Prometheus, Dark Souls, And Storytelling In Video Games Vs. Film

Prometheus, Dark Souls, And Storytelling In Video Games Vs. Film
Forbes
Alyssa muses: “I'm actually curious if this, as well as production costs, are part of why it's been so hard to adapt major video games into major motion pictures. There's always uproar in fan communities about how true an adaptation is or isn't to ...

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Video Game Review: Starhawk
New York Daily News
LOVED IT: Terrifically original gameplay mechanics, great variety, spectacular visual style, a soundtrack that's destined to be underrated HATED IT: Campaign is too short and too limiting, occasionally unrefined controls GRAB IT IF: You want a ...

New York Daily News

Vivendi Q1 hurt by video games, French telecom
Reuters
PA) posted lower revenue and operating profit in the first quarter, hit by weak video game sales and bruising competition for its SFR French telecom unit after the launch of a new low-cost mobile player. Vivendi's main cash cow, SFR, felt the first ...

Launch Pad: Two video game classics return
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY The quiet spring in the video game industry picks up in a big way this week, with two heavyweights making their long-awaited returns. Details: Almost 12 years after the launch of predecessor Diablo II, the third chapter of ...

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Video Game Nation: 64 pct. of Americans play video games, consoles are still ...
Digitaltrends.com
New research finds that more people than ever before are playing video games. What's surprising is that game consoles are still the most popular platforms around. Discussion ofvideo games' cultural acceptance has always seemed silly.

Has The Era Of Video Game Consoles Passed?
RedOrbit
Console-based video game sales fell 42 percent in April of this year, with total industry sales falling to $630.4 million from $930.9 million a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group. An early Easter holiday and a relatively light game ...

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Sizing Up China's Home Video Game Console, the CT510
Kotaku
China's first foray into creating a mainstream video game system is a solid try in the right direction, except the system isn't a game system, it's an Online Multimedia Motion-sensing Device. The eedoo CT-510 already exceeded my expectations when I ...

Fake Gamer Of The Week: Grandpa Just Saw Aeris Die
Kotaku
Oh, no. Grandpa. That look in your eyes. That clenched grimace. That loose, delicate grip on your controller's joysticks, as if you aren't really playing anything at all. Grandma told me not to lend you my copy of Final Fantasy VII.

New video games: 5/14 edition
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
I'm not sure why good games tend to cluster around the same dates. My wallet is only so big, here! Spread the love around a little! Have fun deciding between the new Diablo, the new Max Payne and the brand new Game of Thrones game.

Millionaire Gamer Offers Pitching Advice for Major League Baseball 2K12
GamerLive.TV
2K Sports has crowned its third millionaire in three years, although this time the winner had to go head-to-head in a live eight-man competition to take home the giant check. Christopher Gilmore was the last man standing in this year's Major League ...

Can We Interrupt This Video Game For A Studio Update?
Deadspin
Sports video games are often thrust into no-win positions by their communities, who complain that every upgrade to presentation means some pet peeve in the gameplay has gone unaddressed. While development choices have to be made, it's not the zero-sum ...

New This Week in Video Games
Attack of the Fanboy
Diablo III - PC, Mac - Diablo III is a fantasy Action Role-Playing Game (RPG). Only the third major release in what is considered by many gamers as the most iconic RPG franchise of all time, Diablo 3 continues the land of Sanctuary's battle against a ...

Attack of the Fanboy

Kid's Ode to Classic Video Games with 30000 Dominoes
First Coast News
While the set up is qui http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/1638574647001/1/Kids-Ode-to-Classic-Video-Games-with-30000-Dominoes http://cdn.newslook.com/e0/e03cdfd1e75c72d0756c2925f66316da/images/frame_0003.jpg Kid's Ode to Classic Video Games with ...

Game On! Beyonce's $100 Mil Lawsuit Could Go To Trial
PerezHilton.com
Or at least that's what the video game developers suing Beyoncé for $100 million dollars are arguing!! They claim she backed out of a contract she had already agreed to and, as a result, they were forced to lay off 70 employees.

