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Online Gamer Zynga's Stock Plunges
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Social media stocks, led by Zynga, dropped in volatile trading as traders used the securities to hedge or bet against the day's star of the sector, Facebook, which went public in a somewhat disappointing debut on Friday. Facebook Social media stocks, ... 

Rhode Island may provide Schilling's video game company with millions more in aid
Boston.com
The company is in financial turmoil as it struggles to bring its major video game code-named Copernicus to market; earlier this week the state revealed 38 Studios missed a $1.1 million payment it owed Rhode Island, and then tried to deliver a check ...

Governor: Curt Schilling's video game company made overdue $1.1M payment to ...
Washington Post
PROVIDENCE, RI — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company has made a $1.1 million payment to the state and now should seek out private financing to stay afloat, Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Friday. “There's no more easy ...

High-risk video game venture has Rhode Island, Curt Schilling reeling
Boston.com
In the final months of two mostly unmemorable terms in office, Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri boasted about his little state's big splash - stealing former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and his nascent video game company from Massachusetts.

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Schilling on video game company troubles: 'We will find a way, and the ...
The Republic
AP PROVIDENCE, RI — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is thanking his well-wishers after his video game company defaulted on a $1.1 million payment to Rhode Island and was unable to meet payroll this week. The founder of 38 Studios declined to ...

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Neuroscientists develop video game for stroke recovery
CNET (blog)
Stroke experts in the UK work with Limbs Alive to develop the first in a collection of action video games that encourage movements to relearn arm and hand control. by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore May 18, 2012 9:29 AM PDT Follow @ejamoore After a stroke, ...

Walking Dead video game celebrates accolades in new trailer
GameZone
Telltale's exclusive Walking Dead adventure game is getting tons of praise from critics. Find out the buzz in this new trailer! The Walking Dead franchise is proving that people still love zombies, the popular comic and television series continuing to ...

Scientist-designed video game challenges effects of Stroke
Gamenguide
The backlashes video games often receive have always been a sure way for gamers to shake their heads in disapproval. Well, it looks like we have the last laugh because a recent scientist-designed video game, called "Circus Challenge," has been proven ...

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Ron Paul can still be president — through a new video game
Houston Chronicle (blog)
And that's exactly the goal of the new video game “Road to REVOLution.” Screenshot from the Nevada level of "Road to REVOLution." (Courtesy of Daniel Williams) Daniel Williams, the 27-year-old Paul supporter from Houston who designed the game, ...

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Diablo 3's Launch Fiasco Proves Video Game Journalism Fails
Cinema Blend
As usual, the major gaming websites and industry-reliant video game journalists are tooting their own horns, telling their readers to "shut up" and wait or do something else instead of being frustrated that the $60 product they just bought doesn't work ...

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New video game features Jesus Christ
KHOU
by Andrew Horansky / KHOU 11 News HOUSTON—A new video game released gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “what would Jesus do?” In the game players relive Bible stories and come in contact with Christ. “Every week we release new chapters of the ...

Game Bytes: Video game journalism needs to dig deeper
Tuscaloosa News
Unfortunately, we can't have that same discussion with video games. Why? Because publishers simply don't divulge budgets, and they only report sales numbers when they're particularly spectacular, like when Activision wants to tell everyone that the new ...

Potential Role for Video Games in Improving Certain Health Outcomes
HealthNewsDigest.com
By Staff Editor (HealthNewsDigest.com) - PITTSBURGH, May 18 – Certainvideo games may be useful tools for psychological and physical therapy, according to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers who reviewed randomized controlled trials ...

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Activision To Release New NASCAR Video Game Title
Inside Line
Activision is again teaming up with video game developer Eutechnyx for another NASCAR title. | May 18, 2012 | Eutechnyx By Mike Lysaght, Correspondent | Published May 18, 2012 Activision and Eutechnyx are releasing a new NASCAR video game title this ...

