Video-game review: 'Botanicula'

Video-game review: 'Botanicula'
Kansas City Star
By BILLY O'KEEFE Every sight, song and expressive peep is a treat to see, hear, witness and bring to life in "Botanicula," and for a game that caters to curiosity fulfillment above all else, there's no higher praise. Skeletally, "Botanicula" is a ...

Lenovo-backed Firm Sidesteps Hardcore Gamers, With Chinese Video Game System
PCWorld
By Michael Kan, IDG News The Lenovo-backed company behind China's newest homegrown video game system is aiming for product sales to reach hundreds of thousands of units over the next fiscal year ending in March, as it tries to build consumer interest ...

Video Game's Most-Celebrated Sex Comedy Is Coming Back, With a New Asian Girl
Kotaku
"What do you call a redneck with a pig under one arm and a sheep under the other arm? Al Lowe likes telling jokes, many of them dirty. Back in 1987 he created Leisure Suit Larry, an adventure game about a loser who tries to score with hot women.

VIDEO GAMES: ELDER SCROLLS Online Announced In Bethesda Press Release
Comic Book Movie
Skyrim earned hundreds of 'Game of the Year' awards, including top honors at the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards, the 15th Annual 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards held at the 2012 DICE Summit, and at the 2011 Video Game Awards.

VIDEO GAMES: "Halo 4" Gets A Web Series!
Comic Book Movie
Microsoft announces tie-in series for the franchise continuation. Hit the jump to find out more! In order to tie-in with the next step of their uber profitable game series "Halo", Microsoft has just announced that it will be producing a live action web ...

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Video Game Review: Fez
California Literary Review
by Adam Robert Thomas What must it be like to be a 2D being? How do you perceive of a world without depth? What is the experience of it all? It's an idea that (as far as I know) was only explored once in literature. In the novella Flatland by Edwin ...

California Literary Review

Kim Kardashian Switching Fashion for Video Games for Kanye?
Gather Celebs News Channel
On Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim was never seen playing video games with Lamar Odom and Rob Kardashian. Instead, she was doing her makeup, sharing gossip with her sisters and doing business with her mother. But it seems like things are changing.

'Kinect Star Wars': Video game review
San Francisco Chronicle
With a little more time and effort, it's easy to imagine a pod racing Kinect video game that gets more raves than this title will. The lightsaber duels are more of a mixed bag. At first it's exciting to be standing in your living room, ...

Art Video Games Come of Age, As Bennett Foddy's Maddening Digital Experiments...
ARTINFO
by Kyle Chayka It's easy to want to curse Bennett Foddy's name and throw your keyboard away in disgust when playing his video games, which go on display at Pulse Play, a video and technology lounge opening with the contemporary art fair that opens on ...

ARTINFO

A lot of video games are dumb, but a lot of everything is dumb too
The Guardian (blog)
Most popular video games are dumb, and gamers shouldn't settle for it. That's the central thesis of Taylor Clark's Kotaku article, and it's a fine, well-argued point: most mainstream games have poor characterisation, dodgy dialogue and laughable ...

The Guardian (blog)

Adult Video Games, S&M Play, Foot-Sniffing Can Drive Away Sweethearts
Kotaku
Hobbies are a personal thing. What might float your boat might not float your lover's. And sometimes, your hobby might repulse them entirely. An online survey of one thousand revealed what hobbies have caused boyfriends or girlfriends to run far, ...

VIDEO GAMES: RESIDENT EVIL 6 New Trailer
Comic Book Movie
This is the Trailer 2 to Resident Evil 6, Game takes place 4 years after Resident Evil 5. Another virus named the "C-Virus" has been unleashed throughout the world. I am a BIG Resident Evil fan, I was disappointed of how Resident Evil 5 turned out, ...

Comic Book Movie

A Perfect Strangers Video Game? "Where Do I Come Up With Them!"
Chicagoist
TGIF-loving fans across the internet did a collective Dance Of Joy yesterday when a Perfect Strangers video game surfaced. The Flash-based video game has quickly gone viral—and has probably caused office productivity around the country to take a ...

