The Top Selling Video Games of 2011 - So Far

The Top Selling Video Games of 2011 — So Far CNBC.com Perhaps more than any other entertainment field, video games are seasonal. While an occasional blockbuster is released in the first or second quarter, the Sept.-Dec. timeframe is when publishers really make their bank. The last four months of the year ...

How violent video games can blur real life boundaries Adelaide Now Almost all the participants had experienced some involuntary thoughts in relation to video gameswhich were sometimes accompanied by reflexes, such as reaching to a click a button on a controller.

Download Code: What does Netflix's foray into video games mean? Financial Post (blog) Qwikster may be the large-scale move that finally brings the concept of video games by mail to the masses. Qwikster won't be the first service to offer mail-order game rentals — the king of that market in the United States is currently Gamefly — but ...

PC Gamer on Sony's External Laptop Graphics: It's Superb Overclockers Club PC Gamer's Adam Oxford recently spent some quality play time with Sony's latest Vaio Z laptop, and came away with some surprisingly pleasant results. The ultralight notebook wasn't really designed to handle PC games, but it comes with one intriguing...

World's Best Mobile Gamer Awaits HTC Pico and HTC Explorer Blackjack Champ The mobile gamer acclaimed by most peers as being the best mobile gamer is a shadowy figure, whose identity is a guarded secret. Most believe he is Twelve-Finger Wang, who due to a congenital birth defect actually does have 12 fingers, ...

Alana Evans, Misti Dawn's Gamer Site Generates Buzz XBiz Evans continued, “We play video games. We live this fun, crazy life and for us to put something together like this and watch it literally explode…it feels really amazing.” The starlet said that between now and their next streaming event that plans are ...

THQ announce Crytek as developer of Homefront 2 Telegraph.co.uk By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor THQ have announced that Crytek UK will be taking over development duties for the sequel to their chart topping military shooter Homefront. Despite strong sales, the developer of the original game, Kaos Studios, ...

'Gamers are trapped in virtual worlds' and The Metro loses the plot Computerandvideogames.com What's even more harrowing, considering the average gamer is now somewhere in his late thirties, is that these maniacs could be our doctors, police officers and fire fighters. Heck, even politicians could have had a twiddle on the devil sticks. ...

Exclusive: Video Games Violence Prof Slams Daily Mail and Metro for Biased ... Spong But during the interviews it became apparent that the most interesting thing to report on was this unexpected activity - people that just spontaneously talk about carry-over effects from video gamesinto real life." The follow-up study, which will be ...

NCIS Games Sure to Delight Video Game Playing Senior Citizens Kotaku This fall Ubisoft teams up with CBS to bring the award-winning NCIS series to video games, letting fans of special agent Gibbs and crew perform their own Naval criminal investigations, provided they can figure out that confounded video game system. ...

Winning student essay: Video games make death unreal OCRegister Sogo's essay was titled, "Video Game Violence: Is the Gamer's Ethics a Real Casualty of Virtual Mayhem?" "Alex's essay stood out from the other entries by quickly drawing the judges into the subject matter on a visceral level to support his argument ...

Nvidia expands GeForce Lan to India and challenges Indian gamers to battle it out Al-Bawaba Participants will vie for the title of “Ultimate Gamer” and the King of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, will be present to crown the winner and award prizes worthy of this unprecedented event. A technology and gaming enthusiast at heart, Bollywood superstar ...

Next-gen graphics already possible on OnLive, 'new standard' promised - Video Computerandvideogames.com "What you're seeing there is a preview of the kind of video game that's going to be the standard sort of video game that you're going to see on OnLive. We're going to be blurring the boundaries between cinema and video games."

Video Games Lacking Hispanic and African American Characters Hispanically Speaking News A 2009 study by the USC Annenberg School for Communication, “The virtual census: representations of gender, race and age in video games. New Media Society,” found that only 3 percent of all videos game characters were Hispanic, with none of them being ...

FSU Study Debunks Claims That Video Games Strengthen Cognition Personal Liberty Digest This may have skewed any results, since it may simply be that people who are good at video games have better brain function to begin with, regardless of their experience with virtual reality. Additionally, in their own study, the researchers found no ...

And in other PC gaming news… PC Gamer Magazine Some friends of PC Gamer are working on Playstation Access, go take a look! Notch has made a snowman mob for Minecraft. It follows you around and throws snowballs at enemies. Adorable. Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey tells Edge he wants to set up a ...

WoW patch 4.3 Dragon Soul interview, part one: Downing Deathwing PC Gamer Magazine PC Gamer: The big new content in Patch 4.3 is the Deathwing fight. We've had a lot of dragon fights before in the past; what makes Deathwing different? Tom Chilton: Deathwing's the first fight we've ever done that spans multiple locations—any other ...

