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  • Capcom Partners With Online Gakai Video Game Streaming Service

    Capcom Partners With Online Gakai Video Game Streaming Service

    Online video game streaming services may be old news, but Capcom has managed to make a big impression on consumers with its partnership with Gakai. A few months ago EA Games forged a similar deal with Gakai, offering gamers a way to play their favorite...

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  • Are Video Games Postponing Adolescence In Teen Boys?

    Are Video Games Postponing Adolescence In Teen Boys?

    While members of the video game industry are blamed for many of society’s woes, they are also given a laundry list of excuses. Now, it seem that game developers are not only being told that they need to give women more prominent placement in their...

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  • Xbox 360 Sales Up – Video Game Title Sales Down

    Xbox 360 Sales Up – Video Game Title Sales Down

    The month of May brought mixed news to the gaming community. Microsoft Xbox 360 sales were way up, but video game retailers had one of the worst months they’ve seen in four years. As far as hardware sale go, Microsoft made up approximately 34% of...

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  • “Alice: Madness Returns” To The Xbox 360

    “Alice: Madness Returns” To The Xbox 360

    In the original “American McGee’s Alice,” gamers were bombarded with images of death, destruction and melee – all staring their favorite childhood character, Alice. More than 10 years later, and EA has managed to do it again. “Alice: Madness Returns” is based on the original...

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  • New Mobile Games Make Developers Wonder If Graphics Count

    New Mobile Games Make Developers Wonder If Graphics Count

    Each new generation of video games comes with better graphics and more features to meet the growing demands of consumers – except for mobile games. Although most smart phones are equipped to handle complex graphics engines the majority of mobile games are incredibly simplistic. From...

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  • Medical Students Excited About Video Game Based Training

    Medical Students Excited About Video Game Based Training

    Medical Students Excited About Video Game Based Training The CIA has long been using video game based training to educate new recruits on how to handle high stress situations, but few other industries have been as enthused about embracing the technology. Recent study results show...

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  • New Research Suggest Video Games Could Improve Health

    New Research Suggest Video Games Could Improve Health

    In the field of scientific research on video games, many new studies are beginning to suggest that such games may actually have a range of positive side effects for patients of all sorts of debilitative and even potentially life threatening diseases across a range of...

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  • Industry Speculates Over Whether Apple iPad Will Change Gaming

    Industry Speculates Over Whether Apple iPad Will Change Gaming

    Each time that a new platform for video games reaches the market, it tends to have a ripple effect on other games across other platforms, say game industry insiders, and the new iPad digital device from Apple may not be a game specific platform, but...

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