‘Games’ Archives
Is video game addiction the cause of your divorce?
Everyone needs downtime, time to relax without being bogged down by day-to-day pressures, according to experts like psychologist Stephanie Hutcheson, who wrote about it in an article on maintaining good mental health. But major problems can arise when downtime begins to [Read More]
EVE Online game is adding a store with items to customize avatars
In a recent developer blog post CCP Games revealed upcoming plans to add a virtual store to EVE Online, its massively multiplayer space game. The new store will offer vanity items for fans interested in customizing the look of their avatars and spacecraft. Read the rest: [Read More]
New Report! Australians to spend $5.8 billion in digital game industry
In a new report called “Working in Australia’s Digital Games Industry” it is estimated that Australians will be spending $5.8 billion in the digital game industry over the next four years. “Working in Australia’s Digital Games Industry” is a new report which [Read More]
Nvidia’s new graphics chip doubles performance of game-focused laptops
Nvidia is launching its latest mobile graphics chip, the GeForce GTX 560M, with twice the performance of the previous version. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip maker is unveiling the mobile graphics chip at the Computex 2011 trade show in Taipei this week. The [Read More]
Canada shines in video game development–here’s why
Gamers around the world who spend their evenings chasing down Wayne Rooney in FIFA Soccer or scaling rooftops in Assassin’s Creed may not realize where their video games come from, but each one might as well bear a large “Made in Canada” stamp. That’s because both [Read More]
New study points to video games as a cause of chubbier kids
According to new research by Jean-Philippe Chaput, Trine Visby, Signe Nyby, Signe Nyby, Lars Klingenberg, Nikolaj Ture Gregersen, Angelo Tremblay, Arne Astrup, and Anders Mikael Sjödin conducted at the University of Copenhagen; playing video games like Electronic Arts’ [Read More]
Kabam raises a whopping $85M for Facebook games
Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebook. The backers include Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, [Read More]
Nintendo’s Shinobi goes 3D!
Everybody’s favorite ninja is back, and this time he’ll be hacking and slashing in three whole dimensions! SEGA announced today that Shinobi will be heading to the Nintendo 3DS in September of this very year! “For years the fans have been asking for a new [Read More]
What is ‘Zelda Universe’, Nintendo’s new online game?
A new Nintendo trademark for a game called Zelda Universe has been discovered online, although everything points towards it being merely some sort of Web browser mini-game. The second that the name was discovered at the ESRB, the American age rating board, rumours began to [Read More]
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens launches new virtual world growing game
A new game letting plant lovers share their enjoyment of gardening with others via social networking has been launched on Kew Royal Botanical Gardens. Kew Gardens saw its new interactive web game go live on Wednesday as ‘Tweet and Grow’ invited players to test [Read More]
