Amazon announces its first game for new Game Studios
News from Computerandvideogames.com: By Christine Caruana for CVG Australia The e-retail giant Amazon has been hard at work tapping into the games market, with the launches of GameCircle and...
View ArticleOrioles fans savor surprising success, prepare for first playoff game in 15...
News from Carroll County Times: Justin McKemy arrived at Carroll Community College in Westminster Thursday wearing a black and orange Baltimore Orioles baseball cap. “Yeah,” he said, “I’ve been wearing...
View ArticleMinecraft creator outs first video of new game ’0x10c’
News from Computerandvideogames.com: By Mike Jackson for CVG UK Markus ‘Notch’ Persson – creator of the insanely popular game Minecraft – has released the first footage of his new game, oddly titled...
View ArticleGame on! First hit computer game Pong turns 40
News from Fox News: Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29,...
View ArticleNorth Korea releases first computer game
News from Register: Vid Just popped a Wii U under the tree? You poor, poor fool: this Christmas your kids won’t clamour for Nintendo’s latest, the thumb candy they really want is “Pyongyang Racer”, the...
View ArticleKemba Walker: Charlotte Bobcats’ first option with game on line
News from Charlotte Observer: The point guard has the ball after practice and the basket is in front of him. A teammate yells; a challenge maybe. So Kemba Walker soars for the dunk. Four inches higher...
View ArticleMobile BayBears’ Peralta promoted to Diamondbacks, gets two hits in first game
News from al.com: Jackson Generals vs. Mobile BayBears Mobile BayBears’ player David Peralta, pictured here from a game earlier this season, has been promoted to the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he...
View Article‘The real world sucked’: The first multiplayer computer game was invented as a …
News from Raw Story: In 1979, in a computer lab at Essex University, two brilliant young students invented the future of video games. Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle were the creators of the Multi-User...
View ArticleThe Odd History of the First Erotic Computer Game
News from The Atlantic: Released in 1981, Softporn was controversial, cheesy, and earnest to a fault. It also presaged today’s ongoing debates about who computers and games are for. Softporn box cover...
View ArticleFor the first time, sensors and a computer play umpire in a pro baseball game
News from Ars Technica: Eric Brynes watches the pitch monitor on a screen from behind home plate. Cyrus Farivar Further Reading SAN RAFAEL, Calif.—It turns out 21st century baseball with a computer...
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