News tagged with gaming machines
Gaming machines affecting well-being
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gaming machines have a detrimental impact upon the lives of those who use them and their associates, according to new research.
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Study: Racinos create mostly low-paying jobs while depressing area incomes
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While more states are tapping into the growing popularity of racinos as a means to augment budgets or create college scholarship programs, such facilities add lower paying jobs that depress local salaries, ...
Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 09, 2007 |
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The Sony Playstation 3, Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At ...
'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year
Mar 14, 2008 |
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In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming with Nintendo's Wii, ...
Going for broke
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...
Nintendo not planning price cuts for hit machines
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nintendo has weathered the global recession because of the popularity of its game machines and won't be resorting to price cuts to boost sales, the company's president said Thursday.
VoodooPC Smashes Industry Records with Next-Gen Notebook PC
Jul 18, 2007 |
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VoodooPC, the world's leading architect of personalized, handcrafted high-performance PCs, today introduced its 17-inch widescreen notebook PC, the ENVY H:171.
NPD: October video game sales tumble 19 percent
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After a slight reprieve in September, U.S. video game retail sales slumped again in October, unable to escape the economic turmoil that's cutting into consumer spending and swelling the ranks of unemployed.
High hopes turn poker machine players into problem gamblers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 14, 2007 |
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There are around 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia. For gambling researchers, one of the biggest questions is why so many people seem unable to control their gambling behaviour, despite the harmful impact on their lives.
Nintendo's annual profit rises 8.5 percent
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nintendo Co. reported an 8.5 percent rise in annual profit as the video game maker shrugged off the global slowdown that has battered other Japanese manufacturers.
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks
Nov 19, 2007 |
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This holiday season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will immerse gamers in cinematic realism like never before. Games like Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are ...
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