At E3 a look at the future of video games

At E3, a look at the future of video games
Washington Post
Every year, tens of thousands of gaming fans flock to Los Angeles to play the coolest titles at E3, the world's largest video game event. Hardware-makers, developers and publishers fill the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center with row upon row ...

Schilling video game company declares bankruptcy
Reuters
By Ros Krasny and Jonathan Stempel | BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - 38 Studios, the video game company run by former Red Sox baseball great Curt Schilling, declared bankruptcy on Thursday, weeks after laying off most of its staff and having its funding ...

Former Red Sox Curt Schilling's video game company files for bankruptcy
Boston.com
By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff 38 Studios LLC, the troubled video game company founded by retired Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Thursday, clearing the way to liquidate the company. The Delaware court filing suggests that ...

Schilling's video game company files for bankruptcy; feds investigating
Fox News
PROVIDENCE, RI – Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video gaming company, lured to Rhode Island with a $75 million state loan guarantee two years ago, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, and federal authorities have begun an ...

Curt Schilling's Video-Game Company Files for Bankruptcy
San Francisco Chronicle
June 7 (Bloomberg) -- The video-game company founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling filed for bankruptcy after firing employees in Rhode Island, where it operated with help from $75 million in government bonds.

Schilling video game firm declares bankruptcy
Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - 38 Studios, the video game company run by former Red Sox baseball great Curt Schilling, declared bankruptcy on Thursday, weeks after laying off most of its staff and being cut off from funds by the state of Rhode Island.

Samsung Series 7 Gamer Review: A Mobile Gamer's Best Tool
PCWorld
The Series 7 Gamer is Samsung's answer--but how does it stack up against other high-performance portables? The Series 7 Gamer (priced at $1899 as of June 6, 2012) comes equipped with an Intel Core i7-3610QM processor at a stock speed of 2.3GHz, ...

Video games: Feeling the 'Payne'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The series pioneered the use of slow-motion bullet time in video games, and the latest installment embraces its heritage. Unlike Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto" or "Red Dead Redemption," the new "Max Payne" isn't an open-world game. You start a level; ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Action-based video games get players on their feet
Channel News Asia
The video game taps into movement-sensing abilities of Kinect accessories for Xbox 360 controllers to challenge players to bounce balls in synch with on-screen cues and even do stunts like passing behind backs or between legs.

Ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company files for bankruptcy ...
Washington Post
PROVIDENCE, RI — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video gaming company has filed for bankruptcy. The filing was made in US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Thursday. Providence-based 38 Studios last month laid off its entire workforce.

'Wreck-It Ralph' trailer stars John C. Reilly as a downtrodden video game villain
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Amy Kuperinsky/The Star-Ledger DisneyJohn C. Reilly gives voice to Wreck-It Ralph, a video game bad guy. The Disney movie is due in November. John C. Reilly is known for many a comic role, at the top of that list a part in the beloved 2008 film ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Curt Schilling's video game company goes bankrupt
TPM
“This action comes after several weeks when the company has reviewed, considered and received the recommendations and advice with respect to potential avenues for relief that are currently available,” 38 Studios told The Providence Journal in a ...

TPM

Community TV series Video Game playable today
SlashGear
This week the folks at NBC have not created the video game you saw in the episode of Community that was released at the end of the third season of the show – but some intrepid developers have. A group of developers working in “LOVE”, a free 2D gaming ...

What's the secret to a gamer's mental fitness?
Times of India
Every gamer believes that video games are good for you, and now science has proved it. In spite of every mother's endless pleas to leave that aggression-causing game aside, we have always been hardcore gamers. But did you know that video games are more ...

Digital distribution challenges titans of video game industry
CanadianBusiness.com
By Samson Okalow | June 06, 2012 Like chain-retail record stores before it, video game retail's days are numbered and its demise will come at the hands of the same killer: the Internet. Digital distribution is steadily sweeping away the incumbent ...

E3: Can a non-gamer have fun at E3? Sure!
Entertainment Weekly
by Laura Hertzfeld I'm not a gamer — I have never owned a game console and the closest I've come to “winning” a game is a decent Joan Jett impression on Rock Band. But I went to E3 to find out — can a non-gamer still have fun amongst a sea of ...

Video game business finds itself in 'a weird time'
msnbc.com
I had a chance to talk with game analyst Michael Pachter about the future of the video game business and how Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony fared at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Check out the video above for a look at where things are at ...

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Ray Bradbury remembered by E3 developers
New York Daily News
While he denounced video games as “a waste of time for men with nothing else to do,” it's impossible not to glimpse at the flashing flatscreens, ubiquitous cameras and people wearing extraterrestrial costumes inside the Los Angeles Convention Center ...

New York Daily News

7 Video Games That Secretly Prepared You for Work
Business Insider
Remember all those hours you spent mashing buttons and collecting 1Ups as you conquered video game after video game? OK, for some of us, that might've been only a week ago. But for most of our generation, childhood memories of pixel playing is just ...

Study: Video Games Trump Movies and TV Shows on Consoles, Computers and Mobile ...
Hollywood Reporter
As popular as it is becoming to stream movies and TV shows on computers, phones and game consoles, a series of focus groups conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that Americans still prefer playing video games over those other activities.

