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Sony Lists 3D Games and 3D Blu-Ray Movies on the PlayStation 3

Sony has just decided to showcase the 3D games and the 3D Blu-ray movies that have been released up until now for its PlayStation 3 console, just so you know what to get this holiday season as gifts for loved ones. You can find 19 games that support 3D technology, from Call of Duty: Black Ops, to Gran Turismo 5, N...

21 December 2010
18:01 GMT

Ultimate Edition Gamers 2.8 Includes Linux Games for All Ages

Announced by TheeMahn on November 25th, Ultimate Edition Gamers 2.8, a popular Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, brings to Linux users lots of pre-added games in a 4GB, downloadable DVD ISO image. Being built off Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) by hand, Ultimate Edition Gamers 2.8 is definitely one of the most awai...

26 November 2010
09:53 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings A Few Demos, Lots of Music

Sony has once again updated the North American PlayStation Store with a few new demos and games for both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable, not to mention the usual add-ons for existing games and lots of new songs for music games released on the high definition console.First off, the PS3 users, they can ...

10 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Only Players Will Now Get Annoying Facebook Games Notifications

Facebook and its users have a love/hate relationship with games. On the one hand, it's one of the most popular activities on the site, on the other it's one of the most annoying things on the social network. Facebook is now trying to reach a middle-ground with changes in the way game apps can interact with ...

22 September 2010
04:33 GMT

Reaching for Halo's Most Ambitious Reach

The ten years old Halo saga fans ares celebrating today the release of its latest – “Halo: Reach”, the newest of the popular science fiction game made exclusively for Xbox 360.There are millions of fans that awaited this event and thousands of them attended launch parties held yesterday in London, N...

14 September 2010
05:54 GMT

Stemming Violent Behavior in Young Boys

Educators around the world have yet to decide whether stemming manifestations and simulations of violent behavior in young boys is the right thing to do. As children grow, they tend to start imitating violent forms of behavior. This includes simulating gun fights and killing their opponents, and parents and educators...

30 August 2010
02:49 GMT

Roger Ebert Apologizes for Saying Video Games Are Not Art

Back in April this year, esteemed film critic Roger Ebert decided to tackle the topic of the cultural importance of video games from the perspective of whether they could ever be regarded as art. Clearly, Ebert was convinced from the onset that no game so far could even dream of being considered as coming close to a ...

1 July 2010
09:53 GMT

Free and Lite Apps - To Bless or to Blast

Backflip Studios, the video-game developer and publisher from Boulder, Colorado, reported some of the ups and downs on the app store, after one year. The headman, Julian Farrior, enforced the idea that free applications were a true gold mine in order to get a significant revenue. And, if one can predict the market ch...

11 March 2010
04:09 GMT

Stroke Patients Use Wii to Recover Motor Functions

Scientists have recently presented the conclusions of a new study, which appears to indicate that using the virtual reality game technology employed by the popular Wii gaming console may be of use for medical applications as well. At the 2010 International Stroke Conference of the American Stroke Association, experts...

26 February 2010
17:11 GMT

Children Trust Adults over Other Children

A recent scientific study has determined that children tend to rely in authority figures when it comes to learning something new, such as the rules of a game, rather than trusting other children their own age. The work, which was conducted by German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolog...

22 February 2010
08:37 GMT

Computer Games Can Teach Teachers How to Teach

Over the past few years, more and more parents have voiced criticism towards the fact that their children are spending a lot of time on their computers, rather than playing outside with their friends. But a new study shows that, in fact, the computer-game industry has managed to strike gold when it comes to making ki...

20 February 2010
05:39 GMT

Use of Electronic Media Not Linked to Headaches

According to a new scientific study, the use of electronic media is not directly linked to the increase incidence of headaches that children, adolescents and teens experience today. The investigation revolved around youngsters, because they are most likely to get affected if these devices were to pose any harm. The s...

9 February 2010
17:01 GMT

Gorillas Play Games Too

Experts at the University of St. Andrews spent the last five years keeping track of gorillas in the San Francisco Zoo, and analyzing how the primates played games, and generally interacted with each other. The study revealed the fact that the gorillas used a variety of equipments, from bags and balls to small pieces ...

22 January 2010
20:11 GMT

Intel's Next-Generation IGP May Target Gamers

While most so-called new developments have consisted over the past week of little else besides unconfirmed rumors and reports from undisclosed sources, the Donanimhaber website seems to have gotten its hands on a rumor with a picture to back it up. The slide posted shows the supposedly targeted gaming segments of Int...

30 December 2009
10:23 GMT

Download CrossOver Games 8.1.4 for Mac OS X

CrossOver allows you to install popular Windows applications and games on your Mac, provided that you pack an Intel processor. CrossOver’s single-click interface makes installing Windows software simple and fast. Whether they are 'supported' or 'unsupported' apps, CrossOver will do its best ...

29 December 2009
05:39 GMT

Avatars Can Affect Users of Video Games

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

Nokia to Kill N-Gage in Late 2010

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

Gamefly Loses Even More Packages to the Postal Service

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

Download CrossOver Games 8.0.0 - Supports New Games, Snow Leopard

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

Mickey Rourke Still Sees Games and Movies as Separate Entities

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

Games Need to Be Priced Higher in Order to Sustain Development

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

Michael Jackson Will Be Featured in a New Video Game

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

Mobclix App Store Figures May Not Be Accurate [UPDATED]

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

App Store Holds Nearly 60,000 Apps, 13,000 Are Games [Updated]

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

Overlord II

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

How Video Games Boost Memory, Thinking Skills in the Elderly

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

How to Treat Lazy Eyes Using Joysticks

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

Over 25 Free Games for Palm Pre from PlayScreen

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

The Soldier of the Future Will Be Similar to Master Chief

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

A Younger Lara Croft Confirmed for Next Tomb Raider Movie

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

Weekend Reading: 5 Reasons Why Games Are Better than Movies

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

WiiWare Turns One Year Old, Teases New Games

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

Play Handcase Games for PalmOS on Your Computer

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

Microsoft Wants Games to Be Released Throughout the Year

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

The Fun Way to Learn Math and Test Your Skills

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

Weekend Reading: Movies Plus Games Equals Love

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

British Parliament Praises Successful Video Games

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

Only 4 Percent of Wii Games Are Actually Any Good

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

Only 17 Percent of PlayStation 3 Games Are Actually Very Good

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

Sony Says the PlayStation 3 Lineup Is an 'Embarrassment of Riches'

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

Shooter Games Make Players See Better

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

OnLive Presents Cloud Gaming, Lets You Play Any Title

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

N-Gage to Have Motion Control Games Soon

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

Sony: We Have a Profit Goal, Not a Market Share One

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

Only 13% of Xbox 360 Games Are Actually Very Good

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

The PSP Has Been 'Slightly Under-Supported,' but 2009 Will Be Its Year

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

Xbox Live Arcade File Size Limit Depends on the Quality of the Game

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

Games Are Surpassing Movies, Thinks Mad Max Director

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

Xbox Live Will Get the Days of Arcade

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

Study Shows British Parents Are Concerned About Video Games

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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