All of the Life-Changing Power of Video Games

All of the Life-Changing Power of Video Games Kotaku Video games cause depression. Video games cause violence. Video games are a waste of time. The next time someone pulls out one of these arguments against our favorite hobby, send them to read the stories at How Video Games Saved My Life, ...

Top video games convention kicks off Trade Arabia Bahrain is set to host the second annual edition of Animania, one of the Gulf region's biggest anime and video games convention at the Prestige Hall in Adhari Park. The convention will feature a cosplay contest in which participants dress up as their ...

CVG's Site of The Week: FPSPrestige Computerandvideogames.com If you're a hardcore FPS gamer, hopefully you'll be able to pick up some new techniques and tips to improve your kill/death ratio. And if you or one of your friends might be the sort of person who only owns Black Ops and maybe a sports game, ...

Considering 9/11: Sorting out the best music, TV and video games from our ... Reverb By Reverb Staff | September 9th, 2011 | No Comments » Jay-Z, seen here at Madison Square Garden on the 8th anniversary of 9/11. Photo courtesy of misthis.blogspot.com. After the World Trade Center came down, some musicians got angry; others wept openly ...

Batman: Arkham Asylum Value Bin Review GoozerNation If you haven't checked out the game that made most of us have faith that comic books and video games can match again, I highly suggest checking out Arkham Asylum. This is especially true for those of you interested in next month's release of Arkham ...

Review: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Xbox 360) Your Local Guardian By Adam Pettifer » So, when it comes to video games, are you an optimist? Are you the sort ofgamer who can put up with a video game's quirks, imperfections and drawbacks if there is something worthwhile at its core? Are you the sort of person that can ...

Gordon Hayward joins pro gaming league ESPN (blog) By Jon Robinson Cary Edmondson/US Presswire Gordon Hayward is playing video games for money thanks to the IGN Pro League. Close your eyes and imagine what a professional video game player looks like. Now open your eyes and stare at the picture of Utah ...

Free Apple apps roundup for September 9, 2011 Gamertell (blog) In relation to improvements, additional “dinosaur bonuses” could be (for the new title - in hope that it's made): ambushes which really make the gamer feel targeted - being ambushed by raptors, deinonychus, Rex, allosaurs, spinosaurus etc whilst you're ...

Disney Taps Studio Distribution President To Run Revamped Consumer Products Hollywood Reporter Robert Chapek will oversee a unit that will now include challenged areas like video games and DVDs. Disney said Friday that Robert Chapek, the president of distribution for the film studio, has been promoted to president of consumer products, ...

Will Apple CEO Tim Cook make a Game Console? SlashGear And at the very most, the company is no different from Nintendo, offering a portable device that lets owners play video games, while relying on third parties to develop those titles. What's more, Apple's devices have been stealing significant market ...

Pokémon Kicking Off Month of Zoroark Themed Activities Nintendo World Report BELLEVUE, WA - September 6, 2011 - September kicks off a month-long celebration of one of the most popular Pokémon™ characters from the Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Versionvideo games: the mysterious Zoroark™. Get ready for a fun-filled ...

Computer overuse produces 'photosensitive epilepsy' for youth who 'live online' HULIQ “Video games are becoming increasingly popular. Particularly after the launch of various 'sexy' new consoles and fast, slick games from industry giants like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Contradicting the established image of the nerdy gamer in a ...

Game Guys review - Rock of Ages News10.net Video games have become serious business over the years and big-time titles like Deus Ex, Battlefield 3, and the next iteration of Final Fantasy are grabbing headlines. That said, with an art style and attitude that would make Terry Gilliam proud, ...

Toronto Deals: Davis Films Acquires Film Rights to 'Golgo 13' Reuters It has been made into four movies – two live action, two animated, a television series and video games. The manga, introduced in 1968, has sold more than 200 million copies. In a written statement, Hadida said, “We are unbelievably excited about this ...

Zadzooks: Rise of Nightmares review Washington Times By Joseph Szadkowski The survival horror genre of video games just got a whole lot more interactive with help from a frightening first-person adventure built for an Xbox 360 peripheral. Using the motion-detecting Kinect camera (a device that turns the ...

You'll find Resistance 3 hard to resist The Province This is the year of the sequel in video games and we're ready for a couple of heavyweights. While Gears of War is a week or so away, this week we got Resistance 3 for the Playstation 3. I love this franchise, and thankfully, this new version does not ...

The Stigma Of Video Game Music - Reader's Feature Metro I remember watching an episode of Live at the Apollo last year, the one where Dara Ó Briain in a way 'comes out' to a three thousand strong audience about being a gamer. When I watched this for the first time my initial thoughts were of embarrassment ...

