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Faith Fueled Violence Invades Video Games
Huffington Post (blog)
In a recent study conducted at the University of Missouri, I examined how video games portray organized religion. I suspected I would find organized religion portrayed badly. What I saw was a bit more nuanced. While the specifics differed in each game, ...
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The Art of Video Games exhibit
USA TODAY
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, which houses such masters as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Singer Sargent, debuts a new exhibit, The Art of Video Games, on Friday. Following a six-month stay at the museum in Washington, DC, the show heads out on a ...
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The Art of Video Games Opens This Week
Washingtonian.com (blog)
By Michael Gaynor About two years ago, film critic Roger Ebert informed his readers in the Chicago Sun-Times that despite any love they may harbor for their Nintendos or PlayStations, he believed in a blunt, contentious truth: "Video games can never be ...
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Washingtonian.com (blog)
Maybe Video Game Reviewers Are Con Men. Maybe.
Kotaku
"Please download and mirror in case this video is censored and taken down," our truthteller writes below his YouTube post entitled "Paid Reviews: Critics or Conmen? Gaming's Ad-verse Situation." (It's embedded above. Watch it!) From the video: "To say ...
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Video Game Quick Hits 3/13/2012
Big Shiny Robot!
I'm generally a fan of Mixed Martial Arts, but I've always avoided the video games. I just can't wrap my brain around it being any good. How can they port the constantly changing styles from each match into a game? How can they the technical grappling ...
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Big Shiny Robot!
How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound
Metapsychology
by Scott Rigby and Richard M. Ryan Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In And Hold Us Spellbound by Scott Rigby and Richard M. Ryan does in many ways go in the opposite direction of much of the current research on video games.
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VIDEO GAME REVIEW: 'Twisted Metal' worthy of the name
Central Michigan Life
By Jordan LaPorte on March 13, 2012 11:00 am in Reviews / no comments The popularity of vehicular-combat games was at its height in the late '90s, and "Twisted Metal" was one of the most beloved series representing the genre.
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Central Michigan Life
"Mass Effect 3" revolutionizes the video game industry
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
I don't care if you've never played a video game in your entire life. You could pick up an Xbox controller and not know which side is up, it doesn't matter. Sure, "Modern Warfare 3" is the best-selling game in video game history, but we all know that ...
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Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Video Game Character or My Little Pony? Yes.
Kotaku
Some would say that the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic phenomenon has nothing at all to do with video games. I've got several images that prove otherwise. Grown men in love with a cartoon aimed at little girls? Preposterous! Outrageous!
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Codemasters Extends Video Game Partnership With F1
TotalPlayStation.com
Today, Formula One World Championship Limited and Codemasters have agreed to a multi-year extension for multiple titles across video game consoles, personal computers, mobile devices, and online platforms. "Codemasters has created some of the best and ...
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Parkinson's patients test video games as therapy (video)
CNET
Parkinson's patients recently took part in a University of California at San Francisco study to see if special video games could replace their regular exercises. Scientific researchers and game developers came together to create the therapeutic games.
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Experience 40 years of video games at the Smithsonian
WTOP
In video games, there are three voices: the creator, the game and the player. Through gaming, the player gets to inject his own morality and worldview, says the exhibit's curator Chris Melissinos. (Courtesy of YouTube) WASHINGTON - It might sound ...
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WTOP
Video Game Journalism Needs An Enema And I'm The Doctor
Bitbag
It's bad enough that video games in general get a bad wrap, but now bad game journalism is fucking it up for us even more. I would expect that sites that get MILLIONS of hits of traffic would follow standard practices and FACT CHECK before posting a ...
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Bitbag
Game Group in trouble: UK's biggest computer games retailer faces battle for ...
This is Money
An embattled retailer racing against time to raise enough cash for survival in an adrenaline-fuelled action adventure that would not look out of place in a blockbuster video game. The prize? The chance to live to fight another day, but failure sees ...
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This is Money
German Video Games Sales Hit $2.6 Billion
Hollywood Reporter
COLOGNE, Germany -- No sign of a downturn in Germany's gaming industry, as figures released Tuesday show revenues from gaming up 3.5 percent to $2.6 billion (€2 billion) last year. The figures, from marketing institute GfK, suggest online gaming is ...
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Hollywood Reporter
What to do this week: Pi(e) Day, Environmental Film Festival, the 'Art of ...
Washington Post (blog)
The American Art Museum kicks off its new exhibit "The Art of Video Games," which looks at the aesthetics of Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers and many other entertaining diversions. In honor of the show, the museum will also host a weekend-long GameFest ...
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This week in Video Game Criticism: From ME3's ideological dissonance to ...
