TIME
By Erik Hayden | @Erik_Hayden | April 30, 2012 | + A video game about a 19th-century philosopher living in a shack, where there's only one character and nothing happens? Sign us up! Yes, the knee-jerk reaction to the idea of a role-playing videogame ...
TIME
Alienware debuts three Ivy Bridge gamer laptops
VentureBeat
Alienware, a division of Dell, just announced three new gamer laptops that use the Intel code-named Ivy Bridge processors. The M14x (pictured above), M17x, and M18x laptops also use stand-alone graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
VentureBeat
Video Games and the Soul of the Machine
Huffington Post (blog)
In part because we enter into it with what is, really, another machine: the video game system. Since "Frankenstein," our culture has been in conversation about whether we can create something with a soul. Did Frankenstein's monster have a soul?
Social Media And Video Games In Classrooms Can Yield Valuable Data For Teachers
Huffington Post
Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly important roles in classrooms across the country. Some worry that incorporating more social media and other technologies into education is leading to too much computer time, ...
Violent Video Games Improve Real Shooting Accuracy
LiveScience.com
Playing violent shoot-'em-up video games makes people more accurate at firing real guns, and make them more likely to aim for the head, a new study finds. Just 20 minutes of video gamepractice does the trick. To test the effect, the participants ...
Miami-Dade to launch new video game-themed magnet
MiamiHerald.com
At the iTech Academy at Miami Springs Senior High, students can learn how to design and program video games. Educators say that coaches students to solve problems and also prepares them to work in growing industry. It will be the firstvideo ...
MiamiHerald.com
Video game arcade moves to Cincinnati Mall
Middletown Journal
By Eric Schwartzberg, Staff Writer Updated 11:36 AM Monday, April 30, 2012 FAIRFIELD — A business that recently joined Cincinnati Mall's entertainment revamping offers video gaming systems from Atari to Xbox and video games from Asteroids to Rock Band ...
Gambitious Actually Promotes Gamer Entitlement
Cinema Blend
So there's a new kid coming to the block of crowd-source funding, only this time the new kid on the block isn't about crowd-sourcing movies, music, art, etc,. it's all about video games. The service is called Gambitious. The company running the service ...
Cinema Blend
Video Game Designed To Treat Depression Yields Surprising Results
RipTen
Depression is a serious condition that affects millions of people, but new research has found an interesting way that depression might be treated with a non-traditional method; video games. In a recent study conducted by the University of Auckland in ...
Blogging Video Game Conquers Worldwide Audience
Examiner.com
Mindpoint Software Technology has launched the beta release of a content driven video gam ethat encourages other quality website authors to write about your content and provide you with backlinks. As a site owner you are probably well aware that ...
Fake Gamer of the Week: Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother's DS
Kotaku
Oh, Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother's DS. I'm so sorry this happened to you. On behalf of brothers everywhere, I apologize. When your big brother got a 3DS, you were so excited to inherit his old DS that you didn't even think about ...
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition promotes healthy lifestyles ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), and leaders from the US video game industry today launched the Active Play Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA+) Challenge to highlight active video games as one way to ...
Connecting the video game world and the dream world
Williston Daily Herald
Apparently people who play video games are more likely to be able to control their dreams. In a 2010 story by LiveScience, Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, said “gamers are used to controlling their game ...
Play Google Cube: the Google Maps video game
Digitaltrends.com
If you think navigating with the app can be a bit of a challenge, wait until you sample Google Cube, a video game inspired by the company's maps app. The game is simple: Using the cursor, the user guides the blue location ball to a specific location ...
Video games now a teaching tool in Australian classrooms
Herald Sun
VIDEO games could replace blackboards as parents and teachers increasingly turn to gaming to teach kids. Seven of 10 Aussie parents see games as an educational tool, a Digital Australia report says. The number of parents playing games with their ...
Video game reviews: 'Ridge Racer Unbounded' and 'Armored Core V'
NorthJersey.com
BY CHRIS CAMPBELL I love tapas – you know, small plates of little bites that take one on a journey of culinary delights. I thought of this often during my play of "Unbounded." Although it's a racing game in the "put a label on it" sense, ...
NorthJersey.com
'Walden: The Game,' a video game about Walden Pond
Death and Taxes
By Carmel Lobello 38 mins ago “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau's classic book about self reliance from the years he lived immersed in nature, sounds like about the last source video game creators would look to for inspiration.
