After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists to come and cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang.
On the other hand, the browser-based Quick Hit evolved from a more recent branch in gaming evolution, utilizing business models pioneered by Facebook games like FarmVille and mass-multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft.
Not everyone is actually all that enthralled by linear cinematic games like Uncharted 3 or heavily story-driven games like Mass Effect.
While Americans blame video games for mass shootings like Sandy Hook, Israel is quietly doing what we should be doing: tightening requirements for gun ownership.
There could even be an entirely different England line-up in the second period, with Eriksson defending his policy against protest that mass replacements turn friendly games into farce.
Though touting the ability to run current-gen games like Mass Effect 3 and Arkham City is well and good, will they be able to do the same with the sequels to those titles in a year or two?
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This has meant that Game has not been able to stock some of the biggest-selling games, including Mass Effect 3.
The real question will be whether or not the hardware can reach the critical mass required to make these games worth it in 2013.
Law enforcement officials have said Lanza showed an interest in other mass killings and played violent video games.
Gay gaymers have more choices than ever when it comes to playing videogames their way, what with options to have homosexual relationships in many Bethesda (Skyrim) and BioWare (Mass Effect II and III) games.
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"With the installed base of Android and Tegra already at critical mass, developers looking to have their games stand out have the promise of financial reward to invest in high-end content, not to mention the hardware processing that can power next-generation games, " Iida said.
"We don't believe that violent video games are the singular cause of mass shootings, " Tracey and Andrew Hyams wrote.
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Often an additional mass is held ahead of particularly important international games or tournaments when French honour is at stake.
Cage would clearly like his games to have the kind of mass appeal, and cultural weight that we give to film.
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Olofsson-Zidek, who won gold in the mass-start event in the 2006 Turin Games, crossed the line in sixth place but was subsequently moved up to fourth in the standings.
Not that those types of games are any more a motivating factor in mass murder.
The new Mass Effect Trilogy trailer shows off each of the three games coming to PC and consoles as a package deal.
The same is true for lots of games and especially those with loyal followings like Mass Effect and Dark Souls and and the big shooters with their outrageous map-packs.
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The trick is to achieve a critical mass of developers under your roof, so even if games companies go under, new ones will arise and take root in your soil.
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Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit, used by many fans to travel to games, and told people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay inside as the hunt for Suspect No. 2 went on.
Our socially toxic culture promotes paranoia, desensitization to violence, almost unlimited access to lethal weapons, opportunities to practice mass murder via realistic "point and shoot" video games and games that justify violence as a legitimate form of vengeance in pursuit of an individual's or group's idea of justice.
Since the release of Mass Effect until this day, I have been playing the games, it has become part of my life.
Meanwhile, police revealed that they had seized Kretschmer's computer, where they found "games that are typical for someone carrying out a mass shooting".
My primary quarrel with the NRA on violent video games is simply this: violent video games are everywhere but the only place where regular mass shootings occur (at schools, theaters, etc.) is the United States.
But at home, the politician a devout Catholic who attended Mass every day became a symbol of Machiavellian power games, with deep contacts in the heart of the Catholic Church, Italy's secretive power-wielding lobbies and, according to critics, the country's criminal underworld.
The free games, available as digital downloads, include recent releases Mass Effect 3, Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled 3.
Previous games like 2K's Bioshock and EA's Mass Effect have also been criticised for employing stringent DRM techniques, allowing only a limited number of installs.
Mass Effect was a mediocre third person shooter at best across all three games.
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With a year to go before the 2014 Winter Games, much of the Black Sea city is still a mass of scaffolding.
Whether you are a brand, an entrepreneur or an individual who wants to change the world, new video games are teaching the very basics of how to spark a mass movement or what I like to call a Cultural Movement.
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