Hollywood Reporter

After Hollywood careers, Portage couple comes home to Michigan to create video ...
Michigan Business Review - MLive.com
With Lily, "we want to create a game we want to play," said Hoogendyk, who has worked on video-game titles such as "Myst 3:Exile." The adventure takes place in "a unique fantasy world that is as compelling as it is dark and unsettling.

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com

E3 2012: The game is almost up
Telegraph.co.uk
Photo: GETTY By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor The biggest video games show in the world, E3, comes to an end today in Los Angeles with the industry on the precipice of change. While Nintendo delivered more details of its new Wii U home console, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

'Walking Dead' video game review: Zombie uprising
San Francisco Chronicle
Telltale Games strikes a hauntingly sustained chord with our morals and consciousness through itsvideo game, making us an active participant in the zombie uprising and forcing upon us the difficult decision of who should live and die.

Ray Bradbury remembered by game developers at E3
CTV.ca
Nicolas Duclos, developer with Ubisoft Entertainment showcases the new 'Assassin's Creed III' video game on the Nintendo Wii U console in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — If there's one ...

Do Guns Kill People, Or Do Video Game Players?
PSFK
The first shows a small child playing GTA IV, captioned: “Research suggests thatvideo games, such as Grand Theft Auto shown here, can make children aggressive, rude and uncooperative.” There apparently isn't room to mention that GTA IV carries an 18 ...

PSFK

NBA JAM Mobile App -- Extreme Hoops on the Fly: A Sports Video Game Review and ...
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network – 1 hour 19 minutes ago Extreme sports, basketball, and sports video gamefans will love EA Sports' NBA JAM for iPad. I downloaded the latest version, and I have enjoyed fast-paced extreme street ball action.

Someone's making a Community video game based on the one from ...
By Cyriaque Lamar
In the recent Community episode "Digital Estate Planning," Chevy Chase's character Pierce Hawthorne must win his inheritance by playing an unapologetically racist 8-bit video game invented by his dead father.
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Curt Schilling's Video Game Company 38 Studios Files For Bankruptcy
By KC Downey
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CBS/AP) — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video gaming company, lured to Rhode Island with a $75 million state loan guarantee two years ago, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, and federal ...
CBS Boston

Video Games: Needs More Pink Camo - Memebase: Rage Comics ...
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Video Games: Needs More Pink Camo. x. Share. internet memes - Video Games: Needs More Pink Camo. Get Over Here and Play a Video Game. Submitted by: Biggmac4444 · Incorrect source or offensive? activisioncall of dutycategory:Call ...
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Tween Girl Video Games: Let's Go Shopping And Find Rich Boyfriends
By The Huffington Post News Editors
As video games have risen dramatically in popularity over the past few decades, so has criticism of the messages they're sending kids. But for the most part, that concern has been directed at the violence in games marketed to boys.
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'Wreck-It Ralph' Trailer Brings Classic Video Game Characters to Life
By Jeremy Taylor
vibe going on there, with real-life video game characters like Q*Bert, Browser and the ghosts from 'Pac Man' making appearances. But will Wreck-it Ralph do for video games what Roger Rabbit, an enormous hit in 1988, did for cartoons?
TheFW

Brains, Trains and Video Games: Living the Autism Life by Alicia ...
Alicia Hart, author of Brains, Trains & Video Games, is a wife,mother and advocate for children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. She has worked for various autism related agencies, early intervention programs,and has consulted with ...
Autisable.com

The 'Community' Video Game is Real and Streets Ahead
By Kevin Fitzpatrick
You know, most TV shows would kill to expand their brand a bit with a video game, terrible as it might be. It takes a strong TV show to lend itself well. ... How is it that this show still struggles with ratings and show-runners, when fans are actually inspired to design real video games around it? Taking its cue from the recent 8-bit 'Community' concept episode “Digital Estate Planning,” fans of the troubled NBC series have gone the extra mile and made the episodes central video game ...
ScreenCrush

New Disney Animation Features Iconic Video Game Villains ...
By Jim Hargreaves
Disney has launched its debut trailer for upcoming holiday flick, Wreck-It Ralph. The animation picture, due to launch on November 2nd, tells the story of an 8-bit video game villain tired of being demonized after 30 years of employment in ...
TheSixthAxis - PS3 and Xbox 360...

Disney Is Making A Video Game Movie Featuring Jane Lynch
By Greg Ferenstein
Disney is putting it's magic touch into a new movie, Wreck-it Ralph, where a video game character experiences a mid-career crises. ... Video Syndrome' · Zach Braff Is Not Gay, But Is Adorable [Tweet] · The Evolution of Video Games [Video] ...
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Community Video Game of the Day - TDW Geeks
By Cheezburger Network
geek news - Community Video Game of the Day. ... Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne, the video game that Community's study group found itself in during the show's season finale, is now a real, actual thing you can play. Windows, OS X ...
TDW Geeks

Ultimate Gamer: Diablo III with Kaley Cuoco from Kaley Cuoco, Erin ...
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A Brief History Of Video Games - BuzzFeed
A Brief History Of Video Games: Made using only sounds, music and video from the video gamesthemselves, this 3-minute music video doe... ... 16 LGBT Video Game Characters ×; Bush Shoe Attack Flash Games! ×; The Best Old-School ...
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A Brief History of Video Games - YouTube
An abridged history of video games in under three minutes. Made using only sounds, music and ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMm6TJoYL0

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