News tagged with interactive video games
A warm TV can drive away feelings of loneliness and rejection
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Not all technology meets human needs, and some technologies provide only the illusion of having met your needs.
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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 ...
No disks needed for startup's streamed video games
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Music and movies can be streamed over the Internet, so why not video games? A startup founded by technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman says it has developed a technology to deliver video games on demand, an idea ...
Health researchers explore how to take interactive video games to the next level
May 30, 2008 |
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to explore how interactive digital games could be better designed to improve players' ...
Shanda Games IPO gets tepid reception
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shanda Games Ltd., a Chinese video game company, raised $1 billion Friday in the largest initial public offering of the year.
Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Research presented in a paper by Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, and co-author Dr. David Luebke of NVIDIA, introduces a new algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games.
Video game minority report: Lots of players, few characters
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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If the future of entertainment is interactive media, some minorities are still headed back to the past.
Video game Everquest 2 provides new way to study human behavior
Feb 27, 2009 |
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A research study by a University of Minnesota computer scientist and colleagues from across the country shows that online, interactive gaming communities are now so massive that they mirror traditional communities.
Interactive game helps teach history to high-school kids
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Students who have trouble staying awake in history class now have a new way to learn about the Civil War and other topics: an interactive video game where they try to stop a band of evildoers from changing the past.
Amazon might grow market for used games
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Investors in GameStop Corp. may have panicked earlier this month on the news that Amazon.com was entering into the used video game space, but a new study suggests that the slumping economy may help make room for plenty of ...
4 free iPhone games worth playing
Mar 05, 2009 |
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In these harsh economic times, no one can begrudge you a little free fun. Especially if that fun comes on an iPhone, for which you paid a pretty penny back in the salad days of 2007-08. Here are a few free iPhone games to ...
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