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April 2008

Link between online gaming and violence killed off (OTHER)

People who play violent games online actually feel more relaxed and less angry after they have played. This is the finding of Miss Jane Barnett and her colleagues at Middlesex University. Their results will be presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference in Dublin today, Wednesday 2 April 2008. The psychologists recruited 292 male …

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SIERRA ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE CONSPIRACY WORLDWIDE DEBUT IN JUNE 2008

Sierra Entertainment today announced that the Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy? video game will street in Europe on the 27th June, 2008 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360? video game and entertainment system and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The game brings Jason Bourne’s signature combat style to life by sharply blending a seamless mix of hand-to-hand …

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Red Stone Selected As A WCG Official Tournament Game (PC)

K2 Network (www.k2network.net), a worldwide publisher of online games, in cooperation with Samsung Electronics, announces today that Red Stone was selected as the only MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) for the World Cyber Games 2008(WCG).       Red Stone is unique 2D fantasy MMORPG with an amazing and compelling story.Players may choose from eight character classes, …

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SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT TO AWARD UP TO $10,000 SCHOLARSHIP TO HELP GIRLS GET THEIR GAME ON (OTHER)

Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition scholarship of up to $10,000 designed to educate and recruit more women into the field of video game production and design. Sponsored by Sony Online Entertainment LLC. (SOE) a global leader in online gaming, applications and complete rules for entry are available online …

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POSTAL’s Legendary “Cat Silencer” Enters US Army’s Arsenal (Now what was the date again?)

The growing link between the military establishment and videogame developers just got a little tighter as one of the most controversial implements in the POSTAL game series arsenal?the ?Cat Silencer??is now part of real world, cutting edge weapons technology. The ?Cat Silencer? device that Uwe Boll spent a fortune to develop as a special effect …

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