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Famous comics writer Stan Lee, the creator of such characters like Spider-Man or Wolverine, has written a special letter, designed to support video games in face of California's new law, designed to limit access to violent titles.As you all know, California is once again trying to crack down on violent video gam... |
21 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Teenagers in developed countries have a more and more sedentary behavior because of television, and the figures explode on weekends, a new study claims. This part of the European HELENA study, focused on the prevalence of sedentary behavior in 3,278 teenagers - 1,537 boys and 1,741 girls aged between 12.5 and 17.5) ... |
18 September 2010
06:46 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Blizzard, has suggested that publishers might be interesting in creating video games based movies that will be delivered to fans without the use of traditional media channels.Talking at the audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communicatio... |
17 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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An investment bank has added up the value of all video game related companies that are publicly owned and found that they are worth somewhere between 100 and 105 billion dollars, with Nintendo being the company which leads all other in the industry.The report comes from Paul Heydon, who made a presentation for invest... |
30 August 2010
04:12 GMT |
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It's not a surprise that the biggest amount of time Internet users in North America spend online is linked to social networking but it's a surprise to see that people are also using a lot of time to play video games when they are surfing, with online play now taking up a bigger amount of time than other tra... |
6 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A new study of video games suggests that playing actively can lead to a reduction in stress levels and in hostility for players. The new data comes from the Texas A&M International University and Doctor Christopher J. Ferguson, who is a an associate professor.The study was performed with the help of 103 young adults ... |
27 July 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Video games, like rock and hip hop before them, are sometimes blamed for all the evils that befell the youngsters of the planet but rarely is serious science employed to really study the effects that video games have upon players. Now a study that was published on the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pedia... |
26 July 2010
02:10 GMT |
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A new study coming from ESSEC aka École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales, a high profile French business school, shows that players who are interested in sports video games also participate more than others in real sports competitions, with the effect especially prominent among... |
13 July 2010
18:11 GMT |
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A new report released by Ipsos MediaCT shows that video game buyers are more interested in owning a physical copy of their titles than those who purchase newspapers, music tracks or movies. The firm concluded that this means the video game market is more shielded from the current trend of abandoning the actual produc... |
7 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Matt Casamassina, of the IGN gaming site, has been hired by Apple as "Global Editorial Games Manager," reports say. The company responsible for the iPhone OS has been keen on expanding the platform to appease gamers, and is now taking one more step in that direction. "Beginning early May, I will join Apple as global... |
26 April 2010
02:43 GMT |
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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 |
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Lately, games have been trying to be more and more similar to movies, emphasizing emotions and the cinematic experience. However, not even this has been enough to get some of the higher layers of society to look at titles as being anything more than brainwashing instruments meant to wrap the tendrils of violence arou... |
18 February 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Video games may have the bad reputation of altering one's personality and making individuals more inclined towards violent and antisocial behavior, but we also know that there are a lot of things that video games help with. While this might be a coincidence, the areas of expertise that research the real-life use... |
28 January 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Despite popular belief, a big head, or a big brain doesn't guarantee a superior intellect. Humans may be the smartest species on Earth, but there are plenty of animals that have a larger brain than ours. Apparently, the mental capacity is derived from the proportion and size of certain areas of the brain. The sa... |
22 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Video games have a tradition of an outcast and a popular cause for most disastrous effects. If you were to question a religious establishment about the reason behind the 9/11 tragedy, it probably wouldn't say oil, it'd be more inclined to blame Grand Theft Auto IV, even if it wasn't even released back ... |
7 January 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Stereotypes are something we run across every day, and while sometimes offensive and hurtful, like old legends, there's always some bit of truth to them. But some of these stereotypes tend to be more of a rule and less of a broad, general statement, and one gaming stereotype that has failed on enough occasions t... |
6 January 2010
04:18 GMT |
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While games are obviously growing as an industry and they're slowly but surely becoming a casual means to pass time, some still regard it as outcasts, and are surprised to see them as more than a peculiar hobby. But titles are a lot more than that, and, as The Daily Telegraph has noticed as well, it looks like m... |
30 December 2009
03:17 GMT |