Miami-Dade County Public School System Prepares Video Game Magnate School
Game Politics
Miami-Dade County, Florida public schools are preparing to launch the first-of-its-kind magnate school that focuses on video games this fall, according to the Miami Herald. Dubbed the iTech Academy at Miami Springs Senior High, students will be able to ...
Play: Wavves' Weed Demon video game
Consequence of Sound
By Chris Coplan on April 30th, 2012 in News There are a few things all stoners love: snack foods, bean bag chairs, and video games. But since Halo or Call of Duty have no genuine connotations to most stoners' existence, their de facto leader, ...
Video(game) Killed the Radio Star: EMI Sues Def Jam Over Video Game's ...
American University Intellectual Property Brief
Music giant EMI filed a lawsuit in New York federal court in late March alleging substantial damages from the unlicensed use of songs in Def Jam's new video game, Def Jam Rapstar. According to The Hollywood Reporter, EMI notified the gamemakers about ...
Best Buy: Buy 2 used video games, get a 3rd for free + free shipping
CNET
At Best Buy, buy twoused video games and get a thirdused video game (of equal or lesser value) for free. (The discount will apply automatically in-cart when you add three eligible games.) With free shipping, that's tied with our mention from three ...
When Did Video Game Characters Start Looking This Damn Good?
Kotaku
The correct answer, as EVE Online players already know, is last year, when an expansion to the game brought about avatars that must surely be the envy of every other video game involving human characters on the planet. The lighting helps, especially ...
New This Week in Video Games
Attack of the Fanboy
By Bill Hess on Apr 30, 2012 Tera - PC - TERA takes the fight beyond whack-a-mole monotony with enhanced aiming, dodging, and tactical timing to create intense and rewarding combat. Unlike other MMOs, you can use your controller or keyboard and mouse ...
Attack of the Fanboy
The Walking Dead Video Game Now Available (PS3, XBox 360, PC)
Cosmic Book News - Comics
I'm not a gamer, but the controls are new to me. You walk with one of the sticks and use the other stick for your actions. And what's cool about the game is you choose how your story proceeds and how you interact with other people.
Let's Take a Tour of America's Most Epic Video Game Company
Kotaku
There isn't much in the lobby of the Cary, North Carolina office that would hint that this was the birthplace of an entire generation of video games; I suppose that's to keep the riffraff out, a security measure I bypassed thanks to Epic's Dana Cowley, ...
London 2012: The Video Game — Gymnastics Coaching.com
By coach Rick
If you failed to get tickets for the Olympics, why not take part? The London 2012 video game from Sega is due for release on 26 June, for XBox, Playstation 3 and PC. You'll be able to play over 30 different events, including highlights from track ...
Gymnastics Coaching.com
VentureBeat
Alienware, a division of Dell, just announced three new gamer laptops that use the Intel code-named Ivy Bridge processors. The M14x (pictured above), M17x, and M18x laptops also use stand-alone graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
VentureBeat
Video Games and the Soul of the Machine
Huffington Post (blog)
In part because we enter into it with what is, really, another machine: the video game system. Since "Frankenstein," our culture has been in conversation about whether we can create something with a soul. Did Frankenstein's monster have a soul?
Social Media And Video Games In Classrooms Can Yield Valuable Data For Teachers
Huffington Post
Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly important roles in classrooms across the country. Some worry that incorporating more social media and other technologies into education is leading to too much computer time, ...
Violent Video Games Improve Real Shooting Accuracy
LiveScience.com
Playing violent shoot-'em-up video games makes people more accurate at firing real guns, and make them more likely to aim for the head, a new study finds. Just 20 minutes of video gamepractice does the trick. To test the effect, the participants ...
Miami-Dade to launch new video game-themed magnet
MiamiHerald.com
At the iTech Academy at Miami Springs Senior High, students can learn how to design and program video games. Educators say that coaches students to solve problems and also prepares them to work in growing industry. It will be the firstvideo ...
MiamiHerald.com
Video game arcade moves to Cincinnati Mall
Middletown Journal
By Eric Schwartzberg, Staff Writer Updated 11:36 AM Monday, April 30, 2012 FAIRFIELD — A business that recently joined Cincinnati Mall's entertainment revamping offers video gaming systems from Atari to Xbox and video games from Asteroids to Rock Band ...
Gambitious Actually Promotes Gamer Entitlement
Cinema Blend
So there's a new kid coming to the block of crowd-source funding, only this time the new kid on the block isn't about crowd-sourcing movies, music, art, etc,. it's all about video games. The service is called Gambitious. The company running the service ...