RI returns overdue $1.1M check to Schilling video game co. after firm says it ...
Washington Post
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island has returned a promised payment of $1.1 million from former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video game company after learning the check would bounce. 38 Studios hand-delivered the check to the state's Economic ...

VIDEO GAMES: LEGO Batman 2 Promo Pics Pay Homage to Another Game
Comic Book Movie
Due out this summer, LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes will see a huge cast of your favorite DC Comics characters return in this highly-anticipated sequel... but not before paying homage to a certain Batman videogame from WB Games released last fall.

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Foosball video game looks like it would hurt your wrists
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By Keith Shaw Add a new comment May 18, 2012, 10:48 AM — Most of my foosball experiences took place in my college dorm basement freshman year (and that short period where Network World had a table in the breakroom), but now it can move to the living ...

'Community' season finale: Video games, Evil Abed and a Dean-elgangers
Zap2it.com (blog)
That battle was played as an 8-bit video game. For fans of that era of gaming, it was glorious! Pierce falling into holes and walking back and forth, NPC characters with conversation trees and the beep boops of early era games.

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First ever Jesus video game launched
Oregon Faith Report
By Monique Sondag, Journey of Jesus: The Calling — the first-ever video gamebased on Jesus — launches today from Lightside Games, makers of the popular Journey of Moses. Interestingly, also launching today: Diablo III, the newest installment of a ...

Oregon Faith Report

Here's a Clip From Community, Entirely in 16-Bit Video Game Form
Kotaku
Though the show often pokes fun at film and television tropes—typically through the dorky, yet lovable character Abed—the characters sometimes toy around with video game jokes, too. Last night's show was more than just a few funny video game quips ...

All-Star Pitcher Schilling's Video Game Studio Can't Pay Its Employees, Either
Kotaku
Curt Schilling, well known as a key member of the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox—the franchise's first world champion in 86 years—is also an avid gamer. So, after his 2007 retirement he founded a development studio that sought a loan from ...

R.I. gov: Schilling's video game company making $1.1M payment
CBSSports.com
PROVIDENCE, RI -- Rhode Island's governor says former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video game company is making a $1.1 million payment to the state that it defaulted on this month. Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Schilling's 38 Studios is paying ...

Book Review: Why You Are the Future of Video Games
Popular Science
Why hasn't this populist revolution happened to video games? In her new book Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form, ...

Battleship rediscovers the fun of action flicks based on video games
TheChronicleHerald.ca
“This could be like Columbus and the Indians,” a nerdy radio astronomer worries. “Except we're the Indians.” From a powerful transmission facility in Hawaii, he's supervised the transmission of a signal to the Earth-like Planet G in another galaxy, ...

Scientist-designed video game helps stroke victims recover
Tecca
That's the goal of Circus Challenge, a brand new video game developed specifically for the purpose of helping stroke victims recover. Developed by Janet Eyre, a pediatric neuroscience professor at Newcastle University, the game combines various circus ...

Forbes Games: Whimsyshire And Gamer Ire
TheStreet.com
By Jim Cramer Hell hath no fury like a gamer scorned. Activision Blizzard apologizes for connectivity issue that kept fans from playing Diablo III in the first few days of its release, but consumers are still raging about the digital rights management ...

Average Gamer 5.18.2012: Microsoft Pre-E3 Expectations
411mania.com
Welcome back to the Average Gamer. It has been a bitter sweet week. The streak of consecutive days playing games has died. The streak ended with 236 days playing Xbox straight. It is pretty impressive in my opinion but it doesn't matter now.

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How NVIDIA GeForce GRID Will Change Video Games
Benchmark Reviews
Most desktop PC systems can be upgraded with new hardware, but notebook computers lack this ability and cannot run may of the latest video game titles or play back high-definition multimedia content. Tablet and SmartPhone devices suffer a similar fate, ...

