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online gaming ’
Zynga, the massively popular social game developer, has been working on an online version of Bingo which will be available exclusively to Facebook users. What's quite funny about it all is that the senior demographic continues to ...
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Internet addiction disorder or IAD for short, has been found to change how the brain develops in a new research study. When most people think about addiction, they think drugs, alcohol, and things of that nature.
However, it's ...
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OnLive, a relatively new company that streams games over the Internet to TV's, PC's, as well as tablets, is also going to be streaming to Google TV's this year. The company offers an affordable monthly subscription with ...
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The stroke of Midnight (EST), on Tuesday, 12.20.2011, is the moment online gamers have been anticipating for six years. The official launch of Star Wars; The Old Republic (SW;TOR) is just hours away and the people who ...
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After 6 long years of of waiting, online gamers can finally rejoice. Star Wars;The Old Republic (SW;TOR) has arrived. Bioware spared no expense to create what they promised would be the ultimate Star Wars MMO (Massively Multi-player ...
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The year long beta test for Star Wars; The Old Republic came to a successful conclusion on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:59 PM CST. The final weekend of beta testing drew over 2 million participants, according ...
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Steam, the company behind Forsaken World, Champions Online, Valiant Arms and various other online games has announced a new "free games section" for online games.
Among available games are the previously "pay to play" titles Champions Online and ...
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A Swedish network company is attempting a novel world record: an online first-person shooter with ONE THOUSAND players. All on the same virtual battlefield. All shooting the heck out of each other. To explain more, here's Pikkotekk’s ...
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How smurfing angry would you be at your kid if she spent $1,500 on in-app upgrades after finding out your iTunes password?
Unlike yesterday's big-haired family who were unable to wiggle out of a $1,700 XBox Live charge, ...
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That up there is British lady Dawn Matthews and her 11-year old son, the interestingly coiffured Brendan. Neither look that happy, and with good reason, because silly old Brendan just spent $1,700 on Xbox Live, using his ...
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If you're one of the numerous individuals with a website selling World of Warcraft gold, then beware, because you could lose your PayPal account any ... day ... now. WoW publisher/developer Blizzard has complained to Paypal that ...
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Sick of sore losers quitting online games whenever they're losing? Same! And when you triumph as little as me, trust me, it's even more frustrating. Various solutions to this problem have been proffered by developers, but Capcom ...
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The latest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops seems to have made the game less playable, with many PlayStation 3 owners reporting far more serious connection issues.
In a thread on the game's official forums, scores of ...
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Sorry, you're still playing single-player games? Loooooser. Developer EA is here to tell you to get with the plan daddy-o, because guess what: single-player games are dead. That's according to EA Games label president Frank Gibeau, who ...
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This weekend on Xbox Live, the gates are being opened to the unruly, frothing masses. That's right: beginning Friday November 26th, Microsoft is making Xbox Live Gold free to all for the Thanksgiving weekend.
That means any Xbox ...
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The head of Xbox Live's moderation team has warned that users who use a swastika symbol in online multiplayer games of Call of Duty: Black Ops can expect to be banned.
Black Ops allows players to design their ...
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Sorry to turn on the sad, but here's a tragic reminder that, while we gamers may spend a lot of time defending our hobby against misguided accusations, a minority of people really shouldn't be playing so intensively.
Associated ...
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Okay, maybe not. But damn, he must come close. Such are the effects of online Street Fighter IV.
(Yeah, I know this is a kind of old freaking ancient video, but I've only just seen it and it ...
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The FIFA World Cup is just five months away, so trust EA to start yanking those juicy money udders early. The official World Cup FIFA game is releasing in April, and will be swiftly followed by FIFA ...
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A recent CVG interview with Valve produced an interesting comment regarding online gaming etiquette: apparently, British gamers are "notorious non-talkers."
Valve's Chet Faliszek has urged British gamers to "[...] communicate. Don't be scared of a microphone. You guys ...
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MySpace, that social networking site you last looked at in 2006 before being seduced by Facebook's crisp blues and clean whites, is now looking to gaming to help it compete. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference ...
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