Create a video game in 48 hours? Developers did at Tempe event
The attendees of the Global Game Jam at Arizona State University had just 48 hours to create a video game from scratch. Many completed the task and presented what they had made at a demo night at the Endgame Restaurant and Bar, a video-game …
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Are video games good for you? New research suggests answer is yes
“You pick up skills from whatever you do, and you can decide to aim those skills in an intellectual direction,” he said, crediting video games with broadening his interests and improving his mental dexterity. “They definitely enhanced the abilities I …
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Video Gaming On The Rise As A Collegiate Sport
At least one university — Robert Morris in Illinois — is now offering athletic scholarships to video game players — contending that like physical sports, it sharpens intelligence, reaction time and decision making. “If more schools start offering …
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Tiny NYC shop is shrine to vintage video games
Vintage video games have found a home in a museum of sorts downtown. The eight bit bleeps and bloops of my childhood are eternally sounding off inside Video Games New York. Decades worth of history are packed into a tiny shop/museum the size of a …
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