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VentureBeat
April 21, 2018
Mobile publisher Tamatem has brought 40 games to the Arabic-language market and racked up millions of downloads. Its newest title is Airport City, a simulation game from Lithuanian developer Game Insight. It will debut on iOS and Android in that region on April 26. “The main idea behind the company,Ãâà...
Android Police
April 21, 2018
Fortnite may not yet be available on Android, but that doesn't mean you can't get into some hectic battle royale gameplay on the OS. A ton of similar games have released on the Play Store in the last few months, so I figured why not round up all of the better titles into one post so our readers can see whatÃâà...
TrueAchievements
April 21, 2018
A few weeks ago, Rich was raving madly about the opening moments of his "game of the generation," Far Cry 5. It got us thinking about other games that start especially strong, so we planned to devise a list celebrating the best opening scenes ever seen in games. As it turns out, games frequently deliverÃâà...
Windows Central
April 21, 2018
Today, Microsoft accidentally announced May's free Games with Gold for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners early. It appears that an unlisted video on the company's YouTube channel was shared before its official reveal. Starting on May 1, 2018, Super Mega Baseball 2 and Sega Vintage Collection: StreetsÃâà...
Windows Central
April 21, 2018
Next week we have no new "AAA" release on Xbox One, but there are still a few surprises here and there. Notably, Death Road to Canada is finally launching on the console, and Korgan transports you to a world filled with monster-slaying goodness. With that in mind, here are all the biggest gamesÃâà...
ESPN
April 20, 2018
Last season, just 59 players appeared in at least 150 games, down from 83 in 2016. As an increased focus on sports science convinces more teams that rest for their regular players is more a necessity than preference, this could be a growing trend. With a shorter schedule, maybe star players are rested more infrequently.
The Verge
April 20, 2018
There are plenty of games that have used parenting as a core part of their story. The first season of The Walking Dead game was particularly tense because of the adopted father-daughter relationship of Lee and Clementine, and there are countless action games where dads go on a rampage to avenge orÃâà...
WEEI.com (blog)
April 1, 2018
And after two games, only Cincinnati's Homer Bailey eclipsed the 100-pitch plateau, tossing an MLB-high 104. "We're looking to win every game possible, but we also see the big picture in this whole thing," LeVangie said. "Before we go overboard in the first game of the year, where are we going to pay theÃâà...
Seminoles.com
April 1, 2018
The win extended FSU's ACC winning streak to 34 games, which is tied with Texas State for the sixth-longest conference winning streak in NCAA history as the Bobcats won 34 straight Southland Conference games from 2000-02. “Tough battle today, but glad to see is fight and work through each of theÃâà...
ESPN
March 31, 2018
We correctly picked nine of 12 games in March and, so far this season, have correctly picked 41 of 53 games. As we've said in every dispatch since the beginning, our success rate -- which sits at 77.4 percent -- is notably higher than where our schedule alert formula suggested we'd be at this point. (Here is where we noteÃâà...
PlayStation LifeStyle
March 30, 2018
Wracking my extensive reservoir of useless comic knowledge, I wanted to think up some characters who need their own games, some that have been out of the spotlight for a generation or two, but most importantly that could generate interesting ideas and opportunities. I would be shocked if Black PantherÃâà...
The Local Austria
March 30, 2018
The results gathered after hundreds of dogs took part in the study suggest that older dogs benefit from similar games, just as Sudoku and other brain ... Other games used in the study involved having to touch a moving shape or being trained to distinguish between "good" and "bad" images and then chooseÃâà...
Business Insider
March 30, 2018
Ben Gilbert: Here are the best games coming out in the next nine months. Spider-Man is coming back to video game consoles this spring exclusively on the PlayStation 4. It's an open-world game, it looks gorgeous, and it puts Peter Parker in the modern world. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably theÃâà...
PC Gamer
March 30, 2018
One of the most common critiques leveled against games is that they 'need more content.' Sea of Thieves is the latest to take that flak, joining other big, open-ended games such as No Man's Sky and Destiny 2, which have also been accused of 'not having enough.' But what do they not have enough of?
TechRadar
March 30, 2018
VR headsets have had a shaky start despite their obviously awesome nature: Oculus has only sold around 200,000 headsets while the golden standard of VR, the HTC Vive, has shipped even less - around 160,000 units since launching in 2016. One of the reasons that sales might not be rocketing throughÃâà...
Metro
March 25, 2018
I replay one or other of the Shenmue games almost every year, Rez often multiple times of year. Ikaruga, Bangai-O, Sonic Adventure, Skies Of Arcadia, Jet Set Radio… the difference between these games and other classics is just how insanely replayable they are. It probably helps that most are relativelyÃâà...
