Competitive gaming has been around a long time on the PC with professional Starcraft leagues or tournaments for games like Quake and Counter-Strike. The Xbox 360 has made competitive gaming much more popular in recent years with the pro-gaming console league Major League Gaming, or MLG for short, and has begun to be classified as a sport by many gamers.
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Someone has said that the time of the smaller game publisher is done with. As games become a bigger and bigger market, surpassing things like music, and selling a ridiculous quantity of units with each new huge event, the industry has fallen prey to a sort of Hollywood mindset.
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In the "old" days you plugged your joystick into the Atari or Nintendo and entertained yourself for hours with your favorite video game. The game system itself was your only opponent, and you were lucky if the game gave you the option to play with two players. Nowadays, you can sit comfortably on your couch and use a wireless controller to play your game on a TV that is across the room from you while the game console is in another part of the room.
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What do you do when it is raining outside and it is time to find a way to keep the kids entertained? Well what goes better with kids than games? Read further to find out some of the most popular games for kids.
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Pinball tables have been around for a many years, you might remember them back from the Arcades where one could spend time and loads of quarters with friends while trying to beat each others scores. The first tables, going all the way back to 1850 where not coin operated or electricity powered and didn't even any flippers like we see them today.
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The morale of the story is that this personal nightmare maybe could not have been avoided. The CD-ROM got stuck and maybe that was meant to happen. Maybe there was no way the CD would have come out 'alive'. But one thing could have changed the whole aftermath, another CD.
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The video game industry has grown a lot since it's birth many years ago. As the industry grew, so did it's user-base that loves to play those games. Is it actually possible to be paid to test them?
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How many times did you get scared when you dropped your favorite game of the fear that it might break? It happens to us all. Each of us gamers may have a game that's more special then the others, the one we handle more carefully.
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Last March, British scientists from York and Warwick universities introduced the concept of the Virtual Concept. At first glance, it looks like an exaggerated headset that can pose as a huge black fishbowl in one's face. But there's more to it than meets the eye - in fact, more than meets the five senses.
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FPS Freeks is a relatively new controller add-on created by KontrolFreek Gaming Accessories which are supposed to improve your accuracy when playing first person shooters. As someone who plays shooters semi-competitively, I was skeptical these would do anything. Selling at only $9.99, I decided to buy a pair and give them a try and test to see if they really worked.
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