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Go Digital and Groovy... and Save Trees!

Have you inherited your Dad's trading card collection - ie. pieces of printed cardboard that come with a piece of gum that looks like it tastes like cardboard too? Well today's trading cards have evolved to include, wait for it... (cue bells and whistles), holograms and foil..! Wow, riveting isn't it. And the corporates complain that there has been a decline in demand..? So if you are a groovy member of Generation Y who cares about your sports, are used to being stimulated on all levels and demand decent, multi-dimensional content, (ie. you like your MTV, Gameboy, PS2, music and video etc), then you need to Get Serious about your trading cards - literally! Serious are the ever so clever and extremely contemporary people behind CD and DVD Trading Cardz TM - the hip, digital descendents of your dad's deforestating and now dust- collecting baseball cards! Stick a paper card into your PC/Mac/PS2/XBOX and what happens..? Diddly squat, that's what, except that you... Read More

Mind Boggling Information About The Popular Bingo Game!

Have you ever considered mind boggling statistics of a BINGO GAME?The bingo game is the most popular online game in the world! Bing Crosby's nickname as a child was "Bingo" Screeno, a form of the bingo game, was played in movie theaters during the Great Depression The casino game, Keno, is based on the bingo game Most online bingo players also like to play online slot machines A majority of bingo game players have a pet, most notably a cat In 1929, the bingo game reached North America, and became known as "Beano" The bingo game became popular in Australia in the early 20th century. It was known as Housie The bingo game's origin can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia". It is still played every Saturday in Italy In the 1800s a Lotto game similar to the bingo game was used as an educational tool to teach German children multiplication tables Physical exercise... Read More

Counter Strike, The Beginner of Broad Band PC Gaming

This is the world of 21st century, the century of technologies. Every thing is fast now a days and as far as the Computers and games are concerned, they are at the top of all. Every one these days like playing games and some of them love it. Well few years ago PC gaming was not so advance and usually was single user based and if any one wanted to play with any other player then one must have an extra input or any compatible playing device .An era of new technology began after the entrance of Network gaming or Multiplayer gaming which revolutionized the PC gaming world.The term of multiplayer gaming was that from now on if a person wants to play a certain game with any other person the he can easily connect to the other person's computer using broad band internet connection .Usually before the arrival of Broad Band, games were played thorough Modem. This was perfect in those days... Read More

Virtual Wrapping Paper and E-Gifts- Is There Really An Online Santa?

The internet has proven to be an amazing delivery conduit for words, information, music, pictures and generally anything that can be turned into little 1s and 0s. As we approach the end of the year the question is asked "Can the Internet deliver my Christmas presents?" Now thanks to a remarkable innovation at www.ustargames.com the answer is yes, there really is an online Santa.Kite Capers, the first of the U Star Games range of interactive, personalized PC Story Books is now available as a present that can be delivered over the internet.What the brains behind U Star Games have discovered is that although the ultimate worth of their product comes from the experience the end-users enjoy once they play the game, the actual giving of the gift is an experience rich in value itself.So how do you replicate the whole experience of opening the carefully chosen card, reading the thoughtfully composed message, the unwrapping of the brightly colored wrapping paper and the joy... Read More

Create Computer Games - Get Started on Creating Your Own Virtual Worlds

I've always loved video games, ever since I first played them on a friend's computer in the afternoon after elementary school. There's something almost magical about the fact that we can move images around and interact with virtual worlds, a living fantasy presented for us to interact with however we please. I've also always wanted to make games myself but, until recently, didn't have the technical knowledge to do so. Now, I'm a second year software engineering student, so if I weren't able to code a game without too many dramas there'd be something drastically wrong. But what about the common person: the person for whom the term 'memory leak' conjures up images of their grandfather, 'pipeline' is where the water flows, and 'blitting' is unheard of? Well, everyone can get in on the game creation process, and you don't even need to learn 'real' programming to do so.So where do games start? With an idea. Games, like all fiction, require an idea... Read More

How to Write a Business Plan While Playing

BizTech 2.0 is an entrepreneur education program offering business assistance to students over 13. The program teaches business, information technology and life skills to young people via the Internet. It reinforces math learning, reading and critical thinking skills. The program was launched by The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, an organization located in New York City that was set up from the need for a program for preventing failure and dropout of disadvantaged students from low-income communities. It does this by helping them develop entrepreneurial skills and eventually enhance their economic productivity and improve the quality of their lives and their academic and business skills. BizTech 2.0 is flexible, user friendly, utilizing the latest technology. It is built of 25 units divided into three levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. It allows on-line learning of how to develop your own business connecting students and teachers. Students have the advantage of the interactive graphics that reflect the progress through each level. The program is teacher-led... Read More

