Army ponies up $50M to fund combat video games
Games are increasingly serious business, apparently serious enough to convince the U.S. Army to green light a dedicated video games unit and earmark $50 million over five years for game-related projects to enhance soldier combat-readiness.
Japanese schoolboy proves video games have real-life applications
Out-of-control youth culture ruined by idle gaming? Or doting grandson who apparently learned all he needed to know about operating a vehicle at highways speeds from video games? You decide.
US video game market expanded 18% in October
The video game market in the U.S. saw a healthy 18 percent expansion in October and remains on track for a record year.
4 sites to find and watch TV and movies online
Increasingly, content creators from NBC to Disney to Michael Moore are distributing their video online. That the amount of such video available on the Internet has increased dramatically is good news. The problem is, it's coming at us from a million different sites, in many different formats. My favorite video sites do a good job of organizing it all, linking to it, and pointing us to video content that you wouldn't expect to get for free.
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