Corpse sits in gamer cafe for 9 hours
msnbc.com (blog) (subscription)
Stay up to speed with news and reviews on video games for the PC, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Android, iPhone, iPad, Facebook and more. By Matthew Hawkins In what is beginning to be a disturbingly common phenomenon, a young man in Asia has ...

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Kiwi gaming industry's best-kept secret
Stuff.co.nz
"We always wanted to develop our own IP, develop our own product," SmallWorlds co-founder Mitch Olson said as PC World sat down to chat in one of the board rooms in his company's office. Olson has a shaved head, an earring, and a general air of casual ...

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Gamer Dies in Taipei Internet Cafe, Nine Hours Later Someone Notices
Kotaku
Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched ...
Gamer lies dead in internet cafe for nine hoursYahoo!7 News

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Zynga's Brian Reynolds Joins Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Board of ...
Sacramento Bee
A twenty-one-year industry veteran, Brian Reynolds is recognized as one of the industry's most talented and productive game designers. Honored by PC Gamer magazine as one of twenty-five "Game Gods" and one of IGN's "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time," ...

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Epic Games Announces Plans for 2012 DICE Summit
Gamasutra
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.] CARY, NC (February 2, 2012) – Epic Games, Inc. continues its celebration of 20 years at the leading edge of game ...

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The Cost of Being a Video Gamer? $17K a Year? Really?
Forbes
Except as presents or for the absolutely must-have game of the year, very few gamers I know buy their games when they're brand new and priced accordingly. - PC gamers save hundreds of dollars each year by purchasing their games on Steam, ...

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The cost of being a gamer
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
The total includes dubious purchases like a $180 uninterruptable power supply, $250 headsets, $500 gaming chairs, a disc repair machine, and a replica Gears of War Lancer. It also includes items you couldn't say were only used for gaming, ...

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Video of 'Skyrim' Creation Kit in action
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Console gamers counter that they paid less for their gaming gear, they get to play on a big screen TV vs. a computer monitor; and that they are more comfortable gaming while lounging on a couch vs. sitting in an office chair.

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Microsoft Adapts Kinect Game Device For Windows PCs
Investor's Business Daily
But hackers have connected the sensor array to PCs and shown some interesting applications for the device. Clint Rutkas, a technical evangelist for Microsoft, demonstrates a Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair at the Mix 11 trade show in April 2011.

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X-Dream Rocker wireless gaming chair
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A small battery-powered transmitter features a single 3.5mm stereo audio input, so pretty much any source component (games console, PC, DVD player, set top box) can be connected. Using the low-rent 863-864MHz band, the transmitter then outputs to one ...

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