We Do the Dance of Joy! 'Perfect Strangers' Made into a Video Game
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | May 3, 2012 | + When I heard that someone made a Perfect Strangers video game, I cringed. There were a lot of ways that this could have gone wrong–say, a dull point-and-click adventure or yet another faux 8-bit ...

TIME

Trainers use video games to track concussions
ABC2 News
Video games aren't what they used to be. They're much more advanced, they help us get fit. And now they're now being used to track concussions. After missing several weeks because of a head injury, Anthony Flowers is finally back in the game.

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Video Game Review: The Walking Dead: Episode One: A New Day
Geeks of Doom
There's been a lot of talk about truly interactive narratives in video games, and while most games chalk up these interactive moments to limited dialogue options and cut scenes, The Walking Dead delivers a truly interactive experience where the player ...

Geeks of Doom

Active video games: the mediating effect of aerobic fitness on body composition
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
ObjectiveTo identify mediators of the effect of an active video games intervention on body composition. Methods: Data from a two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial of an activevideo game intervention (n = 322) were analyzed.

Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
Men's Fitness
If you always knew (or at least figured) video games made you sharper, you've been validated—there's research now to prove it. A new study conducted at the University of Toronto found that non-gamers who played a first-person shooter game demonstrated ...

Men's Fitness

'The Walking Dead' Gets Its Own Bite-Sized Video Game
SPIN (blog)
The Resident Evil series continues to pump out video games and movies, Brad Pitt is working on a film version of the popular novel World War Z, and The Walking Dead has become the breakout ratings hit for AMC that the more well-regarded Mad Men and ...

Video Game Deal: Sonic Generations
Geeks of Doom
The video game is also available as a PC Download for $29.99. An innovative new interactive menu system allows for complete immersion in Sonic's universe with favorite characters and hidden treasures gradually being revealed throughout the game.

Geeks of Doom

Think it's impossible to adapt Perfect Strangers into a video game? Don't be ...
A.V. Club Chicago
Those mysteries are solved thanks to Perfect Strangers: The Video Game, an odd bit of viral marketing courtesy of developer/ad man Jason Oda, creator of Web 2.0 watershed Emo Game. Like Emo Game, Oda's latest pays homage to its subject matter while ...

A.V. Club Chicago

When Max met Rockstar: How Max Payne transformed from an action cliché into a ...
Computerandvideogames.com
Before I picked up a PS2 controller at the Barbican's Game On exhibition back in 2000 and blasted my way through the first few levels of Max Payne, I hadn't played a video game in nearly two-and-a-half-years. After an hour at its controls I was kicked ...

'Perfect Strangers' now in video game form
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Might this week's best game appear on a console or even a smartphone? Of course not! Don't be ridiculous. The game features Balki -- the Eastern European relative of "cousin Larry" -- running with his back facing the screen, ...

USA TODAY

'Traditional console gaming under pressure,' says former EA, Xbox bigwig
Computerandvideogames.com
By Tamoor Hussain for computerandvideogames.com John Schappert, former chief operating officer of EA and VP of Xbox Live, has said social and mobile games are eating away at the traditional video game business model. Schappert, who left EA to become ...

Keith Vaz urges tighter controls on violent video games
The Guardian (blog)
Labour MP Keith Vaz has tabled an early day motion calling for more stringent government controls on violent video games. The motion, put forward on 24 April, makes reference to Anders Breivik, who shot and killed 69 people on the island of Utøya, ...

The Guardian (blog)

ABC's PERFECT STRANGERS Now a Video Game
Broadway World
ABC sitcom PERFECT STRANGERS now has a video game. The show has been off the air for 19 years, yet is still popular among fans. The video game was created by Jason Oda and allows users to play the role of 'Balki' as they chase a dream of their choice.

Computer and video game industry
Aransas Pass Progress
The ESA's 2011 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry report found that roughly seventy-two percent of United State households play computer and video games. It is important to know that computer and video games are not just for ...