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While 2009 was one of the worst years for the gaming industry in a very, very long time and while people aren't so willing to give away their hard-earned cash to purchase a new video game, they are more willing to make a purchase from the “save your soul” publisher. Gaming studios are firing people i... |
7 December 2009
07:14 GMT |
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Games aren't treated as unfairly as the more popular media products as some of you might think. TIGA, the UK's game industry trade organization, plans to demolish this rebel stereotype that video games have made for themselves by pitting the number of banned video games against the one of banned movies. As ... |
3 December 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Along the years, we've seen games do some pretty strange things to people. Some of them have pushed people to commit suicide, like EverQuest did for the user named Shawn Woolley, while others are blamed for countless acts of violence. Among the less serious ones, we can count the Japanese man that decided to mar... |
2 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Games aren't always directed straight at the young, and video games are no exception. If anything, the age ratings prove this. But that doesn't mean that titles and children aren't strongly rooted together, and, as part of the family, video games come to share their load of the weight. The holidays are... |
9 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Sometimes, people try to bite more than they can chew and then complain about the sore jaw. One such person could be Alexander Stern. The gamer suffers from a visual impairment and yet insists that he not only play video games, which is a God-given right to anybody, but that Sony make its games more accessible for th... |
9 November 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Video games have been considered a blight on society by many individuals, scattered more or less evenly around the globe. The interactive and immersive nature of the violent titles, along with the explicit gore, led some to voice out their strong belief that these games had a direct impact on the mind of the young, d... |
6 November 2009
03:20 GMT |
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For about two weeks, previously unsubstantiated rumors about a reduction in the price of the Nintendo Wii home gaming console have been getting clear proof. Wal Mart talked about a price rollback for the device, without mentioning the new price. Then, a Toys R Us ad was leaked to the press showing that the price woul... |
19 September 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is big. And, more importantly in this tough economic times, it is turning to profit just as the video-game business is hardly hit by the economic downturn, with the NPD numbers for August showing a 16% decline when compared to 2008. The one man who seems to be directly responsible for this is Bobb... |
17 September 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Video games are becoming part of our daily lives more and more and, as such, they turn into something that almost everyone can relate to. This is exactly why the president of the United States, Barack Obama, uses video games in many of his speeches. Granted, usually he doesn't put them in a positive light, as h... |
23 July 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Video games are getting larger and larger every day, slowly evolving and becoming a part of our daily lives. This doesn't end with normal people, as even celebrities and athletes have admitted that they like to unwind by playing a game. Given the fact that gaming is a worldwide hobby and that a lot of people ar... |
21 July 2009
03:18 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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Politics and video games barely have anything in common, except for a few simulators that put the players in charge of their own countries. But it seems that, at least in real life, politicians have seen gaming as a widespread phenomenon and, instead of trying to comprehend it and endorse both video game developers a... |
10 July 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Video games have been blamed for a lot of things over the years, especially those that featured violence as they were believed to influence young people and teach them that violence was actually fun and could be sustained in real life, not only in the virtual realm. Even though studies have infirmed such things, it ... |
9 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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50 Cent has evolved from the status of underground rapper to one fully fledged business man, managing to get his own brand or that of his entourage, G-Unit, into almost everything we see around today. Of course, video games couldn't escape from the ambitions of the artist, as he already has two titles under his ... |
13 May 2009
13:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry is slowly, but surely, beginning to become more and more mainstream and an integral part of our everyday lives. Thanks to the current console generation, the market has devices for every type of consumer, be it casual or hardcore, experienced or new to the whole concept. But, even though a lot of... |
11 May 2009
02:22 GMT |
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By now, a lot of people, especially gamers, have heard of OnLive, a service that promises to take the concept of cloud computing and adapt it to gaming, making it possible for people with even the lowest end-computer connected to the Internet to run high-end video games. Since its announcement, the opinions found in... |
6 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Japan has been one of the central points on the world map in terms of technology for the last few decades. This has also been true in terms of video games, as a lot of consoles and titles have appeared from the Land of the Rising Sun and have gone on to gain critical acclaim across the whole wide world. But, lately,... |
