U.S. sales of video games, which includes portable and console hardware, software and accessories, generated revenues of almost $18 billion, a 43 percent increase over the $12.5 billion generated in 2006
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All video game categories experienced double-digit percentage increases
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The image of the antisocial, sunlight-deprived game geek is enshrined in the popular consciousness as deeply as any stereotype of recent decades.
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That’s changing. Online PC games in which thousands of players gab and explore together are attracting tens of millions of subscribers.
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The list, released recently by the market research company NPD Group, highlights the soaring popularity of mass-market franchises like Guitar Hero and the Wii at the expense of critically acclaimed projects aimed at the same young-male audience the industry has relied on for years. (As recently as 2006, sales charts were covered with single-player diversions and sports games.)
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It often seems that being clueless about video games goes hand in hand with being a parent. But a new site called WhatTheyPlay.com aims to give parents an inside scoop by going beyond the ratings and offering evaluations written by knowledgeable gamers — many of them parents.
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The site’s database lists 16,000 games.
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an estimated 110 million monthly active users
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He may find that this is the single best investment he has ever made.
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The site was sold for $580 million; Mr. Greenfield said it was expected to have around $800 million in revenue in fiscal 2008
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The prevalence of unwanted friend requests, spam and sexually suggestive material has driven some users away, even giving rise to the term “MySpace refugee.”
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Users will soon be able to tailor their profile for subsets of friends
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New features for mobile devices are being added, as well as new social applications.
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It was the first time that brain signals had been used to make a robot walk
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“When that person thinks about walking,” he said, “walking happens.”
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Wu's position is that 'it is time to recognize a simpler principle for fair use: work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use. This simple concept would bring much clarity to the problems of secondary authorship on the web
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In a study to be published this year in Human Communication Research, a journal, Mr. Walther and colleagues found that Facebook users who had public postings on their wall (an online bulletin board) from attractive friends were considered to be significantly better looking than people who had postings from unattractive friends.
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demonstrating leadership by being the first to adopt and turn others onto the latest Facebook applications
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research firm eMarketer, who estimates that 20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011
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Benjamin Jörissen
Erziehungswissenschaftler, Univ. Magdeburg. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Medienbildung, pädagogische Anthropologie. Educational scientist (humanities), research fields: media literacy and education, media cultures, educational anthropology.
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