Rock, Paper, Scissors: High Drama in the Tournament Ring
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The rules are simple but the competition is fierce at the D.C. National Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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The game, in which characters with their own special moves fight other combatants, has a six button layout that allows players to throw light, medium or hard punches and kicks.
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During yesterday's quarterfinals of the WGAM Amateur, the competitors had to battle the conditions almost as much as their opponents.
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.
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As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game.
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The Patriots signal-stealing controversy, sports ethicists say, is a high-tech example of how competitive edge-seeking and gamesmanship can become win-at-any-cost cheating.
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Updated casino games combining new technology and mechanical reel games.
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The word "gaming" is making its way onto the whiteboards of advertising conference rooms on a regular basis these days. As a proponent of this industry's viability as a communication platform for brands, I think that's great progress. We've collectively woken up to the fact that pimple-faced teenagers are not the only ones playing games (for those of you not in the know, these guys aren't even the typical game consumers anymore, nor have they been for quite a few years now).
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As new titles become more innovative, existing players scramble to keep up.
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It gets crazier and more emotional every year, but what in sports doesn't? The build up to the NCAA men's basketball tournament is starting to get like recruiting. Bracketology -- I hope whoever coined that word is getting some money out of it -- is an end in itself, building up to last night's "Selection Show." People put out 65-team ...
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By Douglas A. Kaid, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Sometimes the other team is simply better. It's a tough thing to admit for competitors who spend all season trying to convince themselves they can't be beaten if they play their best.
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Thanks to new high-tech gear, opponents in golf and racket sports can be across town - or across the country.
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There's no shortage of people playing dirty tricks, or just being plain annoying, online. Here's a taxonomy to help you sort them out
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At the World Cyber Games 2004, the competition is about more than just who wins at Counter-Strike or WarCraft III. Gamers are competing to bring glory to their home countries. Daniel Terdiman reports from San Francisco.
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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The week of a world heavyweight title fight is usually the time for the champion to engage in trash talk. According to boxing&#39;s book of traditions this is when