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According to a communication professor at the University of Texas in Austin (UTA), people's representations in online worlds and computer games – known as their avatars – can exert a strong, negative influence on their owner's behavior, even if they are just virtual characters. In digital techno... |
11 November 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Nokia's plans for the popular N-Gage gaming platform are rather bad news for users and fans. No more games will be published for the platform, and all titles will be moved to the Ovi Store, while the currently available N-Gage games will remain available for purchase only until September. Moreover, the N-Gage we... |
31 October 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Just a few days ago we looked at the lawsuit Gamefly is currently fighting against the United States Postal Service regarding preferential sorting treatment. Apparently, some post offices have special mail slots for Netflix and Blockbuster, which would reduce the chances that a product will be damaged during transit,... |
19 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has announced CrossOver Games 8.0.0, the first version of the piece of software to fully support Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard (CrossOver Mac is already friends with Mac OS X 10.6). The piece of software enables Mac users to play the most popular Windows PC titles on their Macs, without using costly virtual... |
3 September 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Hollywood and the gaming industry are becoming closer and closer these days, as almost any new blockbuster has to get a video game tie-in, in order to get even more money for the companies involved in the project. Also, in most cases, these games benefit from famous actors coming in and doing the voice work for their... |
4 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry is huge these days, and it certainly is proving to be very successful in fending off the negative aspects of the worldwide recession. Even though most of the companies involved are recording losses these days, things aren't as bad as in other areas of the industry. But this trend won't ... |
4 August 2009
02:22 GMT |
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As you all know, a few weeks ago, the world lost one of its most iconic superstars, the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Since then, we've been flooded with information about the famous singer, in regard to how he impacted the whole world through his actions. We've even seen famous gaming company Se... |
15 July 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Figures released by Mobclix have recently shown that Apple’s App Store hosts roughly 13,000 games at the moment, accounting for 20 percent of the total number of applications, spanning categories like utilities, entertainment, sports, travel, etc. Softpedia reported these findings noting that iPhone application... |
8 July 2009
04:32 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Apple’s App Store, now one year old, currently offers a whopping 13,000 immediately downloadable games, most of which are suitable for all iPhone and iPod touch models. Gameindustry.biz reports that the popular App Store now “features over 13,000 games for the iPhone, accounting... |
7 July 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Evil. It is the center point for a lot of video games these days, as many tell the story of a brave and good character going up against the forces of evil and eventually vanquishing them in a tour de force. After that, all is well in the land, peace reigns and everyone can start hugging puppies and kittens until they... |
3 July 2009
04:37 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded scientists at the North Carolina State University (NC State) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) a $1.2-million grant to study the effects that playing games would have on the senior segment of the population. The researchers' main goal is t... |
1 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Experts from the Tel Aviv University Goldschleger Eye Research Institute, led by eye and brain specialist Dr. Uri Polat, recently announced the completion of a new form of treating amblyopia, more commonly known as “the lazy eye syndrome,” a condition that affects one in four children. Current treatments ... |
23 June 2009
05:39 GMT |
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PlayScreen, which already released some of the most popular iPhone web-based games, announced recently that it had launched a portal that offered access to more than 25 games for the newly available Palm Pre. According to the company, users of a Pre smartphone can now enjoy either casual, action, puzzle or social gam... |
13 June 2009
04:58 GMT |
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The future has always puzzled humanity and scientists, but it has also proved to be an interesting aspect for the gaming industry, which has seen a lot of its creations take place many years, decades or centuries in the future and also offered some interesting views on how things will be then. But thanks to a recent... |
26 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic characters that, whether they are known for their personality, attitude or deepness, are now famous around the world. Of course, Hollywood wasn't oblivious to such a thing and has turned a lot of them into movie stars, courtesy of actors. Such is the case with the lovely ... |
20 May 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The movie-making and gaming industries are becoming closer and closer these days, trying to deliver one all-encompassing experience to the end user, from which the biggest amount of money can be extracted. We see properties being developed from the ground up already including a movie, comic book and, last but not lea... |
16 May 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Consoles these days depend on a lot of features in order to make them stand out and be bought by an average gamer. A big decisive factor is the online service, especially the one through which games can be purchased, downloaded and then played by the user without him leaving his own home.While the Xbox 360 has its Xb... |
15 May 2009
02:28 GMT |
