Discovery News
Equipped with 3-D goggles and sophisticated software, humans are able to control everything the rover does. Think of this as the ultimate video game. PHOTOS: Video Game Fails. Driving and controlling the rover isn't like steering a remote-control car here ...
Hardcore gamer tempts fate: Ohio teen Tyler Rigsby collapses after 5 straight ...
New York Daily News
If you are a hardcore gamer and go into really long sessions, be sure to sleep and take in fluids, or you might become a statistic yourself. Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, said gamers should avoid ...
New York Daily News
How the Video Games Industry Is Faring
ABC News
Last week, companies that make games started issuing their quarterly reports. Here's a look at reports and results for selected companies that make or sell video games. — July 12: NPD Group reports that U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software ...
Hardcore Video Gamers Risk Health Problems
NBC4i.com
15-Year-Old Columbus Gamer Collapses After 4-Day Gaming Marathon. Hardcore Video ... August 07, 2012). A Columbus teenager was hospitalized Tuesday morning after he played a single video game for more than four days -- and then collapsed. (more) ...
The Case For Video Games as an Olympic Sport
Kotaku
Video games, perhaps, should have had a place in the ongoing London Summer Games of the XXX Olympiad. Not surprisingly, I've been able to find several video game experts who agree, though all do not and some make good cases against.
Teenage gamer collapses after fourth day of "Modern Warfare" marathon
NEWS.com.au
WBNS-TV reports that fifteen-year-old Columbus teen Tyler Rigsby collapsed and was taken to hospital on Tuesday after becoming severely dehydrated. His mother says he emerged from his bedroom during the four days only to pick up snacks or take a ...
NEWS.com.au
When video games and music come together and create memories
VentureBeat
When video games and music come together and create memories. When video games and music come together and create memories. August 8, 2012 8:34 AM Tristan Damen , Bitmob · Add a Comment. When my wife and I started dating, I began using the ...
Crysis 3 maker, Crytek, opens China video games studio
BBC News
The makers of the Crysis video games series have announced they are opening a new studio in China. German developer Crytek said its Shanghai base would work on local uses of CryEngine - the software that powers games' graphics and provides artificial ...
BBC News
Teen survives four-day video game binge
UPI.com
8 (UPI) -- A Columbus, Ohio, teen was hospitalized after collapsing at the end a four-day binge of playing the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare," reports said. Tyler Rigsby, 15, stayed in his room with his Xbox from Saturday until Tuesday morning, ...
Smells Like Mega Man: An Industrial Scent Company Develops Fragrances For ...
Hartford Courant
Why video game characters should have specific scents is a normal question to ask, and there are certain characters that even the most fervent of fans might not want to sniff. (Think Mario and Luigi's scent of a plumber, or consider the various directions ... David Bedoukian, son of company president Robert Bedoukian, and Drew Corcoran both loved video games and worked closely with fragrances, so it might have just been a matter of time. They started talking about how their favorite characters and games lacked ...
Pocket Gamer Court: The people vs in-app purchases
Pocket Gamer
Pocket Gamer reader Rich1982 doesn't see what all the fuss is about. He believes that "weirdly there is this sense of entitlement that comes from paying something even if it is a little as 69p which is actually a tiny amount of money." As long as he gets a decent ...
Review: 'IOGear 3D Complete+'
Examiner.com
While television programming has yet to make use of 3D in an impactful manner, movies and video games continue to support 3D to deliver more immersive and engaging experiences for the user. Although Microsoft's Xbox 360 has a few select games that ...
Examiner.com
Watch Now: Playing Video Games Makes Batman Angry In 'The Dark Knight ...
Geeks of Doom
But for some reason he just can't seem to get a handle on playing video games. In fact, they tend to make him irrationally angry, as you'll see in this clever short video The Dark Knight Rages put together by the little comedic geniuses at Crave Online. You can ...
Geeks of Doom
Should Video Game Fans Care More About Sports?
