Forbes
Video games are social, whether you're playing alone, online, or with friends. From the moment a game is conceived to the moment it slides into your PC or console, a game is the result of multitudes. So is its lifespan. A game like World of Warcraft is...
Forbes
Video game nation: Why so many play
Christian Science Monitor
A journey through the world of video games, which 183 million Americans play – 25 percent over age 50. What's behind the fascination? By Robert A. Lehrman, Correspondent / March 18, 2012 A conventiongoer and the 'Dark Void' character at the E3 Expo in ...
Christian Science Monitor
The art of video games
CBS News
Broun said the video game exhibit - the first ever at a major American museum - has caused so much excitement it will travel to 10 other cities, illustrating a growing understanding of the public fascination with games. "The Art of Video Games" is a...
CBS News
The gamer's guide to the iPad
ITworld.com
March 18, 2012, 7:48 AM — Apple's OSX 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 cheap.
Video games enter realm of art at Smithsonian
PhysOrg.com
"This is not about the art within video games," said Melissinos, an avid gamersince he was a 10-year-old in his native New York borough of Queens. "This is about video games themselves as an artistic medium." The exhibition comes nine months after the ...
PhysOrg.com
Friday Buffet: 'Diablo III' is (finally) upon us, and a special rant for 'Mass ...
Baltimore Sun
[ESPN, EA] •••• The Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC launched its "The Art of Video Games" exhibit. The New York Times critic thought it was good, but played it too safe. Now, when you drop money on "Assassin's Creed III," you can tell yourself ...
Story-Telling In Video Games And The Mass Effect 3 Ending
Forbes
One of the really fascinating and sort of remarkable things to come out of the Mass Effect ending/DLC dissent movement is a discussion of story. What makes a good story in a game? How do we balance story with gameplay?
Entrepreneur sees growth in video game tournaments
DesMoinesRegister.com
Like many his age, 29-year-old Ben McDougal's life has revolved around video games. Growing up in Ankeny, he would even craft friendships based upon which game system someone had. Now he has a business, Jet Set Studio, built around his childhood ...
2012 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards Winners Revealed
Electronic Theatre
By ManPac (online) This year's GAME British Academy Video Games Awards took place in London last night, with many of last year's biggest hits in the running for some of the gongs. With the full line-up of winners revealed, there was truly one title...
Electronic Theatre
Portal 2 wins Best Game at BAFTA Video Game Awards 2012
Stuff.tv
Valve might not be working on a console but the guys behind Portal 2 won big at the BAFTAVideo Game Awards 2012 last night – the game picked up the overall Best Game gong as well as Best Storyline. And even though there were some incredible games on ...
First Look At The Walking Dead Video Game
The Walking Dead Podcast
Telltale Games have just released a teaser trailer for The Walking Dead video game which will follow two people Lee (an escaped convict) and Clementine (a girl who lost her parents). I will avoid a description of the video for those of you who don't ...
The Walking Dead Podcast
Telltale Games have just released a teaser trailer for The Walking Dead video game which will follow two people Lee (an escaped convict) and Clementine (a girl who lost her parents). I will avoid a description of the video for those of you who don't ...
Review: Mass Effect 3, Or So Long and Thanks For All the Shepard
GamerLive.TV
And it also resonates with story arcs in video games. We've seen several conclusive chapters over the years that have wrapped up sagas either in style (Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3) or disappointment (Resistance 3…seriously), but it just goes to show ...
How video games help war vets
Christian Science Monitor
'Serious video games' are now used for everything from educating about Somalian piracy, to explaining childbirth, to helping soldiers cope with the trauma of war. By Robert A. Lehrman, Correspondent / March 18, 2012 He comes into a training room at the ...
Video Game Review: Mass Effect 3
California Literary Review
by Adam Robert Thomas Five years ago, BioWare began a science fiction odyssey into the unknown. A series where the player was faced with choices, often hard choices, about how the characters would proceed, and the results of their decisions would carry ...
California Literary Review
Video games enter realm of art
The Express Tribune
The exhibition is the first one that looks at video games as a form of art. By AFP The exhibition is the first one that looks at video games as a form of art. PHOTO: FILE They've come a long way since the man who would be Mario set off to rescue ...
The Express Tribune
Smithsonian Decides Video Games Are Art After All
Gawker
Remember Roger Ebert's infamous assertion that video games can never be art? Well, nyah, nyah, Roger — the Smithsonian American Art Museum has unveiled its latest exhibit "The Art ofVideo Games." "You could say video games are a great grassroots ...
Smithsonian shows off Art in Video Games exhibit
Examiner.com
Chris Melissinos, founder of Past Pixels and collector of video games and gaming systems, is the curator of the exhibit. The exhibition will take place from now until September 30th of this year. Check out the official website for more information ...
