‘Games’ Archives
Computer and Video Games
Computer and Video Games Interactive computer and video games were first developed in laboratories as the late-night amusements of computer programmers or independent projects of television engineers. Their formats include computer software; networked, multiplayer games on time-shared systems or servers; arcade consoles; home consoles connected [...]
Sega Enterprises
Sega Enterprises Ltd. Sega Enterprises Ltd., leading manufacturer of home video games, portable video games, and video-arcade games. Sega is based in Tokyo, Japan. In 2003 Sega announced that it intended to merge with Sammy Corporation, a leading maker of pachinko gaming machines, also based in Japan. Sega had its roots in two Japanese [...]
Dungeons and Dragons
Dungeons and Dragons The most popular of a series of “role-playing” games first released widely in the mid- 1970s, Dungeons and Dragons is particularly appealing to teenage boys who seek an outlet for their creativity as well as a means of escape from the travails of adolescence. Moderated by a “Dungeon Master” with access to the [...]
Nintendo
Nintendo A Japanese company called Nintendo rekindled the electronic-game business in 1985 when it introduced its Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the United States. With more powerful computer chips allowing for advanced graphics and faster game play—exhibited in games such as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda—Nintendo [...]
Game
Game A rule-bound pastime, usually of a competitive nature. A looser meaning applies it to the substance of all forms of play. Sporting contests of physical prowess, sometimes involving a ball, form one major subdivision of the category; gambling games, often involving dice or cards, constitute another. Both kinds of games may have originated [...]
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii With the launch of Wii, Nintendo tried to cause a revolution in the world of video-game consoles. Wii, the fifth generation of Nintendo's video-game consoles and part of the seventh generation of video gaming, is the successor to Nintendo's GameCube. Wii has several features intended to help a wider audience play video games and [...]
Benefits of Computer Games
Benefits of Computer Games Video Games Help To Improve Strategic Thinking It is rather rare that a video game doesn't require or demand its player to think and make decisions two or three steps ahead of a current situation. Players who play regularly will quickly learn the benefit of strategic and forward thinking and they may start to apply [...]
Call of Duty 7 Black Ops
Call of Duty 7 Black Ops Coming 11.09.2010 PC Game Review Not all players agree that Call of Duty game is the best deal. However, it is generally accepted that the Nazi zombies and flamethrowers in 2008 of Call of Duty: World at War led to the even more successful people and the fire from the invention of the barbecue grill. Now, the developer [...]
PS3 Cracked
PS3 Cracked The first hacker to successfully jailbreak the iPhone says he has pulled off yet another modding marvel, this time penetrating the previously impervious PlayStation 3 gaming console. The hack by 20-year-old George Hotz, aka geohot, is significant because the PS3 was the only game console that hadn't been hacked, despite being on [...]
Monopoly
Monopoly In 1904, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent for a board game called “The Landlord’s Game,” which was invented by a Virginia Quaker named Lizzie Magie. Magie was a follower of Henry George, who started a tax movement that supported the theory that the renting of land and real estate produced an unearned increase in land [...]
