News tagged with social gaming
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Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million
(AP) -- As its packaged video games business lags, Electronic Arts Inc. has snapped up Playfish Inc., the creator of popular social networking games such as "Who Has the Biggest Brain" and "Pet Society," for $275 million ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones
The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation
Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Sculptor plugs Greek classics into iPod Age
With an iPhone, Zeus could have saved time to call on lightning from the heavens -- so says California-based sculptor Adam Reeder, who seeks to merge classical Greek iconography with 21st century gadgets.
Sep 02, 2009 |
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'Avatar' trailer debuts online amid buzz
(AP) -- Social networking sites were abuzz Thursday over an online trailer for "Avatar," just as extended previews of the 3D sci-fi adventure were hitting screens at theaters down under.
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Video game minority report: Lots of players, few characters
If the future of entertainment is interactive media, some minorities are still headed back to the past.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Social network for gamers helps friends play
(AP) -- Raptr, a social network targeting gamers, is hoping to make it easier to see what your friends are currently playing on a broad range of platforms such as the Xbox 360 and personal computers.
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Xbox Live links to Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm
Microsoft has said social networking sensations Twitter and Facebook, along with Internet radio star Last.fm, are connecting to the Xbox 360 videogame console online world.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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'The Sims' are back -- with more personality
US videogame giant Electronic Arts launches this week episode three in the life of multi-billion-dollar franchise "The Sims", this time adding a psychological dimension to the computer game.
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20
Twenty years ago Japan's Nintendo Co. launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 23, 2009 |
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A warm TV can drive away feelings of loneliness and rejection
Not all technology meets human needs, and some technologies provide only the illusion of having met your needs.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Study: Video games can teach helpful behavior, too
(PhysOrg.com) -- Previous research by Iowa State University psychologists has found that violent video games can teach children to be aggressive, producing more aggressive behaviors over time. But according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Google gets its game on
Google got its game on late Wednesday, launching videogame-themed wallpaper for customized home pages and providing a glimpse at online play making its way to the website.
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Scientists examine how social networks influence behavior
Conventional wisdom holds that it's not what you know, it's who you know. But now scientists studying networking are starting to realize that when it comes to much in life, it's also who the people you know know, and perhaps ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2009 |
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