Video Games News
| Video Games can Make You More Creative - Med India Lucy Prebble, who is best known for her financial satire Enron, attacked the popular stereotype of teenage gamers as 'chubby automatons' who spend their days shooting virtual enemies and eating crisps, the Telegraph reported. The award-winning writer also ... |
| Failed legal fight over video games costs California nearly $2 million - Sacramento Bee Designed to protect California kids from video games of murder and mayhem, a law that was passed six years ago but never took effect wound up costing state taxpayers nearly $2 million. The final check for nearly a million dollars is expected to ... |
| How the video games industry is faring - Yahoo Finance A look at results from selected companies in the video games business: Jan. 9: GameStop Corp., the world's largest video game retailer, reports nearly flat sales for a nine-week holiday period that ended on Dec. 31. Sales of game software rose ... |
| Jack Cooley's secret? No more video games - ESPN Parents of the world, lend me your ears. You want to get your kid to study and do his homework and get good grades and get a college scholarship, or at least some grants, maybe. But it can be a battle. All the kid wants to do is play NBA2K12. |
| Professor’s video games make students think - University of Denver Clarion College students being enthralled with video games is old news, circa 1998. However, Rafael Fajardo, associate professor of Electronic Media and Design/Digital Media Studies, has hooked students on a wave of humane video games that make them ... |
| The good and bad of video games - NorthJersey.com Even in this mild winter, daylight hours are limited and even naturally active and imaginative kids find themselves looking for something to pass a little idle time indoors. These become the days of the hand-held video games. Parents around North Jersey ... |
| Game Guru: Video games leaked on the web - Towerlight Last week, Amazon made an error by placing an unannounced game on its French website. The game was Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Though the game was expected in the near future, there was no official announcement. Activision, the game’s publisher, made sure ... |
| Video games improve sight in adults born with a rare eye disorder - The Guardian Doctors have treated people born with a rare eye disorder by prescribing a course of gun-toting video games. The surprise results challenge the view that computer games are necessarily bad for sight. Researchers found that adults who played the ... |