News tagged with arts
Arts and sciences join to develop greener, more efficient conferences and exhibits
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Santanu Majumdar spent his years as a graphic design graduate student developing a project that might sound counterintuitive for a student of fine arts - a software program made to simplify information gathering at conferences ...
Don't ignore your emotions at work, professor says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “There’s no crying in baseball!” So said Jimmy Dugan, the manager portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie “A League of Their Own.” Not so fast, says Vince Waldron, an Arizona State University professor of communication ...
'Call of Duty' setting entertainment records
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is blasting its way into entertainment history.
EA posts 2Q loss, cutting 17 pct. of work force
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Electronic Arts plans to cut its work force by 17 percent as it tries to align its business with a transforming video game industry.
Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As its packaged video games business lags, Electronic Arts Inc. has snapped up Playfish Inc., the creator of popular social networking games such as "Who Has the Biggest Brain" and "Pet Society," for $275 million ...
Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programs
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
US video game sales slide in August for 6th month
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Video games sales declined in August for the sixth straight month, following what analysts called a disappointing showing from the latest "Madden" game.
Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you’re likely to find one or more teenage boys playing those ...
A virtual football? Put away the china
Sep 04, 2009 |
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The last time we chatted, I wrote that somewhere in Nintendo's lair of mass mind control, "evil" scientists were patenting a game controller based on horse riding. It would look sort of like one of those bouncy balls we ...
EA 1Q loss widens but results surpass expectations
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Lower revenue from packaged video games amid a seasonal slump for the industry gave Electronic Arts Inc. a larger net loss in its fiscal first quarter. But investors cheered as its adjusted results ...
June video game sales drop sharply
Jul 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Squeezed by the economic downturn, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in June, the largest year-over-year decline the industry has seen in nearly nine years.
Low-cost online computer gaming surges in US
Jul 11, 2009 |
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US videogame lovers are adapting to tough economic times by turning to low-cost online play, according to figures released Friday by industry tracker comScore.
Electronic Arts stages fake protest of game at E3
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Electronic Arts has been playing games with attendees of the nation's biggest video-game trade show.
Arts good for the psyche
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Youth who do arts are psychologically better off than those who do not, a new study from Victoria University shows.
Activision sues to stop Jack Black game
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Activision is suing to stop the release of the Jack Black video game "Brutal Legend."
