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Gabe Newell: PC gaming communities are keeping games alivePC GamerMaximum PC, our sister publication, sat down with Valve founder and Steam overlord Gabe Newell at GDC to talk about Steam Machines, Source 2, and the growth of the PC gaming market. Newell dropped a ton of great information, but it all starts with this …Steam … Read more

Boyd Gaming 300 XFINITY Series race results from Las VegasFOXSports.comAustin Dillon ran away from the field in Saturday’s Boyd Gaming 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, winning in dominating fashion. But he did have to hold off a hard-charging Ryan Blaney in the closing laps. Rounding out the …Austin Dillon wins … Read more

Austin Dillon wins Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300Las Vegas Review-JournalAustin Dillon dominated the NASCAR Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300 on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway en route to his first Xfinity Series win since 2012 and third overall. Dillon, who won the pole in qualifying Saturday morning, led most of the …Austin Dillon Wins … Read more

Gamification injects gaming into everyday lifeKTAR.com“We need to find different ways to communicate with them, folks that are used to Netflix and essentially can opt-out of any unwanted messaging. It’s not just entertainment and distraction, but incremental value and the intrinsic value that can be found … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News … Read more

Wildlandia brings gaming, AR to bedtimeUSA TODAYKids who put up a fight to go to bed might change their tune thanks to Wildlandia, an innovative line of bedding that doesn’t only feature cartoon jungle wildlife on its sheets and bed cover – animals come to life when seen through the lens of a mobile …and … Read more

Gaming Deals: $350 Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Unity Bundle With Bonus …GameSpotSony recently announced its Spring Fever event, which will offer special prices on PSN games every week starting March 3. You can find the full lineup of the PSN games included in Spring Fever here. Helldivers, the first Spring Fever game, is currently … … Read more

Video Games: Top gaming news from the Game Developers ConferenceFresno BeeThousands of industry insiders gathered in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), a tech-centric event focused on those who create our beloved games. A few big announcements were also made outside of GDC. My scholarly …Developers divided over virtual reality at gaming … Read more

Gaming can help with kids’ schoolwork, study suggestsCBBC NewsroundA new international report suggests that gaming regularly can help you to do better in tests at school. Researchers tested 15-year-old girls and boys from 26 countries in 2012. They wanted to find how gaming affected their learning, using computer and …and more …read more From:: Gaming … Read more

Microsoft’s Vision for Games: Unifying Xbox and Windows 10WiredMicrosoft has a vision for the future of gaming: A unified experience across Xbox One and Windows 10. Xbox head Phil Spencer laid out that plan at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, where he conceded Windows lost the plot with gamers.Microsoft Reveals Big Plan for … Read more

Gaming company Sparkypants signs 8500-square-foot lease at Centre TheatreBaltimore Business Journal (blog)The staff of gaming startup Sparkypants stands in their new 8,500-square-foot offices under construction at the Centre Theatre complex on North Avenue. The building is being redeveloped by nonprofit Jubilee Baltimore; Southway Builders is construction …and more …read more From:: Gaming News By Google … Read more

Intel’s flagship Iris Pro integrated graphics headed to desktops for improved …PCWorldIntel invited a number of game developers on stage to lend it some additional gaming credibility, and company executives announced an “Achievement Unlocked” one-stop shop for game developers. Intel’s Pete Baker, a vice president for software and …Intel levels up its gaming chops with … Read more

Amazon comes to Mobile World Congress looking for more gaming love from …VentureBeatGaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only — apply here. Ticket prices increase on March 6 Pacific! …read more From:: Gaming News By … Read more

ARM, Tencent Games ink mobile gaming partnershipZDNetARM and Tencent Games have joined together in a “strategic” partnership to improve graphics found in mobile gaming. Announced on Wednesday, the deal will give Tencent mobile game developers access to ARM-based hardware and resources, which …ARM and Tencent Games Collaborate to Advance Mobile GamingFort Mills Times ARM, Tencent … Read more

Owners of Downriver indie gaming company asking for help to launch newest …Southgate News HeraldDating couple Morabito, 27, and Ferraiuolo, 23, graduated from U of M-Dearborn’s computer science program in the winter and summer of 2013, respectively, and very quickly began to focus their energy on starting their own independent gaming company. …read more From:: … Read more

ARM Ready to Light Up the Gaming WorldPC MagazineIn a talk and presentation of the Subway Demo on Monday evening, ARM and Geomeric reps highlighted the photo-realistic effects Enlighten produces, creating a verisimilitude in gaming environments that approaches what’s possible with painstaking, …ARM Unveils Impressive Game Lighting Tech ‘Forge’ at GDCGamersNexus ARM and Geomerics Show … Read more

PC is, was, and always will be the dominant gaming platform.LazygamerThe PC is the dominant gaming platform at the moment – and that’s not too surprising. We’re in the middle of the transition to a new console generation, so console players are somewhat split – with many players not yet able to jump in to … Read more

Meet Vulkan, the powerful, platform-agnostic gaming tech taking aim at DirectX 12PCWorldThe time’s are a-changing, and the graphics technology games have used for decades are changing right along. Khronos Group is throwing out nearly 25 years of OpenGL and starting fresh with a powerful new gaming-centric API, Vulkan (previously known …and more …read more From:: … Read more

Asus Republic Of Gamers G751 Review: Portable Gaming, Emphasis On The …TechCrunchAs far as gaming computers go, there are bound to be trade-offs: bigger size means better performance, and more portability is going to naturally lead to compromises when it comes to pure gaming muscle. The Asus Republic of Gamers G751 is a top-tier … … Read more

