Word: gamers
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...media activities you're focused on, not having all aspects of the sector covered," says a Vivendi official who asks not to be identified. Indeed, though Vivendi recently reacquired control of French telecom Cegetel, which it sold after Messier's departure, and is merging its games division with U.S. gamer Activision to create Activision Blizzard, the official says its strategy is significantly different from Messier...
...love video games. I played my first one--it was Pong--when I was 7. I feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-gamer parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent...
...like a Warcrack intervention, minus the scary scenes of confrontation.THE SOCIAL GAME OF WOWBut while social interactions pull some players out of the game, it also draws some in.Nadler, who at level 58 was the lowest-ranked player of the four interviewed, is what one might call a social gamer. He began playing the real-time strategy game Warcraft 3 with his freshman year roommates, moving to World of Warcraft the next year after he discovered that one of his roommates had been playing it in secret.“I had qualms,” he says...
...savvy veteran quarterback Sedale Threatt to engineer the offense. Threatt is running less than in years past, and has completed only 54 percent of his passes this season, but still ranks second in the conference (behind Crusaders QB Dominic Randolph) in total offense. And he’s a gamer. The Hawks are not a quality running team, so the onus will once again fall on the Harvard secondary and pass rush. The unit picked up key momentum by performing beautifully in the second half of the Brown game (62 yards allowed in 30 minutes...
...workout kids don't try to duck. "Physical education used to be a joke," says Dr. John Ratey, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Spark, an upcoming book about exercise. "That has changed simply because we are catching up with the gamer generation...