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How Video Games Reorganize Your Brain
It is no secret that video games aid players with their hand-eye coordination. A new study shows that playing video games extensively reorganizes how the brain handles difficult visuomotor tasks. Gaming pundits have been pulling out the eye-hand coordination card for as long there have been video games. Seeing things is easy. Manipulating things with…
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A Million New Recruits Join The Clone Wars
If you build a free-to-play massively multiplayer game set in the Star Wars universe, they will come. Sony Online Entertainment reports more than one million registered players a week after the launch of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures. It was a real no-brainer for Sony Online Entertainment. Multiplae millions of players flocked to Free Realms,…
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An Epic Tale Of Role-Playing And A Cappella Metal
German a cappella metal band Van Canto makes the free-to-play MMO Runes of Magic look more exciting than it has ever been in this music video for “Magic Taborea.” Those not familiar with Van Canto might see the elaborate costumes and props and wonder why the band would go to so much trouble to market…
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The Old Republic’s Smuggler Gets Its Own Wookie
If a video game is going to feature a character class based primarily on the exploits of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, that class better have a Wookie sidekick. BioWare delivers. Meet Bowdaar, The Old Republic Smuggler’s answer to Chewbacca. After 108 years as a pit fighting slave, Bowdaar developed a warrior’s strength, a strong…
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Zombies Stalk The Streets Of London
“Bring out your undead!” cried Capcom to London Dead Rising fans, urging them to dress in their zombie finest for an early launch event at HMV on Oxford Street. The fans answered. With the popularity of zombies being what it is these days, one might imagine these are just a average group of London young…
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Teaching Our Schools To Up Their Game
In this Finding Your Science video from the National Science Foundation Arizona State University linguist James Paul Gee discusses how schools kill the joy of learning and how video games can bring it back to life. James Gee is a strong supporter of learning through interaction. He believes that learning is one of life’s foremost…
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There’s A New Convertible Keyboard In Town
When peripheral manufacturer SteelSeries bought out Zboard creator Ideazon in 2008, everyone wondered what would happen to the Zboard. The SteelSeries Shift is what happened to the Zboard. Ideazon’s Zboard was a keyboard with interchangeable keysets tailored to different popular PC titles. If one wanted to play EverQuest 2, they would slap in the EverQuest…
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Sackboy Invades The Kingdom Of Dotnia
On the same day LittleBigPlanet 2 is delayed a feature update for Atlus’ 3D Dot Game Heroes brings a special guest to the retro land of Dotnia. From one creativity fueled PlayStation 3 exclusive to another, LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy makes his Dotnia debut in today’s feature update for 3D Dot Game Heroes. Sackboy is not alone…
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Halo: Reach Armor Lock Not Quite As Useful In Real Life
If you could have any of Halo: Reach’s new armor abilities in real life, would you choose armor lock? Watch this video before answering. I would have chosen active camo myself, but then I am the sort of suspicious character who could benefit from being invisible once in awhile. Jet pack would finish second, followed…
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Oh No It’s A Mr. Bill iPhone Game
Capcom resuscitates a 34-year-old Claymation Saturday Night Live joke in Mr. Bill for the iPhone. One would think that after more than three decades being abused by Mr. Sluggo and Mr. Hand the Claymation family man Mr. Bill would have wised up. Sadly that is not the case. The hero of the clay has fallen…
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Football Mario Doesn’t Appreciate Mushroom Trash Talk
Compare him to a video game plumber all day long; all it does is make Houston Texans defensive end Mario Williams tackle Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb harder. Just because the Houston team’s stadium regularly flashes a Super Mario Bros. cartoon on its jumbotron doesn’t mean it is okay to taunt Mario Williams with mushroom-related…
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Explore The Future Of Gaming At BAF Game 2010
The creative minds behind games like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Fable III, and Brink convene in November at the Bradford Animation Festival in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to discuss the future of gaming, and everybody’s invited! BAF Game is the video game arm of the annual Bradford Animation Festival, organized in partnership with the University…
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The Sound And The Fury Of Fallout: New Vegas
Players will be running into plenty of things they want to shoot in the New Vegas wastes. The second Fallout: New Vegas developer diary shows off plenty of ways to kill them. You can keep your steampunk; post-apocalyptic weapons are where it’s at. The developers at Obsidian Entertainment channelled the 50’s sci-fi mindset in New…
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Fake Gene Simmons Ushers Fake Guitar Into Hard Rock Hall Of Fame
Kiss super-fan Kevin Curtis welcomes the first gaming guitar into the Hard Rock Hall of Fame, celebrating the imminent launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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This Is The Official Final Fantasy XIV PC Controller
While Final Fantasy XIV works splendidly with a wired Microsoft controller, it does not exactly scream “Final Fantasy.” One can hear this official Final Fantasy XIV controller from Sunflex screaming from a mile away. First unveiled at GamesCom last month the official Final Fantasy XIV controller has more of a PlayStation aesthetic to it. It…
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Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Prologue: Character Creation
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with character creation. You might recall the four-part MMO log we did earlier this year leading up to our review of Star Trek Online. Well we’re doing it again, and by we I mean me, for Final Fantasy XIV. Kicking things off is a video of…
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Unboxing The Fancy Edition Of Final Fantasy XIV
Today is the official launch day for Final Fantasy XIV Collector’s Edition purchasers, and since we technically count in that group, we’re giving folks who opted to purchase the normal edition a glimpse of what they’re missing. Of course the main draw of the Collector’s Edition is the one week head start on everyone else,…
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Behind The Scenes With Goldeneye 007 Multiplayer
How do you update one of the most beloved multiplayer console shooter experiences without ruining it completely? The devs at Eurocom show us how it’s done in this behind-the-scenes video. It would be simply enough to just re-release the original game with improved graphics and a hastily thrown together multiplayer component, but that’s definitely not…
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There Are Zombies On Blood Bowl’s Lawn
While one of the enemies in Plants Vs. Zombies used to play football, the undead abominations of the newly-revealed Necromantic team actively play, or at least they will once the Blood Bowl Legendary Edition hits PC. I’m going to go ahead and call foul right now. The Necromantic team, which joins the Amazons and Ogres…
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