In comparing computer-game use with another activity, he said he chose crosswords because many older people enjoy the puzzles and the general perception is that they keep the brain and mind active and engaged.
If what you're good at has no social value, like playing Nintendo, you might want to get a job at a computer-game store, or you might want to take a course in designing computer games.
This October, Richard Garriott, a computer-game developer and son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is scheduled to become Space Adventures' sixth client to leave the planet followed by a seventh yet-to-be identified passenger next April.
For years the Army's annual computer-simulated war game has focused on fighting a major war.
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"'Ultima IV' is the game that all modern (role-playing games) flow from, but it's also kind of the impossible platonic ideal of a (computer role-playing game), " said retro-gamer Ben Lesnick, 31, of Washington.
It's not clear if another company has the shoot-'em-up computer game rights, or the merchandising of Craig Whyte cuddly toys.
The exhibit takes the form of a multi-player computer game in which visitors are invited to explore a particular subject, such as the possibility of male pregnancy.
Each participant was told that he or she would compete against an unseen opponent in a 25-trial computer game in which the object was to be the first to respond to a visual cue on the computer screen.
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Rather than trying to take virtual characters (and as great as even the new PS4 graphics look, game characters are still virtual) and turn them into live action actors, Wreck-It Ralph keeps these game characters within their computer-generated world.
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She knows how hard it is to raise children in a culture where every time they're out of your sight, they're tuning into a multibillion-dollar music, computer game, Internet and film empire that promulgates messages frequently at odds with small-town American values.
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But above all, what Nintendo has learned from its research over the past few decades -- and what television makers and rival game companies like Sony Computer Entertainment are learning -- is that 3-D plus glasses is a losing formula, Nintendo executives said.
"The GD300 is a game-changing computer that will save lives, " said Mike DiBiase, vice president of Computing Technologies for General Dynamics C4 Systems.
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And no matter what the Cell does to the broader computer-industry landscape, the virtual game-vistas it will conjure up are certain to look fantastic.
Although Munoz describes getting e-mail permission from parents to enter their kids in computer game contests as "no big deal, " he fears that tech-savvy kids may find ways to skirt the guidelines.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America released its last multi-platform game, NBA 09: The Inside, in 2008.
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Meier said there are many concepts that work really well in a computer game, like fog of war -- not being able to see all the pieces on the board until your units are within range of enemy units.
Think of John Cage, with his four-hour computer-aided blizzard of riffs on the musical dice game attributed to Mozart.
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"This new development stage product will allow users to take full-advantage of their large high-definition TV displays for an amazing computer game experience, " he added.
First, the ESRB, which is a non-profit self-regulatory body, independently rates every computer and video game on store shelves.
Lewis, a longtime player of videogames and Dungeons and Dragons, the forerunner paper-and-pen role-playing game, graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993.
Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
The game was spreading beyond basements, particularly influencing the nascent computer-games industry.
It s a simple idea but one with major repercussions: Nintendo s Wii U game console features a touch-sensitive controller rather like a tablet computer.
To get around the always-on requirement, some players have tinkered with the game's computer code to trick it into thinking it is connected when it is being played offline.
The country is home to some of the industry's best-known game designers such as Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Konami Computer Entertainment's Hideo Kojima, designer of the Metal Gear Solid games.
Fox Interactive, after issuing "cease and desist" letters to the makers of the unofficial Aliens Quake mod and later releasing the official Aliens Online computer game, is gearing up for the release of the new franchise love-child: Aliens vs.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
It actually comes pre-programmed with a game controller script, so you can plug it into your computer and start playing as soon as you open the box (requires the free Super Tux Cart videogame).
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And I was an interactive champion on the 2000 Fox Family game "Paranoia, " winning a top-of-the-line desktop computer with camera.
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