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22 hrs ago | NBC Dallas

Consumer Reports: The Skinny on Fitness Video Games

Lots of video games on the market are advertised as a fun way to get fit. Consumer Reports checked out five: Nike Plus Kinect Training, Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013, Just Dance 4, U-F-C Trainer, and Zumba Core.

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Related Topix: Video Games, The, Deep Silver, Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios, Ubisoft, Just Dance 4, _No Company, Microsoft Xbox

Thu May 16, 2013

Gamasutra

Immersion in mobile gaming A- what affects it? - by Przemyslaw Szczepaniak

"Immersion is widely agreed to constitute an integral part of the game play experience." Most of us played mobile games at least a couple times in our lives, and we noticed how different this experience is from playing a game on a PC, TV, console, or even on a handheld device.

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Related Topix: _No Company, Video Games, Osmos, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, Science / Technology, Apple, Ipad, iPhone, Joysticks

Consumer Reports

The best video game console to help you get fit

Ever since the major video game platforms added motion-controlled gaming, players have been jumping off the couch and moving more than their trigger fingers.

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Related Topix: Video Games, UFC Personal Trainer, THQ, _No Company, WII, Nintendo, Wii U, Kinect, Microsoft Game Studios

AutoWeek

'Gran Turismo 6' coming for PS3 this holiday season: Next installment ...

It's getting harder to tell real life from simulation, as this in-game screenshot of Gran Turismo 6 demonstrates.

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Related Topix: Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo, SCEA, Video Games, Need for Speed, The, Electronic Arts, _No Company, Deep Silver, Gran Turismo 6

Major Nelson.com

Arcade: Sanctum 2

Content: Sanctum 2 Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the tower defense/first-person shooter hybrid Sanctum.

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Related Topix: Reverb, Coffee Stain Studios, Video Games, Sanctum 2, Sanctum , Ubisoft, Rocksmith, Double Fine Productions, Microsoft Game Studios, Iron Brigade, _No Company, Microsoft Xbox

GamersHell.com

Sanctum 2 Released and Screens/Trailer

Coffee Stain Studios today announced Sanctum 2 , the sequel to the first-ever true hybrid of tower-defense and first-person shooter genres, is now available worldwide for Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

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Related Topix: Reverb, Coffee Stain Studios, Sanctum 2, Video Games, _No Company

Digital Game Developer

Video Game Party Start-Up Gamewagon Celebrates 100th Birthday

Within four months of Gamewagon's launch they have booked over one hundred parties for children across the Capital and Home Counties.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Game Party, Farsight Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, _No Company, The, Deep Silver, Sega, London, Game.

Wed May 15, 2013

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

PD: Burglary suspect tipped victims off

A Lafayette man recently told officers he went to borrow a cup of sugar from his neighbors - and took electronics and prescription pills instead.

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Related Topix: _No Company, Video Games, X360

Examiner.com

PS4, Xbox 720 pricing details to come at E3 2013

E3 - is less than a month away and it looks to be one of the biggest shows in recent memory - thanks in part to Sony and Microsoft's upcoming next-generation consoles.

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Related Topix: Video Games, _No Company, X360, Microsoft Xbox

Neowin.net

Rumor: Microsoft Points to be killed in favor of real currency, gift cards

Xbox 360 still uses Points as the primary way to purchase games, downloadable content, videos and music, with real currency only reserved for app stores and the Windows 8 Xbox Music/Videos stores .

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Related Topix: The, Video Games, Deep Silver, 4A Games, _No Company, Metro, THQ, X360, Microsoft, Startups, Microsoft Xbox

SlashGear.com

Inmate takes legal action to get computer and PlayStation 3 in cell

When you think of prison, cells with computers and gaming consoles aren't likely the first things to cross your mind.

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Related Topix: The, Video Games, Deep Silver, _No Company, PS3

Tue May 14, 2013

Forbes.com

NVIDIA's Project SHIELD: All The Launch Details Revealed

On January 7, 2013, NVIDIA managed to do something that seems to elude most companies these days: actually surprise the press with the unveiling of Project SHIELD, an impressive piece of portable gaming hardware.

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Related Topix: _No Company, Video Games, The, Deep Silver, Computers, X360

Playstation.Blog

PlayStation Store Update

Be fast, be first and be famous as you join the elite in 'World Series Racing' where the greatest cars, drivers and events come together in the search for a new motorsport icon.

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Related Topix: Video Games, 4A Games, Metro, THQ, _No Company, Dust, Humble Hearts, Microsoft Game Studios, LucasArts, Star Wars, DUST 514, CCP

Kotaku

A Major Challenge To the Clumsy Way Video Games Handle Right and Wrong

The creators of the huge new video game Watch Dogs reject the black and white choices video games often give you when they want to give you a moral dilemma and make you feel something.

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Related Topix: _No Company, Way, CoCo & Co., Video Games, Ubisoft, Watch Dogs

Major Nelson.com

Twitch App Comes to Xbox

Twitch is one of the largest platforms for the live streaming of games, with more than 800,000 people streaming gameplay and over 34 million people watching online at Twitch.tv . And now, with the Twitch for Xbox LIVE app, Gold subscribers in the U.S. will have access to 300 of the most popular streams from the service.

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Related Topix: The, _No Company, Video Games, Deep Silver, Microsoft Xbox

Mon May 13, 2013

Examiner.com

'Grand Theft Auto V' and 'Borderlands 2' publisher shares PS4 and Xbox 720 plans

Take-Two , the publisher behind games such as " Borderlands 2 " and the " Grand Theft Auto " franchise, announced they are already planning numerous next-gen titles.

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Related Topix: 2K Games, Gearbox Software, Video Games, Borderlands, Irrational Games, Rockstar North, Rockstar Games, BioShock, Grand Theft Auto, _No Company, Game., Borderlands 2

Sun May 12, 2013

The Orlando Sentinel

'Serious gaming' for military requires more than realistic images

Alice F. Hayden, 36, is president and co-founder of H2 IT Solutions Inc., a small defense firm in Orlando and a top award winner in the 2013 GameTech/Federal Virtual Challenge.

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Related Topix: Alice, Video Games, _No Company

Sat May 11, 2013

Kotaku

Crimefighting Babysitter Foils PS3 Robbery by Telling Suspect's Mom

Oklahoma's most idiotic robbery ended in the arrest of two teenagers who brandished a firearm at a babysitter and two children and stole a PlayStation 3 from their home.

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Related Topix: _No Company, Video Games, PS3, Family, Teenagers, Kids

Gamasutra

Techniques for Finding Unlisted Game Internships - by Brice Morrison

The following blog was, unless otherwise noted, independently written by a member of Gamasutra's game development community.

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Related Topix: Game., Video Games, The, Deep Silver, _No Company, iPhone

Joystiq

Sega Sammy posts fiscal net profit, Aliens: Colonial Marines shipped 1.3M

Sega Sammy reported financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31 2013 today, noting a net profit of 33.5 billion, which converts to $331 million.

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Related Topix: Sega, Yakuza, Video Games, US Military, US Marine Corps, Gearbox Software, Aliens: Colonial Marines, The, Deep Silver, _No Company, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Sumo Digital