| 26 Computer Games - General Resources |
| 3D gaming in 2011: Tips, tricks, and buying advice |
| So you haven't gone the stereoscopic 3D route yet -- but with top-notch, winter-release games like Skyrim and Batman: Arkham City making good use of 3D tech, you're seriously considering it. |
| December 6, 2011 |
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| Can video games teach us how to behave? |
| For the first time, the positive effects of computer games on thoughts, emotions and behaviour will be the subject of closer scrutiny by social psychologists. A total of three studies will explore how, to which extent and for how long cooperative gaming behaviour influences the personality of gamers positively. |
| December 12, 2011 |
| Capcom Didn't Want to Make Dead Rising, Lost Planet |
| Former Capcom executive Keiji Inafune reveals two hit series were originally denied development. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| Capcom Releases Game Made By Nothing But First-Year Employees |
| The "throw into the deep end" approach to game development. |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Console Showdown 2011 |
| PS3 vs. Wii vs. Xbox 360: Part 1 - which system had the best exclusives this year? |
| December 26, 2011 |
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| EA buys PopCap -- does that mean Activision needs to buy Zynga? |
| This week, casual game maker PopCap, best known for Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, agreed to be acquired by Electronic Arts in a deal said to be worth around $650 million. The move came as a surprise to many, as PopCap has been making serious moved towards an IPO, and as recently as a few weeks ago, company representatives told me that a public offering was definitely their long-term plan. |
| July 13, 2011 |
| EA dubs Nintendo Wii a 'legacy platform' |
| EA has described Nintendo Wii as a "legacy platform", a console that picks up dust on the shelf along with the likes of the PS2 and the original Xbox, while HD consoles rule the show. |
| March 16, 2011 |
| EA Working Hard To Be The Next GameStop |
| Electronics Arts has announced the addition of 11 more publishers to its PC digital distribution platform Origin. We believe the move will help not just increase EA's span of games in digital distribution, but also help the company to compete mAs part of the agreement between the two companies, Nokia pays a license fee to Microsoft for each phone it sells. |
| January 30, 2012 |
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| Fox Claims Console Gaming Is Dying, Nintendo Disagrees |
| A Fox News article claims that traditional console-based video games are on their last legs, preparing to give way for cloud-based services. Nintendo doesn't believe it. |
| May 17, 2011 |
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| Game copy protection rolls further downhill |
| Remember several weeks ago when I was complaining about the draconian DRM measures utilized on Batman: Arkham City? I’ve come to enjoy that game, but knowing that I’m so limited in the number of installs I get on multiple computers with it has tampered my enthusiasm more than a little. Still, I’m kicking myself at the moment for not saving up some of my vitriol for use on a newly revealed DRM scheme on another game that is, if you can believe it, even more abominable. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Game graphics could be 100,000 times better |
| An Australian company claims to have developed technology to make computer game graphics "100,000 times better" than current-gen systems. |
| August 4, 2011 |
| Gameaholics are less likely to go to university |
| Research has shown that those who frequently play computer games are less likely to go to university. The research, which was carried out by Oxford University, involved 17,000 participants born, all of who were born in 1970. |
| April 8, 2011 |
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| How EA is jumping on the 'freemium' bandwagon |
| Electronic Arts, best known in the mobile world for its stable of premium franchises such as "Madden NFL" or "Need For Speed," is increasingly trying its hand at free games. |
| November 21, 2011 |
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| Japan Analyst Makes E3 Predictions |
| A new Xbox? A bunch of NGP games? Something to play on Kinect? |
| May 25, 2011 |
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| Kinect for Windows SDK |
| Microsoft has released a beta SDK for Windows, allowing Windows developers to officially make use of the XBox Kinect hardware. From their own press release: "The Kinect for Windows SDK, which works with Windows 7, includes drivers, rich APIs for Raw Sensor Streams, natural user interfaces, installer documents and resource materials. The SDK provides Kinect capabilities to developers building applications with C++, C# or Visual Basic using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010." |
| June 16, 2011 |
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| More info on Call of Duty Elite revealed by Activision |
| This week's official announcement about Call of Duty Elite has sent some hardcore players of the Call of Duty shooter series into a frenzy, and not in a good way. The upcoming online service that will offer player stats, social networking features and more has been seen by some players as a way to get money out of them when they have previously played online for free. Now publisher Activision has posted up an FAQ about Call of Duty Elite that it hopes will quell some of the player's protests. |
| June 4, 2011 |
| N |
| New Microsoft and Sony Consoles Expected in 2014 - Report |
| Amid rumors about Nintendo's next console, what's going on with the competition? |
| April 20, 2011 |
| New Skyrim Patch 1.2 Fixes All Kinds of Stuff |
| I wouldn't normally bother writing about a game patch, because aren't there better things to bother you with? But I'm still playing Skyrim, and I know a bunch of you are, too, and that as miraculously playable as Skyrim turned out to be at launch, it has its share of buyers struggling with the game's undocumented technical monsters. |
| November 29, 2011 |
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| PC Case Mod Encompasses Working Xbox 360 And Playstation 3 |
| Over on Reddit, user timofiend is showing off one of the most impressive PC case mods we've ever seen. In his picture gallery, you can see some shots of the interior components as well as the final working product (seen above). |
| September 6, 2011 |
| Phylo |
| Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem; Multiple Sequence Alignments. |
| Provides a Service |
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| Real Racing 2 HD Adds Wireless Splitscreen Multiplayer for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 |
| So, maybe you're a bit disappointed by not getting a shiny new iPhone design revealed during Apple's announcement yesterday. You're not alone. But the real exciting stuff was all the news about iOS 5, what with the Siri personal assistant and full video mirroring through Apple TV. |
| October 07, 2011 |
| Research questions the educational possibilities of some TV and computer games |
| There is a considerable amount of interest among researchers, educationalists and from the games industry in the educational possibilities offered by video and computer games. Some of the arguments about this educational potential are about so called open-ended games, games where the players set their own goals or plans and chooses which way the game goes. Now a thesis from the University of Gothenburg reveals that as a mean to challenge pupils' ideas and values, then these open-ended games are not appropriate. |
| April 4, 2011 |
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| Star Trek Online DX11 Performance Review |
| Star Trek Online has recently added DX11 Beta support, and we wanted to know how AMD's latest Radeon HD 7970 compared to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580 in the game and if DX11 provided any kind of performance difference over DX9. Our results were not what we expected. |
| January 17, 2012 |
| South Korea's Nightly Gaming Ban Extends to Xbox Live |
| America may be stereotyped as having an entire generation of kids currently being raised on video games and Mountain Dew, but there’s at least one other nation that tops us in terms of childhood gaming obsession. |
| January 9, 2012 |
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| Why Do Metacritic Users Hate Modern Warfare 3? |
| Once more into the scandalous aggregation something-or-other, this time with Modern Warfare 3, which looks to be coming up red (but not roses) for players rating the game just hours after picking it up. While the Xbox 360 version's already garnered a critically acclaimed 90 out of 100 on Metacritic with 30 critics weighing in, the average user score's hovering closer to 3 out of 10. |
| November 8, 2011 |
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| UK brains under threat? |
| The British appetite for zombies is becoming a growing trend. From computer games and films to organised zombie walks though Britain's cities, the proliferation of zombies seems to be everywhere. Yet, this high interest in zombies enables researchers to link zombie-like behaviours to current models of public attitudes and actions. |
| October 26, 2011 |