Lyon expo shows serious side of video games (video)

Lyon expo shows serious side of video games
Reuters
Exhibitors at the eighth annual Serious Games Expo in France insist that video games don't always involve frittering away hours of your life. They believe their own video game products can be put to serious use by businesses, engineers, and parents. Jum Drury has more....

Star Wars 1313 Release Date: The New Video Game Will Not Be Affected By ...
Gamenguide
Star Wars 1313 the upcoming third-person action-adventure video game developed and published by Lucas Arts, will not be affected by the recent $4 billion Disney acquisition of Lucas Film, according the developer via an IGN report. "For the time being ...

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MechWarrior Online open beta impressions
Examiner.com
Adding a tutorial mission would greatly help players acclimate to game. Currently one must watch an external video to learn the basics. Extending from this, many mechanics of the game go completely unexplained. While playing one encounters countless ...

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This Week In Video Game Criticism: From vulnerability fantasy to journalist drama
Gamasutra
By the architecture of the video game, the West in Red Dead Redemption is always closed, always confined to an invisible mass of data stored in a machine–a modern West indeed." Indie darling The Unfinished Swan released to positive reviews and critical ...

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Grand Theft Auto V – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE
ringsidereport.com (blog)
Grand Theft Auto V – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE. October 30th, 2012 Geno. RockstarGames, a publishing ... “Grand Theft Auto V builds on everything we've learned about open worldgame design,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “We can't wait to ...

Game on: How Polygon wants to rethink video game journalism
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
That, maybe more than any technology or design elements, may be the thread that connects the Vox sites — a “Can you believe how much fun we're having?” approach to journalism. ... Justin McElroy, Polygon's managing editor, said they wanted to take an ...

How the feds help small game developers: tax credits and grants
Macleans.ca (blog)
Josh Ostrowalker says video game developers love government. And it's not just because ... Andgame developers are lucky, he added, because they're able to apply to two pools of funding: entertainment, and research and development. Magmic accesses ...

Video Game News – Ubisoft Releases Assassin's Creed III, GTA V Announced ...
Tell Me News
Video Game News – Ubisoft Releases Assassin's Creed III, GTA V Announced by Rockstar for. French developer Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed III yesterday, making the title available for Microsoft Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers located in North ...

The 7 sins of bad video game design
Nokia Conversations
The first video game ever, Pong, managed to encapsulate it's core idea into one lucid instruction: 'avoid missing ball for high score”. Few games are as simple nowadays, which means that game developers cannot trust the player to immediately grasp the ...

Game Guys review - Medal of Honor Warfighter
News10.net
Firefights are intense, but don't come off as over-the-top -- something that is welcome in a video game climate that seems to encourage developers to make a game that looks more "epic" than the other guy's. Missions are linear, but the single-player ...