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Your Turn: Competitive play

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2008-07-10 21:41:46 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...Competitive play Competitive gaming is an almost hidden, but exciting and growing aspect of video gaming In a way, to play games at all is to compete, so it's only natural that deathmatches against your friends or pass-the-controller, winner-stays-on competitive gaming should move out of your living room and onto a larger stage Organised and...
 
Tags: competitive play, play, play games, play readers, play blog, play dead, competitive, event, event excites
 
 
 
 
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The Story Behind The Addictive Web-Game TypeRacer, A Competitive Mavis Beacon

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2008-05-08 18:35:44 by Patrick Klepek in MTV Multiplayer
...competitive nature of gamers. Epshteyn even likens TypeRacer to an emerging sport. Typing is a skill that can be improved with practice and pitted against people, just like any athletic pursuit, he said Hes not a hardcore gamer. Epshteyn hasnt even played Typing of the Dead ! For the developer of a typing game, thats just criminal. But Ill...
 
Tags: mavis beacon, typeracer, tool mavis beacon, game, mavis beacon-esque game, epshteyn introduce, epshteyn, game alex epshteyn, insanely addictive typeracer
 
 
 
 
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Oberon's Ryan - Women Gamers Just as Competitive as Men

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2008-06-09 19:35:26 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...competitive if not more competitive than men, except that they just dont want to spend or have the time or learn up-down-X-X-Y-YThey dont want to deal with that, he told GamesIndustry.biz You give them one button, theyll kick your butt Ive actually seen this in action with my daughters. I nearly died laughing as my middle daughter beat the...
 
Tags: casual, closet casual gamers, casual content, casual titles, competitive, ryan, territorial video games, female gamer walk, biz
 
 
 
 
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GLS: 'Reverse Engineering' Fantasy Baseball To Study Competitive Fandom

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2008-07-19 00:00:27 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...competitive fandom model as a principle for design Fantasy baseball emerges, according to the Halversons, via the convergence of three activities: Primary activity (Major League Baseball); Fan activity (watching games, collecting cards, etc.); and Fantasy activity (organizing or participating in a fantasy baseball league The fantasy activity...
 
Tags: fantasy baseball, expert players, expert players routinely, fantasy baseball league, players, expertise, adaptive expertise, fantasy baseball players, primary activity
 
 
 
 
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Street Fighter Champ Creates Competitive Card Game

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2008-04-01 08:12:46 by Susan Arendt in Wired: Game|Life
...competitive Street Fighter player show when he talks about his favorite aspect of Kongai, the Intercepts. Players can swap out their character cards during a fight, but if their opponent manages to Intercept them, not only can they not switch out, they also take damage. Or, to put it in Sirlin's words, ""First of all, you will not switch out....
 
Tags: game, street fighter, cards, collect kongai cards, game players, kongai, designer david sirlin, sirlin, super street fighter
 
 
 
 
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Gears of War 2 Screenshot Extravaganza: Part Four: Competitive Multiplayer Maps

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2008-07-05 07:02:05 by Stephany in Gaming Today
...Competitive Multiplayer Artwork Imagine a World with No Gears of War Multiplayer Gears of War 2 Screenshot Extravaganza: Part One: Campaign PC Gamers Suit Up for Gears of War Gone Gold Gears of War Being Re-Released with DLC
 
Tags: war, screenshot extravaganza, gears, gridlock, gridlock multiplayer map, map, security, security turrets, security multiplayer map
 
 
 
 
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New Blizzard MMO off-limits for competitive reasons, says Morhaime

2008-08-04 08:38:53 by patlike in videogaming247
 
Speaking in Activision Blizzards Q1 earnings call last week, Blizzard head Mike Morhaime said that the companys refusing to talk about its unannounced MMO for fear of bolstering the competition. Blizzard has begun staffing on another unannounced massively multiplayer online project but for competitive reasons, we are not able to share any...
 
Tags: competitive reasons, mmo, blizzard, additional information, earnings call, activision blizzards, competition, fear, week
 
 
 
 
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Blu-ray won't give PS3 a long-term competitive edge, claims Olin

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2008-08-28 10:18:03 by Jim Sterling in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...competitive advantage, or the benefit is not as strong as the feature is," stated Olin. The AIAS president admitted that there is a noticeable difference in visual quality with Blu-ray, but questioned whether that was enough to make the PS3 a more attractive offer I think that, although being a cheap Blu-ray player has helped the PS3 a...
 
Tags: blu-ray, cheap blu-ray player, blu-ray device, ps3, edge, advantage, obvious short-term differentiator, competitive advantage, party exclusive
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Play Evolution': The Evolution of the Modern RTS

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2008-04-15 00:00:05 by jamesl in GameSetWatch
...competitive play at a high level Right now, Blizzard is probably asking the same question were about to investigate: what made Starcraft a huge competitive success while Dawn of War and Company of Heroes have a comparatively piddling competitive fan base? And are Dawn of War and Company of Heroes really an example of where the RTS genre is...
 
Tags: play, maintain competitive play, high-level play, play evolution, rts, heroes game, heroes, level, precise level