Video game review: 'The Show' still swinging for the fences
News Sentinel
By LOU KESTEN of AP No video game can duplicate the drama of the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball season. You remember: The historic collapse of the Red Sox. The Rays' late-inning recovery from a seven-run deficit on the last day of the season.
How video games prepare kids for a bright future job
Kansas.com
By Roy Wenzl Kaitlin Albright plays a video game in her dorm room at WSU. People must adapt to the new tech world, and experts say we must do some things that look counterintuitive, such as embrace video games in daily life. (March 15, 2012) Kaitlin ...
Video games get own exhibit at Smithsonian
Afterdawn.com
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has created a major exhibition celebrating the history of video games. "The Art of Video Games" spans the last 40 years ofvideo games, in all forms. "While this exhibition is not the first exhibition that actually ...
Afterdawn.com
Should consoles go all digital?
Computerandvideogames.com
By CVG Staff for computerandvideogames.com We've been downloading games, movies and music for years now but somehow the idea of video game consoles without physical media is still difficult to parse. After all, sticking in a disc or cartridge is as ...
Gamer Roulette: DLC for You and Me
Neon Tommy
Whether it's reviews, previews, or FAQs, matters that are professional or just personal, make sure you check Neon Tommy every week for all sorts of interesting tidbits in the world of video games. And remember, it's dangerous to go alone.
Neon Tommy
Smithsonian 'The Art of Video Games' Exhibit
Pursuitist
Running from March 16 to March 18, 2012, the three-day event highlights video games as a form of innovative art and will also include insightful talks by video game pioneers. he exhibition focuses on the point that such games have emerged through the ...
The Art of Video Games at the Smithsonian
Bangstyle
This week, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, kicked off their newest exhibit, “The Art of Video Games.” On display until Sept.30., this marks one of the first major exhibits to celebrate the 40-year evolution of video games.
Bangstyle
MadCatz: Gamer Gear For PC And 360
TrulyNet
We've been doing a fair bit of gaming lately, with Mass Effect 3 on the 360 and Star Wars: The Old Republic on PC. And we've been testing out new gear for each system from MadCatz, a manufacturer that in the past few years has grown into one of the ...
Police: Airport Crash Involved Car; Video Game Arrest; Landlord Sent to Prison
Patch.com
The case of a former Oxford tax collector accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tax office at Town Hall, has been continued to April 25. Check Oxford Patch for more on the case. A woman used a video game to entice a 14-year-old ...
BAFTA Video Games Awards Winners Announced
Piki Geek
The winners of the British Academy Video Games Awards were announced last night, as a part of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards. The Best Game award was given to Portal 2, beating out Skyrim. Portal 2 also won the Story ...
Ten Disasters Under the Covers of Sports Video Games
Deadspin
Oden is one of the most ill-fated athletes ever to appear on the cover of a video game, starring on the cover of College Hoops 2K8. It got me to thinking about other cover choices that either were ill-fated, or ended up that way—for athlete, ...
What It's Like To Work At Rokkan, The Trendy Video Game Agency
Business Insider
When videogame makers Nintendo, 2K and Rockstar need a website or a digital campaign to promote a new release, they turn to Rokkan, an independent ad agency located in New York's Chinatown. Rokkan has handled digital marketing assets for franchises ...
Business Insider
'Mass Effect 3' Ending Got You Down? Drown Your Sorrows With These Top 5Gamer ...
International Business Times
By Lisa Eadicicco: Subscribe to Lisa's RSS feed Video games are typically associated with hours in front of the television screen and online cooperation (or competition) with friends. But gaming gurus have found ways to indulge their passion in a less ...
International Business Times
Video Game Deal: Buy 1 Get 1 Free $5 Ubisoft DRM-Free Game Downloads
Geeks of Doom
Amazon is currently running a major sale on Ubisoft DRM-Free Download Games where you can get them for $5 each; also, it's Buy One, Get One FREE. Visit the main Sale page to see the full selection of downloadable games like Assassin's Creed: Director's ...
Geeks of Doom
Early glance at E3 2012
Examiner.com
As all of you know E3 is the Sundance Film Festival of video games and computers. Michael D. Gallagher, the president and CEO of the ESA (the company that represents all computer andvideo game publishers), said, "E3 is the worldwide leader in computer ...
Gaming and Neuroscience, And Why Politics Should Stay Out Of It
Piki Geek
... conducted independently of the video game developers and publishers. In addition to agamer's ability to make quick decisions and multi-task (that's not a surprise), studies also showed the playing action-based video games increased creativity.
Gaming Audio Celebrated at 10th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards
GamerLive.TV
Voted and judged upon by the game audio industry and members of GANG, the finalists represent an array of the best audio in video games from 2011. A 70 person Advisory Committee helped in deciding each of the final nominees which included hundreds of ...