Kotaku
And what would a Friday Night Lights video game look like? Someone get a fire extinguisher! Those are some… ... At the risk of biting into stale stereotypes, maybe it's that whole geek/jock high school mentality that draws clear lines between People Who Play Sports and People Who PlayVideo Games. Do you think those lines exist today? Kirk: It's hard to say ..... It's a different breed ofgamer than your Valve-obsessed, Skyrim-modding chiptune listener. But should that be the case? To try to answer the Burning ...
Teen gamer collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon, playing Modern Warfare 3
WTSP 10 News
Teen gamer collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon, playing Modern Warfare 3. 9:27 AM, Aug 8, 2012 | comments. A scene from the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3". Tweet; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google buzz; Del.icio.us · Digg · Reddit ...
WTSP 10 News
The Expendables 2 Video Game Review
Attack of the Fanboy
The Expendables 2 isn't the first horrible video game adaptation of an upcoming movie to hit the market, but it is certainly the latest in the long history of poorly made tie-ins. Good movie tie-ins of video games are generally the exception and not the rule, The...
Attack of the Fanboy
Active Video Games Can Lead to More Exercise
Counsel & Heal
With the nation's obesity rates a continuos issue, you might want to burn some calories by investing in some active video games or "exergames" as they are called. A Michigan State University researcher reviewed published research of studies of these games ...
Counsel & Heal
Yale Developing iPad Video Game to Prevent HIV Infection Among Youth
HealthNewsDigest.com
Yale researchers are developing a video game for the iPad aimed at preventing HIV infection among ethnic minority adolescents. Their study appears in Games for Health, a new journal focused specifically on the development, use, and applications of game ...
HealthNewsDigest.com
Teen collapses after four days of video games
Canton Repository
A four-day Xbox gaming marathon apparently was too much for one 15-year-old Ohio boy. WBNS-TV reports that the Columbus teen collapsed and was hospitalized Tuesday after becoming severely dehydrated. His mother said he emerged from his bedroom ...
Video game inventor demonstrates multimedia box...in 1973
Gamasutra
Thanks to Germany's Computer Spiele Museum a rare piece of history is now available online: a 1973 demonstration by Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video games, about the potential of a multimedia set-top box. If you'd simply like to see the only existing ...
The Father of Video Games Explained The All-Purpose Multimedia Home ...
Gizmodo
Ralph Baer basically invented video games. During the 1960s, when television itself was still fairly newfangled, he was piecing together how the first video game console, launched in 1972, could work. It wasn't just video games that Baer figured out, though. ... Clear notifications ×. Profile; Logout. Sign in. TraditionalEntire page scrolls; Two panesSidebar scrolls independently; Blog viewListing of stories by date. Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012. Latest Stories. Latest Stories; Most Popular; Most Discussed. The Gamer's Guide ...
THQ Cancels Guillermo Del Toro's 'inSane' Video Game Trilogy
Geeks of Doom
Remember that video game titled inSane being developed by Volition Studios along with the great Guillermo del Toro through THQ? Last we heard a year or so ago they had been developing it for about a year with still two to three more years to go, it was...
Geeks of Doom
Teen Hospitalized After Four-Day Video Game Marathon
Indiana's NewsCenter
According to Ohio television station WCMH, a 15-year-old Ohio boy was hospitalized with dehydration after collapsing following a marathon video game session that lasted four days. Watch video and read the WCMH story HERE. Digital Daily – subscribe to...
Indiana's NewsCenter
Diablo III Enthusiast Nets $10K, Offers Insights Into Virtual Economies
Forbes
... Top Colleges · Video Electronic Cash Kings · Jason Evangelho, Contributor. I write about the thrilling crossover of video games and technology. Follow Following Unfollow ... The gamer goes by the Reddit handle “WishboneTheDog,” and recently posted a subreddit showing PayPal transactions which, if genuine, prove that this resourceful gamer has averaged $1500 per week from effectively playing a video game. The investment? $60 to purchase Diablo III, and nothing more. That's a healthy ROI. The Diablo III ...
