There's no hiding that the past few months have been filled with uncertainty, challenges and stress over functioning in a new coronavirus reality, and a lot of Anchorage businesses are struggling .
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Ian Clark, owner of Ian's Game Paradise, which sells video games and accessories, has nearly tripled his monthly income this summer — typically the slowest time of year for him.
[ Will the show go on? For professional musicians working in the midst of pandemic, the stakes have never been higher. ]
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High Score review – history of video games fails to top the leaderboard | Television & radio |
N etflix's latest nostalgia-driven docuseries tackles the history of video games, with a focus on the 1970s, 80s and early 90s that made this 32-year-old gamer feel positively sprightly. It is pacy and wide-ranging, charting a course from early arcade culture through to modern esports, text adventures to role-playing games (RPGs), Space Invaders to Doom, enlivened by enthusiastic anecdotes from the people who were there.
Most of the interviewees are the familiar, male faces of early(ish) video game history: the venerable Nolan Bushnell of Atari, the endearing metalhead Doom co-creator John Romero, the eccentric RPG pioneer Richard Garriott and Space Invaders inventor Tomohiro Nishikado.
'Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout' is one of the biggest indie video game launches of all time - CNN
Microsoft's Game Pass Subscription Is Dramatically Changing Video Games - Bloomberg
The Game Pass logo is displayed on monitors during Microsoft's Xbox event ahead of the 2019 E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.
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Screen time for kids skyrockets: How to find balance in a pandemic
You've may think you've heard this story before. And you probably have read some variation of it. But in the age of pandemic, the relationship between children and their video games has undergone a sea change.
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You give your kid an hour of computer time. But when the time is up, they beg for a few more minutes. Just 5 minutes. Maybe 10. But soon, 15 minutes have passed and there's no sign that they're about to stop. Frustrations grow and, before you know it, what seemed like a simple deadline has grown into a full-fledged generational battle.
Lando Norris compares winning on Fall Guys video game to F1 podium
F1 champion Lewis Hamilton praises the protests of the professional sports teams across the US following the shooting of Jacob Blake. (0:42)
Lando Norris joked that winning on the popular game Fall Guys is "nearly" as good as winning a trophy in Formula One.
The game, a fun take on the battle royale genre, has become a phenomenon in recent weeks, holding the No. 1 spot on Twitch for most of August. Contestants are placed into games of 50, which is eventually whittled down to one winner, although it is notoriously difficult to win an individual 'show'.
Video Game Contractors Receive Poor Treatment and Low Salary as Business Booms - Bloomberg
The gaming industry employs more than 220,000 people, many of them permatemps who don't share in the spoils.
That treatment isn’t unusual in the gaming industry. While executives rake in millions of dollars and some full-time employees can expect Porsche-size bonuses when a hot new title drops, many people working alongside them get nothing but a salary that barely keeps them above the poverty line.
Their employee badges typically come in a different color. They rarely get paid vacations. Their names sometimes aren’t included in the credits. And when full-time co-workers get pricey swag such as statuettes of game characters, they’re often left out. At one studio, a contractor says they were given cheaper, less comfortable chairs.
Video Games, Not Movies, Are The Future Of Storytelling, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Says - GameSpot
According to actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, it's going to be video games--not feature films--that will push storytelling forward in new and exciting ways. Appearing on the latest episode of Hot Ones, Gordon-Levitt said he sees more room for growth in storytelling in video games than film.
"The future of storytelling, it's going to be video games," he said. "I don't think it's going to be filmmakers who figure out how to do that. But [video games] feels like kind of the most groundbreaking storytelling. Storytelling that's completely in a whole different realm than anything we've seen before, I don't think it's going to necessarily be the feature film form."
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