One video game has to essentially be worth 5 or 6 movie tickets to the person purchasing it.
Especially for Kingrey, who actually made more money playing one video game than Halladay does for pitching a game in the Bigs.
G4 was a channel that had one or two video game themed shows (X-Play, AOTS sometimes) but was mostly a lot of reruns of Cops and Cheaters.
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One of those is video game audio, which is among the fastest-growing areas of employment for musicians.
In just one day, the video game developer has nearly funded its RPG.
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But the text-based classic was one of my first video game experiences.
When done properly downloadable content can add a great deal of value to games, but locked on-disc content and day-one DLC can hurt video game brands.
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Dredd was written by Alex Garland, who had previously written one of my favorite video game screenplays, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, as well as the zombie apocalypse movie, 28 Days Later.
One particular vision of the video game industry is changing quickly, and Gamestop is going to have a rough time with it.
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Will Wright is one of the most accomplished video game developers in the business, maker of the blockbuster Sims franchise, and founder of development company Maxis (now part of gaming giant Electronic Arts).
Maintaining this number one position will be harder this year though, with Disney Infinity offering a similar toy-meets-video-game experience, and one that can leverage the family favorite Disney characters.
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That bust of Duke may be one of the best bits of video game swag ever.
In just a couple of years it has grown into one of the most significant video-game series for family gamers.
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And we think that one of the advantages of the video game industry and particularly Nintendo is that they own their software .
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And any developer that gives me hundreds of hours of gameplay, some of the best combat ever included in a video game, and one of the most interesting fantasy worlds of any RPG out there, can yes please take my money.
Sony has closed one of the UK's oldest video game studios following a review of its operations.
Bethesda remains one of the best examples of a video game company that understands the importance of facilitating the modding community.
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Wreck-It Ralph manages to celebrate the video game culture without focusing on one particular game that everyone already has played.
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With one button, you can broadcast video of your game play so friends can "look over your shoulder virtually, " said David Perry, co-founder of the Sony-owned Internet game company Gaikai.
Finally some good news in one of the strangest, and most horrifying, video game stories of 2012.
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There are four short chapters to this video game, and with each passing one, the kingdom comes more into focus.
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With the world focused on the video game business at E3 2012, one market that continues to grow, despite persisting problems with piracy, is China.
Apologizing to no one, Duke Nukem Forever is the high-octane video game equivalent of a Hollywood summer blockbuster.
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On the one hand, it represents a possible sea change in the video game industry.
When it comes to video game-based comics and art books, one publisher stands out above and beyond: Dark Horse.
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Journey is the video game equivalent of a short story, and one of the most surprisingly powerful little games of 2012.
Considering the success that Walt Disney Animation Studios is having with the video game homage, Wreck-It Ralph, one could see those characters becoming part of Disney rides and attractions down the line.
Both consoles occupied the exact same space in the video game scene, and often felt like copies of one another.
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It was an astonishing triumph of human visual-spatial reasoning, and one of the first major scientific advances to come from playing a video game (though plenty of software engineers I know would argue that video games activate much more creativity than we care to acknowledge).
In other words, a video game will generate more than half as much revenue in one week as the entire mobile division will in one year.
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