Cinema Blend
Video Game Designed To Treat Depression Yields Surprising Results
RipTen
Depression is a serious condition that affects millions of people, but new research has found an interesting way that depression might be treated with a non-traditional method; video games. In a recent study conducted by the University of Auckland in ...
Blogging Video Game Conquers Worldwide Audience
Examiner.com
Mindpoint Software Technology has launched the beta release of a content driven video gam ethat encourages other quality website authors to write about your content and provide you with backlinks. As a site owner you are probably well aware that ...
Fake Gamer of the Week: Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother's DS
Kotaku
Oh, Little Girl Who Just Found Porn On Her Brother's DS. I'm so sorry this happened to you. On behalf of brothers everywhere, I apologize. When your big brother got a 3DS, you were so excited to inherit his old DS that you didn't even think about ...
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition promotes healthy lifestyles ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), and leaders from the US video game industry today launched the Active Play Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA+) Challenge to highlight active video games as one way to ...
Connecting the video game world and the dream world
Williston Daily Herald
Apparently people who play video games are more likely to be able to control their dreams. In a 2010 story by LiveScience, Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, said “gamers are used to controlling their game ...
Play Google Cube: the Google Maps video game
Digitaltrends.com
If you think navigating with the app can be a bit of a challenge, wait until you sample Google Cube, a video game inspired by the company's maps app. The game is simple: Using the cursor, the user guides the blue location ball to a specific location ...
Video games now a teaching tool in Australian classrooms
Herald Sun
VIDEO games could replace blackboards as parents and teachers increasingly turn to gaming to teach kids. Seven of 10 Aussie parents see games as an educational tool, a Digital Australia report says. The number of parents playing games with their ...
Video game reviews: 'Ridge Racer Unbounded' and 'Armored Core V'
NorthJersey.com
BY CHRIS CAMPBELL I love tapas – you know, small plates of little bites that take one on a journey of culinary delights. I thought of this often during my play of "Unbounded." Although it's a racing game in the "put a label on it" sense, ...
NorthJersey.com
'Walden: The Game,' a video game about Walden Pond
Death and Taxes
By Carmel Lobello 38 mins ago “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau's classic book about self reliance from the years he lived immersed in nature, sounds like about the last source video game creators would look to for inspiration.
Miami-Dade County Public School System Prepares Video Game Magnate School
Game Politics
Miami-Dade County, Florida public schools are preparing to launch the first-of-its-kind magnate school that focuses on video games this fall, according to the Miami Herald. Dubbed the iTech Academy at Miami Springs Senior High, students will be able to ...
Play: Wavves' Weed Demon video game
Consequence of Sound
By Chris Coplan on April 30th, 2012 in News There are a few things all stoners love: snack foods, bean bag chairs, and video games. But since Halo or Call of Duty have no genuine connotations to most stoners' existence, their de facto leader, ...
Video(game) Killed the Radio Star: EMI Sues Def Jam Over Video Game's ...
American University Intellectual Property Brief
Music giant EMI filed a lawsuit in New York federal court in late March alleging substantial damages from the unlicensed use of songs in Def Jam's new video game, Def Jam Rapstar. According to The Hollywood Reporter, EMI notified the gamemakers about ...
Best Buy: Buy 2 used video games, get a 3rd for free + free shipping
CNET
At Best Buy, buy twoused video games and get a thirdused video game (of equal or lesser value) for free. (The discount will apply automatically in-cart when you add three eligible games.) With free shipping, that's tied with our mention from three ...
When Did Video Game Characters Start Looking This Damn Good?
Kotaku
The correct answer, as EVE Online players already know, is last year, when an expansion to the game brought about avatars that must surely be the envy of every other video game involving human characters on the planet. The lighting helps, especially ...
New This Week in Video Games
Attack of the Fanboy
By Bill Hess on Apr 30, 2012 Tera - PC - TERA takes the fight beyond whack-a-mole monotony with enhanced aiming, dodging, and tactical timing to create intense and rewarding combat. Unlike other MMOs, you can use your controller or keyboard and mouse ...
Attack of the Fanboy
The Walking Dead Video Game Now Available (PS3, XBox 360, PC)
Cosmic Book News - Comics
I'm not a gamer, but the controls are new to me. You walk with one of the sticks and use the other stick for your actions. And what's cool about the game is you choose how your story proceeds and how you interact with other people.
