Gamers News
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The video game industry continues to shift huge volumes and to generate high-volume sales. While games have received a lockdown boost, the industry needs to continue to innovate and transform in order to dominate different forms of entertainment media.
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A new study looking at the relative skills of video gamers in different parts of the world finds that players from Finland come out top. In terms of North America, Canadian gamers outpace their U.S. counterparts.
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Nintendo has confirmed that 160,000 Nintendo Accounts have been breached. With this, a number of the impacted accounts were reported to have purchased digital items without owner consent.
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Video games may be popular, but there's always time for board games, especially when families come together. A new survey reveals 'The 10 Most Popular Board Games in Canada, and behind this some interesting differences across the country.
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Sony will no longer provide full game digital download codes to retailers starting April 1st. Digital games will only be available straight from the PSN online store after that date.
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Taehoon Kim, the co-founder and CEO of nWay, provides some gaming industry predictions for 2019 for Digital Journal readers. Expect to see the rise of Games as a Service, more esports, and an increase with virtual streaming.
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Seventy-four gamers have raised $138,609 for foster kids recently during an all-day tournament in Bellevue, WA, in the Seattle area . The money went to Seattle-based Treehouse.
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University of Exeter researchers have shown how online computer games can help researchers to understand animal camouflage and color vision. This is the result of a project more than 30,000 people have played a series of video games.
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The strange psychological research story of the week looks into gamers, players of Pokémon Go in particular, and seeks to find out whether the character chasing adventurers are happier and friendlier than the general population.
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As part of a crowdsourcing challenge gamers, playing a bespoke game called Foldit, have folded a protein into a new shape ahead of professional scientists.
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A new version of the Cryptolocker malware has found its way onto the Internet. Named TeslaCrypt, this time gamers are the target as files of several major games are encrypted and locked down with players held to ransom for their unlock.
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Activsion has enlisted former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to lead its legal defense against Manuel Noriega's lawsuit over his appearance in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II.'
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According to recent studies around 12 percent of players hear sounds from their games after playing. Hallucinations include hearing bullets, explosions and whispering voices.
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Capcom official announcement that an HD remastered version of 'Resident Evil' is in the works has been meet with enthusiasm and support from the gaming community.
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is a new Nintendo 3DS exclusive based on the animated, musical 3D film of the same name. It is an exciting game that fans of the puzzle genre will enjoy and has sufficient enough unlockable content from the flick.
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A group of citizen-scientist gamers have helped a team of scientists explain how the retina processes motion. The research has revealed direction-selective computation in the retina.
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A new online competition provides an opportunity for citizen scientists to design RNA molecules to generate a target structure for new medicines.
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Remember those early video games which were addictive but fun? Gaming may have come a long way in recent years but if you still have fond memories of classic video games from the 1970s and 1980s you will soon be able to enjoy them free online.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have infiltrated popular online communities such as "World of Warcraft" and "Second Life."
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A new Facebook game called Fraxinus hopes to crowdsource the solution to protecting the common ash tree from a deadly fungus.
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Google's YouTube video hosting and sharing service is adding a new feature to their platform. This time, the focus is on video game developers and providing the option of live streaming to video games.
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As the long awaited next instalment of the video game Starcraft II entitled “Heart of the Swarm” was officially launched worldwide at 12 midnight last night, animal rights campaigning group PETA took a novel approach to publicising their cause.
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While the general demographic of video gamers are generally from children to young adults, the elderly are a demographic that is often overlooked. BBC News, in a segment, follows one such gamer.
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According to Chinese media a man known as "Mr. Feng" hired "virtual" assassins to kill off his son's avatar in online video games. He believed his son's gaming habit was to blame for his poor grades in school and failure to land a job.
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A study by Harris Interactive, sponsored by the website Gamehouse, found more than half of online gamers are women and they are more sexualized than female non-gamers.
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Be careful who you kill in the virtual gaming world, it may inspire someone to attack you in real life. That's what happened when a gamer sought revenge on the guy who stabbed his character in a video game. Except revenge was played out in the real world
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Gaming and surfing the Web can help parents connect with their kids, experts say. The cyber world has long become an integral part of kids but it still intimidates many parents.
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Xbox Live is all fun and games, but players who violate the service’s policy by cheating can have their accounts permanently cancelled, said a Microsoft executive recently. Is this hard-line stance beneficial for Microsoft and its users?
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Computer game fans greeted the release of Microsoft's Halo 3 with all-night parties, after the software giant released the video game at midnight at more than 10,000 shops around the United States.
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Sound crazy? Yeah, but if the American Medical Association has its way, Internet and/or video game addiction may become an entry in the next version of a manual on mental disorders.
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A girl watches a video game screen at the Barbican Centre, London.
Virtual reality technology on show at the 2017 London Film and Comic Con, 2017.
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