But the groups who played the computer game showed a clear improvement compared with the normal loss of cognitive function as people age.
Baker is the new CEO of Playfirst, recruited in 2009 to bring her expertise in branding for women to the computer game company.
John Carmack, the guy who wrote the Doom computer game is now designing rockets in Texas.
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.
And while the crew at Firaxis is busy working on the next computer strategy game, traditional board strategy games have been making a revival as well.
The computer and video game industry employs more than 120, 000 people, a figure that will grow, said Rich Taylor, a spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association, a trade association.
In a step beyond the virtual pet Tamagotchi, computer simulations like the PlayStation game Tokimeki Memorial provide the lovelorn with the experience of dating a girl.
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The company has just launched a general election computer game that gives the people the chance to show party politicians how it should be done.
Though the display resembles a primitive computer game in its blockiness, Dexter Turner, the president of Op Technologies, a rival firm that is developing a similar system, points out that this is quite adequate.
It's not clear if another company has the shoot-'em-up computer game rights, or the merchandising of Craig Whyte cuddly toys.
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.
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.
It was one of the first times in computer game history where gamers could simply connect to their ISP, start a game and choose to play via the Internet from the multiplayer option screen.
The new title is based off "Ultima IV, " a computer game dating all the way to 1985.
The game is also credited with inspiring a whole generation of game designers, just as the computer revolution took root.
Recognized as the undisputed industry leader, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. markets the PlayStation family of products and develops, publishes, markets and distributes software for the PS one game console, the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, PLAYSTATION 3 and the PSP system for the North American market.
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Many adults will find the special features easier to navigate than the first Harry Potter DVD, though children would no doubt have been thrilled by computer game style of the first DVD.
One of the steepest challenges for computer animators and game developers is crafting realistic human characters without dropping their audience off the proverbial cliff of the uncanny valley.
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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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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.
But there were eight or nine other Harvard students on the plane, and one of them was able to stream the basketball game on his computer.
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.
When he found that he couldn't modify a screenshot from the Nintendo Wii videogame Super Smash Brothers to his computer, he spent hours deciphering the game's code and later worked on other Wii hacks.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
Because in the world I was in, building computer systems, determinism was the name of the game.
One of the common complaints within the game industry is that not enough women study computer science, and thus the recruiting pool is simply not there, making it impossible to have more than a few female developers to every herd of men.
There are times where they would rather be watching TV or playing a computer game than hitting the books.
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The game will substitute a computer opponent for the dropped human player.
"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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