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In Real Life

Reaching For The Brass Ring On NCAA Football 12′s Coaching Carousel

Ben Haumiller’s got a job for me. Several jobs, actually, but they’re all in NCAA Football 12‘s new career mode, the “Coaching Carousel.” Haumiller, the game’s producer, explains it all using an offensive coordinator named Owen O’Cain as an example. Who the hell is Owen O’Cain?

May 15, 2011
In Real Life

A Walk-On Who Made The Team Wants You To Know What It Really Means

Alex Howell was the only freshman in the tunnel that Saturday, his chinstrap so tight it fused his jaw shut, 89,000 people packed into to the last row at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium. Earlier in the week the graduate assistant tapped Howell on the shoulder and asked if he’d like to dress for the game against Mississippi State. Howell doesn’t remember the exact words he said, other than it was an emphatic affirmative. So here he was.

March 11, 2011
In Real Life

Games Help Soldiers Manage Combat Nightmares

Research that last year suggested gamers had the ability to control their dreams – or fight back in nightmares – has been applied to soldiers who have seen combat duty, and finds that those who game have fewer and less intense nightmares about war.

PlayStation

Movie-Goers Don’t Deserve An Uncharted Movie

There was a time when video game developers seemed to be seeking approval from a wider, more mainstream audience.

March 10, 2011
Uncategorized

Dutch Court Orders PS3 Seizures — Including Those In Homes

Several thousand more PlayStation 3s were seized by Dutch customs officials on the eve of Sony’s courtoom showdown with Korea-based LG, whose allegations of patent infringement have effectively halted the distribution of consoles across Europe the past 10 days.

February 3, 2011
In Real Life

Predicting The Super Bowl Winner — With NFL 2K5

Madden NFL 11 called Sunday’s big game for the Steelers. There’s still a robust roster-editing culture for the exiled, six-year-old NFL 2K5. Using current rosters, one devotee offered his own prediction for Super Bowl XLV.

January 27, 2011
In Real Life

Are Games Art? Well, They Now Belong In A Museum …

More than 300 exhibits comprise Computerspielemuseum, The Computer Game Museum, which opened Friday in Berlin. New consoles join old friends like Pong, plus what looks like a 1980s Imagic game manipulated by a giant joystick. More images inside.

December 13, 2010
News

Red Dead Redemption Cleans Up At The VGAs

To keep the show to two hours, they didn’t hand out all the hardware on stage at last night’s 2010 Video Game Awards. Here is the complete list of honorees. Neil Patrick Harris’ compensation was limited to just one award.

September 14, 2010
News

Rookie NFLer Asks For Slight Ratings Adjustment

Ndamukong Suh, the first-round draft choice of the Detroit Lions, traces his video games bonafides to from Tecmo Bowl to Modern Warfare. In light of that pedgree, the lineman thinks he should get a Madden agility rating of “one million.”

July 1, 2010
In Real Life

Did Buying Your Gaming Console Help Fund War Atrocities In The Congo?

Do you own a video game console? Then you might have more to do with the bloody, brutal war in the Congo then you realise.

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