How could a game about controlling a little white ball be so relevant?
This is no surprise: I wrote earlier about how Kinect is not a game system only, but a broader entertainment play to gain traction among mainstream consumers.
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It becomes a game about how to achieve your goals and still be liked.
Now, how about making Draw Something into a board game where you actually have a to use a pen and paper to illustrate words?
"You need to be smart about how you spend money for a game like this, " said David Harris, Iowa State's senior associate athletic director for student services.
Around two years ago I wrote about how brain enhancing technologies were inevitable from a game theoretic point of view.
Hample, who wrote a how-to book about snagging big league baseballs, said he caught two home runs at a game for the second time after accomplishing the feat at Baltimore's Camden Yards on drives by Seattle's Michael Saunders and the Orioles' Corey Patterson on May 13, 2010.
How about this for a suggestion for whoever loses the next game of tennis-football?
But Bayern's smearing of Barcelona in the semifinal now has the sport buzzing about how the next champions will advance the game, a cause sometimes considered more important than actually winning.
You can read the whole backstory about Tacit here: How Trying to Make a Video Game Created Sonar for the Blind.
This is partly because yes, a new installment in a video game or film franchise really does impact how we feel about the former titles.
He talked with CNN about what the recognition means to him, how tough it is to throw a perfect game, and whom he would take if he played in the challenge.
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Retail pricing is very much part of game theory and seeing this in the raw, rather than in simulated experiments, could be a very useful data set to mine to work out more about how such game theory applies in the real world.
But the news about Noah was a bit of a surprise considering how upbeat he sounded after Wednesday's game against Washington.
But in a post-Farmville age, how much change can an online game bring about?
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What is it about how we emotionally reacted that either helped us win or threw us off of our A-game?
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Well aware of this obsession with measurement and velocity, young pitchers and their coaches began about 15 years ago to approach the game with a singular goal: figuring out how to throw the ball as hard as they can.
Before Sunday's game, San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich joked about how much he enjoyed crushing Carlesimo, a former assistant of his.
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"It's about the passion and love for the game which is instilled at a young age, not how someone is perceived to others if they play polo, " Pieres said.
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