New Video Games Exercise More Than Thumbs (AP)

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Exercise games for Xbox

Exercise games for Xbox 05/31/2004 09:52 PM
“For some time I’ve wondered why in the world we don’t have better interfaces between video games and exercise equipment. With the exception of the very simple and addictive Dance Dance Revolution, game/exercise devices fall into two categories: expensive exercise machines with bad games, or games with bad exercise machines.”

Games to get thumbs racing in 2004

Games to get thumbs racing in 2004 01/10/2004 12:29 AM
Daniel Etherington of BBCi Collective looks ahead to 2004's new games in his weekly column.

Ronald McDonald romps in exercise video
(Reuters)

Ronald McDonald romps in exercise video
(Reuters) 06/08/2004 04:59 PM
Reuters - McDonald's clown mascot Ronald McDonald will dance and play sports with kids from around the world in videos the world's No. 1 restaurant chain is producing with Warner Home Video to promote active lifestyles.

Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games

Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Games based on uWink Game Library Developed by Nolan Bushnell. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

'a sinister exercise in moral frivolity,
crudely disguised as an exercise in
seriousness.It is also a spectacle of
abject political cowardice masking
itself as a demonstration of
'dissenting' bravery'

'a sinister exercise in moral frivolity,
crudely disguised as an exercise in
seriousness.It is also a spectacle of
abject political cowardice masking
itself as a demonstration of
'dissenting' bravery' 06/24/2004 08:03 AM
Liberal columnist Christopher Hitchens (he of Mo ther Theresa-criticising fame) rips Michael Moore a new one on Slate.

Three O'clock Ltd., the Free
International Video Magazine Service for
Mobile Phones Launches their premiere
Video Games, Urban Music, Cars, Surfing
and Female Fashion magazines.

Three O'clock Ltd., the Free
International Video Magazine Service for
Mobile Phones Launches their premiere
Video Games, Urban Music, Cars, Surfing
and Female Fashion magazines. 08/20/2004 06:29 AM
Three O'clock Ltd., a mobile entertainment company, announces the launch of the world's first video magazine service for mobile phones. Subscribers can gain free access to 60 video magazines to watch and read on their java-enabled mobile phones. Coinciding with the launch of the Three O'clock video magazine service, the company is offering 5 special magazines covering Video Games, Urban Music, Cars, Surfing and Female Fashion. [PRWEB Aug 20, 2004]

All for Ads Within Video Games

All for Ads Within Video Games 06/25/2004 03:53 PM
Advertising revenue is a great opportunity for video game makers.

Video Games

Video Games 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
On September 22nd of this year I pre-ordered Gran Turismo 4 through work. The listed release date for the game was November. The next month...

In Video Games, Everything Old Is New
Again

In Video Games, Everything Old Is New
Again 05/23/2004 02:57 PM
Boston Globe May 23 2004 5:48PM GMT

Video games on a Movie T

Video games on a Movie T 08/29/2004 12:50 PM
Techzonez Aug 29 2004 5:21PM GMT

Video Games Gone Wild!

Video Games Gone Wild! 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Check out the hottest and newest XCubeStation titles. By David Cross from Wired magazine.

Video games in court

Video games in court 02/07/2005 02:07 AM
Cory Doctorow: I wrote a short story called Anda's Game that Salon published last year -- it's about kids working in sweatshops playing Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs, grinding through repetitive tasks to earngold for sleazy operators who sell the product of their labor on eBay. The inspiration came from a real-world account of that sort of sweatshops, which has hit the news again today, in a story about the courtroom shenanigans stemming from video games:

A multiplayer online game is sued for allowing its players to dress up like comic book heroes. An upstart company winds up in court for creating a Tijuana sweatshop to manufacture digital weaponry.

A funny thing is happening in these sprawling online multiplayer arenas. The ultimate in digital escapism, virtual worlds keep ending up in the ultimate in depressing reality: the courts.

Link (Thanks, Rob and Aaman!)