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Those of you who love the PalmOS and like to see it running have now a reason to rejoice, as we learn that they can now play games for the platform on their home PCs. To be more precise, Handcase has just announced that it has developed a ROM to run on the Palm emulator, which is free, the same as the emulator, and o... |
7 May 2009
01:53 GMT |
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The companies involved in the gaming industry, like almost any other corporations that market products, bet big on the holiday seasons in order to generate bigger sales for their titles. That is why in the last quarter of the year, with the period before the Christmas celebrations, a lot of great titles usually appea... |
28 April 2009
03:14 GMT |
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Ever since their appearance, somewhere in the 1980s, video games gained a solid and ever-growing support from the young. But that is not all. Year after year, they began growing in importance and nowadays they constitute a whole, constantly flourishing industry. And a profitable one too. There are many free titles at... |
22 April 2009
11:41 GMT |
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For quite some time, Hollywood has been aware of the gaming industry. At the beginning, it was largely due to the fact that the latter had a lot of stories ready to be picked up by the producers in Los Angeles and turned into blockbusters, which would guarantee a profit, as there was already an established fan base f... |
11 April 2009
06:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry doesn't have the brightest record with many politicians, as a lot of them blamed it for violent children and for corrupting the minds of young people by promoting indecent behavior. But every once in a while, local and even national authorities do realize the importance of having successful g... |
9 April 2009
11:11 GMT |
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The console war has seen many battles waged among the top three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, with arguments ranging from the features of their devices to online interactivity or game lineup, each of them claiming to be the best. We've already reported on Edge magazine's study about the qual... |
8 April 2009
11:11 GMT |
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The console war has seen many battles being waged among the top three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. The arguments have ranged from the features of their devices to online interactivity or game lineup, each of them bragging about the fact that it is the best.We reported a few weeks ago on a study m... |
1 April 2009
02:52 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 didn't get to the best of starts when it was first launched by Sony, as it was gravely unsupported by quite a lot of developers and publishers, thus people who bought it found that they had only a few games that could be played by the big, black Japanese console. But after over 2 years, things... |
31 March 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Playing video games may seem like a waste of time to parents, who always seem to be encouraging their children to put down their virtual weapons and go outside to play with their friends. But a new research, published in the journal nature Neuroscience, reveals some unexpected finds that experts have made when analyz... |
30 March 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Gaming has always depended on the hardware that the gamer owned. This refers to all types of gamers, from PC users to console or handheld owners. But during this year's Game Developers Conference, OnLive was announced, promising to deliver the gaming equivalent of cloud computing to the masses. If this is true a... |
25 March 2009
04:23 GMT |
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It seems that the first motion control supported games are making their way to N-Gage, and that the very first one to feature the functionality will be Bounce Boing Voyage, a “jumpaliciously fun” 3D classic title. For the time being, the game does not feature motion control, yet an updated version of the ... |
24 March 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Sony has been a very troubled company lately, as, with the problems it has been encountering with the decreasing sales of electronics, like HDTVs or cameras, it was forced to make some big staff reductions. But the gaming business still seems to be going pretty well, despite the fact that the flagship PlayStation 3 c... |
23 March 2009
12:21 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 was the first next-generation console to appear on the market. It introduced new things to game developers and it is currently a favorite for a lot of people, due to its low price and wide variety of games that you can pick up for it. However, if an adequate gamer with some knowledge picks up an Xbox 36... |
18 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Handheld gaming is becoming more and more popular these days, as ever more portable devices are being sold so that people can entertain themselves when they are on the go. While Nintendo has the casual handheld gaming in its clutches thanks to the DS, Sony still wants to attract the more experienced customers through... |
12 March 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Gaming today consists not only of high-quality fully fledged titles, but also of small arcade games that provide a different type of experience, one that you can enjoy as soon as you download the small file from either the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Store or the WiiWare Channel. But among those, only the Xbox... |
11 March 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Video games are playing a bigger and bigger role in our everyday dose of entertainment, as a lot of people prefer them to other types of media, like movies or TV. We've already heard Star Ocean 4 designer Yoshinori Yamagishi from Square Enix praise video games for their high-quality content as opposed to a lot o... |
10 March 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Online features tend to matter the most in the eyes of customers who want to buy a new console. That is why the top three companies are literally fighting one another to offer the best and most complete service out there. Although the efforts of both Sony and Nintendo are considerable, the fact of the matter is that... |