5 May 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Unless you were born quite recently, you know about Mr. T, the actor who played characters such as B. A. Baracus from the 1980s cult-series The A Team, or boxer Clubber Lang, from Rocky III. Besides giving birth to such famous characters, the actor is also well known for his flamboyant style and for the humanitarian ... |
30 April 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Hollywood is representative of the movie industry and of all of the good and bad things it has done to society since the birth of movie-making. For some time now, it has developed a relationship with video game companies, which have created both game-based movies and movie-based games. But while this collaboration b... |
30 April 2009
02:28 GMT |
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Video games are becoming an incremental part of our daily lives, and as such have gained the attention of quite a lot of researchers who have indulged in numerous studies to show just what kind of influence they can have on us.While a lot of them were very biased and set out to show that violent games would turn chil... |
6 April 2009
02:58 GMT |
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We've already seen quite a lot of celebrities endorse video games, whether it was part of a new contract between them and a company from that field, or even because they just wanted to show their love for certain titles that they play in order to unwind after a busy day. The latest famous star to openly talk ab... |
23 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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We've heard a lot about piracy in the last few months. From Nintendo highlighting the most pirate-friendly countries to the ELSPA scoring a big victory with a UK tribunal, convicting a video game pirate to one year in prison. But although you would expect the PC Gaming Alliance, a non-profit organization create... |
19 March 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Piracy is a very important issue nowadays due to the relative easiness with which illegal copies of games or software can be distributed over the Internet and various other Peer2Peer networks like Bittorrent. But even though such actions do only harm for games or software developers and publishers, there are some wh... |
18 March 2009
14:01 GMT |
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The gaming industry is getting more and more attention as time goes by, because a lot of people turn to video games in order to satisfy their entertainment hunger, realizing that they get a much better value for their money, which could've gone to buying movie or concert tickets. As such, we're seeing more... |
17 March 2009
12:11 GMT |
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Parents haven't always been very understanding with their children, but ever since video games have started to play a bigger and bigger role in the latter's lives, the former have been somewhat reluctant to let them play. A study recently presented by the British Board of Film Classification, the organizat... |
9 March 2009
02:05 GMT |
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It would appear, scientists say, that video game addiction is beginning to exhibit a series of unexpected side-effects, of which skin disorders are the most surprising. Even though medical books are filled with descriptions of various conditions of the skin, none of them has any explanation for the painful red lumps ... |
25 February 2009
04:03 GMT |
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The long-term effects of prolonged Internet exposure are subject to debate these days between Taiwanese and American researchers. The former say that teens who are addicted to surfing the Web are more likely to engage in aggressive behavior, and so they need monitoring from parents and teachers. On the other hand, th... |
24 February 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Video games don't exactly have the most decent reputation, and a lot of people tend to fear that they are becoming a more and more mainstream form of entertainment. This concern, coupled with protests against video games led by some groups, deems them dangerous to children, teaching them violent behavior among o... |
5 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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In a new study, published in the January 23rd issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, researchers at the Brigham Young University in the US have identified that playing video games regularly may have very serious repercussions on a gamer's personal life, as far as relationships with peers, friends and fam... |
23 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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According to a new scientific research, the satisfied expression on the faces of those who just blasted a virtual opponent out of the screen in a video game doesn't come from them satisfying their blood-thirsty instincts, but from the fact that they are satisfied for mastering the challenge the game placed befor... |
16 January 2009
10:44 GMT |
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In an attempt to address an ever-decreasing number of new recruits strengthening America's forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of the world, the US Army is currently adopting a new way of recruiting young men and women for active service. In northeast Philadelphia, it has set up a new experimental recru... |
14 January 2009
02:22 GMT |
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A 24-year old man in Oakland, Florida, was convicted to 15 months in prison and is forced to pay $415,900 for pirating and distributing at least 76 video games, most of them belonging to Nintendo. Kifah Maswadi developed an online business and used to sell "Power Player" consoles to which he added a "present" - at le... |
18 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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We usually hear about game-related studies only when some organization wants to prove how bad they are for the mind and the body of a human being. However, there are people who want to do more than criticize video games - use them to help patients with cancer, for example. And they not only try to do that, they'... |
5 August 2008
04:23 GMT |
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