Chatting up video games

Chatting up video games 05/27/2004 06:29 AM
Chicago Tribune May 27 2004 10:51AM GMT

Coming soon: ads in video games

Coming soon: ads in video games 04/11/2005 11:27 AM
CNN Money Apr 11 2005 3:35PM GMT

Sports video games

Sports video games 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Reading this Salon article on sports video games brought back a ton of memories from college. I never got into Madden properly, but I played a ton of Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Super Bowl, and NHL '94, the latter of which is, in my estimation, the best sports video game of all time (with which Stewart would agree, I'm sure). A quote from the article: [Bo] Jackson isn't the only athlete... (with comments)

Video Games Aren't Just For Guys...
Again

Video Games Aren't Just For Guys...
Again 09/01/2004 08:58 PM
Every few month or so, there seems to be some random story about how only guys play video games, and how a bigger effort needs to be made to make games for women. Of course, nearly every attempt to target women specifically has failed -- but what people haven't noticed is that women are playing games all the time. In fact, they're considered some of the hardest core gamers, though, more focused on word and puzzle type games. However, that's clearly not all. New studies are showing that as new games become more character driven, instead of kill-everything-driven, women are playing those games as well. As obvious as it seems, it appears the trick to getting women to buy into video games wasn't to make games for women, but to make games for everyone.

Video games to get emotional! !

Video games to get emotional! ! 08/30/2004 01:52 PM
123Bharath.com Aug 30 2004 5:59PM GMT

Best Selling Video Games

Best Selling Video Games 07/09/2004 06:39 PM
The NPD Group has released their latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US. This list is for the week ending June 26th. Most startling is the fact the Sims made number 7! Who in their right minds plays the Sims? :o)

Academics get serious about video games

Academics get serious about video games 02/13/2004 05:10 PM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 13 2004 9:45PM GMT

Video Games Hit The Big Screen

Video Games Hit The Big Screen 08/28/2004 10:16 PM

Education Via Video Games

Education Via Video Games 08/16/2004 06:48 AM

In Video Games, Everything Old Is New
Again (Reuters)

In Video Games, Everything Old Is New
Again (Reuters) 05/23/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - Hold on to something long enough, the theory goes -- a car, a tie or even a hairstyle -- and eventually it will be cool again.

Video games get raunchy

Video games get raunchy 05/13/2004 09:40 AM

This Month's Top 10 PC Video Games

This Month's Top 10 PC Video Games 05/26/2004 04:48 PM
Half-Life 2 (Full Product, PC) City of Heroes (Full Product, PC) Unreal Tournament 2004 (Full Product, PC) Far Cry (Full Product, PC) Half-Life Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (Full Product) Half-Life Counter Strike (Full Product, PC) Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (Full Product, PC) Battlefield Vietnam (Full Product, PC) Call Of Duty (Full Product, PC) Warcraft 3 BattleChest (Full Product, PC/Mac)

Video games 'good for children'

Video games 'good for children' 08/11/2004 06:31 AM
Computer games can promote problem-solving and team-building in children, say games industry experts.

AOL Launches Site for Video Games

AOL Launches Site for Video Games 05/05/2004 04:51 PM

Video Games - Lost in Translation?

Video Games - Lost in Translation? 04/29/2004 01:53 AM

Women take a shine to video games

Women take a shine to video games 09/01/2004 07:11 PM
The makers of video games need acknowledge that women like to buy and play games, says a study.

Video games to get ads; makers to get
richer

Video games to get ads; makers to get
richer 04/11/2005 06:17 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 11 2005 10:33AM GMT

Product Placement And Video Games

Product Placement And Video Games 06/18/2004 02:32 PM
You really can't escape advertising any more. It's absolutely everywhere. While the concept isn't all that new, it appears that the new fascination is on how to advertise within video games ("this frag brought to you by..."). Already, of course, automak ers are huge fans of advertising in videogames. But, what's interesting about Viacom's announcement about their desire to advertise within video games is that it will convince many other companies they need to do the same thing. Of course, if the advertisers are paying for part of the game, shouldn't the games get cheaper for buyers?

downloadable tracks from video games

downloadable tracks from video games 04/18/2005 10:30 AM
The Video Game Pianist

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Video Games To Boost Self-Esteem

Video Games To Boost Self-Esteem 05/07/2004 02:57 PM
Some researchers are working on special video games designed to boost the player's self-esteem. To be honest, the games sound fairly boring (which doesn't seem all that self-esteem boosting, but what do I know?). I wonder if the plan is to take these basic games and integrate the concepts into more standard video games. The basic idea is that it takes practice and conditioning to think highly of yourself. Of course, all this makes me think the game is designed for people who might identify with the Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley and his daily affirmations: "I'm good enough. I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me - because my video game tells me so."

