The Find: Online gamers share in common five beneficial traits that are as useful in business as they are in gaming. The Source: The Harvard Business Review's Conversation Starter The Take-away: Managers should encourage their employees to adopt the mentality of online gamers, who...
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The article discusses about the online gaming. Videogames have become a media force on par with the television and motion picture industries. This year will see the number of intensive console and PC gamers in the U.S. grow to 40 million, according to Jupiter Research, and by 2009 that number...
In this paper it explores a particular slice of massive multiplayer participants known as power gamers. It analyzes the ways these participants, who operate with a highly instrumental game-orientation, actually facilitate their play style through a variety of distinctly social activities. It explores the way high-end players are actually embedded...
The increasing popularity of computer gaming as a contemporary leisure activity, together with the use of PCs and games consoles as leisure technologies are evidence of the increasing convergence of new technology and leisure practice. This paper presents a very different image of gaming and gamers. It investigates computer gaming...
Signature Devices, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SDVI)is pleased to announce that the Company will market "Mazes of Fate" for theNintendo DS™ handheld video game system on MySpace.com, exposing it tomillions of gamers all over the world. This marketing campaign willgenerate excitement for the game's scheduled release date of August 12. MySpace.com is...
Alienware Announces its First-Ever Gaming Clan Sponsorship MIAMI -- A mainstay in the computer gaming industry for more than a decade, Alienware - the leading manufacturer of high-performance notebook, desktop and entertainment systems - has partnered with PMS Clan in the company's first-ever sponsorship of a competitive gaming...
WildTangent, Inc., the largest privately heldonline game property in North America, announced today it has released thenext version of its downloadable, award-winning fantasy RPG titled "FATEUndiscovered Realms." The release comes three years after the companylaunched the original FATE, which PC Gamer Magazine named runner-up for"RPG of the Year" in 2005....
Combined Company Will Empower Game Publishers With Complete Micro Transaction and Global Payment System SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Silicon Valley based PlaySpan Inc. (www.playspan.com) has acquired PayByCash (www.paybycash.com) the leading alternative payment system for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. Together PlaySpan and PayByCash create one of...
Mobile Giant Partners With America's Coolest Hero NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Chuck Norris doesn't have a chin under his beard. He has another fist and a new mobile game! GameloftR, a leading global publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones, today announced a...
New Qosmio X305 Laptop Offers Premium Gaming Experience and Technology at Attractive Price of $1,549.99 IRVINE, Calif. -- Toshiba's Digital Products Division DPD, a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced that the Qosmio[R] X305-Q701 gaming laptop is available exclusively at Best Buy stores nationwide for...
First look: Max Payne; Opens Oct. 17 -- Comic-book fans aren't the only nerds with Hollywood knocking at their doors for material. Video-game enthusiasts are finding their fare more popular than ever as Max Payne leads a wave of big-screen adaptations. Payne...
Games and Sweepstakes Inspired by 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' Now Available Exclusively on Moviefone NEW YORK -- AOL and Universal Pictures have teamed to debut a thrilling online adventure for movie fans and gamers alike: "The Dragon Emperor's Challenge" - a series of eight games...
New Game in Development for GamersFirst.com IRVINE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Network (http://www.k2network.net/), one of today's most popular free-to-play online game publishers for gaming enthusiasts, announces a development partnership with Boomzap Ltd. K2 Network and Boomzap have entered into a co-development partnership on...
Namco Networks Brings Arcade Classics and Other Casual Games to BlackBerry Smartphones Through Partnership with Handmark SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Namco Networks, a leading publisher and developer of mobile games and entertainment for the mass-market casual gamer, and Handmark, a global leader in the development and distribution of...
- Video Game Retailer Creates Google Lively Room to Announce Giveaway Locations - WILSONVILLE, Ore., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of Microsoft's recent announcement, a price drop on the XBOX 360 game system to $299.00, national video game retailer Game Crazy is giving away 299 XBOX...
E3 Media & Business Summit -- Jagex, Ltd.,the largest independent game developer in United Kingdom, today announcedthe release of RuneScape High Detail HD from the expo floor at the E3Media & Business Summit. With RuneScape HD, a full graphics re-launch ofthe hit massively multiplayer online MMO game, Jagex is redefiningimmersive...
Real-time Distributed Processing Engine to Transform Multi-GPU Computing KFAR NETTER, Israel -- Aiming to radically improve graphics performance for any kind of PC, LucidLogix Technologies today took the wraps off its new parallel graphics technology that will allow PC manufacturers to satisfy consumer demand for visual reality without...
- Nothing Gets Closer to the Real Thrill of the Race Track on Xbox 360 this Fall 2008 - NEW YORK, July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atari (OTC Pink Sheets: ATAR) is revving it up with the announcement of the ultra realistic racing video game RACE Pro, scheduled...
Company Also Announces Digital Storefront at Midway.com CHICAGO -- Today, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, announced two new online storefronts for downloadable distribution of titles from the company's vast catalog of arcade, PC and touchscreen titles. Beginning today,...
