Jane McGonigal over at the Huffington Post wrote an interesting article on how gaming can help improve quality of life. In her article, she explains that around 97% of boys and 94% of girls under the age of 18 are regular gamers showing how important gaming is to our lives these days. She goes one step further and makes an attempt to argue that gaming is a way to lead a successful life. While I would tend to agree with her views that gaming is “good for you” in that it is a great form of recreation and a fairly decent social activity, I wouldn’t necessarily believe that it makes people more successful. Regardless, this article is an interesting read and a fresh take on the traditional “OMG gaming kills children” views published in mainstream media.
Activision has cancelled the popular Guitar Hero franchise and has dissolved its dev team. This is due to the declining sales in the music game genre. I think it is a sad day for anyone that enjoys Guitar Hero or Rock Band since it leaves Rock Band as the sole game that has the whole band experience. I’m hoping that they will revive this franchise in a few years and not churn out a new game every year due to market saturation.
Tiger Labs has made a proof of concept DS emulator which is pretty neat! The only thing is that the games run really slow on this emulator. They anticipate to be ready in 2012. Some improvements can be found in making new processors and phones that will be able to keep up with the intensive floating-point calculations that DS games use. Now lets see how long it takes someone to make a 3DS/PSP2 emulator!
Dead Space makes its way to the iPhone and iPad this week, but the surprising thing is that it will not be available for the DS or the PSP. Continue reading
2011 is an exciting year for video games with amazing titles slated for this year like Gears of Wars 3, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Marvel vs Capcom 3 coming out this year. Here are our staff picks for our most anticipated games for the year. Find out what games the staff here are looking forward to this year after the jump!
Pokemon Black and White finally has a release date and will be reaching North American shores on March 6, 2011. As usual there is a whole list of new Pokemon to add to your Pokedex and also a new region to explore.
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