Rhode Island bets $75M on Video Games!

RI's $75M bet on Curt Schilling's video game vision raising questions with ...
Washington Post
“In general, there isn'ta lot of money coming into the video game space,” said Creutz. Indeed, the agreement between the state and 38 Studios acknowledged that “the business of producing and distributing proprietary video games is highly speculative ...

How RI plunged into the video game business
The Providence Journal
The risk: that 38 Studios still fails, and then the state loses the rights it now possesses to the company's intellectual property, including its massive fantasy video game under development, code-named Project Copernicus. "We're still evaluating that, ...

Curt Schilling's Video Game Debacle Can Serve as Cautionary Tale for Retired ...
NESN.com
s decision to offer a $75 million loan guarantee to bring the former pitcher's 38 Studios video game company to Providence. Lawmakers certainly envisioned Schilling making good on his promise to provide the state with jobs and millions of dollars in ...

Austin Community College's video game program grows into key feeder for industry
Austin American-Statesman
Austin Community College students presented their end-of-year video gamedevelopment projects this month at the Northridge campus in North Austin as part of the college's Game Development Institute. Ralph Barrera/American-Statesman Austin Community ...

Austin American-Statesman

Video game company recruiting in RI
Providence Eyewitness News
By Katy Fitzpatrick PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) - Turbine, Inc., New England's largest creator and operator of video games, will hold a recruiting event in Providence on Tuesday, May 22, to fill over 50 jobs in the Needham, MA office.

Parents Find Children With Autism Benefit From Video Games
The Ledger
Chase is diagnosed as autistic, and his mom has noticed some benefits from Chase playingvideo games. By VANESSA HORNEDO "I'm about to beat the bad guy, I can't stop playing now!" We've all dealt with the strife of trying to convince a child it's time ...

Etrian Odyssey IV: Now with hot air balloons
Computerandvideogames.com
But there's a reason we have "every extremity crossed tight" (trademarked, Nintendo Gamerissue 74) for a UK release. That reason? It's as compelling as it is complex. So, it's Etrian as we know it: dungeon crawling, dungeon mapping and dungeon dying, ...

Preserving video games in the digital age
The Verge
By Andrew Webster on May 20, 2012 04:36 am 19Comments Digital preservation is an issue for just about every medium — from film and literature to the web itself — and video games are no different. And when it comes to keeping the Super Nintendo alive, ...

Video Game Covers….Very Big Deal!!!!
Pens Labyrinth
A Conn Smythe, a Calder trophy, Stanley Cup, 2 Art Ross Trophies, a possible Hart Trophy, and a chance to be on the NHL 13 video game cover. Evgeni Malkin has a chance to get his Russian mug on the NHL 13 cover after beating Scott Hartnell in a fan ...

Pens Labyrinth

10 Ways to Make NHL 13 the Best Hockey Video Game Ever
Bleacher Report
Are you one of the very many people who paid top dollar for NHL 12 and who were completely dissatisfied with it? Whether you own an XBox 360 or Playstation 3, were improved graphics, gimmicks like broken glass and NHL legends that didn't even include ...

Bleacher Report

The Success of Diablo III
GoozerNation (blog)
Speaking of PC gamers, I know for a fact several of my close gamer friends as well as many others upgraded their gaming rigs just to play D3. Some of us who were strictly console gamers may have crossed over. I built a new PC last fall that will play ...

GoozerNation (blog)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Video Game Achievements unlocked
Comic Book Movie
the Seven Web Heads over at youtube have just uploaded this it looks quite good. DISCLAIMER: This article was submitted by a volunteer contributor who has agreed to our code of conduct. ComicBookMovie.com is protected from liability under "safe harbor" ...

Comic Book Movie

6 Anticipated Video Games That Are Still Missing In Action
WhatCulture!
Long before Duke Nuken Forever became the embarrassing drunken uncle at the wedding, it gestated in the neverlands of Development Hell, establishing itself as the Chinese Democracy of videogames for the current generation. Sure, most of us suspected ...

WhatCulture!

HDGamerz.com, New Site Bringing Top Games to All
Houston Chronicle
HDGamerz.com will launch in May of 2012 and promises to change the face of online video games for PC and Mobile. The platform is currently being beta tested and is slated for official release at the end of May , 2012. HDGamerz.com is a new site ...

OVPlay Will Launch in May With Just Under 2000 Games
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
... online video games for PC and Mobile. The site is currently undergoing rigorous testing and will launch by the end of May 2012. Miami, Florida (PRWEB) May 20, 2012 OVPlay.com will attempt to change the video game industry in 2012 with its launch.

Playing video game helps stroke victims recover
MSN NZ News
Researchers from Newcastle University worked with a game studio to come up with Circus Challenge, a video game that encourages patients to gradually regain the use of their arm or hand by spinning plates, taming lions or juggling.

MSN NZ News

Diablo Gold Secrets Unveils Powerful Gold Making Techniques that Made the ...
Albany Times Union
Diablo 3 was launched only five days ago, and yet the powerful Diablo Gold Secrets guide has made the first millionaire gamer in that time – a player whose character now owns a million gold, harvested in less than a week. These incredible results are ...

Fat-Game.com ready to launch this May after acquiring licenses for over a ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Fat-Game.com will launch in May of 2012 and plans to transform the face of online video gamesacross all devices. The site is currently being tested and will launch by the end of May 2012. (PRWEB) May 20, 2012 Fat-Game.com is a new site scheduled to ...

NCAA Lacrosse Video Game
Operation Sports (blog)
Could a lacrosse video game capitalize on that? I think it's possible. Could EA Sports use a lot of the elements of the FIFA game as a starting point to design the game? Thoughts? This entry has not received any comments yet.

