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The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a new study related to the world of videogames. The main conclusion is the fact that a majority of adults in the United States are now playing videogames. The data comes from surveys conducted both in 2007 and in 2008 and the result is that 53% of all Americans o... |
9 December 2008
18:11 GMT |
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The results of a study on three year olds, which was aimed at seeing how children are influenced by the forms of entertainment they consume, have been released. One of the conclusions of the study is that children who play violent video games are more likely to adopt an aggressive behavior in relation to their peers.... |
10 November 2008
05:53 GMT |
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The French Senate, one of the two bodies which must approve a bill before it can become law, has just passed a measure aimed at banning “persistent pirates” from using the Internet. The measure was passed with an overwhelming majority. There were 297 votes for it and only 15 votes against it.The idea is t... |
7 November 2008
04:10 GMT |
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This year's E3, the trade show organized by the Entertainment Software Association, was a bit of a disappointment. Microsoft did not make any big announcement, other than revealing that the next Final Fantasy would not be a PlayStaton 3 exclusive, while Nintendo annoyed some fans by putting Wii Music at the cent... |
21 October 2008
11:51 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association, the trade association which represents the video game publishers active in the United States, has endorsed the decision of the United States Congress to approve a bill called the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, also known as the PR... |
15 October 2008
03:55 GMT |
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We've already reported that Google is interested in getting into the in game advertising business, with Google AdSense for Games being launched in public beta, with the intention of targeting Flash, downloadable and casual games. Now, YouTube, which is owned by Google, also reveals that, in order to create new w... |
9 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Square Enix is looking to benefit from the next biggest thing in videogaming. Thus, it has partnered up with NeuroSky, a company which specializes in creation and commercialization of bio sensors, to create a videogame which can be controlled with the power of your mind. The game will be presented in the following tw... |
8 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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I myself confess that videogames got me interested in history and geopolitics. Old classics like Age of Empire and Colonization made me very interested in the era they take place and in the mechanisms of the worldwide political systems.Microsoft Research, together with the New York University and a consortium of othe... |
8 October 2008
12:31 GMT |
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As video gaming gets bigger as an industry, more and more people point out that it’s a quite a young one, with the first video games coming in the early years of the 1970's. But even if it’s only roughly 40 years old, gaming has a lot to show, both in terms of quantity and of quality, so it's no... |
3 October 2008
03:53 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association sends word that it has identified causes for which it plans to offer up to 1 million dollars in funds. This will be done through the ESA Foundation, which up until now has offered more than 11 million dollars in funds to various charities and other worthy causes.The recipients o... |
26 September 2008
15:11 GMT |
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There are still people out there who imagine gamers to be sad and lonely people who only look at the monitor, have no real friends and will never get a girlfriend. This stereotype is so persistent that I still occasionally get weird looks from people who find out that I play games and make a living out of it.Now... |
17 September 2008
16:41 GMT |
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As the video game market is expanding more and more data is extracted from gamers to get to know their consumption patterns. GameStrata is now revealing the amounts of money that gamers are ready to pay to fuel their video game "addiction".It seems that players who are between 18 and 48 years old spend more than 30,0... |
26 June 2008
14:16 GMT |
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To anyone doubting the importance of videogames I say: go to the library. And the object is not to read about videogames in the many theory books that not deal with why we play and how videogames influence us. The idea is to play games in the library.March 22nd, at the New York Public Library, was the first day when ... |
24 March 2008
16:31 GMT |
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After Rockstar secured a court ruling last week, that said that its Manhunt 2 game could be sold legally in the UK, the government has stated today that it will in no way try and overturn the legal decision. More important than that, the government of the United Kingdom is showing some common sense in the issue of vi... |
17 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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We've heard it a thousand times. Games are evil. There's considerable potential for discussion in the sentence. Games are bad. There's no questioning the fact that there are really bad games out there, just not bad in the sense that Jack Thompson would like us to believe that GTA is "bad." Games promot... |
14 March 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Everyone's watching the electoral campaign in the US nowadays, with the eyes peeled for more details on the personalities of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the two main candidates for presidency. It seems that the two important political characters have promised to take care of all the videogames-related iss... |
9 January 2008
06:59 GMT |
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The statement from the title doesn't belong to a member of the NT. This is the honest opinion of Robert Green, West Ham's goalie, who probably hopes to make it into the national team's starting eleven some day. You might be wondering how exactly the videogames managed to stop England from losing 3-2 w... |
27 November 2007
03:37 GMT |
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