to copy their powers. Games will always have a special place in my heart. As much as I like the classics and the stuff being ...
Cincinnati CityBeat
Report: "Active" video games are not keeping kids healthy
FOX43.com
A new study says "active" video games, such as virtual boxing, bowling, and even dancing, are not providing kids with actual physical activity. The report says games like these may not help kids meet their daily exercise requirements.
Best schools to study video game design from California to the New York Highlands
TechJournal South
The University of Southern California at Los Angeles and MIT are the top two schools for studying video game design. So says The Princeton Review (www.princetonreview.com) — one of the nation's best-known education services companies, ...
TechJournal South
Journey review round-up: An unmissable gaming experience
Computerandvideogames.com
A truly fantastic example of interactive entertainment, and a title that every gamer worth their salt needs to play. Eurogamer: 9/10 - The studio has poured the deserts, trashed the temples and filled the world with the floating presence of a nameless ...
Newly released video game features Toyo's presence in UFC bouts
Search-Autoparts.com
Toyo's logo makes several cameo appearances in the new Ultimate Fight Club (UFC) "Undisputed 3"video game. Designed for use on Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 systems, participants will find Toyo graphics inside the Octagon when they act out fights at the ...
Kickstarter project offers hundreds of video game inspired tunes for ...
By Mike Schramm
If you've been looking for a way to experience more video game and video game-inspired music, here's a pretty cheap one-way ticket right into the scene. Nubuwo is a site that's been created to cover exactly this kind of music, and over on ...
Joystiq
Turning Dollar Bills Into Works of Video Game Art
By Luke Plunkett
Turning Dollar Bills Into Works of Video Game Art. Reader Thayer likes to take legal tender and draw all over it. While that's technically illegal, we're going to hold off on reporting him to the authorities, because any man who turns Abe Lincoln ...
Kotaku
Announcing Veracode Defender – A tower defense video game
By Fergal Glynn
We just released a retro, 8–bit feel, “tower defense” video game to promote our new reporting capabilities that deliver positive, actionable reports when developers successfully use best practices to eliminate vulnerabilities. To check out the ...
Veracode Blog
Create Video Games As Your Fun Career - BerryHillforCongress ...
By Berry Hill
Gameinformer Magazine mentions that, video game programmers are the “heart and soul” of the industry. They are the ones responsible for creating the code essential for acquiring video games to function. And contrary to usual belief, their ...
BerryHillforCongress.com
Jenova Chen: The Art of Video Games | Hypebeast
By Staff
In recent times of economic uncertainty, video games have managed to carve out a solid portion of the entertainment industry. ... What are the procedures behind video game development? ... Today, people still ask you “are you a gamer?
Hypebeast
How to design video games that support good math learning: Level ...
By Keith Devlin
A major problem with video games, or more generally any mechanized educational delivery system, is that the system has no way of knowing what the player, or student, is learning. That a player who moves up a level in a video game has ...
profkeithdevlin
ScrewAttack - Video Game Vault: Mario Tennis 64 | GoNintendo ...
By RawmeatCowboy
I don't think these guys at ScrewAttack realize that Waluigi's complete lack of a reason for his existence is the reason WHY people love him. He's so incredibly useless that you can't help but cheer for him!
GoNintendo - Console News
The Right Attitude for a Video Game Tester | ivtcscs.org
By admin
The success or failure of a video game tester depends largely on his or her attitude and behavior on the job. Patience and dedication to the job are very important especially at the beginning of the career because contrary to general belief, ...
ivtcscs.org
Retro Gamer celebrates its 100th issue • Retroaction
By Nreive
Back in 2005, it seemed unlikely that Retro Gamer would survive past issue 20, never mind 100. Fortunately, the magazine was revived by its current publishers and still produces the goods to this day, content and design wise. With its 100th ...
Retroaction
Video game booking and heel champions
By Papa Shango
Wrestling fans participate in active discussion on all the major wrestling leagues and events including WWE, ROH & TNA pay per view events, live wrestling streams, wrestling video games, collectibles, and other wrestling related products and ...
WrestlingClique Wrestling Forums
Celebrity Video Game Endorsements: The Bad
I warned you before the marketing world can be peculiar and no more so than in the video gamesindustry. For every Zelda Williams and Alec Baldwin, the history of celebrity endorsements is littered with the flawed creations that tried to marry ...
IQU
Official Retro Gamer Blog » Blog Archive » Retro Gamer Issue 100 ...
By Stu*Bert
Retro Gamer Issue 100 and Issue 1 on sale now. Issue 1, Grand Theft Auto, Sonic The Hedgehog the ZX Spectrum and David Braben lead our 100th issue celebrations. Retro Gamer issue 100 is on sale today and to celebrate this momentous ...
Official Retro Gamer Blog
CAGcast #273: The Wombat Syndrome - Cheap Ass Gamer - Cheap ...
A current listing of cheap video games, video game sales and video game deals: CAG. ... Best Buy, 4. BESTBUY March@Gamer Coupons $5 Mass Effect 2, $5 Rage, $15 Bulletstorm, $45 FFXIII-2 ...
Cheap Ass Gamer (US Feed)
PC Gamer US Podcast #306: Downloadable Spinal Cords | PC Gamer
Is day-one DLC (like Mass Effect 3′s “From Ashes”) a crime against gamer- manity, or simply an unoffensive, optional bonus? When are developers “allowed ” to ...
www.pcgamer.com/.../pc-gamer-us-podcast-306-downloadabl...
Guild Wars 2 beta: All your questions answered | PC Gamer
As soon as we found out that we'd be playing in Guild Wars 2′s beta for an entire weekend, we asked you, our beloved readers, what you wanted to us to find ...
www.pcgamer.com/.../guild-wars-2-beta-all-your-questions-an...
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