Video gamers try to break slacker image
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Matt Ringel knows there's a certain image that comes to mind when you start talking about hardcore video gamers: think teenage boys with messy hair and dark circles under their eyes from staying up all night, their eyes glued to a screen and their fingers frantically flitting about a keyboard or a controller.
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For players with ambitions to develop games, Electronic Arts must appear to be the best place in the world, but there is unhappiness among those living that dream.
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Plenty of video games promise 40 hours of play, but who has the time? That's right, those hard-core, teenage players who occupy the other side of that raging demographic schism, that's who. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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We take a look back at how companies try to convince an incurious public to buy computers or videogames during times when TV audiences weren't as tech savvy as they are today, and find some comic results.
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Virtual drudgery comes to Second Life. In Game|Life.
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Readers chime in on the future of video games and the dehumanizing pace of modern life.
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Thanks to the degenerate minds behind the Nintendo Wii, young gamers are being transformed into murderous, ravening beasts. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Halo 3's launch marks a milestone on the journey of video games from niche hobby to cultural phenomenon. Yet those who don't play can be dismissive. Can the myths be laid to rest?
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A game that eerily mimics misanthropic online reality lets you team up with social misfits from around the internet to blow away all those other pesky jerks. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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There are still video games where twitch counts for less than thoughtful concentration, and experience may mean more than endurance. One writer picks a half-dozen four-star titles friendlier to fumble-fingered fortysomethings:
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In the old days, heroes were  commemorated with stone statues in public squares. In today's  video game obsessed society, players can get a Mii.
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Video game players could use their thoughts not joysticks to control on-screen characters, via a gaming helmet from Emotiv Systems.
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Video games are supposed to be for kids, right? But an uneducated parent navigating the wilderness of a game store would probably have a tough time finding suitable entertainment for Junior.
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Video gamers relish violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Holiday season in the video game industry is the equivalent of television's sweeps week, which perhaps is why new reports painting game designers as 21st century-style Dickensian factory laborers are proving especially noteworthy.
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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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Video gamers, finally emerging  from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's bumper crop  of best-selling titles, are now turning their attention to  upcoming releases.