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Gaming industry study: Casinos create 17K jobs in Mich.Detroit Free PressMichigan’s casino gaming industry generated almost $3 billion in economic impact and created more than 17,000 direct and spin-off jobs in a recent year, a new industry-financed study has found. Done by Oxford Economics and paid for by the American …Gaming industry study: Casinos create … Read more

10 Video Games That Were Ahead of Their TimePC MagazineWhen you look at video games in 2014, it’s hard to believe that they belong to the same medium that gave us Pac-Man 30 years ago. We’ve seen incredible advancements, technically and artistically, in those few short decades. But those advancements didn … …read more From:: … Read more

Gaming Deals: Get Crysis 3 for $5, 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 …and more …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News … Read more

Elite UT-Austin gaming academy molds industry leadersMarine Corps TimesAUSTIN, Texas — Studied as a multibillion-dollar business, technology and as art, courses on video games are proliferating at universities grappling to keep up with a fast-evolving industry. The University of Texas launched a gaming academy this fall …Gaming industry programs on the rise in higher edEducation … Read more

UK Gaming Deals: White or Black PS4 Just £280 at AmazonGameSpotGameSpot’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 … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google … Read more

I’m Done Caring Whether Other Gamers Think I’m Sufficiently HardcoreSlate MagazineYour description of Cookie Clicker also describes, at least mechanically, one of my favorite games of the year. If anything, Porpentine’s Everything You Swallow Will One Day Come Up Like a Stone is even simpler than Cookie Clicker, offering players … …read more From:: Gaming … Read more

Local firm moving gaming into a new dimensionReno Gazette JournalNew MIG (multi-player interactive gaming) technology allows players to use their own mobile devices to play community-based for-wager games or social games. Advanced 3-D technology offers players a depth of field illusion on the screen in real time. …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News … Read more

GR+’s 2015 gaming resolutions we totally won’t blow offGamesRadarJust think of how many achievements you could unlock in 12 months. Here at the offices of GamesRadar+ we have our own plans for 2015. Each and every one of us has made a resolution to better ourselves in the one area that matters most: video games. … Read more

Gaming resolutions I’ll strive to keep in 2015Destructoid (registration) (blog)While sitting on my lunch break today I ruminated on the deeper meaning behind player agency, the male gaze and how it pertains to gaming, and whether Hatred should or shouldn’t remain on Steam. After giving a glut of heady topics much thought, … …read more … Read more

Academia works to keep up with evolving gaming industryHouston ChronicleIf you’ve felt the persistent sorrow that arises from slaying ancient beasts in “Shadow of the Colossus” or experienced the existential angst of controlling a morally questionable protagonist in “The Last of Us,” then you know that video games have …and more …read more From:: Gaming … Read more

Ron’s Video Gaming New Year’s Resolutions for 2015TechnoBuffaloMy old gaming friend and I haven’t been on the best of terms lately. There is no franchise out there that has carved and shaped my gaming habits like Final Fantasy has, but I haven’t necessarily agreed with many of the decisions it has made over the …and … Read more

15 Gaming Wishes for 2015Hardcore Gamer2015 is mere hours away, and I could not be more excited to say goodbye to 2014. A lot of things happened during the year that I liked, and a lot of things I didn’t. The games industry has plenty to prove after 2014 with numerous disastrous launches …Here’s hoping … Read more

Heroes 2014: How one video game developer is gaming the system, turning …Daily American OnlineRyan Henson Creighton’s Toronto office isn’t typical for most game designers. The walls are lined with stacks of board games like Ticket to Ride and Risk. A sewing machine and leftover fabric from a school costume project for one of his … Read more

Bwin Says Close to Sale of Its Social Gaming BusinessBloombergThe online gambling business may be in the early stages of a consolidation wave following a disappointing rollout in the U.S. and the $4.9 billion purchase of industry leader PokerStars by Amaya Gaming Group Inc. in June, according to Brian Mattingley, …and more …read more From:: … Read more

Navajo panel moves forward with gaming compactKRQE News 13ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – A panel of Navajo Nation lawmakers has settled on terms that the American Indian tribe would like to see adopted as part of a new gambling compact with the state of New Mexico. The tribe’s current compact is set to expire in June, …and … Read more

Video gaming supports Illinois growthQuad City TimesThe Illinois Gaming Machine Operators Association, on behalf of the video gaming industry, wants to welcome Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner, the 15 new legislators taking office, including Sen. Neil Anderson, and the returning members as they come to serve at …Video gaming helps get Illinois on better financial track, says … Read more

Gaming Deals: Get Wolfenstein: The New Order for $20.39 and MoreGameSpotGreen Man Gaming is also offering a 20 percent discount on digital games with the code WINTER-SALE20-GROGRE. GOG.com is celebrating the new year with a sale on Square Enix games which includes discounts on Deus Ex, Hitman, and Tomb Raider …and more …read more From:: … Read more

This Dog’s Wife Just Left Him, and He’s the Star of My Favorite Video Game of …Slate MagazineIt’s as compelling and hard to stop playing as it is revelatory about how vacuous so many games are (try it if you dare). It exposes how little “play” there is to many games we play because, really, … Read more