Computer Traumas

It has happened! Computer games have started to control my life on and off the screen. No complicated games like Age of Empires, just the simple one of Tetris. You know the one, where different shaped and colored bricks fall out of the sky and you have to arrange them in nice lines at the bottom? Hopefully with the end result of all colors matching in straight lines so that they can be removed and point gained.Crazy really, it first happened many years ago when I had this stupid bet that I could get more points than the next guy. What that really means is that, "I am going to be up all night playing this game and will be totally incapable of staying awake in the office tomorrow, unless of course I play the game in the office as well". That's what computer games do to us. We become machines where food and sleep are secondary items to all else. Just keep... Read More

Malicious Advertising

Advertising is a necessary irritant in the world today. You can't drive down the street without coming across an ad, either a billboard suspended over a road or a large poster plastered down the side of a bus. If you walk into a shopping centre it doesn't matter where you look, you see an advertisement of some kind. Even the tables in the food court now have ads embedded in them, and on my last trip to Melbourne I noticed that they were starting to embed flat screen TVs into the tables to deliver the full commercial experience to your meal. If you jump on the Internet you have to contend with pop-ups and banner ads, with some advertising agents being ruthless enough to write malicious code that embeds the ad into your computer so that you still receive the pop-ups even when you're not at the original site.In the past, pop-ups and banner ads have been easy enough to avoid with the... Read More

Great Games Youve Never Played

Do you know what you're missing?Some of the best computer games ever made are likely games you've never heard of. Created by individuals and small companies working in relative obscurity. They don't have million dollar budgets, some don't even have hundred dollar budgets. They don't have dedicated marketing departments, research analysts, sales teams, fancy offices, and cutting edge tools. They scrape together whatever tools they can, often discarded by the ultra rich game designers of big shiny game studios.Making Miracles.In spite of these deplorable working conditions, they create some of the most amazing games around. How do these game gems get created, and who are the miracle workers creating them. They're independent game designers. Sometimes called Indies for short. Working out of their bedrooms, garages, spare offices, and basements. They have a passion for what they do. They love games, they love the act of creation, and are relentlessly committed to their vision of what a game should be. They often build games... Read More

Guns Dont Kill People - Videogames Do!

"Ban these evil games", "Videogame violence corrupting our nation's youth", "video games stole my husband". It seems everyday that the media are making more and more claims about the evils of videogames. But are these claims based on fact, or is it merely that there is a juicy new scapegoat out there that the woes of the world can be pinned on?Many people will be aware of the Daily Mail's 'Manhunt' story by now. The paper ran with the first page headline of 'Ban these evil games', claiming that 17 year old Warren LeBlanc's obsession with the ultra-violent Rockstar game 'Manhunt' drove him to beat his 14 year old friend, Stefan Pakeerah, over 50 times with both a claw hammer and knife. The tabloid then proceeded to assert "the hammer-and-knife killing mirrored scenes in the ultra-violent game". The paper also ran a quote from the mother of the victim, saying that, despite the fact the game had an 18 certificate, "it's no good... Read More

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Activision Stockholders Approve Combination with Vivendi Games
Barron's Blogs - 4 hours ago
Activision and Vivendi Games will combine their businesses through the merger of a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision with and into Vivendi ...
Activision/Vivendi Games Merger Approved IGN
Activision Shareholders Approve Merger With Vivendi Games - Update RTT News
Activision Blizzard: It's Official Washington Post
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Canada.com

China's pollution claims disputed ahead of Games
Independent, UK - 2 hours ago
China failed to meet pollution-control targets in 2006 but the government promises the air will be fine by the time the athletes arrive for the Games, ...
Beijing Games still have 2 'open issues' International Herald Tribune
Olympic Games staff reunion planned for September Daily Citizen
Some gold for Beijing - before the Games Shanghai Daily
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Only first-party video games matter
CNET News, CA - 10 hours ago
With third-party developers selling titles for multiple platforms, first-party developers will need to step in and try to create games that matter to people ...
Video games have escaped from the messy bedrooms of teenage boys ... Times Online
Epic Not Interested in Making Wii Games Game Reviews
Peter Moore Says EA Sports Games Are Too Fricking Hard Escapist Magazine
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Reuters UK

