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Once again, Curt Schilling pitches investors on 38 Studios, his Rhode Island videogame start-up
By Scott Kirsner, Globe ColumnistJust a few months after receiving a $ 41.7 million loan from the state of Rhode Island,…
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Wizard101, KingsIsle’s Massively Multiplayer Game For Kids, Passes 20 Million Users
In the last few years, web game developers have started to bring online concepts, gaming and otherwise, that have proven successful with adults to a younger market. And the results have been no less compelling for younger audiences. Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters , which brings social networking and virtual worlds to kids, passed 50 million users in June . Club Penguin , a massively multiplayer …
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Media professionals and educators to scale the summit
The inaugural Screen Futures Summit is expected to attract delegates from around Australia and the globe, with more than eighty confirmed sessions and a strong line-up of international and local speakers.
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The List for July 7
Best Galleries 1. Oreen Cohen: Running Drill: Cohen’s photo collage is inspired by visits to the battlefields of Bull Run as well as by ongoing strife in Israel. Where: Transformer, 1404 P St. NW When: Through July 16 Info: Free; 202-483-1102; transformergallery.org 2. “Six Degrees of Separation”: The staged reading of John Guare’s 1990 play — which takes place predominantly at a dinner table …
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Clever Foursquare Hack Turns New York City Into A Giant Game Of Risk
[More from Mashable: Mashable Hits 100,000 Foursquare Followers]
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Age of Conan MMORPG Now Free-To-Play
Funcom has re-launched Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures as a free-to-play/subscription-based hybrid MMORPG called Age of Conan: Unchained. It’s reportedly naughtier too (and we like naughty).
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Star Wars MMO comes to an end
Out with the new, in with the old.
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Game company revenues double
THE main Irish arm of video game giant, Activison Blizzard doubled revenues and pre-tax profits in 2009, new figures show.
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30 Games That Emerged from Development Hell
Last week saw a milestone in videogame history: the release of Duke Nukem Forever ( 360 , PS3 , PC ), a project delayed so long that it became a running joke.
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Guild Wars 2: Changing the Game
ArenaNet’s sequel to Guild Wars is not simply a prettier version of the original. Gone is the heavy instancing of explorable combat areas. In Guild Wars 2, the quest zones are open and filled with players. You can jump. You can swim and fight underwater. You can wander and participate in public quests that pop up around zones, and if you’re using the Engineer profession, you can use guns …
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Red 5 Studios Fights for Firefall
Red 5 Studios files arbitration, seeking to terminate agreement with Webzen and recover $ 5 million. (PRWeb June 24, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8601218.htm
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How game developers can predict behavior patterns through rewards
As the video game industry continues to grow and expand, many developers and publishers are on a quest to find more cost- and time-efficient methods of developing their products, especially as budgets continue to grow for high-profile titles. A new study from researchers based out of North Carolina State University claims that they are able to accurately predict the behavior patterns of gamers …
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Game company revenues double
THE main Irish arm of video game giant, Activison Blizzard doubled revenues and pre-tax profits in 2009, new figures show.
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Father of starved Las Cruces girl sentenced
A former Holloman Air Force sergeant whose daughter withered away from malnutrition and dehydration while his wife spent hours online has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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Lulzsec releases 62,000 email addresses and passwords
Supporters use information to gain access to email, Twitter and Facebook accounts
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Rise of the geeky girls
The gals grow into the geek role. Cases in point: Sasha Alexander’s Maura Isles on ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ and Julie Benz’s Stephanie Powell on ‘No Ordinary Family.’ Sasha Alexander had suspicions about her character from the start. But it wasn’t until Maura Isles obsessed over a date’s skin condition that Alexander got it: She was playing a geek.
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News: Warhammer 40k MMO playable next year
Launch between April 2012 and March 2013. Promising massively multiplayer game Warhammer 40k: Dark Millennium Online will be playable at next year’s E3 trade show, THQ has confirmed. “Next year, I promise you, next E3,” was THQ core games boss Danny Bilson’s response when Eurogamer asked him when we’ll get to play the MMO. “I’ve already got plans for what the booth is like. The centrepiece of …
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The true cost of online gaming
Parents should consider what costs a game may incur after their initial purchase. Games now are not a one-time-only…
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What is Pottermore?
J.K. Rowling is whipping up excitement about Pottermore, her mysterious new website that’s said to be “amazing,” “engaging,” “breathtaking” – and completely secret until June 23.
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LulzSec Leaks 62,000 Usernames, Passwords; Find Out if Yours Was
LulzSec, the hacker group that came to light in early June, continued its Internet rampage on Thursday by posting the details of about 62,000 random usernames and passwords.
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E3 2011: Kingdoms of…
The word “epic” is thrown around quite a bit when describing RPGs, and open world fantasy adventure Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is no different.
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Thunderbluff…remixed


Image by Mark Grealish
I’ve been trying my hand at the faux tilt-shift Photoshop work, but I got to wondering tonight how it would work on a video game screenshot. So I stuck my Thunderbluff into CS2 and got an interesting result.

Definately a genre-bending picture, good or bad.

Opinions?

Tool to predict player’s behaviour in online games developed
Washington, June 15 : A new tool that can accurately predict the behaviour of players in online role-playing games has been developed.
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‘Free To Play’ games come to Steam
Steam adds five “Free to Play” games to their service.
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Jeux de construction · Mega Brands obtient une licence de Blizzard
Le fabricant de jouets Mega Brands vient d’obtenir une licence pour développer des jeux de construction. (Canoë)
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Bright Ideas with science blogger PZ Myers
Biology professor PZ Myers writes one of the most popular science blogs in the world, Pharyngula. He teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris. PZ Myers sat down with Bright Ideas host Stephen Smith to discuss his blog, evolution, and the intersection of science and politics.
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5 Free E-Books and Tutorials on Lua
This week Lua broke into the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time. The TIOBE Index is a deeply flawed index, as a few of you have pointed out here before , and it’s hard to believe that Lua has suddenly surpassed JavaScript in popularity – though there are a lot of people out there using it for World of Warcraft scripting. None the less, I thought this would be an excellent occasion to do a …
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BioWare blows brains with intro cinematics for Star Wars MMO
Old Republic gets CG makeover BioWare has bowled over E3 with a taste of its highly-anticipated MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic .…
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