Review – Shadow Era (iOS and PC)
GamerFront
If there was a way to combine what I love best about trading card games and video games, Shadow Era would hit that nail on the head twice. I've been a Magic: The Gathering player since high school, and more recently I've gotten into the World of Warcraft ...
'Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken' headed for Steam
Examiner.com
David Leavitt, Boston Video Game Examiner. David has been addicted to video games since he jumped on his first Koopa at the age of five. David enjoys video games from every genre and is also Featured Contributor at Yahoo! Voices. You may contact him ...
Some of the Greatest Video Game Pictures You'll Ever See
Kotaku
Some of the Greatest Video Game Pictures You'll Ever See If you've been reading Kotaku for a while, you may already be familiar with the name Genzoman. Or, as his mother knows him, Gonzalo Ordoñez Arias. The Chilean illustrator, part of the illustrious ...
This Week In Video Game Criticism: From elitism to sexual harassment
Gamasutra
I'm happy to handle This Week In Video Game Criticism if it means you can have all of the cats. First off, Josh Straub at Game Informer enlightens us on his definition of game "accessibility", as informed by his being a disabled gamer. He says that it's not about dropping a ... The Mary Sue's lovely regular contributor Becky Chambers does it again with a look at the concept of "flow" in games, or as she puts it, That Time J.R.R. Tolkien Wrote A Short Story About Video Games. Excitingly, Robert Yang of the Radiator blog ...
Gamasutra
7 Amazing Video Games We'll Never Get to Play | Cracked.com
Video games face the same gargantuan hurdle as every other creative medium: To get your property made, you have to first filter it through a lot of people who hate ideas almost as much as they love money. Before you can create something truly novel, it must ... Unlimited power is only interesting for a few minutes -- that's why every video game is a progression of increasing strength that ends with your character at their most powerful phase. Once you get over the novelty of that deadly ...
Cracked: All Posts
Kotaku
Video games, perhaps, should have had a place in the ongoing London Summer Games of the XXX Olympiad. Not surprisingly, I've been able to find several video game experts who agree, though all do not and some make good cases against.
Teenage gamer collapses after fourth day of "Modern Warfare" marathon
NEWS.com.au
WBNS-TV reports that fifteen-year-old Columbus teen Tyler Rigsby collapsed and was taken to hospital on Tuesday after becoming severely dehydrated. His mother says he emerged from his bedroom during the four days only to pick up snacks or take a ...
NEWS.com.au
When video games and music come together and create memories
VentureBeat
When video games and music come together and create memories. When video games and music come together and create memories. August 8, 2012 8:34 AM Tristan Damen , Bitmob · Add a Comment. When my wife and I started dating, I began using the ...
Crysis 3 maker, Crytek, opens China video games studio
BBC News
The makers of the Crysis video games series have announced they are opening a new studio in China. German developer Crytek said its Shanghai base would work on local uses of CryEngine - the software that powers games' graphics and provides artificial ...
BBC News
Teen survives four-day video game binge
UPI.com
8 (UPI) -- A Columbus, Ohio, teen was hospitalized after collapsing at the end a four-day binge of playing the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare," reports said. Tyler Rigsby, 15, stayed in his room with his Xbox from Saturday until Tuesday morning, ...
Smells Like Mega Man: An Industrial Scent Company Develops Fragrances For ...
Hartford Courant
Why video game characters should have specific scents is a normal question to ask, and there are certain characters that even the most fervent of fans might not want to sniff. (Think Mario and Luigi's scent of a plumber, or consider the various directions ... David Bedoukian, son of company president Robert Bedoukian, and Drew Corcoran both loved video games and worked closely with fragrances, so it might have just been a matter of time. They started talking about how their favorite characters and games lacked ...
Pocket Gamer Court: The people vs in-app purchases
Pocket Gamer
Pocket Gamer reader Rich1982 doesn't see what all the fuss is about. He believes that "weirdly there is this sense of entitlement that comes from paying something even if it is a little as 69p which is actually a tiny amount of money." As long as he gets a decent ...