RAVE and WRECK of the week: Sept. 21, 2011 Quinnipiac Chronicle The most beautiful and gorgeously crafted song of the year (and possibly ever) goes to Lana Del Rey's “Video Games.” “Video Games” is melancholy in both vocals and music. Del Rey's sultry voice exudes hope that she and her partner will connect, ...

LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 Release Dates Announced GamerFront Which we all know means video games! Thankfully it's not the video game that comes out directly after a movie is released. Those all usually suck and you know it. I will say though that LEGO has managed to continually make amusing games based off of ...

Turner Today: Videogames in the classroom at Turner my.hsj.org English teacher Mrs. Rasmussen sees merit in a classroom taught in a most unorthodox way: video games! Video games, in this day and age, are staples of American culture. Covering a range of themes from adrenaline-pumping, lightning-fast action games to ...

Seth Rogen - Seth Rogen's Wedding Will Feature Video Game Arcade Contactmusic.com And Miller has added a special touch to make Rogen, an avid gamer, and his pals feel at ease at the lavish nuptials. A source tells Us Weekly magazine, "She added an arcade theme. There will be video games!" Seth Rogen.

id Software CEO: Consoles give more depth than they take away PC Gamer Magazine Since you're reading this site, we're going to assume you're, well, a PC gamer. As such, we imagine you frequently drift into fond flashbacks to the days when big developers treated your platform of choice like royalty. Even with PC once again on the...

Turtle Beach X-Series Review UGO Turtle Beach's X-Series has a difinitive model for every type of gamer. By UGO Team 1 hour ago Turtle Beach is committed to making a unique headset for every type of gamer and gaming experience. No matter what price point, feature or level of comfort ...

Megan Fox plays video games Flecking Records Ahh, yet another thing we have in common with Megan Fox – the chick plays video games. The actress has admitted that she is a gamer, although the people she plays with don't know who she is. “I have Halo: Reach. I have a complete addiction to that game ...

NCIS Video Games Announced By Redeema SAN FRANCISCO — September 21, 2011 —Ubisoft® and CBS Consumer Products are developing an all-new video game based on the top-rated drama series, NCIS. The game will be available worldwide ... DreamStation.cc

Australian Gamer News :: FFXIII-2 Release Date Australian Gamer. We apologise in advance. Turtle Beach Ear force PX5. Hardware by Barry. Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101. Hardware by Barry. Bench press the couch with UFC: Personal Trainer. Video Review by Barry. HOME · GAMES ... Australian Gamer RSS Feed

Film Subsidy Bucks Buy Video Games: Does Hollywood Glitz Still ... By Michigan Capitol Confidential Although celebrities like Clint Eastwood and Michael Moore have grabbed the headlines for Michigan's controversial film tax subsidy, taxpayers are... Concealed Politics

25 of the Worst Video Games of All Time – Holytaco By Ian Fortey A lot of games suck, it's hard to fathom how some get through development at all, but these 25 are some of the worst reviewed pieces of crap of all time. Don't play them. Just don&... Holytaco

Gamer Ingenuity and Beta Testing Mystery Ball | Red Nova Labs By nanheier Or more specifically, the gamer wins. In the study, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology over the weekend, a group of competing gamers were able to decipher the structure of an important enzyme within an AIDS-like virus. ... Red Nova Labs

You're Never Going to Save the World Playing Video Games! Are you? By Virtual Vantage Points I grew up in the 70's and 80's, in the early days of video game development when Pac Man ruled and the internet was not yet a part of the popular consciousness. Multi-user online games did not exist and social media meant making a ... Virtual Vantage Points

Fun Share of the Day: Video Games in Education | Launchpad Toys By Andy Russell Here at Launchpad Toys, we're big believers in the powers of ALL media to educate and inform. Some do it better than others, of course, and some. Launchpad Toys

Firefall Team Hires Professional Gamer Morgan Romine For eSports ... By admin An interview has hit the net of Morgan Romine, a professional gamer who has been hired by Red 5 Studios to polish the game to make gamers happy! Another MMO

From the few non-gamer redditors out there... : gaming That's why I got a bunch of friends who buy video games all day and I get to play them ... I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I nitpick all the time so I'll pass. permalink ... www.reddit.com/.../from_the_few_nongamer_redditors_out_t... PC Tech 101: The Gamer's Guide to PC Tech Gamespy.com It's enough to make the average gamer stick to consoles for life. But don't let these guys put you off. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to have a degree in computer engineering to build your own gaming rig. In fact, you don't even need to be ... Video games intruding on reality, study finds New Zealand Herald Some video-game players are so immersed in their virtual environment that when they stop playing, they transfer their experiences into the real world. A study found evidence of game transfer phenomena, which result in gamers doing things in the real ... Diablo 3 first impressions PC Gamer Magazine Here's what four members of the PC Gamer team think so far. Hint: they like it. Tim Edwards: So, we've played through the campaign as a group of four. Tom, you and I have completed a game as a two-some. The beta is about an hour-to-two hours long and ...