Secondlife.com facelift
Yesterday we talked about There.com, Lively and Second Life. Today, SecondLife announced that the team is testing a new home page this week.
Hah. They were scared about my previous article. I knew it! I just knew it! :-)
Archive for 'Life and games'
Gaming to provide new diseases to medical science
At first doctors… thought Lorenzo Amato was suffering from a stroke or a severe brain disorder.
The teenager couldn’t speak and didn’t seem to understand anything going on around him. Then doctors discovered he’d just finished a marathon session on his new Playstation.
Local politician Antonio Buccoliero, who spoke to the doctors, said: “They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation.”
Medical science new disease
source Ananova.
At Half Life’s 10th anniversary, the game costs only 98 cents!
Valve is now offering Half-Life for just 98¢ in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the company’s debut title. Launched 10 years ago today, Half-Life was greeted with overwhelming review scores (Metacritic of 96%), earned over 50 Game of the Year Awards, and birthed a franchise with over 20 million units sold to date. The special 10 year anniversary price is available via Steam until 12:01 pm PST on November 21.
Half Life
In the very heart of a financial crisis, U.S. citizens spend on video games and hardware!
Living a global financial and economic crisis is not a secret anymore. Banks are falling down, prices are growing, the global buy-power is falling also mostly because people are saving money instead of spending.
There is no business field affected but…
… gaming industry! Yeah, sounds a little bit incredible isn’t it? Seems to me that US population is staying inside the house and play games!
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Second Life flirt turns into First Life divorce
Since November 13th, when British couple Amy Taylor (Laura Skye) and David Pollard (Dave Barmy) set to divorce after wife finds her husband’s alter-ego chatting affectionately with a woman in the virtual world (guardian.co.uk), the blogosphere wrote tones of articles about this (BlogSearch).
Amy Taylor (Laura Skye) and David Pollard (Dave Barmy)
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Barack Obama: “I supported federal funding to study the impact of video games on children’s cognitive development.”
Stephen Totilo, one of the MTV’s bloggers, wrote yesterday about how Obama’s communications department, made up mostly of guys in their twenties and thirties, used weekends to drink beer together and play the video game “Rock Band” at a group house in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Barack Obama
Apparently they live out their rock-and-roll fantasies mastering guitar, bass, drums, and vocals :).
Jumping from this article to another I have encountered an answer of the new USA president Barack Obama to some questions about game industry and safe-kids digital environment:
- Would Obama support the legislation to keep violent games out of kids hands at a federal level
- What other strategies would support Obama to keep the video game industry and other media companies from marketing and selling inappropriate content to children?
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[Games] Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare first victim - Brandon Crisp
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and the Xbox 360.
Searching the internet for Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare, I have discovered tones of articles around the US newspapers and blogs about a 10 years old kid, Brandon Crisp, who died falling from a tree.
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