Tag: VIDEOGAME

When Fort Gay, West Virginia resident and 26-year-old gamer Josh Moore created an Xbox Live profile, he naturally listed his location as "fort gay WV." The ever-vigilant enforcement team from Xbox Live, however, recently suspended Moore from the gaming platform, due to what they believed to be a fictitious -- and inappropriately named -- town. As the AP reports, Moore pleaded with security ...

You have to wonder. Is there any heroic act taking place in the world that won't soon be turned into a tasteless, online, Flash-based game? We saw it most recently with the Hudson River landing, the real-life pilot's challenge-of-a-lifetime turned into a game so simple a monkey could play. Now, it's the story of Captain Phillips, the US hero who stood up to Somalian pirates recently, that's ...

The Gaming-Age forums (GAF), known around the Web as a haunt for rather savvy game-culture aficionados, is playing host to one of its best 'what-if' roundups yet: the GAF Collection of video games. The GAF Collection roundup asked users to contribute reimagined video game box art in the style of the Criterion Collection, the well-regarded, if slightly highbrow, distributor of classic and modern ...

There's nothing new about companies using clever and sometimes fun online games to promote their products. (Who hasn't seen one of those mini-golf games from the Orbitz travel site?) But when Pfizer decided to get its game on with a Viagra adventure, the Food and Drug Administration stepped in with a little reprimand, forcing the drug maker to pull the ad since it didn't warn of potential ...

Whoa, boy. Talk about causing an uproar. Rare, the development studio behind the forthcoming video game 'Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts,' has decided to move forward with the game without fixing a glaring textual issue when playing on an standard-definition television (SDTV). Essentially, the text in the game -- of which there a lot -- is darn near illegible on standard-def televisions. When ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/07/08/drinking-game-inspiration-for-kids-video-game/'; Let's say you're designing a video game for kids. You want it to be fun. You want it to be challenging. You want it to include... beer? Yes, that's right. A Las Vegas-based video game maker has created a new title for the Wii gaming system based on the popular bar and frat house basement game ...

Are you a fan of 'World of Warcraft' but wish it was a little bit cuter? Then check out 'Hello Kitty Online.' That's right, the ambassador of all things cute and Japanese is getting her own Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or MMORPG. Currently the online world is in a "closed beta testing phase", meaning it's not yet open to the public, but it should be officially opened very ...

While we suggest getting real first aid and CPR training, a story out of Nebraska caught our eye. An avid player whose favorite game, 'America's Army,' has a whole first aid and triage-learning sequence, actually put his in-game skills to use at the scene of a real-life car accident late last year. Coming upon a flipped over SUV, one Paxton Galvanek correctly assessed the injured driver, began ...

'Guitar Hero' may be fun and cool, but one thing it certainly can't do is teach you how to actually play guitar. In fact, the connection between playing 'Guitar Hero' and actually playing guitar is tenuous at best. Just ask Slash. That's where Music Wizard is hoping to one up the gaming phenomena by taking the basic concepts of 'Guitar Hero' and applying them to an actual guitar. 'Guitar ...

This 12 year-old Norwegian boy saved his sister and himself from a moose attack using skills he picked up in the online role playing game 'World of Warcraft.' Hans Jørgen Olsen and his sister got into a spot of trouble when they encroached on the territory of one of these antlered cold weather staples (otherwise known as a moose). When the beast went on the offensive, Hans knew the first ...

If you don't think Internet addiction is serious, consider the man in China who just died after a three-day, non-stop gaming session at a Beijing Internet café. The unnamed 30-year-old man was rushed to the hospital -- most likely after passing out -- and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Suicide has been ruled out as a cause of death. The man's death reflects a disturbing trend ...

If there's ever going to be a good time to buy a PlayStation 3, Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs blog says it's the upcoming holiday season. Citing a dependable "mole" whose prophecies have a knack for coming true, Opposable Thumbs is churning the rumor mill with speculation that a the 80-gigabyte PlayStation 3 will be slashed $100 down to $499 and that a new 40-gigabyte version will debut for ...

We think the argument linking video game violence and real world violence is a steaming pile of uninformed crap. That said, not every game out there is right for Junior. The violence and gore on display in some very popular games probably won't turn your pride and joy into a psycho spree killer, but it could definitely lead to nightmares ... and that just cuts into your good night's sleep. ...

We're not sure how much some one wants to play a video game while urinating, but a German company seems to think it may be the trick to reducing the number of drunk drivers on the road. The name for this well-intentioned, if slightly odd, concept? The Piss-Screen. Here's the premise: A video game -- a driving game, specifically -- is displayed above the urinal. You control the car with your um ...

Sure, training your brain, that makes sense. But your skin? Not so much. And your face? Even less. But apparently that's the next step for the Nintendo DS. A game that translates roughly into 'Face Training' is being prepped for release (in Japan) that helps you improve your looks though face exercises, or as Nintendo calls it (we kid you not), "facening." The game comes with a stand for ...