Sales of video games rise 4%

Sales of video games rise 4%
Los Angeles Times
By Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times The starting gun for the video game industry's crucial holiday season went off with a bang in September as sales of games perked up 4% after four consecutive months of declines, according to a report from market research ...
Video Games: Warner Bros. Announces "Batman: Arkham City Online Pass"
Comic Book Movie
Catwoman will be available for owners of NEW COPIES of Batman: Arkham City. If you purchase the game used, you will have to purchase Catwoman as a playable character UPDATE : Video Games : Warner Bros . Announces.
Video Games & Sex Appeal
CWRU Observer
I love/hate Ivy in that she plays really well (spoken as a gamer) but looks like she needs a HUGE A on her chest (spoken as my gender). But then again, for every series with cute ladies, we get the girls from DOA: Beach Volleyball. ...
COLUMN: Video games join the retro revolution
The Statesman
MANY CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES are reconstructed for newer consoles. Though the storyline may seem repetitive, gamers still play these games for nostalgic value. EVAN MILLSAP photo Our capacity for video game graphics increases daily, and the gore of each ...
How to ace video games
DAWN.com
By Wajhi Jafri | Spider Magazine Gaming is a passion shared by millions; and it is one's inherent competitive instincts that push him/her to master a game. Though spending considerable time, money and energy helps give some gamers a competitive...
Pocket Gamer Thursdays debate: Freemium vs Premium
Pocket Gamer.Biz
by Will Wilson The first ever Pocket Gamer Thursdays, sponsored by Papaya Mobile, took place at The Compass in Islington, London last Thursday. Two teams of mobile veterans went head-to-head in an debate over Premium and Freemium pricing models. ...
Devoted Nintendo Gamer TriForce Comes to New York Comic Con
Gather.com
This weekend, an avid Nintendo fan who goes by the name of TriForce enters New York Comic Con to visit the gaming company's booth. Funny thing is that this isn't the very first time Nintendo has seen this man's face. TriForce GameMaster, who for born ...
Final Fantasy XIV version 2.0 revealed, coming to PS3 in 2012
Computerandvideogames.com
PC Gamer awarded it 30 percent, saying "it is so deeply flawed that I can't even see how future updates could redeem it". In an open letter, Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida and Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada said Square Enix has ...
Video Games Fight for Shelf Space
BusinessWeek
By Cliff Edwards Since 2003, Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty shooter franchise has been such a juggernaut that few video game rivals dared stray into its blast radius. This holiday season, competitors are sending a different message: game on. ...
Should Baseball Players Be Allowed To Drink Beer, Eat Food & Play Video Games ...
DrJays.com Live
But don't let it be to drink beer, eat fast food, and play video games. When players do that, they're cheating their teams, they're cheating their fans, and, most importantly, they're cheating the game of baseball. So please, Major League Baseball: Do ...
The Average Gamer 10.14.11: Forza 4 Edition
411mania.com
From where the best place to get it is to a look at the game itself, 411's Dan Watson provides his thoughts on Forza 4 in this week's Average Gamer! Check out the full article to see if it's a game for you or not! Welcome back to the Average Gamer...
Video gamer to play 24 hours straight for children's hospital
KVOA Tucson News
So far, there are 55 people in Tucson set up to play video games for the Children's Miracle Network. One of them is Jason Uchman. He says it is something he has wanted to do for the past year and now, he will finally be able to use his favorite past ...
David Hasselhoff is a chicken for video games
ATV Today
He may have, apparently, been dropped from Britain's Got Talent faster than Susan Boyle can sing The Greatest Love of All, but David Hasselhoff is back to entertain American audiences – dressed as a chicken. The former Knight Rider actor, ...
Herald staff playing video games for Gillette Children's Hospital
Austin Herald
The Herald staff has collected more than $375 from friends and community members for our 24-hour video game marathon this Saturday, Oct. 15, and we need your help. We'd like to hit our goal of $500 for the Extra Life charity by 8 am Saturday and we ...
Video Games More Than Just Child's Play
WSAW
Once viewed as time-wasters and something only kids do, video games have become a major industry in the US and across the world. Trudi Miller, Assistant Professor of Computing and New Media Technologies at UW-Stevens Point tells Newschannel 7, ...
A Peek At Next-Gen Gaming: The Faster, Cheaper, Ultra-Realistic Future Of ...
Geeks of Doom
If someone were to ask you which of these two images was an actual photograph and which of the two was a demonstration of what the future of video games might look like, would you be able to answer correctly? Some of you may unleash your eagle–eye...
Friday £5 - Super Crossfire, Squids, Siegecraft, and Scribblenauts
Pocket Gamer
by Mark Brown We're a bunch of cheapskates at Pocket Gamer. You wouldn't know it with our flash cars and diamond-studded iPads, but when it comes to the App Store we'll wince at anything over 69p and will need to sleep on any big purchase for about a...