Let's Take a Tour of America's Most Epic Video Game Company
Kotaku
There isn't much in the lobby of the Cary, North Carolina office that would hint that this was the birthplace of an entire generation of video games; I suppose that's to keep the riffraff out, a security measure I bypassed thanks to Epic's Dana Cowley, ...
London 2012: The Video Game — Gymnastics Coaching.com
By coach Rick
If you failed to get tickets for the Olympics, why not take part? The London 2012 video game from Sega is due for release on 26 June, for XBox, Playstation 3 and PC. You'll be able to play over 30 different events, including highlights from track ...
Gymnastics Coaching.com
Video Games And The Age Of Convenience | Kotaku Australia
By Mark Serrels
... Dad dusts off a vinyl record. Gently he unsheathes it from its sleeve. I sift through old video game boxes and smile. But there will be a time when. ... And this is a mentality that has filtered through to the way we now consume video games. I consider myself a 'gamer', whatever that means nowadays. I play a lot of video games. But still, I find myself reaching for convenience over quality. I wonder what that means… It means that my PlayStation Vita remains untouched, while I play $0.99 ...
Kotaku Australia
Who Says Video Games Don't Teach You Anything? - Video Games ...
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Wavves Star in Weed-Themed Video Game
By Drake Baer
Always game for going green, noise pop thrashers Wavves have done the ultimate in extended adolesence: they're now starring in their very own weed-themed video game. Choose either frontman Nathan Williams (on bike) or bassist ...
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Nano Patents and Innovations: The 8 Most Gruesome Video Games ...
By Alton Parrish
Long gone are the days of nonviolent video games where the object of the game isn't to kill as many people as you can. Thanks to the advancements in video game technology and design, the games have only gotten gorier year after year.
Nano Patents and Innovations
Play Wavves' 'Paper Boy' inspired video game, 'Weed Demon' by ...
By The 405
Nathan Williams of Wavves fame has teamed up with Vice and Mishka to put together a video game called 'Weed Demon', which you can play by clicking here. "It's like Paper Boy but you deliver drugs and you feed a monster meth at the end.
The 405
Boost Your Brain With a Video Game : Healthymagination
By Beth Levine
Can playing multiplayer online role-playing video games boost some parts of cognitive function as we age? An intriguing new study from the Gains Through Gaming Laboratory at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, says yes, especially ...
Healthymagination
The Interrobang - The Good Old Days of Video Games: Objective ...
By The Interrobang Editor
The Good Old Days of Video Games: Objective!? Go Right. Apr 29, 2012. Before the time of open ended worlds where you didn't even have to further the storyline of a video game to play it, there was one objective: Go Right. No matter the evil ...
The Interrobang
Video games can teach how to shoot guns more accurately and aim ...
By Ohio State University
Players who used a pistol-shaped controller in a shooting video game with human targets had 99 percent more completed head shots to the mannequin than did participants who played othervideo games, as well as 33 percent more shots ...
PsyPost
Action Video Games Improve Attention, Study Says
By Chris Curley
Letting your children have a little “Call of Duty time” might not be such a bad thing, a new study suggests. After an hour or two of playing shooter-based action video games, kids improve their visual attention compared to those who play puzzle ...
Well-Being Wire by MeYou Health
By Chris Curley
Letting your children have a little “Call of Duty time” might not be such a bad thing, a new study suggests. After an hour or two of playing shooter-based action video games, kids improve their visual attention compared to those who play puzzle ...
Well-Being Wire by MeYou Health
Flight Simulation Software program Video Game Evaluation
By Phil
Let us realize what a flight simulation computer software is then we'll get to know what exactly has been point of interest of flight enthusiasts for years. Flight simulator reviews are a extensive analysis of various computer software applications ...
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Gaming Nexus - What if there was a video game IP draft? - Article ...
What if the video games industry was more like professional sports? Think about it; what if our favorite video game series and characters were able to be traded or drafted from one company to another? Imagine if Mario was playing for the ...
Gaming Nexus
ScrewAttack Video Game, Video Game Vault: Mario Golf 64 | Video ...
Watch the ScrewAttack Video Game Vault: Mario Golf 64 online at GameTrailers. com. Post comments online about ScrewAttack on the Game Trailers website.
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5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders - Games ...
Continue to 5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders - Games .... like the music industry, success can be a hard thing to come by in video games.
games.ign.com/articles/122/1223981p1.html
Nice gamer ahoy!!! : 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 ...
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Ron Paul, Video Game Action Hero - Yahoo! News
Paul is about to become a video game action hero. ... Williams, besides designing politically based video games, runs a Ron Paul related merchandising site ...
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