http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:03:37 -0700 Sun, 03 May 2009 18:04:58 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Peace-activists-protest-game-based-army-recruitment-station?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner  Seven people were arrested this past Saturday after taking part in an anti-war demonstration aimed at shutting down a military recruitment center at Philadelphia's Franklin Mills Mall, according to Kotaku and Gamepolitics.com. The recruitment c... Console Gaming Gaming Video Games gaming news Sun, 03 May 2009 18:04:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Peace-activists-protest-game-based-army-recruitment-station?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m4d28-First-full-Dead-Rising-2-trailer?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner   Hello again, Examiner readers! I haven't written anything in over a month, so I figured I'd better put something together before they revoke my access. And what better way to re-introduce myself to the public than with the very first full trai... Console Gaming Gaming XBOX 360 Video Games Dead Rising 2 gaming news Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:59:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m4d28-First-full-Dead-Rising-2-trailer?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Resident-Evil-5-Review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner Okay, readers, this one's might be a little prickly. I certainly don't mean to offend anyone, but I have no idea how to talk about this game without addressing a controversy that has sprung up around it that I think is profoundly dumb. First, some ba... Console Gaming Gaming Reviews XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games gaming news game reviews Resident Evil 5 Resident Evil 5 Review Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:17:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Resident-Evil-5-Review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d4-Street-Fighter-4-Review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner The Street Fighter series, much like Prince of Persia, is something I am somewhat nostalgic about. I spent a lot of afternoons as a kid beating up my friends on Street Fighter 2. So I reacted with some interest when I heard that Capcom was coming out... Console Gaming Gaming Reviews XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games Street Fighter 4 Review game reviews Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:10:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d4-Street-Fighter-4-Review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d1-God-of-War-3-trailer-Awesome-in-a-dumb-way-or-dumb-in-an-awesome-way?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner Here's a dilemma for you, readers. You're busy with work and life in general, you haven't posted an article in about ten days, and you're wracked with autistic/obsessive-compulsive guilt. Whatever do you do?   Well, if you're me you post the... Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:36:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m3d1-God-of-War-3-trailer-Awesome-in-a-dumb-way-or-dumb-in-an-awesome-way?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d17-Videogames-actually-good-for-children-says-EU?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner  Video games can be beneficial to children, encouraging creativity, strategic thinking, and cooperation. At least according to a European Union report released last Wednesday and reported on by Reuters. The report cites a study conducted by the ... Console Gaming Gaming XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games Commentary Gaming commentary International news gaming news Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:24:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d17-Videogames-actually-good-for-children-says-EU?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d10-Dead-Rising-2-confirmed-for-PC-PS3-XBOX-360?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner  Last friday, an interesting little video began popping up at gaming sites all over the internet. It depicted jumbled, grainy footage of a news report referencing something called "The Willamette incident", television ads for a drug re... Console Gaming Gaming XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games Dead Rising Dead Rising 2 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:27:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d10-Dead-Rising-2-confirmed-for-PC-PS3-XBOX-360?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d7-Gears-of-War-2A-review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner  There are two kinds of war movies. The first is slow burning and character driven. It takes the time to examine the effect warfare actually has on people, and asks questions about whether war is ever justified, or whether we as a species can ev... Console Gaming Gaming Reviews XBOX 360 Video Games Gears of War Gears of War 2 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:55:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d7-Gears-of-War-2A-review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d3-Pro-Islamic-message-in-childrens-game-Not-quite?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner Sometimes in life you encounter something so monumentally lacking in common sense that you just have to share it. Because otherwise you couldn't bring yourself to believe that it actually was real. And because in the end, its just too hilarious not t... Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:00:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m2d3-Pro-Islamic-message-in-childrens-game-Not-quite?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d30-With-an-Obama-victory-is-game-censorship-a-thing-of-the-past?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner     There's been a lot of discussion in the news lately about the change the Obama administration is bringing to this country, but one question that is often, and probably justifiably, overlooked is what will Obama's presidency me... Reviews Obama administration Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:12:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d30-With-an-Obama-victory-is-game-censorship-a-thing-of-the-past?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d15-Icofind-this-one-if-you-can?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner     We open on a forest in early morning, the sound of birds and small animals echoing throughout. The calm is interrupted by the sound of horses. A group of tough looking knights passes the camera, escorting a man in billowing black robes... Console Gaming Gaming Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:30:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d15-Icofind-this-one-if-you-can?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d6-Fallout-3-This-is-the-way-the-world-ends?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner   Imagine a world where everything Marvel Comics ever wrote about radiation was true. Instead of killing people, it could grant them superhuman abilities, transform them into mindless, raging mutants able to crush cars with their fists, and cre... Console Gaming Gaming Reviews XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:44:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d6-Fallout-3-This-is-the-way-the-world-ends?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d2-Gaming-and-the-media-The-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner The topic today is violence in games and the way the media depicts it. By now, the story is familiar. Some high school kid, usually a quiet, unassuming, studious boy who no one pays much attention to, suddenly brings his dad's 9mm to school and just ... Console Gaming Gaming Commentary Gaming commentary Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:07:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2009m1d2-Gaming-and-the-media-The-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2008m12d27-Prince-of-Persia-a-review-and-retrospective?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner The Prince of Persia games have been around at least as long as I’ve been alive. I can remember playing the first entry in the series when I was in second grade. But for all its seeming longevity, it hasn’t always been brilliant. In fact,... Console Gaming Gaming Reviews XBOX 360 Playstation 3 Video Games Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:47:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2008m12d27-Prince-of-Persia-a-review-and-retrospective?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2008m12d23-Left-4-Dead-A-review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner  I don't really know what it is about them, but everyone loves a good zombie movie. We all know how it happens: some virus breaks out, or someone messes with a mystical amulet, or desecrates an indian burial ground, and suddenly waves of the hun... Console Gaming Gaming Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:34:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-2180-Console-Game-Examiner~y2008m12d23-Left-4-Dead-A-review?cid=exrss-Console-Game-Examiner