Bleeding Cool News
March 25, 2018
Video games, movies, and music have all been blamed for causing violence, often times as a reactionary form of censorship. But they've also been used as easy scapegoats for the “reason” behind large-scale acts of violence. Since the dawn of modern psychology, science has been trying to prove a linkÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 25, 2018
As it turns out, she was worried about her son (he was probably six or seven then) turning into a social pariah as the other kids on the school bus shunned him for his lack of knowledge about video games. My friend was feeling guilty and wondering if her no-video-games policy was beginning to do moreÃâà...
MLB.com
March 25, 2018
All live games streamed on any MLB.TV product and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local, regional or national blackouts. If a game is blacked out in an area or available exclusively via Facebook as described below, it is not available for live game viewing through MLB.TV. If you are anÃâà...
MLB.com
March 24, 2018
All live games streamed on any MLB.TV product and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local, regional or national blackouts. If a game is blacked out in an area or available exclusively via Facebook as described below, it is not available for live game viewing through MLB.TV. If you are anÃâà...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
According to the market research firm Sensor Tower it made $1.5m (Ãâã1m) in revenue for Epic Games, its developer, in its first three days. This in spite of the fact that access is via email invite only; and the game is free to download. The revenue comes from cosmetic in-game purchases – people are payingÃâà...
BBC News
March 24, 2018
Alex Balfanz is an 18-year-old student at Duke University in North Carolina. Every day he has lectures or seminars, followed by assignments. Like many students his age, he devotes a couple of hours per day, and many more at weekends, to video games. But he's not just playing them – he's making them.
KALW
March 22, 2018
It's Friday night on the corner of 16th and Valencia in San Francisco's Mission District. Shops are closing up and folks that live out here are settling into vacant doorways. The traffic on the street sounds frustrated; revving, waiting, and beeping as the last of the commuters surface from the BART station andÃâà...
MLB.com
March 22, 2018
In the U.S. and Canada, all live games streamed on any MLB.TV product and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local, regional or national blackouts. Except for certain MLB regular season and Postseason games as described below or in certain MLB Club home television territories for whichÃâà...
Mashable
March 22, 2018
Play your dad's favorite pocket video games online. Share on Facebook Ãâ÷ Share on Twitter. Key Higdon 3 hours ago. The 'Internet Archive' just released their Handheld History Collection. It's chock-full of your favorite pocket LCD games from the 80's and 90's, but the best part is you can play them all for free! Next UpShowsÃâà...
Digital Trends
March 22, 2018
Google's Change the Game initiative wants to empower teenage girls to design games of their own. If they do, that could end up being one of the five finalists to get an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles, where they will get a tour of Google's L.A. campus, a scholarship to attend the Girls Make GamesÃâà...
GameSpot
March 22, 2018
Nintendo today hosted a video livestream event to reveal new games for Nintendo Switch. Whereas it highlighted many of its own games during the big Nintendo Direct recently, this event--the Nindies Showcase Spring 2018--focused exclusively on indie games coming to the system in 2018. Although it ranÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 22, 2018
A lot of the top-selling games right now – namely the Call of Duty series – make hundreds of millions of dollars depicting real and fictional wars. Other games like Spec-Ops: The Line are praised for its different takes on war and the way it affects soldiers mentally. But, is it enough? More than that, could it beÃâà...
Polygon
March 22, 2018
It's easy to look at Facebook Games, a division of the largest social media platform in the world, and argue it's going through a bittersweet moment. The division just announced new initiatives in its Instant Games and upcoming streaming sphere that Leo Olebe, the global director of games partnerships,Ãâà...
The Register
March 22, 2018
GDC After months – no, years – of Magic Leap promising to revolutionize the gaming world with its augmented reality technology, this week the company finally launched… sort of. Magic Leap released its software developers kit (SDK) in the hope of persuading developers to create new games for itsÃâà...
VentureBeat
March 22, 2018
It was the 20th annual Independent Games Festival award show tonight at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Infinite Fall's rust belt gothic adventure game Night in the Woods won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize as well as the Excellence in Narrative Award. Arvi Teikari's Baba Is YouÃâà...
VentureBeat
March 22, 2018
To establish narrative, game makers often turn to in-game solutions such as quests, world-building (lore and such), characters, and cinematics, and they can even use blogs and videos outside their games to fill in gaps. These work in AR narratives, too. You've just got to be careful with quests — if you useÃâà...
OnMilwaukee.com
March 7, 2018
A new era of bar games is headed Milwaukee's way, as the past year brought the arrivals of several new arcade bars – from the newly opened Old World Third Street hotspot 1983 to the impending opening of Up-Down in the former Comedy Cafe space. But while video games were the year's big new trend,Ãâà...