The Video Game That Broke My Heart in 2014Slate MagazineI was just a guy who played games and sometimes wrote about them for Slate, which has, on and off for the past 15 years, long allowed me to expound dilettantishly about my interests. But in 2014, for the first time in my professional life, I … Read more

Is 2015 The Year To Quit Gaming?Cinema BlendI realize that those past two paragraphs combine to make it sound like me without games would somehow be a better me, but there’s a very good reason for why that is. I’m in my early 30’s, which means I grew up in the 1980’s, when video games … Read more

Could Video Gaming Be An Olympic Sport?GOOD MagazineFive months after ESPN legitimized e-sports as a marketable stadium sport by broadcasting the final rounds of the DOTA 2 championship on ESPN3, and six months after the X-Games included a Call of Duty tournament in the competition, the creator of World …Video games should be in Olympics, … Read more

Why Dark Souls broke gaming for me… – Reader’s FeatureMetroA reader reveals his chequered history with the Dark Souls series, and why his love of the games has made others pale in comparison. I never understood the appeal of Demon’s Souls when I played it a few years ago. Twice I progressed to the 10 … Read more

Why 1996 Was the Best Year in GamingGameSpotWhich year was the best in video game history? Which 12 month period had the biggest releases and the most influential games? Join us over the next few days as we look back in time at five of the most outstanding years in games. Today, we look back … Read more

Lizard Squad: Kim Dotcom Plays Christmas Hero After Gaming AttacksABC NewsCall it a belated Christmas season miracle. This is a story of an eccentric Internet entrepreneur who singlehandedly may have managed to save gamers around the world — and the Christmas season — from a hacking collective known as Lizard Squad.Hackers continue to harass gaming … Read more

Pa. tavern owners slow to apply for games-of-chance licensesPittsburgh Post GazetteWhen the bill passed the General Assembly in November 2013, the governor’s budget office was projecting 2,000 establishments would obtain a tavern gaming license. At the current rate, reaching that mark will take quite a while: As of late this month … …read more From:: … Read more

Worst over? Hackers claim responsibility for gamers‘ offline miseryCNN(CNN) — Disrupted PlayStation and Xbox networks frustrated gamers much of Friday, one day after going down on one of the busiest gaming days of the year. Neither Sony or Microsoft, which own PlayStation and Xbox, respectively, have had much to say …Meet the grinch who stole … Read more

Why 1993 was the Best Year in GamingGameSpotWhich year was the best in video game history? Which 12 month period had the biggest releases and the most influential games? Join us over the next few days as we look back in time at five of the most outstanding years in games. Today, we look at … Read more

Xbox, Playstation cyberattacks: 7 reasons why your new gaming console isn’t …OregonLive.comIn fact, I can’t remember her ever coveting anything as much as Microsoft’s latest gaming machine. On Christmas afternoon, I wouldn’t have blamed my 15-year-old daughter for thinking her parents had wrapped up a worthless plastic box as a cruel joke.PlayStation, Xbox users forced … Read more

iPad accessory spotlight: Stratus XL Gaming ControllerTechnologyTellKnow what I got for Christmas this year? A new rod hockey table and a bottle of wine. That’s a great Christmas for me. But maybe you got an iPad. That’s a great Christmas for you. But you’re not done. Now that you’ve got one of the best mobile … Read more

Deadwood gaming posts small increaseRapid City JournalDEADWOOD | Gamers in this Northern Hills town generated more than $7 million in gross revenues in November, resulting in an increase of 0.61 percent over the same month of 2013, according to data released this week by the South Dakota Commission on …November gaming revenues up just under … Read more

Gaming off the grid: Video game-inspired board gamesJoystiqWhile there are countless (and not very entertaining) licensed board games available at big box retailers – like Mario-themed Monopoly or Halo-themed Risk – there are far better options available for those looking to further explore their favorite … …read more From:: Gaming News By Google News Zennie … Read more

These are the most eyebrow-raising, last-minute holiday gaming salesThe Daily DotYou can shop for a gamer on Christmas Eve without feeling like a last-minute procrastinator because you totally meant to wait until Dec. 24, for the good sales, right? Here’s a roundup of all the best games, at the best prices, that you can buy … Read more

IDG invests in mobile gaming company Playsimple through seed programYourstory.inSiddharth and his co-founders were earlier working for Zynga and were closely involved in games such as Mafia Wars and Bubble Safari and have worked on innovations around gameplay, engagement and analytics. Yezdi Lashkari, a former executive, …Mobile social gaming startup PlaySimple gets funding from IDG … Read more

Digital Games Are Growing Up, Says SuperData’s Joost van DreunenRe/codeThe worldwide digital videogames market totaled $49 billion in revenue in 2014, according to SuperData Research. And 95 percent of that dough came from mobile and PC gaming, where free-to-play games are increasingly the norm — on all counts, a big … …read more From:: Gaming … Read more

Gaming Industry Undergoing “Technology-Led Transformation,” EA Exec SaysGameSpot“The gaming industry is going through a technology-led transformation right now and I think we have a huge opportunity in front of us and a number of exciting challenges to solve,” Moss, who joined EA only five months ago, said in a post on the company …EA CTO … Read more