Review: 'IOGear 3D Complete+'
Examiner.com
While television programming has yet to make use of 3D in an impactful manner, movies and video games continue to support 3D to deliver more immersive and engaging experiences for the user. Although Microsoft's Xbox 360 has a few select games that ...
Examiner.com
Watch Now: Playing Video Games Makes Batman Angry In 'The Dark Knight ...
Geeks of Doom
But for some reason he just can't seem to get a handle on playing video games. In fact, they tend to make him irrationally angry, as you'll see in this clever short video The Dark Knight Rages put together by the little comedic geniuses at Crave Online. You can ...
Geeks of Doom
Should Video Game Fans Care More About Sports?
Kotaku
And what would a Friday Night Lights video game look like? Someone get a fire extinguisher! Those are some… ... At the risk of biting into stale stereotypes, maybe it's that whole geek/jock high school mentality that draws clear lines between People Who Play Sports and People Who PlayVideo Games. Do you think those lines exist today? Kirk: It's hard to say ..... It's a different breed ofgamer than your Valve-obsessed, Skyrim-modding chiptune listener. But should that be the case? To try to answer the Burning ...
Teen gamer collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon, playing Modern Warfare 3
WTSP 10 News
Teen gamer collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon, playing Modern Warfare 3. 9:27 AM, Aug 8, 2012 | comments. A scene from the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3". Tweet; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google buzz; Del.icio.us · Digg · Reddit ...
WTSP 10 News
The Expendables 2 Video Game Review
Attack of the Fanboy
The Expendables 2 isn't the first horrible video game adaptation of an upcoming movie to hit the market, but it is certainly the latest in the long history of poorly made tie-ins. Good movie tie-ins of video games are generally the exception and not the rule, The...
Attack of the Fanboy
Active Video Games Can Lead to More Exercise
Counsel & Heal
With the nation's obesity rates a continuos issue, you might want to burn some calories by investing in some active video games or "exergames" as they are called. A Michigan State University researcher reviewed published research of studies of these games ...
Counsel & Heal
Yale Developing iPad Video Game to Prevent HIV Infection Among Youth
HealthNewsDigest.com
Yale researchers are developing a video game for the iPad aimed at preventing HIV infection among ethnic minority adolescents. Their study appears in Games for Health, a new journal focused specifically on the development, use, and applications of game ...
HealthNewsDigest.com
Teen collapses after four days of video games
Canton Repository
A four-day Xbox gaming marathon apparently was too much for one 15-year-old Ohio boy. WBNS-TV reports that the Columbus teen collapsed and was hospitalized Tuesday after becoming severely dehydrated. His mother said he emerged from his bedroom ...
Video game inventor demonstrates multimedia box...in 1973
Gamasutra
Thanks to Germany's Computer Spiele Museum a rare piece of history is now available online: a 1973 demonstration by Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video games, about the potential of a multimedia set-top box. If you'd simply like to see the only existing ...
The Father of Video Games Explained The All-Purpose Multimedia Home ...
Gizmodo
Ralph Baer basically invented video games. During the 1960s, when television itself was still fairly newfangled, he was piecing together how the first video game console, launched in 1972, could work. It wasn't just video games that Baer figured out, though. ... Clear notifications ×. Profile; Logout. Sign in. TraditionalEntire page scrolls; Two panesSidebar scrolls independently; Blog viewListing of stories by date. Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012. Latest Stories. Latest Stories; Most Popular; Most Discussed. The Gamer's Guide ...
THQ Cancels Guillermo Del Toro's 'inSane' Video Game Trilogy
Geeks of Doom
Remember that video game titled inSane being developed by Volition Studios along with the great Guillermo del Toro through THQ? Last we heard a year or so ago they had been developing it for about a year with still two to three more years to go, it was...
Geeks of Doom
Teen Hospitalized After Four-Day Video Game Marathon
Indiana's NewsCenter
According to Ohio television station WCMH, a 15-year-old Ohio boy was hospitalized with dehydration after collapsing following a marathon video game session that lasted four days. Watch video and read the WCMH story HERE. Digital Daily – subscribe to...
