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Christmas Around the Virtual Worlds
23rd Dec 2011 - Every year as Christmas rolls around no matter where you live in the world there is something going on and some sort of official and unofficial recognition, whether that is just decorations or organized celebrations, there is always something -- and increasingly the festive holiday cheer has been spreading like a virus from real life in.. Read More.
Mamba Nation Battles its way to iOS
4th Nov 2011 - If you are already aware of Mamba Nation, you know that it is more than just a cuter knock-off of Second Life minus the gritty full-frontal nudity and hard core sex that was a a primary attraction for a significant number of the casual players for the latter. Partly the brainchild of French games entrepreneur and bad boy Nicolas Gau.. Read More.
The Charity of Gamers
28th Oct 2011 - It is surprising how much information can be conveyed in a simple and brief phrase; take the phrase "In these tough economic times" (1) as an example. Hearing it or having it said to you instantly evokes specific and detailed images. Despite the fact that it is a very general and even vague collection of words, that phrase has the e.. Read More.
Game Developer Spotlight: Paradox Interactive
25th Sep 2011 - When it was founded in 1998, Swedish video game developer Paradox Interactive began the lengthy process of carving out a niche for itself in the highly competitive fields of game development and game publishing, setting its sights upon the Windows PC as its preferred platform in an era during which most of the established video game hou.. Read More.
Men are From Freeport, Women are from Qeynos
22nd Aug 2011 - It's 4:11 AM and I can't sleep. My parents are visiting for the weekend, so I can't turn on the TV and play on one of my consoles because (A) no matter how low I make the volume the sound of whatever game I play will wake them up, and (B) the only game that I want to play is Borderlands, and playing Borderlands with the sound muted is .. Read More.
The Psychology of Video Games: It's a Spatial Thing
17th Aug 2011 - Memory is a funny thing; despite a tremendous amount of research undertaken by some of the most intelligent minds of the past century, how human memory works at its most basic level is still not something that the learned communities who make memory part of their concern can completely agree upon. When we examine all of the experiments.. Read More.
Nude Gamers have Nothing Up Their Sleeves as a Hoax Creates a New Gaming Trend
6th Jul 2011 - Like the sign says, you may encounter nude people past this point -- and nude gamers! It turns out that nudism and naturism have always included a large population of gamers in their ranks... Last weekend we spent an evening at a health club attending an organized private event for gamers. We swam in the indoor pool, baked in one .. Read More.
Farmville Strategy Series: Just the Basics
21st Feb 2011 - According to the most recent statistics, on an average day between 30 and 50 million people spend time tending to their farm in the Facebook game Farmville -- a web-based game that features about what you would expect from a game that loosely simulates farming. The secret to the incredible success of the game has a lot to do with insta.. Read More.
