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Playing computer games = insurance breaks?

  A new pilot program by AllState Insurance is checking to see if there is a correlation between playing computer games and lack of car accidents.  The study will see drivers aged 50-75 play specially designed games with the thesis that age-related cognitive decline can be reversed, and driving improved.  Read more…

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Posted By: rebecca | Oct 2nd

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Old School Gamers Shout For Joy

GOG.com or Good Old Games, the new games-on-demand platform offering all-time PC classics, is turning a new leaf, entering a new chapter, going where no site has gone before.
From Monday, September 8, onward, the closed press beta will come to an end and the Early Access Beta will begin. Anyone who has signed up at […]

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Posted By: veronica | Sep 3rd

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Computer games industry threat to downloaders: ‘pay up or we’ll sue’

The computer games industry has launched an unprecedented assault on illegal downloads, demanding payment from thousands of families who obtained the latest releases over the internet without paying.
Five of the world’s top games developers will serve notice on 25,000 people across the UK, requiring each one to pay £300 immediately to settle out of […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 20th

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THQ Q1 losses nearly triple to $27M

In the middle of a week full of earning reports from gamemakers–including Sony, Nintendo, Capcom, and Electronic Arts–THQ today opened up its financial books. For the quarter ending June 30, 2008, the company posted net earnings of $137.6 million, $33.1 more than what it took in a year ago.
THQ’s increased earnings came in very large […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 31st

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Hardy Boys sleuthing on PC

 Classic children’s adventure novels to be remade into a series of adventure games; first to be released this autumn.
With the original Hardy Boys book released in 1927, the adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy stand as the longest-running children’s book series. Now JoWood Productions and The Adventure Company want to turn the duo […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jun 20th

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EA Releases Spore Creature Creator

Electronic Arts (EA) on Tuesday announced the release of Spore Creature Creator, a software application that serves as the introduction to the highly-anticipated game Spore, which will be released in September.
Spore Creature Creator — available for both Mac OS X and Windows — enables users to create creatures using design tools taken from Spore, a […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jun 19th

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Indie Gaming Lives On!

Montreal, Quebec, Canada – June 5, 2008 – Meridian4 (http://www.meridian4.com) is pleased to announce that they have signed a global digital publishing agreement with Dialogue Design for their highly-addictive tank action title; Tank Universal.
“Dialogue Design is pleased and excited to be working with Meridian4 on the digital distribution of our new action title Tank Universal.” […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | Jun 5th

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Street Fighter IV heading to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC?

from BigDownload.com:
Rumor has it that Capcom’s latest entry in the Street Fighter universe will make its way to next-gen consoles and the PC this winter. According to a story from French gaming site Jeuxvideo, Capcom inadvertently announced the platforms for Street Fighter IV on a site reserved for the press.
It is well-known that PC development […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | May 27th

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May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots the First-Person Shooter Into Stardom

From Wired.com:
1992: Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category.
Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first “first-person shooter,” as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful. Technically the genre goes back to the ’70s, but no one really paid any attention to […]

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Posted By: jackhammer | May 5th

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Crytek Ditch PC Exclusivity, Blame Pirates

Crytek were probably the last great dev team devoted solely to making PC users feel inadequate about their system specs. No longer. In an interview with PC Play, Crytek president Cevat Yerli has said that thanks to both “huge piracy” and the small returns PC games bring in compared to console titles, the company will […]

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Posted By: ashley | Apr 30th

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