'Perfect Strangers' Video Game: Yes, There Is One
Huffington Post
Created by Jason Oda, the video game lets users play as Balki as you chase the dream of your choice. Set to the now-iconic theme song -- "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now," performed by David Pomeranz -- players collect stars as they race through ...

Which Video Game Had The Most Expensive Production Budget ...
By Jason Fitzpatrick
Which Video Game Had The Most Expensive Production Budget? Answer: Star Wars: The Old Republic. Video games are big business and the most popular games have budgets rivaling Hollywood blockbusters. Among the dozens of games ...
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The World Deserves A Perfect Strangers Video Game. Now, It Has ...
By Kirk Hamilton
The World Deserves A Perfect Strangers Video Game. Now, It Has ... It's the kind of energy we could use more of in video games! Thanks to a designer named Jason Oda, the world of video games just got a little bit more Balki. You start the ...
Kotaku

How Playing Video Games Can Help You Become a Better Street ...
By Jun Shen
Another study done at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York showed that surgeons who played video games made fewer errors in surgery. Video-game related tasks that tested hand-eye coordination and motor skills inevitably led to ...
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Finally: The Perfect Strangers Browser-Based Video Game
By Neetzan Zimmerman
Break out the Dance of Joy because someone finally went and made a Perfect Strangers video game!
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'Perfect Strangers' Video Game? Now We Do the Dance of Joy!
By Hilary Rothing
It might not be Friday just yet, but a TGIF is in order, thanks to the arrival of 'The Perfect Strangers'video game. Developer, Jason Oda has created a. ... Filed Under: Video Games Category: TV News · Share on facebook!Share on twitter!
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On the internet Online poker Video games Successful Technique Is ...
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On the internet Online poker Video games Successful Technique Is dependent upon The actual Math associated with The actual Video game. ... upon the actual math associated with the actualvideo game. Because the gamer offers absolutely no actual method in order to understand exactly what credit cards their opposition is actually keeping, generally there is actually absolutely no virtually efficient end result with regard to online poker gamers (therefore the actual phrase, betting).
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Your obligatory Perfect Strangers video game post | The Vast ...
By Andrew Daglas
Look, we're all seasoned Internet veterans here. I've seen this. You've seen this. It's a thing. But this blog is devoted to television, and I would be remiss if I failed to document what is clearly the most amazing development in the world of ...
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The Mystery Of EB's Hilarious Hijacked Video Game Covers | Kotaku ...
By Mark Serrels
Michael Preston was scouring the bargain bin at his local EB when he noticed something was a little… off. He looked closer at the game he was co...
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Finally, Some Closure for the Geth - Video Games - Memes ...
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Stunning Video Game Wallpapers. If you love video games, you will definitely love this post and you might have seen similar posts as this before, as we have posted them more than just once. i1a19 Stunning Video Game Wallpapers ...
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9GAG - Gamer girls? Know the difference.
Gamer girls? Know the difference. hizzee | 1 day ago 184 30162. Love. Tweet. 220. Share4829. Pin It. Gamer girls? Know the difference. You might also like: Avengers Eyes Makeup! Funny Communism · Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes ...
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The Comics Console: Marvel Movie Video Game Report Card!
By andrewhurst
Coming off two great 3D Spider-Man games for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Activision and new developerTreyarch created what, at the time, was the arguably greatest comic book/superherovideo game ever. In 2002, movie video games ...
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13 Greatest Video Game End Credits - GameSpot.com
Mark Walton presents the 13 finest credit rolls ever to grace the back end of a video game.
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Samsung Series 7 Gamer Laptop With Ivy Bridge Now Available ...
Samsung trots out its Series 7 Gamer laptop, heavy on features and in weight.
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Sebelius Plugs Video Games as Way for Kids to Exercise ...
Sebelius also promoted what she called a "new partnership" between the federal government and the "video game industry." Playing “active” video games can ...
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