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CES 2015: What Is the Future of the Gaming Industry?Motley FoolPhones and tablets have emerged as low-end gaming platforms, while next-generation consoles from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have carried the banner at the top of the market. Game players have more options than ever before, resulting in significant … …read more From:: Gaming News By … Read more

Region lawmakers spearhead gaming legislationnwitimes.comSenate Bill 449 follows the recommendation of the General Assembly’s gaming study committee by permitting land-based casinos with no more gaming positions than existed on the riverboats July 1, 2014, blunting the claim that moving a few hundred feet … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham … Read more

Kabam expands with TapZen and Magic Pixel Games acquisitionsCNETThe San Francisco-based game maker acquired games studios TapZen and Magic Pixel Games, both of which are based in Los Angeles. The purchases, announced Tuesday, mark Kabam’s eight and ninth acquisition in less than five years and will increase …and more …read more From:: Gaming News By … Read more

Gaming pioneers Al Alcorn and Ralph Baer to be honored at 2015 DICE AwardsPolygonRalph H. Baer (above right), the inventor known as the “Father of Video Games,” created several prototypes during the late 1960s for devices that could play interactive games on a television. His work culminated in the original “Brown Box,” which was … … Read more

Razer Is Holding A 50-Percent Off Sale on All Gaming GearTechnoBuffaloRazer made a huge splash at CES this year, particularly with its Forge TV set-top box. So in an effort to repay the positive feedback from fans and media, the company is holding a 50-percent off sale on all Razer gaming gear (except for systems, … Read more

Colorado teen launches mobile gaming app9NEWS.comAs more students joined him at his company, Omirown Entertainment, the talented team was eventually able to launch the company’s very first mobile gaming app on New Year’s Eve. It’s called Short Order Slam and it’s a game based around food. Raj says … …read more From:: Gaming News By … Read more

Did you know Gaming? runs through the Sega DreamcastEurogamer.netWe discover Microsoft played a role in Dreamcast’s development, and Sega returned the favour when it pledged a number of games for the original Xbox. Sega apparently sounded Microsoft out about the possibility of the Xbox playing Dreamcast games, too.VIDEO: “Did You Know Gaming?” Highlights Sega’s Beloved … Read more

Awesome Games Done Quick Gaming Marathon Raises $1.3M+PC MagazineThe ever-fun Awesome Games Done Quick charity gaming marathon has concluded. And, once again, the speedrunning-themed marathon has managed to push past $1 million in total donations. That beats this year’s $1 million goal set by the marathon’s …Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 Raises Over $1 MillionTwinfiniteMake … Read more

Twine: the program that’s democratised the video gaming worldThe GuardianThe free, easy-to-learn tool has encouraged non-techies, many of them women, to create their own games and explore subjects far beyond the traditional shoot ’em ups, sport and space fantasies. But the change hasn’t gone down well with everyone… …read more From:: Gaming News By Google … Read more

Is video gaming worth it? Jackson County officials worried about moralityThe SouthernThe Illinois Gaming Act was passed in 2009, and since the machines went live in October 2012, the state has brought in $26,436,064.68. Municipalities in Jackson County — Ava, Carbondale, Murphysboro, Campbell Hill, Dowell and the 27 machines under … …read more From:: Gaming … Read more

Gaming chair to Tioga Downs: Submit a better proposalPress & Sun-Bulletin17, the Gaming Facility Location Board recommended three projects — Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes, Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills and Rivers Casino & Resort at Mohawk Harbor in the Capital region — for commercial casino licenses.and more …read more From:: … Read more

MSI takes a titanic step forward with a massive gaming laptop and a graphics …Digital TrendsWhether you’re looking for a lighter solution to get your fragging fix, a brawny beast that will tackle all the latest titles on its own, or even a new, innovative way to plug a desktop card into your mobile notebook, … Read more

Gaming tech of CES, Nintendo’s growing love for mobile, and the return of Tony …TechRadarPC gamers who like to travel should be excited about Origin PC’s EON15-X and EON17-X, which use desktop specs in a laptop frame. We also got hands on with the MSI GS30 Shadow, which isn’t just a gaming laptop, it can … Read more

Therapists use 3D gaming technology to help stroke patients walk againKING5.comIt’s the same technology used to create 3-D video games. “Instead of turning it into an Incredible Hulk or a Ninja Turtle, we turn it into a skeleton model of themselves so we can measure all of their joints and their movements while they are … Read more

Gaming Deals: Preorder Batman: Arkham Knight for $45, and MoreGameSpotHumble Bundle launched the Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 Bundle, which features a collection of games and services to get you started with speedrunning. Humble is also offering up to 75 percent off on Saints Row IV, Saints Row: The Third, Saints …Batman: Arkham Knight’s limited … Read more

This week’s gaming news: Pac-Man goes life-sized, Far Cry goes to ‘Nam, and …PCWorldBeing able to fasten your eyes to these words means you survived the holidays, you survived your New Year’s hangover, and you survived CES. That’s quite an accomplishment, and one worth rewarding by rounding up the week’s gaming news. This week: …China … Read more

Six of the best obscure sports in gamingThe GuardianDeveloper Epyx had enjoyed considerable success with its Summer Games and Winter Games releases in 1984. Both collected together conventional sports commonly seen in the summer and Winter Olympics – albeit without officially standing as Olympics … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie … Read more