9 March 2009
01:46 GMT |
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The gaming industry has been, for quite some time, the victim of prejudice from people who simply don't understand that video games are nothing more than just another form of entertainment, one that places you in the middle of the action, instead of being a by-stander when you watch a movie. Sadly, it seems tha... |
5 March 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Nintendo is currently one of the most popular video game companies, largely due to its two extremely successful platforms, the DS handheld device and the innovative Wii console, which have both been experiencing record sales despite the fact that a lot of time has passed since their release dates. One of the key fac... |
27 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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CrossOver Games, the application that allows Mac Intel users to run most Windows PC games on Mac OS X, has just received an update, adding improvements for City of Heroes, fixes for Guild Wars, improved support for Spore, World of Warcraft, and more. General DirectX improvements will allegedly improve many other game... |
27 February 2009
03:52 GMT |
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Piracy is becoming a bigger and bigger problem for the whole gaming industry. But despite the continuous efforts of organizations such as the Entertainment Software Association, the PC Gaming Alliance or other such anti-piracy groups, the phenomenon is still going strong. However, while a lot of publishers and devel... |
26 February 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Gaming companies usually announce their games in the middle of the development process, but they usually reserve the month before it is completed for some surprise details, which only serve to increase the hype around said titles and make gamers interested in either pre-ordering or saving up money for when they will ... |
23 February 2009
03:29 GMT |
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There's a worldwide recession, and things aren't going very well for the industry, as a whole, or for the gaming business, in particular. We've already seen big companies post losses in profit, like Electronic Arts or Sony, and small studios closing, like Factor 5, but the most recent news, famous Mort... |
19 February 2009
10:11 GMT |
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Apple has started airing a new iPod touch ad under the same “funnest iPod ever” slogan. The new ad manages to showcase some 15 applications in under 30 seconds, accompanied by a song from Franz Ferdinand's latest album.“iPod touch games and applications are nothing short of amazing. And the App... |
19 February 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Gaming, as has been the case with many other branches of the entertainment industry, has had a cult-like following for quite some time. This massive number of fans and gamers from all across the world have sometimes gathered to watch companies unveil their new titles or future ones, thus taking part in fully-pledged ... |
18 February 2009
02:39 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable hasn't had the best career as, despite its hardware power, it didn't get the same rich game library that its biggest rival, the Nintendo DS received. While a lot of people who bought it used it for MP3 playing purposes, for photo sharing, even for the Internet browser it had, not a ... |
16 February 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii has become a true phenomenon since it was launched, as it introduced a lot of new things to gaming in general. You weren't supposed to sit on your couch but to actually get up and move around, thus performing a small physical exercise. The fact that people got into it and started buying the cons... |
10 February 2009
15:11 GMT |
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We live in very tough financial times, as the worldwide recession is making its presence felt across all branches of the industry. Despite being considered untouchable by the financial crisis, the gaming branch has also been affected, as big companies, like Microsoft, Sony or Electronic Arts have announced cost-cutti... |
10 February 2009
11:11 GMT |
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A lot of countries have developed over the years a certain history in terms of gaming. Such a thing is very true with South Korea, whose people are avid online gamers, aiming at each and every possible MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) out there, that is, unless they are playing StarCraft. But ... |
10 February 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Games are becoming more and more mainstream, but along with said popularity, a lot of people are afraid of the somewhat negative aspects that they might bring. This is due to various anti-video game protesters who claim that these are the most evil forms of entertainment, teaching children that violence is good, but ... |
5 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry is forever changing, with trends appearing and disappearing in a relatively short time frame. As opposed to a few years ago, when the PC was the primary target for a lot of game developers and publishers, now, because of the growing phenomenon of piracy on it, a lot of companies are turning their ... |
4 February 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Hollywood is making its presence felt in almost any part of our daily lives, and gaming is no exception. We've seen game-based movies and movie-based games, so it seems that the two branches of entertainment are slowly but surely going to intertwine, and franchises that have, from the start, planned out a movie,... |
4 February 2009
03:21 GMT |
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As years have passed, we've seen a steady trend of new things and features getting implemented in games. From various gameplay modes to online interaction, slowly but surely such things have found their way into almost any type of game. But in the case of online interaction and the use of the Internet, things ha... |
2 February 2009
03:26 GMT |
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