March 2009
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“Israeli outfit 3DV confirms it has agreed to sell up to an as-of-yet unnamed...”
– Microsoft closing in on motion detection firm? | Gaming Industry | MCV
“The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) is routinely assessed in clinical...”
– Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game training : Article : Nature Neuroscience
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WatchRatchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time Trailer
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“A “fit and healthy” 25-year-old man collapsed and died in front of...”
– ‘Fit and healthy’ 25-year-old died using Nintendo Wii Fit game - Telegraph
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A fantastic material and color update inspired by Mega Man, a video game first released by Capcom in 1987. Whether you’re familiar with the character or not, this synthetic leather material looks and feels like vinyl, giving the upper a shiny, retro-futuristic look. The addition of the perforated underlays, painted eyelets, & video game inspired pixelated emboss on...
Mega64 →
Mega64 is a low-budget series of comedy skits centered around video games. Co-creator Derrick Acosta describes it as “Jackass with video games”.
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GAME OVER/CONTINUE? at Giant Robot San Francisco,...
Giant Robot is proud to present Game Over/Continue?, a group show that pays homage to the massive influence and continuous evolution of videogames. The impact and inspiration of videogames will be represented through a wide assortment of styles and genres provided by top artists in the fields of illustration, painting, sewing, and indie comics.
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The 11th Annual Independent Games Festival -... →
Think Services (producer of Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com, and the Game Developers Conference) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.
Gaming Themes Added to Google's Home Page
Included in Google’s latest theme pack are images from World of Warcraft, Street Fighter IV, The Legend of Zelda, Tomb Raider: Underworld and Mass Effect 2 (above) — though the image from ME2 looks more like a scene from the first Mass Effect filtered through a haze of orange tint.
Users of any of Google’s many services can alter the scheme of their customizable homepage by...
“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”
– Albert Einstein
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'Backstage With Guitar Hero®' to Debut in...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 25, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that Guitar Hero® fans will have another virtual destination to join together and rock with the launch of the franchise’s very own space in the PlayStation®Home, the 3D social gaming community that allows users to interact, communicate and...
WatchIron Man vs Bruce Lee: FIGHT!
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WatchBeyonce Promotes Rhythm Heaven, Nintendo DSi
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WatchTeaser trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are.
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Behold The New Blue-Tinted Xbox 360 - For...
Microsoft reinforced its commitment to professional developers with the preview of new Xbox 360 Development and Test Kit hardware. This hardware includes additional debugging memory that allows developers to more efficiently produce games, push the console to its maximum capabilities, and ensure the best titles continue to be created for Xbox 360.
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Nokia Music Almighty Headset Competition Winners
Last year Wieden + Kennedy London launched the Nokia Music Almighty Headset Competition, which invited entrants to design a Nokia Bluetooth headset, inspired by their favourite piece of music. The winning designs have now all been made into fully functioning headsets, some of which are more wearable than others…
CR Blog » Blog Archive » Nokia Headset Comp Winners
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OnLive: The Future of Video Games
OnLive is launching the world’s highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest high-end titles over home broadband Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macs.
Founded by noted technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman (WebTV, QuickTime) and incubated within the Rearden media and technology incubator, OnLive spent seven years in stealth development before officially...
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Online games market still growing
Demand for subscription massive multiplayer online games (MMOG) will top $2bn (£1.3bn) by 2013, according to a new report.
The study, by analysts Screen Digest, said the market had been driven by attempts to emulate World of Warcraft.
The findings suggest that the MMOG’s market in Europe and North America grew by 22% and was worth $1.4bn (£0.9bn).
BBC NEWS | Technology | Online games...
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WatchThe first trailer for the Wii remake of Punch-Out!! enters the ring, knocking other boxing games on their asses with a nostalgic uppercut.
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Microsoft opens 3rd annual Dream-Build-Play game...
Kicking off the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, today we announced the third annual Dream-Build-Play global game development competition that encourages aspiring and hobbyist developers to create new and innovative games for Xbox 360. Beginning Monday, April 6 developers from all over the world will have an opportunity to submit their unique game creations to the Dream-Build-Play...
Video Game Classics →
Video games vs Penguin Classics.
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WatchSet in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had...
The Hard Science of Making Videogames
Put the stereotypes out of your mind. Forget the zits, the Cheetos, the smell of too much time on a couch with the curtains drawn. Today´s videogames draw on sophisticated science like biomechanics, fluid dynamics and computational geometry to be lifelike and exciting. Here are the 10 greatest challenges of making them. See for yourself-it´s virtual reality, but it´s real work
50 Greatest Game Innovations →
by Ernest Adams
Fifty years ago William Higinbotham built the first videogame with an oscilloscope and some analog circuitry. While games have changed enormously since then, even today’s AAA blockbusters owe some of their success to design innovations made years earlier. In this article I’m going to look at 50 design advances that I feel were especially important, or will prove to be...
The Disruptive Potential of Game Technologies:... →
Roger Smith U.S. Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation.
In this paper we explore the disruptive impacts that modern computer gaming technologies are having in the military simulation industry and suggest that these will disrupt other industries in the future. Game technologies initially provided low-end capabilities for a small niche within the simulation industry. However, over time...
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Wii All Play: The Console Game as a Computational... →
Amy Voida & Saul Greenberg Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
The paper reports the results of a field study that focused on examining collocated group behavior. What is interesting here is the analysis of console gaming as a “computational meeting place for a diverse population of gamers”: a family entertainment...
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Evolution of game controllers
Lopez describes this map as a “a collection of small multiples of game controllers of the main gaming systems from the past 25 years (..,) normalized, and the hands are all approximately the same size as each other, and thus the controllers all to scale“. His point was “to show the progression of controller design throughout the last quarter-century. With the introduction of the Nintendo...
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WatchElectro Man Summons Star Wars Music