Barca get tough over Games teams
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 3 hours ago
BARCELONA are ready to prevent Brazil's Ronaldinho and Argentina's Lional Messi from joining their countries for the Beijing Games. The club has written to ...
No Olympic Games for Ronaldinho SportsYA!
Ronaldinho in Olympics The Statesman
Ronaldinho, Robinho In Brazil Squad Goal.com
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Games a new start for China
Xinhua, China - 1 hour ago
BEIJING, July 9 -- China can host a high-level Olympic Games successfully even after the devastating earthquake that jolted southwestern Sichuan province ...
Beijing prepares for good and bad of Games one month out Reuters
Ready but anxious, China hopes to makes Games a tour de force Fort Worth Star Telegram
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EA and Hasbro to offer SCRABBLE games on Facebook and Pogo.com
Trading Markets (press release), CA - 13 hours ago
EA's first Hasbro-based Facebook application is expected to launch later this month, while the Pogo.com SCRABBLE game is available immediately. ...
EA and Hasbro Deliver Authentic SCRABBLE Web Fun to Facebook ... Business Wire (press release)
Scrabble on Facebook: too little, too late CNET News
EA Heats Up Scrabulous Scrap With Sanctioned Scrabble TechNewsWorld
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Beijing prepares to deliver a smooth Games
Xinhua, China - 19 hours ago
With exactly one month to go before the opening of the August 8-24 Games, preparations are all but over and the grandiose stage is already mounted, ...
Video: China's ruthless Olympic preparations - 08 July 08 AlJazeeraEnglish
China's athletes feel push for gold in Beijing Games Los Angeles Times
Beijing Sweeps Fake DVDs Off the Streets Before Olympic Games Bloomberg
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CBC.ca

Braves travel to-do list: Score a run, then perhaps win
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 6 hours ago
That’s 26 times in 90 games that Atlanta has scored fewer than three runs in a game. And on the road … oh, it’s much uglier. Over halfway into the season, ...
Dodgers Inside Pitch - July 8, 2008 Rays Digest
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NBC's Olympic Test: Counting All the Games' Viewers
Wall Street Journal - Jul 6, 2008
By SUZANNE VRANICA NBC Universal plans to use its coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games to launch a new system for measuring viewership across an array of ...
NBC Olympics coverage will be pervasive USA Today
NBC Universal touts Olympics coverage Los Angeles Times
Digital delight from Beijing Games (Olympics on your PC) Examiner.com
NewsBlaze - Television Weekall 335 news articles

Washington Post

Patton: Predicting stars of Summer Games
Press-Enterprise, CA - 19 hours ago
One man's early guess at who will be the biggest American newsmakers at the Olympic Games: 10. Cat Osterman, Crystl Bustos and the rest of the softball team ...
After turning pool into fountain of youth, Torres set for Games USA Today
US swimmer looks set for Beijing Games -- at age 41 Canada.com
Olympics-2008: Comeback swim queen: Water doesn't know your age Bangkok Post
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Downloadable Game Review: Diner Dash

Playvue.com Editor's Rating: 8.0StorylineDiner Dash brings us the story of Flo, an office lackey fed up with the monotonous, unchanging pressures of everyday life and work in the big city. Thus she hucks... Read More

Another Title by Atari Released on StarForce Protected DVDs

"Atari has selected StarForce to protect their brand-new game called Race Driver 2", a supervisor from StarForce has stated today."Race Driver 2" is produced by Codemasters and distributed by Atari. It was released... Read More

Free Games For Your Pocket PC

Admit It-You're Often BoredA pocket pc has about a million uses. But one of the most popular uses of a pocket pc is to play games on it. Nearly everyone plays games on... Read More

SMS Gaming - Text Paging Games that can be Played by Anyone

Using the Physical World as a Game Board: This is not a Kinky game! SMS stands for Short Message Service.Just like our last article, this can be fun for teens and adults. You... Read More

Xbox vs. PS2 Game Consoles

There has been a great deal of discussion regarding the two most popular gaming consoles currently on the market: Playstation 2 (PS2) and Xbox. PS2 is a Sony product, while Xbox is owned... Read More

A Comparison Of the Next Generation Gaming Consoles (Part 2)

Arguably Microsoft can attribute a great deal of its success to the hugely successful online capabilities. The new Xbox 360 will continue with the online feature and develop it even further. Xbox 360... Read More

Classic Fragfest: Quake III Arena

As graphics technology improves in leaps and bounds for the next pc generation, more and more gamers expect, and more or less demand, new and innovating concepts to blow their mind. However, there... Read More

Are You A PC Gamer And Want The Best Out Of Your Graphics Card?

