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The Winners of the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards
Here are the winners of the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards, announced tonight at GDC 2012: Best Game Design: Portal 2 (Valve) Innovation: Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik) Best Technology: Battlefield 3 (DICE) Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capy Games/Superbrothers) Best Audio: Portal 2 (Valve) Best Downloadable Game: Bastion (Supergiant Games)…
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I Had to See This, and Now You Do Too
And then Luke got eaten by spiders. That’s the town of Wagga Wagga, where recent floods have made millions of arachnids that would otherwise remain safely hidden underneath your bed or in your shoes take to the skies in a majestic display of oh god, I am going to throw up in fear. Luke is…
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After Five Crummy Games, Marvel Wants No More of Sega
“No current plans” is politespeak for “this ballgame is over.” And that was the reply given by Marvel’s senior executive responsible for video games production, when asked what the future holds for the publishing label and Sega. “There are no current plans for additional Marvel games to be published by Sega,” T.Q. Jefferson told The…
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Nearly 6 Million Years of World of Warcraft Healthy for Players’ Brains
A number of recent research studies conducted on games and gamers have found a generally positive trend in the effect that gaming has on players’ brains, the Wall Street Journal reports. Not only is World of Warcraft good for senior citizens brain function, it’s good for a lot of other groups as well. Some of…
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You Lived to See the Day When the Cubs Finally Win the World Series
I was on a six-hour flight back from Washington last week and struck up a conversation with my seatmate, a woman who was, literally, a brain surgeon from Arizona. She asked what I do, and I told her, and she asked me what value sports video games provide that playing an actual sport does not.…
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Who’ll Win the First Round of Madden‘s Cover Contest (I Think)
EA Sports yesterday completed its announcement of the field of 64 candidates for the cover of Madden NFL 13, and opened voting today in its joint promotion with ESPN. Having tried to predict the entire field before it was announced (I went 38 for 62), I’m now going pick who wins the play-in round. How…
By Owen Good
