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How To Electrify Your Brain To Be Smarter With a 9-Volt Battery [Science]
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Transcranial direct current stimulation can make your brain work better. DARPA proved it can make you better at video games, the U.S. Air Force has shown it cuts drone remote-pilot training in half, and Harvard researchers have used it to treat depression. So what is this magical device that...
Game suspends shares from trading
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Shares in the video games retailer Game Group have been suspended from trading after the firm said it considered there was no equity value left in the group....
Auraslate Is An Open Source Android Tablet For Hackers
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If you’re sick of firmware lockdowns and failed reflashings on your other Android tablets, the Auraslate may be for you. It’s basically an Ice Cream Sandwich-compatible tablet built from the ground up for hax0rz and programmers alike. There are two models – the 7-inch 726B and the 10-inch 1026 –...
Row in US over gay EA characters
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Christian groups claim gay characters in Electronic Arts' video games are a bad influence on children....
Andy Murray on Virtua Tennis: 'They've got me down to a T' - video interview
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Tennis star Andy Murray talks video games, sibling rivalry and his starring role in Virtua Tennis on the PS VitaElliot SmithRichard Sprenger...
How Grand Theft Auto changed video games (and the world)
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With "Jacked," veteran video games journalist David Kushner explains how the Grand Theft Auto franchise helped usher in a new generation of games and set the tone for a decade. [Read more]...
Amazon Now Lets You Trade In Your Old CDs In Exchange For Gift Cards
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Online retailer Amazon is extending its Trade-In Program today to also cover CDs – you know, those round, shiny things collecting dust in the back of your closet? Starting now, customers can send in their old CDs to Amazon in exchange for Amazon.com Gift Cards, which can then used to...
VIDEO: 'Touchless surgery' put to the test
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Touchless technology similar to that used in video games, is being tested by surgeons to help them carry out delicate keyhole surgery....
Samsung signs cloud gaming deal
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Samsung is to offer video games designed for consoles on its smart TV platform through a tie-up with cloud tech firm Gaikai....
UK retailer GAME enters administration
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Troubled British high street retailer GAME announced its plans to enter administration today. The company has been struggling for months, following layoffs, store closings, rumored acquisitions, and several issues stocking the latest blockbuster games. The problems resulted in a 15 percent stock price drop in February after a leaked...
UK top 20 video games chart, week ending 4 February
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No, it's not a fantasy ... Fifa 12 has been dethroned (and relegated to 4th place) by none other than Final Fantasy XIII-2UKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesXboxPS3PlayStationWii3DSDSHandheldPCguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject...
Smithsonian's super squeaky clean meteorite lab makes your room look like a pig sty (video)
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If you think you're a clean freak, then you obviously haven't been to the Smithsonian Antarctic meteorite storage facility. See, when it isn't kicking up the video-games-as-art debate or showing off our future overlords, the Smithsonian also dabbles in the study of fallen rocks from space. So just exactly...
Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
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Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and an influential figure in the early days of personal computing and video games, passes away Sunday at the age of 83. [Read more]...
YouTube Heavyweight Machinima Gets a Grownup With Gamer Cred
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Machinima is a YouTube powerhouse that specializes in videos about video games and the dudes that play them. Good fit for Nanea Reeves, the company’s new chief operating officer. Reeves comes to Machinima after years in the games business, most notably at Electronic Arts and Jamdat, the mobile games company EA...
Good Deal: 'The 7th Guest' on iOS is free for today only
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Classic horror adventure The 7th Guest is free to download on iOS just for today. First released in 1993 by Virgin Interactive, the title pioneered the use of CD-ROM drives in video games with lengthy, pre-rendered video sequences driving the story. That's a dubious legacy, to be sure, but...
Ars at the Museum: The Art of Video Games at the Smithsonian
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This probably isn't news to anyone reading Ars Technica, but video gaming, once a niche pursuit, is now completely in the mainstream. What better recognition of that fact than an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, here in Washington, DC. As Ars' local correspondent and sometime museum reviewer,...
Fable creator Peter Molyneux departs Lionhead Studios and Microsoft for 22 Cans
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Peter Molyneux, known for his work on Fable and Dungeon Keeper, has announced he is leaving Microsoft and Lionhead Studios to join 22 Cans, a brand new company. Kotaku first reported on Molyneux's plans today, noting that he will continue to be involved as a creative consultant for the...
Google enters the content business: Machinima closes $35M round from the search giant
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Machinima has raised a fat $35 round of funding led by search engine giant Google, the company confirmed yesterday. News of Machinima’s new funding first surfaced earlier this month. Google’s involvement marks the first time the company has spent money on the production of video. Previously, it had focused...
NVIDIA virtualizes the GPU for streamed desktops and cloud gaming
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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiling next-generation GPUs. NVIDIA NVIDIA this week unveiled an ambitious plan to solidify the GPU's place in high-performance computing, while bringing the blazingly fast graphics processing units to the worlds of virtualized desktops and streaming video games. NVIDIA has tripled the performance-per-watt of its HPC-focused...
'The Art of Video Games:' still in beta
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Hordes of young school children march up the steps to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC on a cloudless Friday morning. As they run around yelling and chasing one another, the security guard on duty echoes Ecclesiastes using only his eyes: there’s nothing new under the sun,...
TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast: Live From E3
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We went. We saw. We gamed. As we discuss in the video here, E3 was strange this year. Sony focused on just new games. Microsoft is jamming the Kinect down gamers’ throats. Nintendo finally unveiled the final Wii U hardware but then announced a series of Wii U mini-games...
UK top 20 video games chart, week ending 7 April 2012
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Kinect Star Wars has used the power of the Force to dominate the chart this weekUKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesXboxPS3WiiPlayStationHandheld3DSguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More...
Redbox surpasses two billion discs rented, celebrates by offering a free rental on March 8th
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Who says disc-based media is dead? Certainly not Redbox — the company just announced that it has rented its two billionth disc from one of its 35,000-plus kiosks located around the country. This comes only a year and a half since Redbox rented its one billionth disc, back in...
This behind-the-scenes look at the next Transformers game will turn anyone into a gamer [video]
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We tend to play some video games here at The Next Web. We also dig robots quite a bit. Put those two together and this video blew our minds. The upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will include one of my favorite Transformer characters, the Dinobots....
UK top 20 video games chart, week ending 25 February
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Sony's new PS Vita console makes its presence felt with the top two places on the chart this week – Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Fifa FootballUKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesPS VitaPlayStationPS3XboxHandheldWiiDS3DSguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of...
Games age rating rules changed
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The rating system used to warn parents about unsuitable content in video games is to be simplified, the government says...
Valve Linux video games attacked
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A leading PC-user rights campaigner voices concern about video games developer Valve's move to sell Linux-based versions of its products....
Nobody knows exactly when 'Super Mario Bros.' was released
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Super Mario Bros. is one of the most renowned, acclaimed and influential video games of all time — and no-one knows for sure when it was released in the US. That's the unbelievable takeaway from a Gamasutra feature in which Frank Cifaldi attempted to prove once and for all...
Ron Paul upgrading from presidential candidate to video game superhero
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Congressman Ron Paul's chances of becoming the GOP presidential nominee have pretty much evaporated, but that's not to say his message of fiscal responsibility hasn't struck a chord with voters. The Texas representative has long been an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve System, and now a loyal Libertarian...
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