Video Game Violence: What does the science
say Video games are still in their infancy; like any infant it pushes boundaries in tense areas such violence.
Aren't there some studies that
say video games make you smarter... so are we creating smarter criminals?
U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed support on Tuesday for Microsoft's bid to fend off class action claims by Xbox 360 owners who
say the video game console gouges discs because of a design defect.
Conventional wisdom
says video game - turned - movie «Assassin's Creed» will be in battle with space romance «Passengers,» starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt come Christmastime.
Responding to criticism, the head of the biggest developers» advocacy group
says video game workers have the right to unionize — and she won't stand in the way of those who do.
Who
said video games and reality couldn't blend?
Charlie Some say I should be a video game journalist, others
say a video game designer.
Interesting on the title,
him saying video games turning 25.
That's like
saying video games are bad because publishers push pre-orders.
EA boss John Riccitiello has
said the video games industry must confront the ongoing «perception of a problem» that sees gaming frequently linked to gun violence.Instances of video games being blamed for gun violence practically date back to the medium ’s
If you have ever played a video game chances are you have suffered defeat at some point while playing
said video game.
Who
says video games can't teach you real world skills?
Not exact matches
The
video game giant
said Thursday that the device «wasn't intended to be an ongoing, long - term product» despite being a hit with consumers, according to videogame publication IGN.
The cartoonist
said in a note that originally appeared with the cartoon that by using his children «as political props» in a
video ad that ran during an episode of Saturday Night Live, the senator had made them «fair
game» for editorial criticism.
Having founded a
video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he
says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.
Neighbors described Tamerlan as friendly and outgoing and
said he, too, often played
video games.
«What I realized was an Air Force pilot is not that much different from a
video game player playing at a high level,» Issa
says.
For developers, Apple
said that macOS High Sierra will come with a new tool, called Metal 2, which should help apps that require graphics power and artificial intelligence features, like
video games, perform better on the new operating system.
«The most important thing for next - generation communications which affects
video games will not only be speed, but also lower - latency,»
said Ito, who specializes in the communications industry.
Facebook, for one, has
said that it intends to develop Oculus's virtual reality technology, which is currently only used for immersive
video games, into a new type of social platform.
Because as marketing strategist and writer Barry Feldman
says, «If you're not experimenting with
video, you're simply sitting on the sidelines watching the big
game unfold.»
Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo,
says the number of hours
gamers spent watching EA's FIFA 16 on Twitch in January increased by more than 80 % since last November, while the number of hours
gamers watched NBA 2K16
videos on Twitch more than doubled in the same period.
In 2014, Klimscha
says there were 1.78 billion
video game players in the world, but only 205 million were involved with livestreaming.
Buyers favour physical shops for red - hot items such as
video games; those asking for the newly launched Assassin's Creed III at the Futureshop.ca store wanted to take it home right there,
says spokesman Elliott Chun.
In the past, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has
said the Xbox One
video game console will fill a similar role, starting with the arrival of Cortana in a forthcoming update.
She
says Archer's catalogue lends itself to adaptation into everything from high - brow cable series to
video games.»
Facebook
said that Flash - based
video games will continue to run until the end of 2020, but the company is urging «developers to follow the timelines set by browsers, as this may impact your decision to migrate sooner.»
«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,»
says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2
video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).
She
said the app could also send her notifications through her
video game console Microsoft Xbox and the on - board computer of her car, so her work essentially followed her in every aspect of her life.
Gross
says focusing on
video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.
«It was a very compelling proposition when you're 13 and you love
video games,» Musk
says, letting out a rare chuckle.
The
video game company on Wednesday
said that it would slash prices for everything from its 2DS portable gaming system to the Nintendo (NTDOY) Switch on Black Friday, the busy shopping day that follows Thanksgiving.
«We've been building more and more real - time stuff around voice and
video, and we'll continue doing more real - time things and that will potentially come to
games,» he
said.
At a press event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oculus's mobile head Max Cohen
said the «one million people» number takes in account anyone who has seen a virtual reality
video game, movie, or other related VR media on a Samsung Gear headset.
The partnership includes developing a Lego
video zone for children on the Tencent
video platform, as well as developing and operating Lego branded licensed
games, the toymaker
said.
That obviously means something has to change,»
said David Cole, a
video game analyst at DFC Intelligence.
In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire,
say, or a sudden insight that betting on
video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.
Also
said to be in the works are promotion deals with
video game producers, sports leagues, and music apps.
Gabe Newell, the CEO of
video game developer Valve,
said in an interview with gaming news site Polygon this week that while he's optimistic about the immersive technology, he's «pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure.»
The technology giant
said it will release a new gaming console, currently called Project Scorpio, during the 2017 holiday season that will be powerful enough for high - quality virtual reality
video games and movies.
Layden bragged that Sony has sold over 40 million PlayStation 4 gaming consoles, which he
said have enough power to run virtual reality
video games.
One survey respondent
said that well - liked
video game consoles like those from Nintendo and Sega only became popular because of the
games that accompanied them.
Japan's Nintendo
said it will release a short
video later on Thursday of the next - generation
game console it plans to launch globally in March — an announcement that sent its shares up more than 4 %.
Sony did not
say when the new console would be released and how much it would cost, but it did
say that
video games developed for the new console would also work with the current PlayStation 4 model.
Some
video game fans
say that journalists and
game developers are too close, and are calling into question the ethics of
video game journalists.
«Like anything else,» he
says, «placing your product in
video games is less expensive now than it will be in a year or two.»
The same can be
said of the Xbox One — the two
video game consoles were announced and launched in 2013 with similar specs and target audiences.
Going forward, any
video game «with in - game offers to purchase digital goods or premiums with real world currency» must be labeled with a new sticker that says «In - Game Purchases.&ra
game «with in -
game offers to purchase digital goods or premiums with real world currency» must be labeled with a new sticker that says «In - Game Purchases.&ra
game offers to purchase digital goods or premiums with real world currency» must be labeled with a new sticker that
says «In -
Game Purchases.&ra
Game Purchases.»
But I'd venture to
say that in my long time playing and covering
video games, the Xbox One X has some of the best gaming experiences out of the gate of any console I've ever played.
«The
games on a double - sided BR disc would take the better part of a couple of days to download in some of those AAA [the
video game equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster] cases,» he
says.