Look Inside 'Video Games New York,' An Old School Gamer's Paradise

Look Inside 'Video Games New York,' An Old School Gamer's Paradise
Business Insider
It's also a video game museum showcasing the evolution of gaming history, from the very first console prototypes to the modern and flashy PSP and Nintendo 3DS. "Video games are a part of American history," Graziani told us, "it's a culture and its ...

Business Insider

Teens and Video Games: How Much Is Too Much?
LiveScience.com
The gamer community had a near-miss this week in Ohio, when a 15-year-old boy collapsed after playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" for up to five days straight. The Columbus teen was rushed to the hospital with severe dehydration, where he ...

Blizzard Video Game Company Hacked, Change Your Battle.Net Passwords Now
Lifehacker
Blizzard Video Game Company Hacked, Change Your Battle.Net Passwords Now If you play video games such as World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft, you'll want to change your Battle.Net passwords right now—Blizzard, maker of said games, has had a ...

Shane Butcher, Video Game Store Owner, Auctioning Off His Whole Life On ...
Huffington Post
In the market for a video game store chain? You can get one on eBay along with essentially the entire life of the man who owns it. For the asking price of $3.5 million savvy bidders can score Shane Butcher's three video-game stores, his two homes, cars ...

AJ Lee talks video games, pro wrestling
ESPN (blog)
As a gamer, what would it mean to you if you find out that you'll actually become avideo game character? I am so waiting for that day. Recently, my first action figure was announced, and when you look at things you want to do, action figure is one of ...
 
ESPN (blog)

OUYA Kickstarter campaign ends, founder couldn't be happier
Examiner.com
OUYA's success is an important moment in the always evolving video game industry. It is important for gamers and independent developers alike who are no doubt inspired by the ... Without talking too much into the lineup of video games that will be made ...

Organization to promote high school science with a video game
Baltimore Sun
And several video games for middle, high school, and college students have resulted from the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a competition backed by the White House in which young people design science-based video games. The nation's focus ...

Big Huge Relief: Epic Games hires laid-off video game pros, creates new studio ...
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Somewhere around 90-100 or so were laid off abruptly at Big Huge's office, which helped design the "Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning" video game, which was released earlier this year. Big Huge was part of former baseball start Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, ...

Surgeon writes about how video game addiction nearly destroyed his life.
Sacramento Bee
Hooked on Games is written by Brooke Strickland and Andrew Doan, MD, PhD, a physician with a research background in neuroscience, who battled his own addictions with video games. Dr. Doan was an addicted gamer, who at his peak, invested over ...

July video game sales fall 20%
Los Angeles Times
The summer doldrums hit July video game sales, which fell 20% from last year, according to a monthly survey by NPD Group. The game ... Pachter attributed the console sales malaise to "gamer fatigue" stemming from a dearth of new game franchises. Nine ...

Los Angeles Times

Video games have a serious side
Green Bay Press Gazette
Architects, medical training operations and even the government increasingly are tapping into the high-tech software that drives today's top video games. ... This cross-pollination of video gametechnology and other disciplines is not new. Filmmaker ...

John Wall meets fans, plays video games
Washington Post (blog)
John Wall meets fans, plays video games · No Olympic medals for Wizards · Wizards expected to hire Jerry Sichting (updated) · John Wall to assist President Obama · Wizards playing free agent waiting game · Nene sits, Kevin Seraphin starts on final day ...

Video Game Quick Hits 8/10/12
Big Shiny Robot!
If your only hobby is video games, just know that he wrote that fantastic stories for both Batman: Arkham games. Unfortunately he won't be writing the next one for Rocksteady, currently planned as a Silver Age / JLA story. There doesn't seem to be any ...

Big Shiny Robot!

US Video Game Sales Drop for 8th Straight Month
ABC News
U.S. retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell for the eighth straight month in July as the industry continued to look ahead toward the release of new equipment to cure its woes. Overall sales fell 20 percent to $548.4 ...

Ouya video game console ends Kickstarter campaign with $8.5 million
CBS News
That's the message that developers of the Ouya wanted to send when it proposed a console that is also a software development kit (SDK). An SDK is a set of guidelines for developers to write a sotware for video game consoles, computers or smartphones.

CBS News

Top Secret Pre-Order Plans For Activision Publishing's 007™ Legends Video ...
Embedded.com
10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rogue spies have breached MI6 and uncovered information on pre-order exclusives for this year's upcoming 007™ Legends video game. Fans that reserve an early copy of 007 Legends in North America – planned to launch ...

The Average Gamer 8.10.12: Best Co-Op Experience Edition
411mania.com
Welcome back to a very wet edition of the Average Gamer. We finally have gotten a much needed rain which created some great gaming sessions for myself and hopefully all of you out there. Nothing beats knowing you cannot be doing anything outside so ...

411mania.com

[Dead Days Of Summer] Day 5: The Creepiest Video Game Easter Eggs
Bloody Disgusting
I love myself a good video game, and I'm sure you do too. Usually, a game has to really suck me in for me to want to spend a lot of time with it, as I'm usually not the type of gamer who invests dozens of hours into a single game. Horror games ...

Bloody Disgusting

Friday Five... Alternative Olympic video games
Pocket Gamer
Last week, we looked at the official Olympics video games for handhelds. Po-faced sport simulators, they were, designed to ... Please don't drop your iPhone. PocketGamer takes no responsibility for gadgets that are smashed during playtime. King Of...