House to open door to destination resorts, gaming in Palm Beach and dog …MiamiHerald.com (blog)South Florida could become an even bigger gambling haven with two new destination resort casinos and four dog tracks operating slot machines — instead of racing dogs — under a sweeping gaming rewrite filed Monday by House Republican Leader Dana …Florida … Read more

Games out this month: 10 biggest releases for MarchDigital Spy UKMarch typically serves as a dumping ground for all of those games that were delayed before Christmas, so you can usually guarantee a blockbuster release or two. This year is no different thanks to the delayed release of Battlefield Hardline, not to …The 7 best … Read more

Paris Hilton follows Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry into mobile gamingSydney Morning HeraldIt’s more than a decade since the release of the sex tape that cemented Paris Hilton’s status the It Girl who was “famous for being famous”. And while her star may have waned in the popular culture stakes, she continues to support a thriving … Read more

For casinos in Manila’s gaming strip, more is betterReutersMelco’s City of Dreams is the second of four integrated resorts licensed for Entertainment City, Manila’s much-smaller version of the Las Vegas gaming strip. The first casino, the $1.2 billion Solaire, is seeing a pick up in business after intensifying …and more …read more From:: Gaming News … Read more

‘House of Cards’ And Video Games: Product Placement Or Plot Point?ForbesThis past month, much fuss was made about an episode of Law and Order: SVU that focused on the #GamerGate movement in everything but name. Those in support of the movement viewed it as a “reefer madness” type endeavor meant to paint gamers as …and … Read more

Building a Gaming PC for a Grand: Week Three – Let’s Play Some GamesGod is a GeekI spoke to Colm about his home gaming PC, and my score easily beat his. But I’d expect as much, purely down to the GPU and amount of RAM we’re running here. Calvin, on the other hand, slightly outranked … Read more

HP’s Omen 15 Gaming Notebook Straddles The Ultrabook Line With Voodoo DNAForbesWhen industry visionary and entrepreneur Rahul Sood parted ways with HP a few years back, post-acquisition of his boutique game PC company VoodooPC, it was clear that HP had assimilated his start-up company enough such that he felt his job was done … …read … Read more

Gaming Deals: Get a PS4, a Free Game, and 6 Months of PlayStation Plus for $360GameSpotGameSpot’s gaming deals posts always highlight the best deals we can find regardless of retailer. We also occasionally use retailer affiliate links, which means that purchasing goods through those links helps support all the great content (including …and more …read … Read more

What Destiny, Flappy Bird Say About Gaming’s FutureNasdaqRockstar Games spent big bucks on “Grand Theft Auto V,” as did EA on “Star Wars: the Old Republic.” Many gaming companies now typically spend in a range of $50 million to $100 million for high-end titles, analysts say. Unlike video games, the risks are …and more …read … Read more

Gaming backend technology company PlayFab raises $7.4M in latest funding …VentureBeatKeeping games running online is a complicated task, and one of the companies that builds the tools that makes that easier for developers just got a significant injection of cash to expand. PlayFab announced today that it raised $7.4 million in a series …Gaming startup … Read more

Why Nvidia thinks it can do cloud gaming better than anyone elseVentureBeatNvidia is a name you may usually associate with graphics and hardware, but over the last few months, it has steadily built up its own cloud-gaming platform. And this is because the company felt it could do it better than anyone else. Grid is … Read more

Artificial intelligenceThe EconomistThe computer was not given any information about the rules of the games. Instead, like a human, it inferred how to play by watching the screen and the score, figuring out concepts like “alien” and “power up” for itself. Such self-teaching algorithms …​Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence aces Atari gaming challengeZDNet DeepMind’s AI is … Read more

Video gaming licenses in limbo costing Illinois millionsWLS-TVThe ABC7 I-Team investigated the millions of dollars Illinois is leaving on the table as video gaming license applications are in limbo. The state gaming board hasn’t met since November, leaving hundreds of machines in the dark and no revenue for the … …read more From:: Gaming News … Read more

Nvidia to launch a “New Gaming Platform” in MarchLazygamerEarlier this month, Alessandro told you that Nvidia was set to reveal the “future of gaming” on March 3rd this year at GDC. Some people had been handed special invitations for the event, which mentions something “made to game.” Speculation then …Nvidia is launching a “New Gaming … Read more

Gaming Envy: Watch 6 Impossible Classic Gaming Challenges Get Destroyed In …UproxxMost 8-bit games didn’t eff around, but there were certain classic gaming moments that took Nintendo hard to the next level. These challenges weren’t just though, they seemed to be nigh on impossible. There’s a good chance you spent countless hours … …read more … Read more

Internet gaming bill introduced in Pa. HousePhilly.comOne day after scheduling a series of hearings to explore ways to expand gambling and to examine regulations, Payne (R., Dauphin) on Wednesday introduced a bill to legalize Internet gaming. “We looked at the fact that Jersey has it, Delaware has it, Las …Private clubs seek higher prize limits, … Read more

The New Razer Blade Is The Gaming Laptop To BeatTechCrunchEarlier this month, Razer launched the second generation of its ultra-high-resolution gaming laptop, the Blade. I’ve since gotten a few weeks to play with it and can confirm that its hardware lives up to the crazy QHD+ screen. Like its predecessor … …read more From:: Gaming … Read more