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Review: 'The Show' still swinging for the fences

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 7:22pm

No video game can duplicate the drama of the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball season. You remember: The historic collapse of the Red Sox. The Rays' late-inning recovery from a seven-run deficit on the last day of the season. The Cardinals coming back twice in game six of the World Series and eventually winning the trophy.

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U of U engineers develop thumb-pulling video game controller

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 6:02pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah engineers have designed a new kind of video controller with a thumb-pulling mechanism that mimics the tug of a fishing line or the recoil of a gun.

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Layton man arrested for gas station robbery; needed money for Xbox

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 7:19am

CLEARFIELD -- He needed the money to buy an Xbox, so he decided to rob a gas station.

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Libraries are getting louder for a digital age

Jill Barshay The Hechinger Report

Last updated Friday, November 25, 2011 - 1:34pm

CHICAGO -- Imagine walking into a public library filled with PlayStations, Wii game consoles and electric keyboards pumped up to maximum volume. Teenagers are munching on snacks, checking out laptops and slouching on sofas or beanbags. A carousel of computers sits in the middle, navigated to Facebook.

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Frequent video game players have brain differences

Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 4:33pm

Fourteen-year-olds who were frequent video gamers had more gray matter in the rewards center of the brain than peers who didn't play video games as much -- suggesting that gaming may be correlated to changes in the brain, much as addictions are.

European scientists reported the discovery Tuesday in the journal Translational Psychiatry. Psychologist Simone Kuhn of Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues recruited 154 healthy 14-year-olds in Berlin and divided them into two groups. Twenty-four girls and 52 boys were frequent gamers who played at least nine hours of video games each week. Fifty-eight girls and 20 boys were infrequent gamers, who played less than nine hours a week.

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Competitors, customers batter Netflix

Victor Godinez The Dallas Morning News

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:20pm

DALLAS -- Ever since Netflix announced plans to raise prices for customers who want both its DVD and streaming services, the company has been bleeding subscribers, so the company backtracked this week.

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Dragon tales, 'Grit' circulating at Gitmo

McClatchy Newspapers McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:33pm

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- If circulation at the detention center library is an indicator, captives are keeping busy in their cellblocks with comics, Westerns, self-help books and video games.

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Utah student projects to be sold as Xbox games

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 9:52am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Thirty University of Utah students are poised to recoup their tuition costs because computer games they created in class will be sold on Xbox.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Tyler Kirkham, seen here in his Clearfield home on Friday, shows some of his illustrations. He is an artist for the Green Lantern series for DC Comics.

Clearfield Green Lantern artist displays unearthly willpower

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 11:42pm

CLEARFIELD -- The emerald energy of willpower. That seems to be a trait Tyler Kirkham possesses. For the past year, Kirkham, 28, has been the sketch artist behind the current series of Green Lantern comic books that DC Comics is distributing throughout the country.

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Tennis games hit different approach shots, miss

Ron Harris, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 16, 2011 - 2:37pm

For the sport of tennis on the video game console, a simple question remains: When will they get it right? Considering the latest releases "Top Spin 4" and "Virtua Tennis 4," the answer is simple: not yet.

I played "Top Spin 4" ($59.99, rated "E") for Xbox 360 and "Virtua Tennis 4" ($49.99, rated "E") for PlayStation 3, and neither delivered as much fun or competitiveness that tennis deserves. There were some enjoyable moments, but they were fleeting and mired amid long stretches of yawn-inducing action.

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Fitness group pushes pulling the plug

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 10:41pm

CLEARFIELD -- Getting kids to move away from the shadow of a video screen and into the sun is the emphasis behind National Unplug and Play Week, which begins Monday and runs through Sunday.

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Utah video game developers featured at conference

Press release

Last updated Friday, February 25, 2011 - 2:01pm

SALT LAKE CITY - The State of Utah is making its debut appearance at the annual Game Developers Conference (http://www.gdconf.com/), taking place in San Francisco, CA, March 2-4, 2011.

Located in South Hall booth #1824 of the San Francisco Moscone Center, the Utah "Life Elevated" booth will provide an introduction to the vast employment opportunities, business incentives, and quality of life advancements Utah has to offer. The State boasts top-notch universities, sophisticated metro areas, and a year-round active lifestyle.

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On video soon: Here's your chance to 'Get Low'

Steve Salles Standard-Examiner movie critic

Last updated Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 6:43pm

Capsule reviews, by Standard-Examiner movie critic Steve Salles, of next week's releases:

GET LOW **** (PG-13) Some thematic material and brief violent content. Robert Duvall has given many great performances in his career. This is among his best. It's the story of an aging recluse who wants to throw his own funeral party before he dies. The reasons will surprise you. This is one of the best films of last year. Also starring are Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney and Bill Cobbs. 103 minutes.

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Kids hear about the fun times before computers, video games

Kerri Sandaine, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 10:00am

LEWISTON, Idaho A celebration at Webster Elementary School was extra special this year, thanks to a visit from a 100-year-old woman.

Mary Ruddy, an energetic centenarian who's wintering in Clarkston, shared tales of the early 1900s and read a story to the Lewiston children. They were fascinated to hear she grew up without cell phones, computers or video games and sometimes rode to school in a buggy.

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