IntroductionIn this article you will learn how to get the most out of your graphics card by installing new drivers and tweaking Windows. The guide is based around Windows XP Professional Edition but... Read More

Top 10 Dumbest Game Titles

You may not agree with the order in which they are in, that's personal preference.But you have to agree that these are some pretty stupid game names.1. "This Is Football" Trust me, it... Read More

Virtual Wrapping Paper and E-Gifts- Is There Really An Online Santa?

The internet has proven to be an amazing delivery conduit for words, information, music, pictures and generally anything that can be turned into little 1s and 0s. As we approach the end of... Read More

Popular Electronic Games - They Are Not Just For Kids Anymore

Superheroes battle monsters and space invaders in fast action games. Players take on the role of these superheroes in epic battles. In other games players race cars, boats, motorcycles, helicopters and planes against... Read More

Review - Sony PSP

I'm fairly certain there are folks at Nintendo feeling some serious self-loathing right about now. You see, back in the mid-90's Nintendo contracted Sony to develop a CD-ROM drive for the Super Nintendo.... Read More

Best Space Themed Games - Part I

Space? How much we can place where? Incredible words, unknown planets, fantastic creatures.But now I want to tell you about some space themed computer shareware games, and want you to play it ?... Read More

Games To Encourage Thinking Skills

There is no doubt about it, using computer games is a great way to encourage children to expand their realm of thinking. Your options for entertaining your child may seem numbered. Many people... Read More

Sony PSP

The period of the greatest portable console has finally arrived. Brace yourself for astonishing, gaming quality on a gaming device which is poised to change the way you think about portable devices.Having wireless... Read More

7 Simple Steps to Avoid Being a Newbie in Online Games

It doesn't matter if you are new to online roleplaying games. The road to becoming elite isn't easily traveled. Some will never reach the top of the hill, but you don't have to... Read More

Indie Games that Made It to the Tops of the Charts this Year

1. Platypus http://www.deprice.com/platypus.htmPlatypus is one of the most unique looking games ever created. All of its visuals were created using photographed clay. Help the peaceful land of Mungola defend itself against the attacking... Read More

Halo 2 Multiplayer Tips for Beginners and Advanced players

Here are some general tips from an advanced player for all of you who are looking for an edge in this game. You may know some or all the things in this article... Read More

UAV; Hunter II and RQ-1A Predator UAVs Needs Additional Modifications

Since the Predator has inverted "V" shaped stabilizers these stabilizers should contain wheel pants and wheels underneath to lessen weight and save costs in manufacturing, we need to bring down the costs of... Read More

Play a Cool Jeep Game Online

If there were anything that could excite a Jeep enthusiast more than a 4x4 trail run, it would have to be a Jeep game! Jeep games are as close to the real thing... Read More

Zuma Deluxe Style Games Evolution

As I think most of gamers who play in shareware games know game called Zuma Deluxe. This game was extremly popular some time ago and still popular now. It's now a classic game!Long... Read More

Improving Spelling with Games

You got it! You can do just about any type of learning for a child or an individual learning a second language through the use of various computer games. You are sure to... Read More

Directional Afterburners for Tighter Turns, Vertical Flight and Agility

Directional Thrusters can increase the maneuverability of just about any modern jet fighter.http://www.f-16.net/modules.php?op=modload...artid=56&page=1 .Directional thrusters and thrust vectoring can be used to control flight at slow speeds, Orbitor and Space Shuttle Re-entry and... Read More

The Story Behind OpenSimcity

I've always liked to play SimCity since I was little. I used to play the version for Super Nintendo for hours then and then. That version was really cool. It had 4 seasons... Read More

Codename Revolution - Nintendos Next Generation Gaming System

Over the past year or so plenty of hype, mystery and controversy has been raised over the new Nintendo Console. Systems like the Xbox have taken the lead in gaming with offering capabilities... Read More

A Look at the Sony PlayStation 3

At the recent E3 gaming Convention, Sony gave the world a first look at the new Playstation 3, Sony's contribution to the next generation gaming consoles. Much like the news surrounding the Nintendo... Read More

The Future of Video Games

I've recently been thinking about where video games could be going in the future. I'm hoping to work in the game industry one day after I've finished university study and I've been wondering... Read More

10 Innovative Game Features

Watch yourself struggle, sweat, collapse as you turn your video game console into a personal trainer.Here are ten ways the latest development by Eye-Toy technology is doing away with the couch-potato stigma that's... Read More

Solitaire RULES Half Life DROOLS

It's a popularity contest.Solitaire is hip, cool, and way more popular than Half Life 2. Don't believe me right? Well, the numbers don't lie. According to two of the biggest search tracking tools... Read More

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