Tots Take Over as Video Games' Hottest Audience
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Preschoolers are the fastest-growing age group of gamers in the country, according to a new report from the NPD Group. Since 2009, the number of 2- to 5-year-old kids who game has grown 17 percent, outpacing overall growth in kid gaming by more than 4 ...
Why gamers are a great fit at the gym
CNN
"People don't realize that video games are an expression of personality," Talens said. "There's certain qualities that people have. They're obsessed with improving the stat sheets, getting to the next level; they pay a lot of attention to detail. ...
The Rapture's Vito Roccoforte Talks Comebacks, Video Games, and Massive ...
Miami New Times (blog)
By Arielle Castillo Fri., Oct. 14 2011 at 11:30 AM But don't call it a comeback, Roccoforte insisted during the interview. The last five years actually saw the band continually practicing, writing new music, and even enjoying a random smash hit single...
Pocket Gamer iPhone gaming podcast - Episode 146: iOS 5 saga, Warm Gun ...
Pocket Gamer
by Will Wilson It's just Keith and me in the podcast booth again this week, as Jon is off swanning about at GDC Online in Austin. The hot topic in the News section this week is our reaction to iOS 5 (once I finally managed to install it), the iPhone 4S ...
Gamers Go Retro at Retro Games Plus
Patch.com
Video games have become a part of our culture, our history, and sales show no signs of waning as the multibillion-dollar gaming industry continues to grow steadily, despite the weak economy. While most of the industry's growth is being fueled by the ...
Does Herman Cain Play SimCity?
CPUGamer (press release)
"Kip Katsarelis, a senior producer for Maxis, the company that created the SimCity series, was excited that politicians may be looking to video games for ideas. "We encourage politicians to continue to look to innovative games like SimCity for ...
TF2 players net $2 million from items sold through in-game store
Edge
How much is a Chinese gamer worth? How do you make a $50000 Flash game? Flash Game License co-founder Chris Hughes blows open the scene. Our week on the Flash gaming scene continues with an examination of the threats and competition it faces. ...
And in other PC gaming news…
PC Gamer Magazine
Archernick is giving away a copy of Batman: Arkham City to the PC Gamer Starcraft community. Check the forums for how to win it. Gaming Daily's Craig Lam talks about how he accidentally became one of the top 100 Virtua Tennis players in the world. ...
Where's The Darkness Movie?
IGN
by John Gaudiosi Top Cow Productions' first foray into video games, The Darkness, proved to be a big hit. After selling 1 million copies of Starbreeze Studios' horror action game, publisher 2K Games greenlit a sequel from developer Digital Extremes. ...
Joe Hadsall, Geeked Out: Novel recalls best of the '80s
Joplin Globe
Cline's love letter to '80s pop culture and video games is combined brilliantly with breakneck pacing and a surprisingly subtle plot despite its grand story line. If you grew up in the '80s, this book will fast become your new favorite book. ...
Flamebait Friday Debate: Does Religion Have A Place In Video Games?
Lazygamer
This week, I read a very interesting article on Gamespot about religion's place in video games. They mention games like DarkSiders and Dante's Inferno taking Christian themes and using them in video games and indeed I have seen even more religious ...
NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Review! It JAMS IT IN!
GoozerNation
In these ancient times when dinosaurs roamed the land, VHS players were a thing, and Pepsi was clear, we went to public establishments to get our fix on some of the greatest video games that existed. Nowadays, youngsters only see these relics of ...
Activistion, EA prepare for holiday gun fight
Chicago Tribune
This holiday season, Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts will battle for supremacy in the $5 billion a year market for first-person shooter video games. Just two weeks apart, the two companies are releasing major sequels of games where players ...
Ingenious iOS puzzler Quarrel Deluxe just 69p/99c for limited time
Pocket Gamer
by Anthony Usher Pocket Gamer Gold Award-winning word game Quarrel Deluxe has been slashed in price, meaning you can grab the puzzler for 69p/99c until the 17th of October. A mixture of popular boardgames Risk and Scrabble, Quarrel Deluxe tasks you ...
The Weekly Gamer: Gaming News 10.14.2011 | GUY.com
By Stewart Smith
The Weekly Gamer: Gaming News 10.7.11. The Xbox is more than just a gaming consol, Grimlock returns to the Transformers franchise, we get a sneak peak at the new Zelda and a new first person shooter and Gears of War gets 'tooned in the weekly gamer... Online passes are quickly becoming more and more commonplace in video games these days, although usually they are only required for players to access multiplayer content. The way it works is that the pass comes free with ...
GUY.com
5 Real Skills Video Games Have Secretly Been Teaching Us - Digg
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