Gamasutra
Dan Cox leads the way this week with an interesting podcast featuring two of the Critical Distance team, Eric Swain and David Carlton, as well as several other stars in a conversation on the nature of play. This week in Video Game Criticism : From ME3 ...
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Gamasutra
Video Game Review: 'Major League Baseball 2K12' Strikes Out Swinging
HollywoodChicago.com
In fact, while I understood that "The Show" was a "better game," recent installments of "MLB2K" actually took up more of my personal playing time. We'll get to our RAVE review of "MLB 12 The Show" soon but even if that title had fallen below its recent ...
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InvenSense Chips Put Video Games In Motion; Nintendo A Customer
ElectroIQ
InvenSense also could see its unit shipments fall if video game consoles continue to shift to camera-based motion sensors like Microsoft's Kinect system. Plus, dedicated video game systems appear to be losing ground to tablets and smartphones.
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Madden Curse: How a Video Game Changed the Lives of Players in the NFL
Bleacher Report
The answer: he's up for re-election on the cover of the 2012 Madden NFL game. Yes, what could be so bad about having one of you favorite players on the cover of your favorite video game? Well, if you don't know, you could ask almost any real NFL fan ...
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Bleacher Report
The Art Of Video Games Opening At The Smithsonian Friday
WebProNews
By Zach Walton · 13 hours ago · 1 One of the most passionately discussed arguments of our time, especially to gamers, is the question of whether or not video games can be classified as art. Art, is of course, a completely subjective concept.
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Top 5 Video Game Ron Jeremys (NSFW)
Houston Press (blog)
Believe it or not, Ron Jeremy has also made minor contributions to the world of video games. Here are our top five favorite appearances of video game Ron Jeremy. Celebrity Deathmatch was a show on MTV where claymation parodies of famous people would ...
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Lincoln native making a career out of independent video game design
Lincoln Journal Star
He said his dad would write programs on the computer from PC magazines that arrived by snail mail. "It was that curiosity of 'How did it do that?' that prompted me to ask my dad to teach me how to make video games," Shores said.
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The Art of Video Games comes to the Smithsonian
GameZone
Starting this Friday, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which represents more than 7000 artists from American history, is dedicating a three-day festival to a different art form: video games. The event—spanning Friday, March 16 to Sunday, ...
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GameZone
Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard
Kotaku
Sitting down with a bunch of old games in the Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon and Metroid franchises, Belgian scientists have proven beyond all doubt that those games are way hard. To showcase their work, they've written a ...
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5 Games Kids Love and Parents Hate
Destructoid
Men and women of all ages love gaming, but the bond between kids and video games is special. Not only are video games fun and exciting–and even beneficial for a child's mental and physical development, in some situations–but they can also serve as an ...
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"Mass Effect 3"'s On-Disc DLC Accusations Addressed By Bioware And EA
Complex.com
In any case, the above video seemed like the final nail in Bioware's coffin—evil corporation EA had snaked its tendrils down throughout a once respectable organization, and the developer was officially a lost cause. Or at least that seemed to be the ...
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New This Week in Video Games
Attack of the Fanboy
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Storm Generations - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 - Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations is the latest rendition in the smash hit 'Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm' series of games. The title will power the ...
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Attack of the Fanboy
Do Video Games Belong in a Museum?
SodaHead News
by SodaHead Gaming Posted March 13, 2012 17:43:11 (6 minutes ago) When we asked SodaHeads whether video games could be considered works of art, respondents overwhelmingly agreed that they could. But this week the Smithsonian American Art Museum is ...
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Blogs6 new results for video games
 
You got food in my video games. | So Good
By Mark
Food items as a part of video games are not a new thing, I'm not too proud to admit that I spent many hours playing the Burger Time arcade game as a kid. For those of you unaware, burger time was game where you, as a portly chef, walked ...
So Good
More States Offer Perks To Attract Video Game Makers | paidContent
By Jeff Roberts
When former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling moved his video game company 38 Studios to Rhode Island in 2010, the decision was not just a snub to the state of Massachusetts. It was also part of a growing rivalry in which states are competing ...
paidContent
Can Playing Video Games Result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ...
The almost explosive popularity of the computer systems and video games in the modern day society has also led to a significant increase in the cases of carpal.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Play Stuff Blog » Archives » The OTHER Video Games: Board ...
By Tara Winner
The OTHER Video Games: Board Games Based on 70s and 80s Television Shows. Posted by Tara Winner on 03/13/2012. the-other-video-games-board-games-based-on-. When you live in a Little House on the Prairie, every day offers a ...
Play Stuff Blog
Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard
By noreply@evga.com
Link and I pretty much believe it. The NES games were so impossible to beat. like the first ninja turtles game. I don't think i ever beat it with out the game gene thing.
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