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Video Game High School is like Glee… but with less singing and more shooting ...
Warp Zoned
Welcome to “Video Game High School,” where instead of math and history and science, you learn important subjects like off-road drifting, the correct way to perform a hadoken, and how best to shoot your classmates in the face. Needless to say, this new ...

With the Galaxy in Flames, My Video Game Hero Finally Came out of the Closet
Kotaku
I got my idea to play the sci-fi epic Mass Effect 3 as a closeted male version of the lead character, Commander Shepard, before the game's creators said the third game in the three-game saga would finally include male same-sex romance.

The Amazing Spider-Man Preview [Video Games]
Gstyle magazine
by Angelina Montanez | May 14, 2012 | Gaming Marvel Entertainment, LLC announce The Amazing Spider-Man video game, planned to launch summer 2012 tied to Sony Picture Entertainment's upcoming feature film of the same name. Created as an epilogue story ...

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Judge Allows $100 Million Beyonce Video Game Lawsuit to Go To Trial
Fuse
After Beyoncé allegedly pulled out of a $20 million video game deal last December, the attached developer filed suit against her and her management asking for a whopping $100 million in damages. Now it looks like Beyoncé might have to take the stand, ...

Fuse

CVG's E3 2012 Awards: Voting now open!
Computerandvideogames.com
By CVG Staff for computerandvideogames.com E3 2012, one of the biggest shows in video games history, is set to arrive in three weeks' time. As always, the monster Los Angeles event will almost certainly throw up unforeseen shocks, head-spinning ...

Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth Preview [Video Game]
Gstyle magazine
by Angelina Montanez | May 14, 2012 | Gaming Ubisoft announced a deal with Marvel Entertainment, LLC to develop a video game based on the popular Avengers characters and other heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe. Developed by Ubisoft Quebec, ...

Student inspires to create video games
Ultimate Pearland
FAVORITE THINGS TO DO AFTER CLASS: “I like to sit down and relax by playing video games.” FAVORITE BOOK “ 'Game Design Secrets of the Sages.' Even though this book is a little dated, being released in 2000, it still provides great information on how to ...

Local arm of video game retailer Game now placed in administration
SmartCompany.com.au
The local arm of British video game retailer Game has been placed in administration, weeks after the European division of the company was rescued by a private equity company. It is understood the local arm had been searching for a buyer after its ...

Video games in class are beneficial - teacher
TVNZ
A large majority of students are missing out on learning in the classroom by not playing video games, a teacher says. Educational video game advocate Edwin McRae told TV ONE's Breakfast today that video games can encourage maximum student engagement in ...

New Video Game Releases List for 5/14 on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, PS Vita, Wii!
HawtWired (blog)
The video game release highlights for the week of May 14, 2012 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, 3DS, and PC/Mac include Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Game of Thrones, Mario Tennis Open, Battleship, ...

Video Game retailer GAME has gone into Administration
iTech Report
Given that the release of Diablo III is tomorrow, there will be a few nervous gamers seeing if their pre-orders of the long awaited fantasy game from Blizzard. Price Waterhouse Coopers has been appoint Voluntary Administrators (under the names of ...

See Live Action Recreations Of Video Game Kills
Co.Create
In "Art of the Instakill," CGI house Corridor Digital depicts ultraviolent finishing moves from familiar video games with flesh-and-blood actors. While the debate rages on about whether kids might become desensitized by video game violence, ...

New 'Game Of Thrones' Video Game Preview Goes 'Behind The Wall'
Geeks of Doom
For those who aren't aware, a video game set in author George RR Martin's “A Song of Ice and Fire” world of Westeros has been in the making for a long, long time now. In fact, when development on the game began, the hit HBO TV series was merely a rumor ...

Geeks of Doom

Domino tribute to classic video games
Sun-Sentinel
Indonesia rescue workers are searching for the black box that was on board a Rus... Indonesia rescue workers are searching for the black box that was on board a Russian passenger jet that crashed in West Java last week. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 was on a ...