VIDEO: Virtual gamers take on F1 driver BBC News Video games have made many couch potatoes believe they are as good as the professionals at a range of sports, but especially Formula One. Mike Bushell caught up with former Formula One driver David Coulthard as he took part in a unique experiment....

'Space Pirates and Zombies' a labour of love CANOE It's the start of the massive flood of big-budget, top-tier, triple-A video games that always surge out between now and the holidays. There are more great games coming than there is time to play them. And yet instead of looking at something like ...

Sales of video games fell 21 per cent in August Winnipeg Free Press SAN FRANCISCO -- US retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 21 per cent in August to $649 million, according to market researcher NPD Group, partly because the popular Madden NFL 12 released later in the month than usual. ...

Hey Indie...Heads UP, You have a Target on Your Back! Gamasutra (blog) And not just from the gamer community but also from Ferengi type business goons. You see, to them Minecraft is not a great game, it is a potent financial engine that, if harnessed, could be filling their coffers with gold pressed latinum. ...

ENT: Games adapted for mature readers - Wayne Chamberlain The Sudbury Star But parents today have some options when it comes to getting their teen gaming enthusiasts to give the written word a try -- books based on video games. Two new titles recently arrived on store shelves, BioShock: Rapture and Rage. ...

Medical Minute 9-7: Virtual Reality Pain Chiller WCTV Former Marine Josh McDaniel likes playing "shoot'em up" video games, but he credits this game for helping him through one of the most difficult times in his life. "My face was completely burned off. My swimming shorts melted to my legs," said Josh ...

Microsoft Xbox 360 National Post (blog) Video games are no exception, of course, having embraced the cyberpunk mythos with open titanium-prosthetic arms. Perhaps the most celebrated example of this is 2001's Deus Ex, an action role-playing game that was essentially an interactive homage to ...

How you can watch—and participate in—the live Slate/Intelligence Squared ... Slate Magazine Men play video games. Women thrive in information-age jobs. Men go to prison. Women hold families together. Men watch football. On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the Slate/Intelligence Squared US live debate series will ask and answer a fundamental question about ...

Stinger Foosball League 1.0 for iOS - Real Dynamic 3D Physics Foosball GamersDailyNews Through a variety of camera moves the gamer sees the action from every angle, perfectly captured by each camera via expert panning, tilting, and craning, as the screen cuts from camera to camera. The quality of gameplay is equally impressive. ...

Miami's Coby Beef: An Exclusive Interview With Burn Notice's Coby Bell BuzzFocus.com You've done some voice work in video games and FX's Archer. Can you talk about that experience and are you a gamer? CB: I love playing video games but I don't have them in my house because I end up wasting too much time. I have four kids so the last... Rich Tax Breaks Bolster Makers of Video Games New York Times By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI The United States government offers tax incentives to companies pursuing medical breakthroughs, urban redevelopment and alternatives to fossil fuels. Dead Space 2 shipped more than two million copies in its first week. ... Video Games: Promoting Violence Against Real People Technorati Pundits who believe video games promote real violence will be all up in arms in a game that not only goes for the throat, but the throat of actual people. The game doesn't hold back on names: Sara Palin, Bill O-Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, ... Bill Kunkel, an Early Chronicler of Video Games, Dies at 61 New York Times He wrote comic books for DC Comics and Marvel and covered wrestling for magazines like Main Event and Pro Wrestling Torch before reporting on video games. Mr. Kunkel also joined with Mr. Katz and Ms. Worley to form a company called Subway Software,... Maroon and Gamer: Deus Ex: Racial Controversy The State Press By Spencer Fawcett September 10, 2011 at 12:01 am Print This Post “Deus Ex: Human Revolution” sure loves the spotlight a little too much. Last time, it was a mishap with GameStop and the Onlive codes that caught journalists' eyes and ears. ... Hardcore gamer kids tend to have low opinion of parents: Study Montreal Gazette If your kids play a lot of video games, does it say something about you as a parent? It might, according to the results of a study that assessed correlations between how much time pre- and early-teen youths spend playing video games and the opinions ... No end of fun: Make your own video games New Scientist CONQUERING a video game can be bittersweet: glory soon fades into the sad realisation that there are no more frontiers to explore, no more demons to battle. But that could soon change, with the creation of a game that turns gamers into game developers. ... U.S. Video Games Retail Sales Down 23% in August TechnoBuffalo As both a writer and a gamer with a deep love for this industry, I don't think I'll ever understand why publishing companies insist upon keeping their banner products out of the public's hands until the holiday season. Sure, ten or fifteen years ago ... Video Games: Violent video games gave Americans a vent for their frustrations ... Denver Post (Provided by Activision ) It's no wonder first-person-shooter video games, like the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" series, exploded in popularity after 9/11. Instead of promising escapism, they provided an outlet for ordinary Americans to vent their ...