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Date: Tue, 29. November 2011 06:32:43

Not all this holiday's video games are about big explosions and even bigger body counts. We take a look at some of the games that would make great gifts for those who appreciate the arts ... and those who appreciate video games as an art form.

Date: Tue, 22. July 2008 18:12:50

Gov. David Paterson signed a law Tuesday that he said will lead to restrictions on video game violence and help families better monitor grisly games.

Date: Wed, 6. January 2010 15:05:31

Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/06/0456202/EA-Shutting-Down-Video-Game-Servers-Prematurely?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/06/0456202"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/06/0456202/EA-Shutting-Down-Video-Game-Servers-Prematurely?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KB-ClT7eKST0M7_wUJz4P96nfkM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KB-ClT7eKST0M7_wUJz4P96nfkM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KB-ClT7eKST0M7_wUJz4P96nfkM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KB-ClT7eKST0M7_wUJz4P96nfkM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/50RoWMHaV10" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 12. January 2010 15:05:20

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Develop: "The average development budget for a multiplatform next-gen game is $18-$28 million, according to new data. A study by entertainment analyst group M2 Research also puts development costs for single-platform projects at an average of $10 million. The figures themselves may not be too surprising, with high-profile games often breaking the $40 million barrier. Polyphony's Gran Turismo 5 budget is said to be hovering around the $60 million mark, while Modern Warfare 2's budget was said to be as high as $50 million."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/12/071215/Average-Budget-For-Major-Multi-platform-Games-Is-18-28-Million?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/12/071215"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/12/071215/Average-Budget-For-Major-Multi-platform-Games-Is-18-28-Million?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-CnACNltd_-zWQrAtppIw3-ysVo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-CnACNltd_-zWQrAtppIw3-ysVo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-CnACNltd_-zWQrAtppIw3-ysVo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-CnACNltd_-zWQrAtppIw3-ysVo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UwbvgedmKXw" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 22. July 2010 03:15:12

mjn writes "Game designer and academic Ian Bogost announces Cow Clicker, a Facebook game implementing the mechanics of the Facebook-games genre stripped to their core. You get a cow, which you can click on every six hours. You earn additional clicks if your friends in your pasture also click. You can buy premium cows with 'mooney,' and also use your mooney to buy more clicks. You can buy mooney with real dollars, or earn some free bonus mooney if you spam up your feed with Cow Clicker activity. A satire of Facebook games, but actually as genuine a game as the non-satirical games are. And people actually play it, perhaps confirming Bogost's view that the genre of games is largely just 'brain hacks that exploit human psychology in order to make money,' which continue to work even when the users are openly told what's going on."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F21%2F2029213%2FCow-Clicker-Boils-Down-Facebook-Games" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cow+Clicker+Boils+Down+Facebook+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaG4vja" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/21/2029213/emCow-Clickerem-Boils-Down-Facebook-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1727600amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VYin2uOow-A-HoAKk87ab-bKYxI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VYin2uOow-A-HoAKk87ab-bKYxI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VYin2uOow-A-HoAKk87ab-bKYxI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VYin2uOow-A-HoAKk87ab-bKYxI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/nNOmpgl_FR8" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 24. March 2011 23:17:42

AP - The bitter financial dispute over the London Games escalated Thursday when organizers excluded the top two leaders of the British Olympic Association from 2012 board meetings.

Date: Tue, 31. March 2009 15:05:16

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the proliferation of free or low-cost games on the Web and for phones limits how high the major game publishers can set prices, so makers are sometimes unable to charge enough to cover the cost of producing titles. The cost of making a game for the previous generation of machines was about $10 million, not including marketing. The cost of a game for the latest consoles is over twice that mdash; $25 million is typical, and it can be much more. Reggie Fils-Aime, chief marketing officer for Nintendo of America, says publishers of games for its Wii console need to sell one million units of a game to turn a profit, but the majority of games, analysts said, sell no more than 150,000 copies. Developers would like to raise prices to cover development costs, but Mike McGarvey, former chief executive of Eidos and now an executive with OnLive, says that consumers have been looking at console games and saying, 'This is too expensive and there are too many choices.' Since makers cannot charge enough or sell enough games to cover the cost of producing most titles, video game makers have to hope for a blockbuster. 'The model as it exists is dying,' says McGarvey." As we discussed recently, OnLive is trying to change that by moving a big portion of the hardware requirements to the cloud. Of course, many doubt that such a task can be accomplished in a way that doesn't severely degrade gameplay, but it now appears that Sony is working on something similar as well.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/0015225amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/31/0015225"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/0015225amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHvC419z3XCV_wAADo9PWIRLdBY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHvC419z3XCV_wAADo9PWIRLdBY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Bo6_UKDTuSM" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 16. December 2008 15:05:46

Lumpy writes "I am giving several new PC's to a local charity that will be giving them to needy kids this Xmas. They are not powerful, basically baseline Dells that have Intel graphics and Celeron, but more than enough to do homework and other studies on. They are going out with XP on them, an Ubuntu CD, and a bunch of OSS software like OO.o and the others. I would like to include some games for the kids. Strategy, fun, etc. Great freeware games that are fun to play. What would be the best games that a 13-16 year old will like to play that are free and legal to give away, and will run on this lower-end hardware?"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1933218amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/15/1933218"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1933218amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uo7iFNys2t1lzTzArJi1kQw0zmE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uo7iFNys2t1lzTzArJi1kQw0zmE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/P4FT3hyGRP4" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sat, 31. October 2009 15:05:39

negRo_slim writes "Who knew the N-Gage was still kicking? Well apparently it still is mdash; however, it looks like 2010 will be the end. From the announcement: 'While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will remain in operation throughout 2010, the Ovi Store will be the new central place for all the mobile games that Nokia and other publishers offer from this point forward. We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2040230/Nokias-N-Gage-Service-To-End-After-2010?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/30/2040230"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2040230/Nokias-N-Gage-Service-To-End-After-2010?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t0u8CbCFQH3p1-8lXcikkcTSURY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t0u8CbCFQH3p1-8lXcikkcTSURY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t0u8CbCFQH3p1-8lXcikkcTSURY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t0u8CbCFQH3p1-8lXcikkcTSURY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/2oErOBDXx9A" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 20. April 2010 18:45:04

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