Glu Mobile soared earlier this week after Electronic Arts announced plans to acquire the mobile game developer for $2.1 billion .
Take-Two Interactive , meanwhile, fell Tuesday despite its quarterly beat . The company behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption did not unveil a release slate but did target 93 titles in five years.
Nancy Tengler, chief investment officer at Laffer Tengler Investments, told CNBC on Tuesday that she would trim her position in Take-Two if she owned it. She said one name in the space looks far more attractive.
Many things are taking place:
8 video game patents that might surprise you | GamesRadar+
Sometimes, developers and publishers take extraordinary steps to safeguard its ideas and inventions. As you may already know, patents can be filed by developers in order to gain the sole rights to a new creation or invention, and protect it from being used by competitors for a certain amount of time. It could be a new feature developed for hardware, a certain kind of game feature, or an original aspect of gameplay.
The Nemesis system , introduced in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and later refined in Shadow of War , put a refreshing and inventive spin on procedurally generated enemies. Instead of fighting nameless, carbon copy foes, Shadow of Mordor pits you against various different members of Orc society and each and every one is unique to your playthrough.
Man faces backlash after 'choosing' video games over his wife: 'Reevaluate your priorities'
The reason he refused to go to his wife was that he was on a timely mission in the video game with out players and his wife was aware of the commitment.
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Vita Vea and Kevin Minter wore matching T-shirts with Brady's infamous photo from the 2000 NFL Draft combine at the Bucs' Super Bowl victory parade.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady didn't just earn a seventh championship ring by winning Super Bowl LV over the Kansas City Chiefs, he also made himself quite a bit of money.
America Stinks at Video Games? - The New York Times
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It was a coming-of-age moment for American soccer when David Beckham, the British superstar player, signed with a team in Los Angeles nearly 15 years ago.
Hu Shuo-Chieh might become the Beckham of American e-sports, the term for competitive video games as a spectator sport. My colleague Kellen Browning wrote about stars like Hu from Taiwan and other countries where e-sports are bigger than big.
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Pamplin Media Group - State allows its video gaming
Since Jan. 27, lottery video games once again ching-ching away at local bars, but the with less ka-ching in the pockets of the restaurant owners.
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"If it was my choice, I'd have all six of them open," says Foland. "Anything's better than nothing."
The new restrictions allow for only six players at a time, and then only if players can be separated by 6 feet. Bar employees must wipe down the machines between each player.
'RESET' reveals the unseen side of video games | The Michigan Daily
From the first episode on, Dexter introduces us to the colorful world of video games. The show starts with the prototypes of modern video games: arcade games. But instead of focusing on the game genre itself, we are introduced to a section of the Bronx, N.Y., where arcade culture was most pervasive at the height of its popularity.
Now that video games have emerged from dinky basements under laundromats and into million-dollar arenas, the show looks at how the male-dominated community is attempting to reform itself under scrutiny. Enter Jeannail Carter, AKA Cuddle_Core, one of the most famous American Tekken players.
Console yourself, video games are here to stay – Massachusetts Daily Collegian
When COVID-19 made its debut in March of last year, a new antisocial reality set in. The thought of no large social gatherings reverberated through the minds of the extroverted, but for introverts, the pandemic created an excuse to stay inside.
As the chances of returning to campus in the fall grew slimmer, my desire to be entertained grew stronger and weekly Facetime calls simply weren't cutting it. I picked up the controller I promised to put down, held the button on my headset until it lit up and turned on the TV for a night of video games.
The positive and negatives of gaming | fox43.com
HARRISBURG, Pa. — "Anybody who tells you that there aren't any negatives to the gaming industry, it's obviously not true and they're trying to glorify it," says Chad Smeltz, director of eSports at Harrisburg University in Harrisburg, PA. "So there's obviously negatives."
Smeltz adding, "I think that there's obviously a lot of hard topics to approach whether it be like women in gaming, for example."
Casey Reider is an English teacher at York Suburban High School and also runs their eSports league, the YSEL. She tells her students, "we need to get girls into this, we need to show that you don't need to stigmatize it. It's not weird to be a part of this."
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