Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Microsoft posts some interesting information about the uptick in 64-bit versions of Windows 7 . As of June 2010, we see that 46 percent of all PCs worldwide running Windows 7 are running a 64-bit edition of Windows 7 . That is, nearly half of all PCs running Windows 7 are running 64-bit »
Tags: 64-bit-edition, 64-bit-versions, more-compatible, north, over-the-last, price, running-64-bit, sold-at-retail, vista, windows, windows 7, windows-vista
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
A Belgian student working on her masters thesis surveyed 983 videogames to determine just what women want in a videogame. Her findings, according to the Ghent University announcement : Women are strongly motivated to game when there is a possibility to choose their own assignments and to explore freely. Women like to hang... »
Tags: 983-videogames, activities, analysis, culture, determines, ghent, masters, own-assignments, social-contact, strongest, strongly-appeal, the-strongest, thesis-surveyed
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
If you're a Team Fortress 2 junky, you no doubt already know that Valve is rolling out the details for an upcoming update the revolves around the engineer class. »
Tags: engineer, game, new-doo-hickey, shooters, turrets, twice-as-fast, upcoming-update, wistfully-wish
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
In discussing a book on the 1999 Columbine shootings, Gamepolitics mentioned a data point from a 2002 Secret Service study cited in the book. Only one in eight people who engaged in school-targeted violence expressed an interest in violent videogames. Only one in eight? »
Tags: book, engineer, incidents-took, more-current, movies-or-books, selected-their, shooters, twice-as-fast, upcoming-update, violent-movies, wistfully-wish
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
That's the cover Capcom is going to use for Dead Rising 2 ? Really? With Earnest Dude McSquarejaw sneering dismissively »
Tags: action games, book, engineer, extreme computing, fischer-price, matte-painting, mostly-cropped, the-paddlesaw, three-zombies, twice-as-fast, wistfully-wish
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Blizzard just lit the fires under the Starcraft II beta again. When you boot up the game, you're treated to a screen dominated by scowling Terran and a tantalizing "Start Campaign" button in the lower left corner. It's greyed out, of course »
Tags: action games, beta, choice, easiest, extreme computing, game, mostly-cropped, previous, twice-as-fast
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