The Big Chill Have You Stuck Inside Playing Video Games? Online Gaming …LEX18 Lexington KY NewsGaming is an incredibly lucrative industry. The technological skills needed to build and create these games are in demand, and highly competitive skills to have. The students who are awarded these scholarships will have to maintain a certain GPA to … Read more

MSI’s sweet Shadow gaming dock bundle costs as much as an old-school PCPCWorldLAS VEGAS—As any gamer knows, the problem with a laptop is that once you’ve purchased it, you’re stuck with whatever the manufacturer included inside. MSI now has two separate products that can solve that problem. MSI announced plans to make the …MSI debuts … Read more

Alienware Alpha Review — A Promising Gateway To PC GamingForbesThere’s a big difference between stating your intentions to transport PC gaming into the living room by simply building a diminutive box, and actually transcending the typical Windows experience by building a user interface interface that facilitates … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News … Read more

Gaming Deals: Get a Wii U With Super Mario 3D World for $270 and MoreGameSpotGameSpot’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 …From Zelda to Uncharted: … Read more

UCF Gaming Knights to play host to 1st Paragon tourneyCentral Florida FutureTo be a part of the next big video game smashdown you needn’t dodge any turtle shells or slippery banana peels. Gaming Knights, the only gaming club at UCF, will be teaming up with Versus Gaming Center to host the first-ever video game tournament … Read more

Sony Vs. Microsoft: The Gaming Console War Comes To ChinaSeeking AlphaIn the last few years, the ban had been loosened somewhat to allow mobile and online games to enter the market, as well as a “grey market” where bootleg and free versions of popular titles were made available for play, leading some skeptics to claim … Read more

From Zelda to Uncharted: 20 best video games in 2015The IndependentWhen revealed at E3 last June, the sheer scope covered in their three minute video ensured this upcoming title from British video game developer Hello Games made it into several ‘best of E3 lists’. The exploration potential via a spacecraft across the …and more …read … Read more

Mad Catz Reveals $300 Transforming Alien Mobile Gaming ThingKotakuI can’t blame them. I’d go insane too if everything I designed was labeled with some bizarre acronym, like the R.A.T. mice, F.R.E.Q.TE gaming headset or this, the L.Y.N.X.9 Mobile Hybrid Controller. The Lynx (without dots and caps to preserve my sanity …Mad Catz ® Announces the … Read more

Elon Musk, gaming supernerdWashington Post (blog)Hardcore gamers might chuckle and point out that Mass Effect is technically a third-person shooter, where the camera sits behind the playable character’s shoulder. But Musk’s answer also speaks to the way video games reflect or even influence our …and more …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News Zennie … Read more

SteelSeries Has An Eye-Tracking Camera For GamingKotaku AustraliaThe slow march towards using all of your body parts to control a video game trudges on, this time with an eye-tracking gadget that lets you control and share your game thanks to SteelSeries and a company called Tobii. The Tobii EyeX powering the new …The SteelSeries Sentry … Read more

Watch penguins enjoy a bit of iPad gamingPolygonTurns out penguins love playing iPad games, perhaps as much as orangutans, pigs or you and me. Sara Mandel, an aviculturist at the Aquarium of the Pacific, recently discovered that the penguins she cares for are big fans of Games for Cats, an iPad …and more …read more … Read more

Is Gamergate the Most Complex, High-Stakes Video Game of 2014?Slate MagazineIn video games, this cultural gap—this rift between what readers enjoy playing and what many writers enjoy writing about and, indeed, the type of writing most outlets are willing to pay writers for—first manifested around 2007. Or at least, that was … …read more From:: … Read more

My Five New Year’s Gaming Resolutions For 2015Kotaku AustraliaNew Year’s Resolutions are normally focused on lifestyle changes — losing weight, eliminating habits, etc — but I thought it might be useful to write some gaming resolutions. Here are some of the bad habits I want to eliminate during the coming year …and more …read more … Read more

Games Inbox: Xmas gaming unplugged, Project Morpheus 4K, and indie gamingMetroWas considering getting rid of my old consoles next year (pretty much everything from NES onwards) to make a bit of space but forget that now as between cyber attacks, network issues, and hackers, etc. offline gaming is the future! It wasn’t a … …read … Read more

How Macau Should Offset Huge Losses in Gaming RevenueMotley Fool2014 is over, and for the gaming companies in Macau, it’s a year they’d rather forget. China’s gambling enclave saw revenue decline 2.6% for the year to $44 billion, highlighted by a 30.4% decline in December. A crackdown on corruption in China has … …read more … Read more

20 Most Powerful Images In Gaming [VIDEO]WhatCultureIt’s a sad reality that some people still don’t see games as an art form. There are those out there that don’t count it alongside film, art or literature, but it would be a lie to say that gaming doesn’t have just as much (if not more) of an … Read more

Steam hits 8.5 million concurrent users, shows PC gaming still has plenty of lifePCWorldIf measures of concurrent users are any indication, Steam is off to a strong start to 2015. As Polygon notes, the gaming service hit upwards of 8.5 million users to start the year. As of this writing, Steam reached as many as … Read more

The Gaming Year 2014 In Review: The Year Gaming Got Pushed BackBleeding Cool Newsvictory-over-bernardino-della-ciarda-1438 So here we are at the start of 2015, with 2014 sinking just behind the horizon. The world of gaming wearily trudged its way to the new year over the last week, looking for the last 12 months to finally be … Read more