Wall Street Journal (blog)
It's probably a sign of the diminishing grandeur of mob movies that certain genres like true crime work better at this point as video games than they do as films. We see far more beauty in The Wire and Breaking Bad than in latest attempt to revive the ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Female leads in video games have a fighting chance
Daily Eastern News
The Electronic Software Association reported that women make up 47 percent of the game-playing population, according to its 2012 gaming industry report. Donna Binns, an English professor who has studied the roles of women in science-fiction video games ...
Video Games Make Me Angry
Crave Online
Fortunately they never did, so I spent a large portion of my youth frantically slapping at the glass screen of one of those big bastards because I deemed it partially responsible for not allowing me to defeat the video game I'd just spent a month's ...
Crave Online
Take a closer look at the video games that will hit shelves this fall
Tuscaloosa News
There are some titles that are worth your cash this fall, but others where gamers should save their money. ... Gaming is a world obsessed with violence and death, and for a game to allow you to avoid death entirely throughout it is always a good thing ...
Fish play video games in new study
Digital Spy
Senior researcher Dr Iain Couzin - from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the university - told BBC News: "By creating an immersive video game for the fish, we were able to have complete control over the parameters. "Trying to do ...
Free Game Friday: Three Games on Evolution
PCWorld
... new features to progress through the history of gaming in a Zelda-like landscape that goes from a side-scrolling monochromatic small screen adventure into a modern, lovely 2D game. It's fun and fast and a sweet drip down the memory lane of video games.
Dishonored [Video Game]
Gstyle magazine
Dishonored, the supernatural assassin action game under development at Arkane Studios, will be available in North America on October 9, in Australia on October 11 and throughout Europe on October 12, 2012. Developed under the direction of co-creative ...
Gstyle magazine
'Ultima Forever' is return to kinder, gentler, thoughtful gaming
CNN
(CNN) -- Making a video game espousing the virtues of compassion, sacrifice and spirituality doesn't sound like a winner in today's battle-happy gaming environment. But 27 years ago, it was exactly the type of game that caught the imagination and ...
'Spider-Man' Producer Avi Arad To Bring Popular Video Game 'Metal Gear Solid ...
Indie Wire (blog)
The learning curve on how to translate video games to movies might be even steeper than it was for the comic book to film transition. Watch out, Arad! “Metal Gear Solid” is certainly an A-title amongst the video game faithful. A spin-off of a 1987 game ...
Five Women Who Kick Ass In Video Games -- Kill Bill Was Just The ...
By MolotovCupcake
With the Kill Bill Revenge Double Feature airing on Labor Day (2:30/1:30c), we decided it was about time to find some women from the video game world that could be role models for anyone who wanted...
G4 TV - TheFeed
Future bullish in the face of video game departures | Games industry ...
Future bullish in the face of video game departures. Future Publishing insists it is 'business as usual' despite losing entertainment chief Simon Maxwell. It is the second senior Future games exec to leave this year, with James Binns departing ...
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Talking Point: The Rules for Violence in Video Games - Nintendo Life
While your opinions on the merits of game hunting in Africa undoubtedly vary, we're slightly surprised that a title that allows indiscriminate gunning down of endangered species got through the Nintendo approval process. This game has gone .... What is undeniably important, and perhaps vital as video games become more mainstream and varied, is that gamers respect each other's views and accept that harmless fun to one person is abhorrent violence to another. Beyond that, there's ...
ExcitingAds! Life
The 6 Craziest Ways Creators Hid Themselves in Video Games ...
When we're playing video games, we don't really think much about the people who make them. So maybe it's no surprise that game developers come up with devious and quite frankly insane ways to insert their faces in hidden spots of the ...
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The Presurfer: How 13 Classic Video Games Got Their Names
By Gerard
How 13 Classic Video Games Got Their Names · image credit. When Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov named his famously addictive video game Tetris, he decided to combine two words: tetromino and tennis. A tetromino is a geometric ...
The Presurfer
Fall video game preview 2012: The schedule
Here's a detailed look at the big video games launching this fall.
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2012 Game Developers Choice Online Awards To Honor 'Online Game Legend ...
Sacramento Bee
Raph Koster is considered a thought leader, as a frequent lecturer and published author on topics ofgame design, community management, storytelling and ethics in game development. His A Theory of Fun, published in 2004, is considered seminal by ...
Game Developers Choice Online Awards honor Raph Koster, World of Warcraft
Gamasutra
GDC Online organizers have revealed that Raph Koster, a key industry veteran behind the prodigious MMORPGs Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, will be honored with the Online Game Legend Award at the third annual Game Developers Choice ...
Gamasutra
GameStop looking at vintage video game business
Fudzilla
You are here: Home»Latest»GameStop looking at vintage video game business. Facebook Twitter... GameStop CEO Paul Rains thinks that the vintage video game business might be an area where GameStop should explore expansion. The vintage video ...
Unreal Engine 3- Windows 8 debut video
GamingBolt (blog)
... president of Epic Games. “By porting the full engine as opposed to a modified mobile version, NVIDIA and Epic have made it easy for UE3 developers around the world to bring their best content to Windows RT, Windows 8, and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 processor.