Indiana's NewsCenter
Diablo III Enthusiast Nets $10K, Offers Insights Into Virtual Economies
Forbes
... Top Colleges · Video Electronic Cash Kings · Jason Evangelho, Contributor. I write about the thrilling crossover of video games and technology. Follow Following Unfollow ... The gamer goes by the Reddit handle “WishboneTheDog,” and recently posted a subreddit showing PayPal transactions which, if genuine, prove that this resourceful gamer has averaged $1500 per week from effectively playing a video game. The investment? $60 to purchase Diablo III, and nothing more. That's a healthy ROI. The Diablo III ...
Review – Shadow Era (iOS and PC)
GamerFront
If there was a way to combine what I love best about trading card games and video games, Shadow Era would hit that nail on the head twice. I've been a Magic: The Gathering player since high school, and more recently I've gotten into the World of Warcraft ...
'Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken' headed for Steam
Examiner.com
David Leavitt, Boston Video Game Examiner. David has been addicted to video games since he jumped on his first Koopa at the age of five. David enjoys video games from every genre and is also Featured Contributor at Yahoo! Voices. You may contact him ...
Some of the Greatest Video Game Pictures You'll Ever See
Kotaku
Some of the Greatest Video Game Pictures You'll Ever See If you've been reading Kotaku for a while, you may already be familiar with the name Genzoman. Or, as his mother knows him, Gonzalo Ordoñez Arias. The Chilean illustrator, part of the illustrious ...
This Week In Video Game Criticism: From elitism to sexual harassment
Gamasutra
I'm happy to handle This Week In Video Game Criticism if it means you can have all of the cats. First off, Josh Straub at Game Informer enlightens us on his definition of game "accessibility", as informed by his being a disabled gamer. He says that it's not about dropping a ... The Mary Sue's lovely regular contributor Becky Chambers does it again with a look at the concept of "flow" in games, or as she puts it, That Time J.R.R. Tolkien Wrote A Short Story About Video Games. Excitingly, Robert Yang of the Radiator blog ...
Gamasutra
7 Amazing Video Games We'll Never Get to Play | Cracked.com
Video games face the same gargantuan hurdle as every other creative medium: To get your property made, you have to first filter it through a lot of people who hate ideas almost as much as they love money. Before you can create something truly novel, it must ... Unlimited power is only interesting for a few minutes -- that's why every video game is a progression of increasing strength that ends with your character at their most powerful phase. Once you get over the novelty of that deadly ...
Cracked: All Posts
Amazon is now making video games | News | GameZone
Amazon is now making video games. Amazon is now a game maker. In a quiet debut, the popular ...Video game news, video game reviews, walkthroughs, video game mods, and game trailers. Gamezone Facebook Page · Gamezone Twitter ...
Gamezone.com News
Amazon is now making video games. Amazon is now a game maker. In a quiet debut, the popular ...Video game news, video game reviews, walkthroughs, video game mods, and game trailers. Gamezone Facebook Page · Gamezone Twitter ...
Gamezone.com News
Grid 2 Video Game - Gaming - eWallstreeter
The game is available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and now Codemasters announced new Grid video game Grid 2 which will be 2nd game in Grid Franchise. Game will be coming out sometime in [...] Continue reading ...
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Five Awesome Video Game Documentaries |
By Sara Clemens
The kind of Googling skills where you go straight to YouTube and search “Rise of the Video Game.” I'm sure you all can handle it. This is kind of a “Video Games 101,” in that it gives an erudite survey of the history of video games, both in terms ...
Active Video Games May Not Get Kids More Active | FYI BeHealthy
Active Video Games May Not Get Kids More Active. Giving children an “active” dancing or sportsvideo game may not necessarily make them more active. Posted on August 8, 2012 by. by. Posted 08/8/12 1:50 PM ET. WebMD Medical News ...
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Realistic: A scene from the video game "America's Army." U.S. Army ... "The video gamesindustry has always been a driver for technology," Wilbur says. "We are ...
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