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Playing With Your Children Can Save Their Mental Health
Using the television or video game console to babysit your child might be more detrimental than you think. The results of a two decade study show that actively participating in your child’s life could save them from severe personality disorder. While psychologists have pinpointed many of the adverse elements that go into a child growing…
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The iPad’s Best Free Games Right Now
You spent enough money on that shiny new iPad. You shouldn’t have to pay for games as well. Here’s a selection of the finest free gaming the iPad has to offer. There’s a tremendous amount of free video game content available for the iPad some seven months after launch, but how do you weed through…
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For Some Reason, Sony Believes Now Is The Time To Hype Move
With the Xbox 360 Kinect selling like gangbusters, Sony releases this infographic to demonstrate how its take on motion gaming is picking up speed. Are you convinced? The infographic uses up a lot of real estate discussing people interested in buying a PlayStation Move controller. Intending to buy and purchase intent weigh heavily, but those…
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The Nintendo Download: The Best Use Of Your DSi Ever
Never before has a downloadable game for the Nintendo DSi made as good a use of the handheld’s features as Kaasa’s Discolight. You will believe the DSi screens can be two different colors at once. For a mere 200 DSi points you can transform your Nintendo DSi into the ultimate disco light. Choose a genre…
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Fallout: New Vegas Makes Millions
Bethesda Softworks is calling Fallout: New Vegas’ launch a success, with more than five million copies shipped since the game’s release, with retailers calling for more. Now all they have to do is fix it After the warm reception Fallout 3 received a few years back, it was a no-brainer that Fallout: New Vegas would…
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Check Out The New Official PlayStation 3 Bluetooth Headset
It’s time to throw out that old, clunky PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset. There’s a new earpiece in town, and it’s smaller, sleeker, and more functional than before. A reader sent us promotional materials for the new PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset last week, and now Sony follows up with the details on this update to the…
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The Deaths Of Sackboy
Before Media Molecule decided to end Sackboy’s life in a puff of smoke, LittleBigPlanet’s creators had other, more gruesome ideas in mind. Check out the developer’s Sackboy death reel. In an extensive and quite interesting article posted on the Media Molecule blog, the developers detail the evolution of Sackboy from a 2D placeholder graphic called…
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Someone Is Already Playing Gran Turismo 5
While fans all over the world sit and wait for word on the holiday release date for Gran Turismo 5, some lucky bastard is sitting in his home playing it. Reader Alex sent along this video of YouTube user You5825 racing through Gran Turismo 5 on his PlayStation 3. It doesn’t look to be a…
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Xbox Live Indie Clips: Radiangames Fluid
Developer Radiangames returns to Xbox Live Indie Clips with Fluid, a game that melds the gameplay of Pac-Man with the urgency of a timer and the terror that is hordes of jellyfish. I actually meant to get to Fluid back when it first hit Xbox Live Indie Games, but the timing was such that I…
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The Daily Show Solves The Problem Of Violent Games And Children
Is the solution to children playing violent video games bundling Family Game Night with a machine gun, a nine-person shooter, or replacing Niko Bellic with American public radio personality Ira Glass? Watch out: He’ll shoot your penis off. The Supreme Court hearing regarding California’s violent video game law began this week, and The Daily Show…
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How Video Game Graphics Sped Up Chemistry
Video gamers’ desire for more realistic graphics has produced more than just flashy new games; just ask a computational chemist. Theoretical chemistry involves using the principles of physics to explain and predict chemical reactivities. Computational chemistry takes the results of theoretical chemistry and pipes them through computer programs in order to calculate the properties and…
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Where Call Of Duty: Black Ops Rides At Midnight
Will you be playing Call of Duty: Black Ops Monday night at midnight or Tuesday morning? Best Buy and GameStop detail plans for a massive number of midnight openings for Activision’s latest and potentially greatest. the release of a new Call of Duty titles is more than enough reason for gamers to stay up late…
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A Look At The Old Republic’s Player-Versus-Player Warzones
Republic and Imperial forces clash on the world of Alderaan over control of the planet’s massive planetary defense cannon in this first detailed look at organized player-versus-player in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. We’ve seen plenty of cooperative multiplayer footage from The Old Republic, but the core of the story is the conflict between…
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Needed A Little Jazz Scat
I didn’t realize how much “Do Wop Dow” Sonic the Hedgehog 4: episode 1’s music was missing until I listened to Marc Gordon’s jazz scat remix of the game’s soundtrack. It might even be more “Do Wop Dow” than you can handle. Gordon, better known in ROM hacking circles as Cinossu, takes Sonic the Hedgehog…
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Jimmy Fallon Pulls A Kinect Oprah
Xbox 360 Kinect’s third appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon features Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda without sunglasses, the Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev playing Dance Central, and ends with everybody in the audience scoring a Kinect bundle. Kinect first appeared on Fallon’s show last year as Project Natal, where it performed admirably. It’s second appearance back…
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This Man Waited Two Days For His Kinect
Peter Gonzales, last seen waiting outside of the Times Square Toys R’ Us on Tuesday, celebrates being the first customer to purchase Kinect last night, and the chance to finally take a shower. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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The Story Behind Shogun 2: Total War
With so much focus put on the technical prowess of The Creative Assembly’s Shogun 2: Total War, it’s easy to overlook the game’s story, steeped in rich Japanese history. Shogun 2: Total War is set in 16th century Japan after the Ōnin War. During this war . . . my god, how many troops do…
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Capcom Turns Your iPhone Into An Arcade
Capcom Arcade brings the old-school arcade experience to your iPhone or iPod Touch, right down to letting you buy tokens to play Street Fighter II, the original Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, 1942 and Commando. Capcom doesn’t kid around with the word arcade. Available today for free in the iTunes App Store, Capcom Arcade maintains the feeling…
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Science Takes One Step Closer To Rendering Us Invisible
Invisibility cloaks; stealth armor; invisible jets – a team of physicists at Scotland’s University of St Andrews have made a breakthrough that could make these items a reality. All you have to do to make someone or something invisible is cloak them from visible light. Simple, right? Science has already created metamaterial cloaks that shield…
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