A place where online gamers can hang out after the game
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The millions who play Internet-based adventure games like World of Warcraft don't just log on to fight orcs and demons. The games also help them hang out with old friends and meet new ones. They're social networking services - Facebook with broadswords.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Greg Canessa explains his departure and the future of casual games. In Game|Life.
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The online community is introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs that better integrate with the Internetâs leading social-networking site.
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Station Players will allow Sony&#39;s online MMO customers to meet and greet online; set to launch alongside EverQuest II. Sony Online Entertainment today announced a Web-based service that will allow players
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Video game developers,  eager to please all consumers, are increasingly including  features that let gamers play with or against their friends.
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The gaming industry is increasingly pursuing casual or coffee-break gamers, those who indulge in short-term play of games including puzzles, solitaire and mah-jongg.
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At the World Series of Video Games, PC and Xbox game tournaments are treated with the same respect as soccer or basketball.
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Finally, fans in Zaire or New Zealand might be able to go online to see real-time game stats, radio calls or even Webcasts of, say, the Savannah (Ga.) Sand Gnats or Jupiter (Fla.) Hammerheads.
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Three U.S. surfing friends whose jobs  moved them to different cities have come up with a way to  continue their weekly drinking session -- in an online pub that  even has happy hours.
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Walking past a crack in a wall in the computer game Broken Sword, players feel a draft of air in the real world. When a virtual plane flies by on the screen, a strategically timed breeze -- generated by a set of fans parked next to the monitor -- tries to make gamers feel as if they're standing next...
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Tycho: I just read through one of the conduits of Leipzig gaming news, and was jolted by a piece of news: Xbox Live is going to be moving into classic board games. I don't mean, like, Chutes and Ladders or some shit - though I don't doubt that GrowPot420 would snap that up on day one. No, I mean like Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. Pillars of the tabletop gaming community, so to speak. This is probably the biggest news of that convention for me. Getting people together to play these games, or finding people to play them with at all can be a trying endeavor. This is near Goddamn optimal.(CW)TB
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 18  - Video game developers,  eager to please all consumers, are increasingly including  features that let gamers play with or against their friends.
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From Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus to a Manhattan Best Buy, game enthusiasts launch into action.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- The video game playing was getting out of hand. When Johnathan Wendel, then 19, was not in class or at work, he was in front of the computer. His mom didn't like it. Cut back or move out, she told him.
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"Come Out and Play Festival" to bring together out-of-the-box designers, techno-philosophers and utopian free spirits. Oh, and gamers too. Photos: Playing PacManhattan
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The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and &#8220;meeting up&#8221; social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers, web developers and restaurant snobs in the Tampa area.  I moved to Tampa, Florida last month and SEJ contributor Rhea Drysdale suggested MeetUp as a local networking tool.  So, I [...]