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The worst video game ever madedesert Bus Simon Parkin New yorker 9 july 2013 Magicians Penn and Teller set out in 1995 to create the worst video game ever.

making a Desert Bus high score perhaps the most costly in gaming. Â But it's found a semi-ironic second life as a fund-raising instrument for charities.


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A major advance in scientific computing came from the development of superfast 3d Graphics Processing Units (GPUS) to run video games on Sony's Playstation 3 console.

Gaming for gainthe scientific benefits of volunteer computing can be enormous, and consequently there are a host of efforts looking to capitalise on people's unused processing power.

Some of the most successful volunteer computing approaches have their roots in the world of gaming.


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And unlike many of the best-known console video games like the classic Super Mario Bros. from Nintendo or the latest in the Call of Duty series, from Activision cellphone games like Angry Birds

a ringtone, a video game, book. It has shot a at the big time. On cellphones, he added, oeanyone with coding skills,

and is working on versions of Angry Birds for gaming consoles and PCS, along with a line of stuffed birds and pigs.


impactlab_2010 00859.txt

Records your progress playing a video game, then creates a custom comic book of your experience oeidim:


impactlab_2010 01611.txt

Over the holidays, for example, it bundled a new Sony TV, Playstation gaming system, game and Blu-ray movie for $900 less than it would cost to buy the items separately. oewe sold out of all the units in that promotion, notes Redsun.


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He helped shape not only Nevada but its gaming industry, the entire American Southwest and even major league baseball.

He helped shape not only Nevada but its gaming industry, the entire American Southwest and even major league baseball.

and the purchase marked the first entry of a respected public stock corporation into Las vegas gaming.

In those days Wall street was afraid of gaming and Nevada gaming authorities were afraid of Wall street. After a series of scandals involving mob investments in casinos,

In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada with some 7, 000 workers.

It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.

and the purchase marked the first entry of a respected public stock corporation into Las vegas gaming.

In those days Wall street was afraid of gaming and Nevada gaming authorities were afraid of Wall street. After a series of scandals involving mob investments in casinos,

In 1978 the company was the largest gaming employer in Nevada with some 7, 000 workers.

It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.


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The Gamification of Business Currently a huge buzzword in techy circles, gamification is moving mainstream.

Simply defined, gamification involves applying game techniques such as leveling, rewards and competition, to any human experience.

Many limit their thinking about gamification to mobile apps but it has far broader implications.

Look for gamification to start making major inroads into college offerings as well as nontraditional K-12 educational programs. 18.


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The Wii was marketed successfully to families with children, rather than just to video game players. To date the Wii has sold more than 86 million units. 6. Volkswagen Volkswagen was relatively unknown in the U s. during the 1960s,


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Todays fastest growing entertainment companies are videogame makers#gain, software#ith the industry growing to $60 billion from $30 billion five years ago.

And the fastest growing major videogame company is Zynga (maker of games including Farmville), which delivers its games entirely online.

Meanwhile, traditional videogame powerhouses like Electronic arts and Nintendo have seen revenues stagnate and fall. The best new movie production company in many decades, Pixar, was a software company.


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which has nothing to do with its core businesses of consumer electronics and gaming. Sony bought what was Columbia Tri-star Picture in 1989 for $3. 4 billion.

Sonys gaming system group is under siege by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nintendo. Its consumer electronics group faces an overwhelming challenge from Apple.


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#In the future, Your Car May be made of Mushrooms Video games have long been using mushrooms as a source for power, energy and advancement.


impactlab_2012 00042.txt

Some of this capability is available now in rudimentary form in computer games where the controller shakes to indicate an on-screen car collision. 2. Seeing the forest,


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The robot uses a technology pioneered in Microsoft s Kinect motion sensing system for its Xbox video game system.


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The Rolling Arcade The industrial designer Jiang Qian has conceived of a subway strap that s also a video game.


impactlab_2013 01404.txt

and graphic novels convention for teens#oecombines hands-on workshops, cultural demonstrations, gaming (open play and tournaments),


impactlab_2014 00377.txt

and played retro coin-operated video games. They re in Charleston to live in Charleston says Crowley.


Livescience_2013 03198.txt

and the futuristic video game series Halo (where a group of super-soldiers are called oespartans). Yet the real-life story of the city is complicated more than popular mythology makes it out to be.

And modern-day people whether watching a movie playing a video game or studying ancient history know something of what this legend means.


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He has also become a popular figure in historical fiction movies and video games. The year of his birth is unknown;

In Japan and the West he has also become a popular figure in a series of video games produced by the company Koei.

These video games emphasize his abilities as a general and martial artist.##Owen Jaru h


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#As Milkweed Disappears, Monarchs are Fading away (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC).


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Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.


Livescience_2014 05017.txt

Kids and Science Good for More than Just a Grade According to the narrative Plum is a video game designer on the desolate Planet Blorb.


popsci_2013 00259.txt

Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.


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It might also make for a better motion-controlled gaming system like a next-generation Microsoft Kinect that doesn't require players to be within the line of sight of a detector.


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This site seems to be making a big push to get young male readers all the video game


ScienceDaily_2013 02687.txt

SDSC staff will hold a friendly gaming competition using Meteor which will be connected to a large tiled display wall of LCD panels during the show's exhibit hours in the SDSC display space (booth#3313).

More importantly we present Meteor in a fun informal learning environment where students can try their hands at gaming competition while learning about the benefits of parallel programming.


ScienceDaily_2013 08182.txt

Presumably playing video games or watching TV replaces physical activity. Students enrolled in sixth grade at 20 schools in the southeastern Michigan communities of Detroit Ann arbor Ypsilanti

Obese boys reported playing video games more often than normal weight boys although the association was not as strong as in other studies We did not find a significant association between time spent playing video games

and less fatty foods plus reducing time spent in front of computer and video game screens. Story Source:


ScienceDaily_2013 09275.txt

because boys like video games and interact more with technology. We noticed many boys stopping to look at the display


ScienceDaily_2014 00771.txt

In a computer game Krause asked them to lift up a platform carrying a few or many pieces of fruit by pressing a button.


ScienceDaily_2014 06328.txt

or with a controller similar to those used with video games. The ROGR robots can visit a specific plant to deliver water


Smart_Planet_12 00022.txt

The company is hoping to benefit from the partnership with USC by developing a new ecosystem of media and entertainment according to head of gaming and transmedia at Orange, Jean-Fran ois Rodriguez.


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