Pocket Gamer

Overall video game sales dive 20 percent in July, 3DS and NCAA Football 13 ...
VentureBeat
U.S. video game retail sales fell 20 percent in July, with total industry sales falling to $548.4 million from $686.3 million a year ago, according to consumer market research firm NPD Group. This reflects the continuing trend of gaming growth as a ...

VentureBeat

2012 Has Been a Great Year For a Little to Mean a Lot in Video Games
Kotaku
From the way you play it—pretty much just rolling and jumping—to the environments you play through, Sound Shapes is a shining example of minimalism in video games. Now, Sound Shapes could have delivered the same core experience with a tacked-on ...

Rhode Island takes possession of 38 Studios' assets
Examiner.com
Chris Bolts, Goodyear Video Games Examiner. Chris Bolts has been playing games since the Atari 2600. He has played games on every system since the NES and still thinks that Final Fantasy VI is the greatest RPG of all time. His favorite genres include...

Examiner.com

Steam to offer non game applications – Video Games Update
bettor.com (blog)
Steam to offer non game applications – Video Games Update. It seems that Valve will also be expanding to offer more than just video games on its digital distribution service Steam as the company is planning to bring software to the platform. Gamers ...

Insert Coin(s) Brings Worlds First Video Game Themed Nightclub to Minneapolis
Broadcast Newsroom
Located across from the Fine Line (in the former Karma location), the new attraction will mix a video DJ, local art, and a full bar with 45 refurbished classic arcade cabinets and 38 HDTV video gameconsoles ranging from Atari 2600 to Super Nintendo to ...

A Video Game Themed Restaurant is Coming to Canada
Techvibes (blog)
Vancouver will soon host Canada's first video game-themed restaurant as Brian Vidovic's EXP Restaurant and Bar approaches its opening day. It's a project that Vidovic has long ... The one thing it can't host is actual video games. For the past six ...

Dwight Howard Coming to Lakers in Blockbuster Trade, Playing Lots of Call of ...
GamerLive.TV
Howard is an avid video gamer and is so confident in his gaming abilities that he openly gives out his Xbox Live Gamertag (WarriorDH12) and has issued a challenge for all gamers to come and show him what they got. Howard says he plays video games five ...

Best video game movies | GamesRadar
We all know what infamous director Uwe Boll has done to gaming films, churning out shlock loosely based on gaming properties - but there are a few video game films out there that are actually quite good. While these films certainly aren't your ...
GamesRadar - PC Features

If video games and consoles were... cocktails? | GamesRadar
If video games were cocktails. The phrase "a heady cocktail" is a tired, overused games journalism cliche. It's a cheap, stock, go-to line, used to lazily encapsulate a title with a whole bunch of stuff going on in it, while really only describing it in the most generic of terms. But it got me thinking. What if it was .... Your website was my favorite video game site, but two months ago, you started cranking out the most, pointless, dull, articles I have ever seen. You make Yahoo!'s Chris Chase look...
GamesRadar - Xbox 360 Features

Video Game Sales Continue To Slide In July - G4tv.com
By sjohnson
The bad times continue to roll for the video game industry. According to the industry analysts at the NPD Group, In July, retail software sales fell 20 percent to $548.4 million. Last year...
G4 TV - TheFeed

Video Game Sales Down in July - Zacks.com
By Zacks Equity Research
Video game retail sales declined for the eighth consecutive month in July 2012.
Zacks Investment Research - All...

Growing up with a real monster – video game tells one boy's story
By Maria Eugenia Alcón
Growing up with a real monster – video game tells one boy's story. by Winda Benedetti,nbcnews.com. 10:26 am on 08/10/2012. It was video games that helped Vander Caballero survive his childhood. “When I played games, I felt I was in ...
NBC Latino

Video Games: Sam Fisher? Mad Moxxi? Mario? - Memebase: Rage ...
By Cheezburger Network
Video Games: Sam Fisher? Mad Moxxi? Mario? x. Share. internet memes - Video Games: Sam Fisher? Mad Moxxi? Mario? Get Over Here and Play a Video Game · Incorrect source or offensive? any charactercategory:the internetsworld we ...
Memebase: Rage Comics, Forever...

Reports emerging of serious compromises at video game giant | The ...
By Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
Reports emerging of serious compromises at video game giant. August 10, 2012 at 8:26 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew. Fortune 500 companies and even defense contractors have been hit. Now Blizzard Entertainment, the unit of Activision ...
The Zingularity

Court Names Receiver For Schilling Video Game Company « CBS ...
By WTIC News
A court has appointed a receiver for former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company now that its bankruptcy case has been moved from Delaware to Rhode Island.
CBS Connecticut

See Who Made IGN's Top 10 Video Game Makers In The Industry ...
By Ana Douglas
Blizzard: Many know Blizzard thanks to the huge popularity of "StarCraft" but this American video game developer and publisher have also produced other big hits, including "World of Warcraft" (this game still has over 10 million subscribers), " The Lost Vikings," and "Titan." 7. Valve: Valve ...Nintendo: This Japanese giant is responsible for legendary titles that has revolutionized the way we play video games. .... Look Inside 'Video Games New York,' An Old School Gamer's Paradise 1 ...
Business Insider

Major Video Game Developer Announces New Hunt Valley Studio ...
By Nick DiMarco
Epic Games has stepped in to help dozens of out-of-work video game creators after the closing of Big Huge Games in Timonium.
Lutherville-Timonium Patch

Ouya video game console ends Kickstarter campaign with $8.5 ...
Concept video game console is a bona fide success on site that lets people ... Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo to release SDKs, so they can produce video games.
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