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NASA’s First iPhone Game: Lunar Electric Rover Simulator

NASA’s First iPhone Game: Lunar Electric Rover Simulator.


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MediaShift Idea Lab . How Gotham Gazette Used Games as Storytelling Devices | PBS

a great hotwash article over at mediashift on serious news games:
Are games worth doing? I’d give a qualified yes. One great thing about the web is that it offers journalists so many tools for telling stories: conventional text, interactive databases, audio, video, and so on. Games are another valuable tool.As the web matures, the key [...]


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c-jump: computer programming board game

c-jump: computer programming board game.


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Modern Warfare 2 Pulls $310m Day One in US and UK – PC World

Modern Warfare 2 Pulls $310m Day One in US and UK – PC World.


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Facebook: Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users From Day One

From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. “I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues,” he crows in the clip to a gathered bunch of fellow [...]


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In-Game Ad Pact for Microsoft's Massive, comScore

Microsoft’s gaming subsidiary Massive Inc. has partnered with Web measurement firm comScore in an effort to bring more standardization to the still-evolving in-game advertising industry.As part of the arrangement between the two companies, Massive will now be able to provide advertisers with tangible data on the direct impact of their in-game ad campaigns. Specifically, Massive [...]


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Mortgage Meltdown is a very cool news game

I hadn’t been by addicting games for a while, but this was a pleasant find there.
Mortgage Meltdown – Free Strategy Game from AddictingGames!.
I started mentioning news games at Addicting games years ago. Most of their games fell into what I called the political cartoon category, and I was making the case in my talks that [...]


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Technology News: Gaming: 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' Is Crazy Good

Great lede to this piece:
The video game industry has defeated more superheroes than Lex Luthor could ever dream of. Superman, Aquaman, Iron Man, X-Men: all rendered lifeless by forces more focused on making a buck than on delivering thrills.
So, calling “Batman: Arkham Asylum” (Eidos, US$59.99, for the Xbox 360 More about Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) [...]


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YouTube – Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games – A Video Game Quintet

YouTube – Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games – A Video Game Quintet.


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Dear Readers: sales of games do not indicate quality – Ars Technica

In music circles, low sales are often something as a badge of honor; proof that the album or single was too artfully constructed for the mainstream. In gaming? Low sales are often a stigma.
via Dear Readers: sales of games do not indicate quality – Ars Technica.


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