Big Games of 2012: TT Games Celebrates DC Super Heroes with LEGO Batman 2
GamerLive.TV
"LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes builds upon the action and cooperative gameplay experience established in our best–selling LEGO video game to date, LEGO Batman: The Videogame," said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. "We"re offering fans a rich ...
GamerLive.TV
When worlds collide
Daily Camera
By Marc Camron Rocky Mountain Gamer Like sports fans having favorite teams, fighting-game fans often have a favorite franchise. "Street Fighter," "Tekken," "Soul Calibur," "Mortal Kombat" and others each draw its legion of loyalists, those who swear no ...
Game on! At New Hampshire's museum of classic arcade games, a product of the ...
SouthCoastToday.com
Vintage and video games fill the American Classic Arcade Museum in Lanconia, NH, to the delight of gamers. By Don Hammontree What is it?: A museum devoted to arcade games, concentrating on those from the 1980s. Info: Open 10 am to 10 pm Sunday to ...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Will Have Mod Support On PC
Cinema Blend
"The idea is that there is the ability for modability," lead designer Jake Solomon told PC Gamer. "It won't be anything that we're committing to for release, but it's very very easy using Unreal titles. I write almost all my game code in the scripts, ...
Cinema Blend
Portal 2 Takes Home Game Of The Year At BAFTA
WebProNews
A few years ago they realized that they should start giving out awards to video games for those that exemplify the medium and push it forward as an art form. The 2012 BAFTA awards for video games were recently held to honor the games that were released ...
Classroom Magic: Video Game Maker for Vocab Practice
By Selina Smith
My students love to use the video game maker from Cool Tools. This is perfect for reviewing vocabulary words, but it would work for any kind of test prep. Once students have created their game, other students may play it. I use it primarily for ...
Classroom Magic
Video Games as Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum ...
By World Footprints Media
The Art of Video Games, a stunning interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the first historical look at the 40-year-old phenomenon as an artistic medium. ... The free exhibit flashes excerpts 12 feet high against day-glo chartreuse, heliotrope, and magenta walls, to the tunes of chipmusic. And you can be a gamer/artist at kiosks in the exhibit, which continues through September 30, then travels to ten cities across the United States. Continue reading>> ...
World Footprints Travel Radio
By World Footprints Media
The Art of Video Games, a stunning interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the first historical look at the 40-year-old phenomenon as an artistic medium. ... The free exhibit flashes excerpts 12 feet high against day-glo chartreuse, heliotrope, and magenta walls, to the tunes of chipmusic. And you can be a gamer/artist at kiosks in the exhibit, which continues through September 30, then travels to ten cities across the United States. Continue reading>> ...
World Footprints Travel Radio
Celebrities as Video Games, What Stars Would Be Like in Games ...
By Alison Goodman
If video games did represent our lives, what game do you think you'd be? Check out what game some of our fave celebs would be if their life was a video game. Kim Kardashian / The Sims Her whole world is completely fabricated, eating, ...
Teen.com
The RPG Reporter » Gamer Files FTC Complaint Over Mass Effect 3 ...
By Paul Younger
There's no doubt there's been quite some controversy in the Mass Effect 3 community over the endings to the game. Some are calling for a different ending to be created by Bioware so they can “Take Back ME3″. The complaints took an odd ...
The RPG Reporter
The Art of Video Games
By halo@bungie.org
davidfuchs visited the Art of Video Games exhibit at the American Art Museum (it just opened!), and took a bunch of pictures. Some of them, including a Halo-related one, can be found in his forum post - the rest are here. Looks fantastic!
Halo.Bungie.Org
No Gametwerp This Week | Front Towards Gamer
By Tony "ChaingunPope" Wilson
You want the short version? We weren't able to record a show this week.
Front Towards Gamer
Portal 2 wins Best Game [BAFTA Video Game Awards 2012] – Stuff ...
By Stuff Staff
Valve might not be working on a console but the guys behind Portal 2 won big at the BAFTAVideo Game Awards 2012 last night – the game picked up the overall Best Game gong as well as Best Storyline. And even though there were some incredible games on the list – Skyrim, ...The gamer-voted GAME award went to Battlefield 3 instead, though, which also picked up Best Online Multiplayer – no surprise there. Batman: Arkham City settled for Best Action Game and L.A. Noire got a ...
Stuff Middle East
Mass Effect 3: From Ashes Review | Video Games News, Reviews ...
By Roland Kerr
Others are citing this business practice as evidence of the decay and malice present in the video game industry. Meanwhile, BioWare and EA have been defending the decision, claiming the content is unnecessary to properly experience Mass ...
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