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NPD: Girls increasingly becoming gamers

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2008-09-25 19:00:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
...increasingly wasting spending their time gaming. The gaming disease apparently strikes between ages 6 and 8 and finally metastasizes in the brain between 9 and 12, when girls begin "migrating to computer and video games, especially virtual world online games NPD 's industry analyst, Anita Frazier, says that 50% of girls between 2 and 14...
 
Tags: girls, npd, virtual world sites, disease apparently strikes, girl power, video games, consumer segment, digital age, increasingly
 
 
 
 
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Do We Need to Rethink Video Game Genres?

2008-12-04 03:22:38 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
Kombo writes: "We started planning our Best & Worst of 2008 Awards this week, and as I've been gathering lists of nominees and categories, I've been noticing just how difficult it has become to define some games in terms of a single genre. This isn't something new, as over the years, I've found that it's becoming increasingly difficult to do so....
 
Tags: difficult, increasingly difficult, single genre, kombo writes, games, lists, week, terms, categories
 
 
 
 
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The year in gaming

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2007-12-16 21:41:55 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...increasingly ubiquitous in Australian culture, our lack of an R classification for games continued to see games banned. In January, Blitz: The League was refused classification by the OFLC for drug use, while Soldier of Fortune Payback was also refused classification in October because of excessive violence. An edited version has since been...
 
Tags: computer, sony computer entertainment, computer game, players, game players, wii, wii sports, games, game
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: The Top 5 Game AI Trends For 2008

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2008-02-01 00:00:42 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Increasingly, developers with the bigger budgets and whole sub-teams of AI designers, animators and programmers will include cooperative AI characters to help emphasize the players emotional involvement with the story. In particular, watch out for the dog in Fable 2 , which is an amazing idea and a lower-risk way to provide an AI sidekick...
 
Tags: aaa games industry, aaa games, sandbox, sandbox games, game, games, fps games, developers, game developers
 
 
 
 
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The Freedom of Solitude

2008-07-29 04:52:56 by Cameron Sorden in Random Battle
 
...increasingly driven towards more single-player style games with multiplayer aspects The players] want their MMORPGs to be, essentially, an RPG but with people hanging around on the /occ and /guild channels - presumably so they can link to their lastest lame piece of loot and get kudos from other people Its really sad, actually, that the...
 
Tags: increasingly, consumers increasingly vote, grown increasingly solo-friendly, players, rude players, game, virtual world moreso, level cap, virtual world
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Aggregation Vs Portals: Where Microsoft Is Going Wrong With Xbox Live

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2008-05-30 08:00:00 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...increasingly sodden experience. There are long, poorly maintained lists of product in there. There are a few notable remakes making the headlines (such as Rez HD ) but also a lot of really very bad product (such as the Battlestar Galactica game, or the port of Marathon ) and the service has lacked focus for quite some time But why is...
 
Tags: xbox live, live, live games, live game, xbox, xbox live arcade, web portal idea, idea, microsoft
 
 
 
 
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The future of E3

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2008-07-22 22:06:31 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...increasingly aimed at North America only, causing many foreign journalists (including Screen Play) to stay away in favour of other events like Leipzig's Game Convention next month. Retailers and investors now do not attend E3 at all EA CEO John Riccitiello and Ubisoft's Laurent Detoc have said the show needs to either grow or die, while...
 
Tags: industry, media interviews, media, mature industry, vacuous media outlets, industry executives, games industry, priceless media exposure, game publishers
 
 
 
 
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RPGs just aren't Role-Playing Games any more...

2008-09-02 15:01:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
 
...increasingly defunct in the future The problem is an inherent lack of skill-based gameplay . If you think about it, current FPS games are all about twitch, using your reflexes to line your weapon up with the most vulnerable parts (usually the head) of your opponent and firing at it. Also, you can use the scenery to your advantage by hiding,...
 
Tags: adventure, adventure game, game, game relies, predominantly pve game, bigger world, world, skillful game, rts game models
 
 
 
 
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Bragging rights

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2008-01-31 21:30:26 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...increasingly popular Webs.com's Social Gaming Network library (including Warbook and Super Snake) received a billion page views in just their first 90 days Facebook users are becoming increasingly accustomed to finding themselves routinely taunted or challenged to join in or beat their friends' scores, and this kind of viral networking is a...
 
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More on Britains Upcoming Video Game Crackdown

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2008-02-09 14:57:46 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...increasingly seems as if it will be a milestone event for the future of video games in the United Kingdom Ministers hope the Byron review will act as a way of calming the debate about video games which has become increasingly polarised and based on prejudice
 
Tags: games, games consoles, unsuitable games, play games, video games, ministers, government ministers, ministers hope, guardian