Video Games Kickstarted the Careers of Some of Hollywood's (and ...
By Luke Plunkett
Paul Rudd get a big break on crappy old video game commercials. Before they Were Stars -Video Game Edition [PSP @ YouTube]. Video Games Kickstarted the Careers of Some of Hollywood's (and TV's) Greats. Contact Luke Plunkett: ...
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Video Games Helping Kids Grasp Economics « CBS Dallas / Fort ...
By KTVTPhil
“They go home and play video games. So, if you made a video game out of it, I can see where more people would play it and learn better from playing it.” It is a new method of teaching that, experts think, will yield benefits for a future generation ...
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What Video Game Background Characters Are Thinking | Cracked ...
What Video Game Background Characters Are Thinking. By: Cracked Readers. May 18, 2012. The characters in the background of our video games have come a long way since their work as two dimensional blobs, cheering you up the ranks ...
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Video Games: Super Deluxe Edition - Memebase: Rage Comics ...
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Video Games: Super Deluxe Edition. x. Share. video game memes - Video Games: Seems Legit. Get Over Here and Play a Video Game · Incorrect source or offensive? 3dscategory:IRLgameboyIRLseems legit · Share on Facebook ...
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Video Game Reviews | Datura | RotoRob
By Mike Chen
Datura both puzzled and impressed critics when it was previewed at various game industry shows. Its stark atmosphere and use of one-to-one Playstation Move tracking — along with the fact that it was developed by the folks who created the ...
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Disney announces iCloud support and new levels ... - Pocket Gamer
More levels than you can shake an alligator at. Click to read the full 'Disney announces iCloud support and new levels for Where's My Water?' news article. For more Where's My Water? news and Multiformat news, visit PocketGamer.co.uk.
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games kickstarter | Lousy Canuck
By Jason Thibeault
... Video Games kickstarter. May 18, 2012 at 9:15 am Jason Thibeault. A worthy cause if you've got a few bucks and you'd like Feminist Frequency to make this series of videos exploring the hundreds of instances of problematic video game characterizations of women. ... I'm an IT guy, skeptic, feminist, gamer and atheist, and love OSS, science of all stripes (especially space-related stuff), and debating on-line and off. I enjoy a good bit of whargarbl now and again, and will occasionally ...
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Some Things Cannot Be Unseen - Video Games - Memes, Captions ...
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video game memes - Some Things Cannot Be Unseen.
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JESNA - AT&T makes largest-ever investment in video games ...
By jaisenberg@jesna.org (Jennifer Aisenberg)
From The Verge: Telecom company AT&T will invest $3.8 million into a video games-based education program, the largest donation ever made by the co...
JESNA - Jewish Education News

Junior dos Santos, Frank Mir, and the Video Game Showdown That ...
By Ben Fowlkes
Back before they agreed to fight each other for the UFC heavyweight title, Junior dos Santos and Frank Mir were supposed to play a video game together. ... "So I called up my youngest brother, who is an avid player of video games. I said, 'Hey ...
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5 Video Game Stereotypes Debunked | WeKnowMemes
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5 Video Game Stereotypes Debunked. – May 18, 2012 Posted in: Media, Pictures · Prev Random Next · 5 gamer stereotypes debunked. 5 video ... Tags: 5 video game stereotypes debunked, cool infographics, gamer infographic, infographic ...
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Curt Schilling's video game company asks Rhode Island for more ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked Rhode Island for additional help to save his video game company Wednesday, prompting ...
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First Footage from 'Brave: The Video Game'! - Upcoming Pixar
Over the past few years, Pixar's video game tie-ins have shown a level of ...this game ...
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Top 50 Video Game Worlds - IGN
From the Mushroom Kingdom to Hyrule, IGN picks the top 50 video game worlds of ... Consider for a second what makes video games amazing, and forget about ...
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Game of Thrones – video game preview | Technology | guardian.co.uk
One of the immutable laws of the modern games industry states that if a big hit ever emerges in another sector of the pop-culture world, it will be made into a ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../may/.../game-of-thrones-game-previe...

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