The attention and focus required to control a game with the mind has the benefit of calming the mind, said game designer Jane McGonigal.
The administration and Congress should keep SOPA in mind as a game show trivia answer, but not as a policy solution, as it returns from the conventions and finishes up work this year.
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Nintendo, however, doesn't mind offering a much smaller game library for its handhelds in China, though it remains a mystery as to why the Wii never made it to China as originally promised.
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And in his mind, golf is a game in which a player never arrives.
However, as Android games aren't built with a controller in mind, the experience actually using the controller in-game (we played Dead Trigger) was a bit wonky.
Yeah, one game that comes to mind is a very strange mod, called The Stanley Parable.
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The fact that he was able to do the same for the game in a mere 7 days is mind-boggling.
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With electrodes fixed to his skull, Mr Styffe fixed his mind on game characters, such as a juggler or a Pac-Man-like blob fleeing ghosts in a maze.
Around 12pm EST, I attempted to access my account via the SWTOR web site (not even via the game, mind you, but in a web browser).
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In a game with good combat you really have to use your mind, not just mash buttons.
And as long as the technology works, game players don't really mind plunking down a couple hundred cold ones to get it.
Besides offering historical knowledge to help build the story, Durand also had to keep in mind the game franchise's back story -- a never-ending battle between the Templars and Assassins.
Like a good game of bridge, the condition of being foreign engages the mind constantly without ever tiring it.
Staying in the game will help a company retain a foothold among consumers in terms of mind share and, ultimately, revenue, she says.
Never mind that the Mets had already rallied from a two-run deficit to tie Game 6, thanks in part to a wild pitch by Boston reliever Bob Stanley, who has somehow managed to avoid induction into the goat Hall of Fame in fans' minds.
However, he added that his change of mind did not guarantee he would figure in Nigeria's next game, a 2004 Nations Cup qualifying match against Malawi .
They also said after a game of lunchtime cricket, pupils returned to their classrooms in a calmer state of mind.
I'm not leaving the industry or the news game -- in fact, I've got a few fantasy projects in mind that hopefully you'll be hearing about soon.
Indeed, it plays as though it were built with the Wii U in mind, even if it was merely providence that a console so well-suited to this game should come about.
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"I think no matter what you do you're always going to have Wembley in the back of your mind but we've got the trip to Huddersfield, which is going to be a hard game, " added Flannery.
Experimenting with different loadouts and tweaking supply lines while the carrier moves between islands is a diverting mini-game, and the small number of units at your disposal helps to focus the mind.
Mind you, this was after one regular-season loss, not after an epic meltdown or a playoff game.
When designing a game meant to be played professionally, developers are going to have to start keeping these issues in mind.
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Many crazy things happen at the end of BioShock Infinite, but the final mind-warping sequence is kicked off by a surprise trip to Rapture, the underwater city from the original game.
One major concern is that crowdsourced labor risks creating what Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain has called "digital sweatshops, " where workers who may be underage work long hours on mind-numbing tasks for very little money -- or, if the work is structured as a game, for no money at all.
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