Polygon
March 7, 2018
The fact that you can bring the system anywhere means that players have a strong incentive to purchase games on the Switch rather than on other platforms. Buying a game on another console doesn't mean you gain better visuals; it means that you lost portability. That's what separates the Switch from theÃâà...
MLB.com
March 7, 2018
In the U.S. and Canada, all live games streamed on any MLB.TV product and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local, regional or national blackouts. Except for certain MLB regular season and Postseason games as described below or in certain MLB Club home television territories for whichÃâà...
Metro
March 7, 2018
As someone that is not generally very good at video games I have been intrigued but put off by the Souls games and never actually bought one. But now that Bloodborne is free on PS Plus this month I really don't have any excuse not to, so I dived in. I've been reading about the game a lot in the Inbox andÃâà...
Science Daily
March 7, 2018
While there are a number of games on the market suitable for the blind, many are loaded with competing sources of information that players must sift through, slowing down the fun of playing the game. Others are versions of popular games so simplified that a blind gamer does nothing more than followÃâà...
Kotaku
March 7, 2018
Harry Potter has not had the most illustrious history when it comes to video game adaptations. It looks like things are going to start getting better, but there are still Potter games we've been dreaming about forever that we'd love to see one day before we die. Look, not all of the film tie-in Harry Potter gamesÃâà...
GamesIndustry.biz
March 6, 2018
Indie publisher Kongregate hopes to shake up the digital distribution scene with the announcement of its new downloadable games platform Kartridge. The store will be launched on PC this summer and is pitched at developers of all sizes, with the company promising them "full control over their games",Ãâà...
Slate Magazine
March 6, 2018
This puts game developers in a familiar and frustrating position, because talking to Trump seems unlikely to do much more than waste everyone's time. But there are things the game industry can and should be doing to address gun culture—not as the origin of the problem, but as part of a wider movementÃâà...
Fast Company
March 6, 2018
Bailenson also thinks VR game gun accessories should be shaped and weighted differently than real-world weapons. And he believes that targets in such games shouldn't be people. And though there's no evidence yet that terrorists are using VR for training, some have mused about the potential for thatÃâà...
CNET
March 6, 2018
Now that the calendar has turned to March, It's time to start paying attention to college basketball beyond its ongoing corruption scandal. Selection Sunday is less than a week away, which means you have precious little time to study up to prepare your NCAA tournament bracket. Will North Carolina repeatÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 6, 2018
The game industry meeting with President Trump is a reminder that despite the booming economy of making and selling games, despite the near-ubiquity of playing games and despite the view – earned through both great works and a Supreme Court decision – that games are art, video games areÃâà...
Polygon
March 6, 2018
Now, to capitalize on The Shape of Water's Oscar success, we've put together a list of our favorite fishmen from video games. Fishmen (or mermen, if you prefer) have a long and storied presence in the medium, and choosing our favorites has been a difficult exercise. We've established a few rules for thisÃâà...
Economic Times
March 6, 2018
"We're also showcasing hundreds of books, movies and TV shows as well as games featuring our favorite female leads like Lara Croft GO and Layton's Mystery Journey, best-selling books 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'Brave', female-directed films 'Wonder Woman' and 'Frida', and popular TV series likeÃâà...
GameSpot
March 6, 2018
Another batch of free games for PlayStation Plus members has arrived. Although this month's lineup is no different from the average one in terms of total games, there are some excellent titles to be had across PS4, PS3, and Vita. As you'd expect, the best of the bunch come on PS4. From Software'sÃâà...
TechRadar
February 28, 2018
Welcome to our list of the best free games for children on both tablet and PC. These have been carefully picked to make sure they are appropriate for kids. We hear a lot of bad stuff about kids playing games. Back in the 1980s, we were told Pac-Man would herald the end of society, resulting in kids roamingÃâà...
MLB.com
February 28, 2018
The U.S. zip code you entered is not within our database. This could be because the zip code has been recently established or because you entered an incorrect number. For accurate information regarding the MLB teams whose games are blacked out in your local area, please contact MLB.TV customerÃâà...
ATD
February 28, 2018
The education game market continues to grow rapidly, and mobile learning games are a dominant force in this market. Newzoo, an industry analyst that provides insight for the generic games market, predicts the overall mobile game market across all game types will grow 40 percent between now and 2020Ãâà...
Polygon
February 28, 2018
Deals on last year's most exciting games are starting to drop with more regularity as retailers and publishers make room for 2018 titles. Nintendo's flagship games of 2017 are seeing significant price drops, with Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild both marked down onÃâà...
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