More Video Games Designed To Help The
Children

More Video Games Designed To Help The
Children 04/15/2005 04:49 AM
Whatever happened to the days when video games were the root of all evil to be purged from polite society? It seems like the video games are fighting back and trying to come across as being... well... wholesome. First we had video games to make kids thin (and help save on health insurance), then there were video games to teach kids about world hunger, and now comes a game designed to teach kids about how dangerous that big internet really is. Using George Jetson (George Jetson?!?) and other pop-culture characters (um, from what decade?), apparently the game is designed to teach these kids how to "identify spam, delete viruses and identify suspicious people in chat rooms." While these are definitely important lessons for kids to learn, you have to wonder how much this game is actually going to help. This sounds like the type of idea that an adult thinks a kid will like, but the kids will wonder what those adults are thinking... and go right back to writing their own viruses and sending out spam to enhance their allowance money.

Implicit ideology in video games

Implicit ideology in video games 04/10/2004 03:21 PM
From Reason Magazine, an article analysing the ways that video games influence our politics and world-view.

So implicit politics might be the better way to influence player opinion. But as a political vehicle, games may have an inherent bias. Bridging an ideological chasm, libertarian Iain Smedley and socialist Julian Stallabras agree that computer games possess a native individualism. Writing a decade ago, Smedley noted the "heroic and individualistic philosophy" of video games, in which the player "does not merely cheer on the hero in [his] struggle; the player’s actions determine the outcome." Writing contemporaneously in New Left Review, Stallabras concurred: In games, "the passivity of cinema and television is replaced by an environment in which the player’s actions have a direct, immediate consequence on the virtual world." For Stallabras, this makes computer games "a capitalist and deeply conservative form of culture."

Stallabras’ wide-ranging indictment of computer games is remarkable for its combination of savvy ("in Doom...all the corpses of a particular monster always look exactly the same") and pessimism ("The defining image in all this comes, not from any game, but naturally enough from a blockbuster film, Terminator 2; it is the jarring crunch of human skulls under the bright chrome of a robot foot"). Stallabras contends that many offensive traits of games are concealed by "chrome," by which he means slick user interfaces and graphical eye candy. What would he think of the recent release whose title is Chrome? Probably the same thing he writes about the video game as a medium: that it tricks players into imitating idealized markets and sweatshop labor through repetitive manipulation of game objects and numbers, that it is shaped by "the parameters of the computer industry’s links with the military," and that its innate objectification "leads to...an ever greater blurring of the use of people as instruments in the world and the game." But he might appreciate the irony that Chrome developer Techland is located in Poland.

Link (via Terra Nova)

Violent Video Games Under Attack

Violent Video Games Under Attack 07/05/2004 06:18 AM
Legislators and activists who want some titles kept out of kids' hands are on the warpath again against the video-game industry. Game makers, however, seem to delight in amping up the virtual gore.

A New Reality in Video Games:
Advertisements

A New Reality in Video Games:
Advertisements 04/10/2005 08:48 PM
New York Times Apr 11 2005 12:16AM GMT

Academics turn to video games

Academics turn to video games 02/13/2004 08:05 PM
Boston Globe Feb 14 2004 0:45AM GMT

Video Games Losing Power?

Video Games Losing Power? 03/23/2005 08:04 PM
Video game retailer GameStop has tough competition.

Comics' New Hero: Video Games

Comics' New Hero: Video Games 07/21/2004 11:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 22 2004 3:14AM GMT
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