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Nintendo on Online Gaming + Health Concerns (Pulse, 2004)

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How GameStop is faring as a video game publisher

GameStop has more than 7,000 retail stores for selling games, but it has also diversified into publishing games under its GameTrust label. Instead of competing head-on with game publishers, the company is going after games that might otherwise not get published or not get noticed. It is targeting titles from seasoned independent game developers whose […] https://goo.gl/xUXBNG #Playistic

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The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a video game award event?

Video games are a great form of escapism. And the game industry celebrated them last night at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars of gaming, and the DICE Summit 2017 conference this week in Las Vegas. Amid the celebratory fun, I noticed something was missing. The show normally confronts issues head on, particularly […] https://goo.gl/mdMdXk #Playistic

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DICE Awards: Blizzard’s Overwatch takes Game of the Year

Blizzard’s Overwatch won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for video games. The action shooter walked away with four awards overall during the evening. Overwatch was chosen as the best game of 2016 in a peer vote by the membership of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, […] https://goo.gl/Wd5yvC #Playistic

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DICE Awards turn 20: How gaming’s Academy Awards have grown

Anniversaries have a way of creeping up on us. The game academy’s annual DICE Awards event is now in its 20th year, while the DICE Summit event is in its 17th. I’ve been to all of the summits, which gather the elite of the game industry in Las Vegas every year. I’ll be going to […] https://goo.gl/gAU1Dx #Playistic

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Game academy exhibit opens at The Strong Museum

Sometimes, it’s good to take play seriously. That’s why The Strong Museum has dedicated a new exhibit to the game industry’s professional academy, know as the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. AIAS is run by game industry peers, and it stages the annual DICE Summit event in Las Vegas each year as well as the […] http://goo.gl/b9jcoE #Playistic

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Gaming’s chief lobbyist reflects on how gaming won the violence debate

FEATURE: Mike Gallagher came out swinging in defense of the game industry in a recent talk. He has to be feisty, as he’s the industry’s chief lobbyist as the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association. Gallagher is gaming’s biggest cheerleader, and he showed that at the recent DICE Summit elite game industry event in Las Vegas. […] http://goo.gl/l1WcXV #Playistic

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The DeanBeat: Nine memorable moments from gaming’s elite DICE Summit

Last week, I heard a lot of smart people talking about the game industry at the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. After I got home, people kept asking me what the most interesting thing I heard was. I had to punt and say I couldn’t think of any single barn-burner moment that […] http://goo.gl/Bw7gim #Playistic