London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games Two Trailers
Gamers Hell
SEGA has released a couple of fresh videos for London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games, the officially licensed video game of the London 2012 Olympic Games set to be available on June 26, 2012, for Windows PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

M3Play Will Launch May 2012 to Bring High Performance Games to All Users ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
M3Play.com, one of the Internet's premier video game publishers, is proud to announce the launch of their new site. The site is currently being tested and will launch by the end of May 2012. Houston, Texas (PRWEB) May 20, 2012 M3Play.com is a new site ...

The Walking Dead [Review]
Shogun Gamer
In the same way that the concept of a human drama back-lit by the zombie apocalypse might confuse/bore people jumping into a series (who were likely expecting more action/slaughter) it's hard to describe what exactly makes Telltale's video game ...

Bob-Game.com: Best of the Best Games on One Site Coming May 2012
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Bob-Game.com is a new video game portal launching May of 2012, it aims to offer over 1600 games to the masses in an easy and quick delivery system. The site is currently undergoing rigorous testing and will launch by the end of May 2012.

Catching Up With Community's Yvette Nicole Brown
Paste Magazine
Thursday's three-episode final night for cult-favorite Community took us into a video game, through a fascist regime and ended with a poignant montage that included a nod to fans with one final hashtag. We know NBC will bring back the quirky comedy for ...

Amarista's big night leads Padres past Angels 3-2
KFMB News 8
Rhode Island's gamble on former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company is prompting questions from lawmakers about the wisdom of giving an untested company so much help. Rhode Island's gamble on former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's ...

"Mario Tennis Open" opens on the Nintendo 3DS
ABC News
Electronic tennis dates as far back as video games themselves, starting with "Pong" on the Atari 5000 back in 1972. So how has the electronic sport changed in 40 years? Nintendo has been here before, on the Virtual Boy back in 1995.

ABC News

Privilege, the Video Game: Version 1.1 — The Good Men Project
By HeatherN
In this case, the video game metaphor is meant to provide a very basic framework to help explain social privilege. I certainly do not think that a video game can really simulate real life, but hopefully video games can provide a useful (if simple) ...
The Good Men Project

Stop Slowing Time Down Max! - Video Games - Memes, Captions ...

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video game memes - Stop Slowing Time Down Max! ... Video Games - memes, game lols, captions,. I Can Has Cheezburger? FAIL Blog · Memebase · The Daily What ... Create or find a funny Video Game Meme? Make sure to submit it here!
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Top 5 Rockin' Soundtracks in Video Games | Gamester 81
By Razor
Video Games are a form of art and as such they need a soundtrack which portrays the style of gameplay, in this list I've compiled my Top 5 Rockin' soundtracks in video games (rock/metal.) I'll be making more lists in the future that focus on ...
Gamester 81

The 5 Worst Marketing Failures in the History of Video Games ...
The 5 Worst Marketing Failures in the History of Video Games. By: Seanbaby. May 20, 2012. Add to Favorites ... And now that Sega had pissed off every retail outlet except four, and every video game developer except themselves, it wasn't looking good for the Saturn. The Sony PlayStation cost $100 less and ... This is screenwriter/PC Gamer editor Gary Whitta and research analyst Michael Pachter discussing terrible moments in E3 history. Jamie joined the conversation by telling them ...
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RI's $75M bet on Curt Schilling's video game vision raising ...
By Newsroom
"In general, there isn't a lot of money coming into the video game space," said Creutz. Indeed, the agreement between the state and 38 Studios acknowledged that "the business of producing and distributing proprietary video games is highly ...
WRHI.com

The Gametwerp Podcast Episode 138 - "Max ... - Front Towards Gamer
By Tony "ChaingunPope" Wilson
The Gametwerp Podcast – everything and anything video game. [Intro Music: "We ... Friend of the Site. Attack of the Fanboy; Kramer's Gamers; Legion of Honor; My Top Trailer; One of Swords; Proven Gamer; Splitkick.com; Unity Gaming Clan ...
Front Towards Gamer

Preserving video games in the digital age – Know All That!
By Andrew Webster
Digital preservation is an issue for just about every medium — from film and literature to the web itself — and video games are no different. And when it comes to keeping the Super Nintendo alive, Byuu is one of the most prominent figures ...
Know All That!

Free Gamer - Open Source Games: Good FOSS 3D action RPGs ...
By Julius
Today I got a small rant: So there are a few really prominent types of games which ought to have their FOSS representatives, right? Ok, well a few like epic story driven single-player games will probably never show up due to inherent problems ...
Free Gamer - Open Source Games

Thinking like a true gamer : gaming
A subreddit for anything related to games (but not sports). "Related" means that posts must contain gaming-related content in the link/post body, not just a ...
www.reddit.com/r/gaming/.../thinking_like_a_true_gamer/

Photographs of video games acted out in the real world
Patrick Runte's photographs don't just imagine what old video games might look like in the real world — with blocky characters translated into three dimensions.
io9.com/.../photographs-of-video-games-acted-out-in-the-real-...

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games by Anita Sarkeesian — Kickstarter
Women in Video Games on Kickstarter! ... As a gamer, a pop culture critic and a fan, I'm always working to balance my enjoyment of ... A 30 minute Skype conversation/analysis of a video gameof your choosing (some restrictions *may* apply).
www.kickstarter.com/.../tropes-vs-women-in-video-games

PWNED #23 | Crysis 3, UEFA EURO 2012 Dead Ball Tips And The ...
Crysis 3, UEFA EURO 2012 Dead Ball Tips And The Secret World | PWNED#23. EA Video ...
www.ea.com/.../uefa-euro-2012-tips-crysis-3-secret-world-pw...

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