Game Downloader is a small open source download client with a server side library of games that are open source, indie or freeware. With the help of this utility, you can download more than 200 games More...
Tiggit is an open source game launcher and installer. According to the website, Tiggit's mission is to help users find all the awesome indie games that exist 'hidden' around the internet. More...
Game Downloader is a small open source download client with a server side library of games that are open source, indie or freeware. With the help of this utility, you can download more than 200 games More...
Tiggit is an open source game launcher and installer. According to the website, Tiggit's mission is to help users find all the awesome indie games that exist 'hidden' around the internet. More...
President Obama was elected on the premise of change. However, I don't think this is what voters had in mind. As per an article on USA Today, Kotaku points out that the Obama administration has... More...
Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 took three awards at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts video game ceremony last night, while best-seller Grand Theft Auto IV received no awards, despite several... More...
November sales of video game consoles and software reached nearly $3 billion in November, according to a story posted by the Associated Press today. The data, which comes from market researcher NPD Group, shows that... More...
Most Neowinians will be able to figure out for themselves whether or not a game would be suitable for a child (or even their own), but for those parents that don't follow the tech news... More...
National Geographic announced today, the creation of National Geographic Games, a new division dedicated to the development of video games for major consoles and computers, as well as mobile and hand held devices. The division... More...
U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 57%in March from a year earlier, industry data showed on Thursday, evidence that the industry has so far been immune to wider economic woes. Sales of... More...
NPD Group reports a record-breaking year in video game sales. Video game sales topped $17 billion last year, according to the NPD Group, making 2007 by far the biggest year in gaming history. These numbers... More...
Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software jumped 73% in October to $1.1 billion (compared with $643 million a year earlier). Nintendo's Wii console regained its spot... More...
Singapore has banned a Microsoft video game that contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing and caressing each other, a local newspaper reported Thursday. The Straits Times said Mass Effect,... More...
A computer game in which volunteers had to move a blue triangle through a 2D maze while avoiding a red dot "predator" has shed light on how the brain reacts to imminent danger. If the... More...
The video game industry's annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant multimillion dollar exhibits, celebrity appearances, blaring lights and pounding music. This year's version of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, renamed the... More...
Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more. Addiction experts also strongly opposed the... More...
The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art". Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said Manhunt 2 had his full support and... More...
In its annual "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook" report covering 2007 through 2011, consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers has concluded that the video gaming industry is poised to overtake the music industry in the US, with... More...
The Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. video game industry's trade association, has announced Michael Gallagher will take over presidential duties at the association later in May. Gallagher was the chief telecommunications and policy adviser to... More...
The powerful "Cell" microprocessor, jointly developed by IBM, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, that fuels Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console will be available in IBM mainframe computers, meaning those high-performance machines will be able... More...
The Video Game Decency Act of 2006 was one of a handful of pieces of proposed federal legislation that failed to get traction in Congress last year. The legislator behind the Video Game Decency Act... More...
A report called "The State of the Console," conducted by the recently launched Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services division, claims that video game consoles are now in 41% of U.S. homes, an 18.5% increase from... More...
Scientists at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health have found that clinically depressed people's performance in a 3-D video game suggests spatial memory, which tells the brain where objects are located and their orientation,... More...
Mathematics, science and video games? A U.S. university professor is urging schools to consider using video games as tools to better prepare children for the work force. For although many educators scoff at the idea... More...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Three men were convicted of murder Tuesday in the slayings of six people who authorities said were bludgeoned with baseball bats in a dispute over an Xbox video game system. The... More...
THQ Inc.'s latest video game is all about how to win friends and influence people -- and intimidate them into submission. The company on Thursday said it is developing a video game based on the... More...
Late last night a Federal Judge issued a decision on the VSDA v. Schwarzenegger lawsuit, stating that the California Video Game Law that was passed several months ago and was about to go into effect... More...
A video game developer has sued Electronic Arts Inc.,charging that the world's biggest video game publisher stole an ideafor a game feature he had and incorporated it in the popular footballtitle "Madden NFL 06." "We... More...
A federal appeals court has ruled that computer programmers do not have the right to reverse-engineer Blizzard Entertainment's video games to improve their playability. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St.... More...
After months of threats that the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) would strike if a new deal was not made with game publishers, a settlement was announced... More...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate approved a version of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proposed restrictions on the sales of violent and sexually explicit video games to children, even though some senators said the idea is... More...
As the first educational institution in the world to offer a Bachelor of Science degree program in Game Development, DigiPen Institute of Technology introduces participants to the concepts of video game production in this webcast... More...
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Midway Games Inc. plans to publish a "mature"-rated pro football video game with the kinds of violence and excess shunned by the National Football League, the company said on Thursday. The game, called "Blitz: Playmakers,"... More...
Nintendo Co. will begin selling an adaptor for its DS and Game Boy Advance handheld game players to allow them to play music and video, the company said, matching a popular feature on Sony's portable... More...
National Institute on Media and the Family says game ratings are ineffective; ESRB begs to differ. For the ninth year in a row, the National Institute on Media and the Family released... More...
Sales of a violent video game, linked to the brutal murder of a British teenager, were soaring as buyers rushed to buy their copy before the game is banned. Publicity surrounding the "Manhunt"... More...
CARY, North Carolina -- The U.S. Army, riding the success of its action video game America's Army, has set up a video-game studio with industry veterans to write other kinds of software to simulate training... More...
The Game Initiative today announced its "How To Break Into Video Game Industry: Conference and Resume Workshop" will take place in Chevy Chase, Maryland on June 26, 2004 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center.... More...
China has banned a Swedish-made computer game for "distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the Ministry of Culture (MOC) said Friday. The PC game, "Hearts of Iron", was accused of... More...
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Today's Idaho Statesman has published a front page news story on Twin Galaxies' plans to open up a facility in Idaho which features an olympic gaming center for the electronic gaming hobby in addition to... More...
EMI Group Plc, one of the world's largest music companies, has filed a federal lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc., the world's largest video game publisher, over claims of copyright infringement in EA's highly successful sports... More...
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A lawsuit by Haitian groups that asks for the top-selling video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" to be removed from store shelves will be decided in federal court. Haitian civil rights... More...
Japanese game machine maker Taito Corp. said on Friday it plans to restart sales of "Space Invaders" in the United States, almost 25 years after the game first appeared in video arcades. The... More...
The CIA is set to spend several million dollars to develop a video game aimed at helping its analysts think like terrorists, The Washington Times has learned. The agency's Counter Terrorist Center, or... More...
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