Catch the first episode of Video Game High School -Destructoid
By Tony Ponce
Split into nine parts, the full film is two hours long and follows the journey of BrianD, an amateur FPS player who gets invited to the prestigious Video Game High School after taking out the bestgamer on the planet during a match. Over the course of the series, we'll see a bunch of special effects wizardry, a goofy .... So the term "Video Games" does in fact mean shooting people in a war for points is fun. Video Games are just a thing about 'winning' and 'being really good'. The highest ...
Destructoid

Carnal0wnage & Attack Research Blog: From LOW to PWNED [8 ...
By CG
From LOW to PWNED [8] Honorable Mention: Log File Injection. Post [8] Honorable Mention: Log File Injection So this didn't make it into the talk, but was in the hidden slides... not positive this is a "low" but a friend suggested it, so here you go.
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Video Games: Who Would Want to Mess That Up? - Memebase ...
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VIDEO GAMES: TOMB RAIDER Pushed Back To Early 2013
VIDEO GAMES: TOMB RAIDER Pushed Back To Early 2013. The upcoming video game reboot was originally slated to be released later this year, but it's been announced that Lara Croft's return will be delayed to the first quarter of 2013. Plus ...
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The Gamer's Alphabet - Video Games - Memes, Captions, and ...
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video game memes - The Gamer's Alphabet. ... Video Games - memes, game lols, captions,. I Can Has Cheezburger? FAIL Blog · Memebase · The Daily What · Know Your Meme · LOLmart · All Sites » · Memebase · Demotivate · Photobombs ...
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And You Call Yourself a Gamer - Go Cry Emo Kid - Emo Lols ...
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Violent Video Games Linked to Brain Changes | FYI BeHealthy
30, 2011 (Chicago) — Playing violent video games might produce temporary changes in areas of the brain that help control emotion, preliminary research suggests. Brain scans showed that 11 young men who shot at video game characters ...
FYI BeHealthy

Gamer Tries to Break Longest Gaming Record « The Electric ...
By admin
A gamer who goes by the name of “Hzrd” is going to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for longest gaming marathon tomorrow, May 15, by playing Diablo III for 120 hours. He only (only!?!) needs 109 hours to break the record, but ...
The Electric Playground

Mike Coffman: Video game makers react faster than Obama ...
By Editor
Rare earths crisis debuts on 'Call of Duty' before administration has a plan. Rare earths – 17 minerals whose production is almost completely dominated by the Chinese and are essential in renewable energy products and advanced weapons ...
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ConservaTibbs: Video games - too expensive to survive?
By Scott Tibbs
I have read several interesting articles on the price of video games, especially relating to how the casual game market has harmed the more traditional market. (See here, here and here.) I predicted games for the next wave of consoles would ...
ConservaTibbs

Max Payne 3 System Requirements For Your PC Specs
By Ferry
Video Games Blogger Logo · Max Payne 3 PC Screenshot Max Payne 3 System Requirements For Your PC Specs · Xbox 360 Dominates Console Sales (Nerdy News) · Max Payne 3 Artwork Max Payne 3 Launch Trailer · Hyperdimension ...
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Video Game Alphabet Poster Tests Your Gaming Knowledge - News ...
By Jesse Bartel
2012-05-14T08:30:27-0700. I don't know that it's really awesome or really sad that I was able to go through the entire poster and name every video game related item. I am going to say that's it's really awesome because I write for GameTyrant, ...
GameTyrant

Impromptu breakdancing…to video game music? - O Say Can You ...
On the opening weekend of The Art of Video Games at the Smithsonian ...hip- hop music on ...
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Research: Active Play Video Games May Benefit Children with ...
But researchers say that video games such as those found on Nintendo's Wii can ... during active video game play with the kinds of games that require full body ...
gamepolitics.com/.../research-active-play-video-games-may-be...

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