Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games Foyer, Europa Building, Teesside University, Middlesbrough Animex Workshops give you access to some of the most highly respected artists in the animation and games industry, giving you a unique opportunity to meet and learn from the best. Workshops are suitable for the 16+ audience and do not require prior knowledge.
Rumor: Next PlayStation coming in 2013 (Photo credit: AP) There have been plenty of leaks, whispers and rumors about the next Xbox for a few months now, but there hasn't been a lot of talk about Sony's plans for the next generation. Kotaku, though, claims to have uncovered some inside information about the system that, on the surface, makes it sound like the next generation console race is going to be a tight one -- and begin next year.
D.I.C.E. Summit 2015 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit 2015 is an exclusive high-level conference, gathering the brightest and most creative minds dedicated to exploring approaches to the creative process and artistic expression as they uniquely apply to the development of interactive entertainment. D.I.C.E. is also home to the industry's premier annual awards show, the D.I.C.E. Game design Game design is the design of games. It is the art of elaborating rules to facilitate interaction between players, for playful, educating or simulation purposes. Game design can be applied to different media, such as board games, card games, casino games, role-playing games, video games, war games or to itself, an example of metadesign. It is scientifically underpinned in game theory. Baur, Wolfgang.
Zelda in Minecraft! Video - StumbleUpon Log in Video Games: Raw Cynthia Yildirim About » ECGC - East Coast Game Conference The East Coast Game Conference, the largest gathering of video game professionals on the East Coast, returns for its 6th year! The conference provides video game professionals, academics and industry with an engaging program and opportunities for networking and collaboration. The conference is presented by the Triangle Game Initiative, a non-profit trade association of video game companies in North Carolina and the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a non-profit trade association of video game developers around the world. The core and focus of the two-day conference are seven simultaneous tracks of talks and panels covering a wide range of game development topics appealing to programmers, artists, designers, producers, students, academics and business executives. The six tracks are: Design, Programming, Art, Writing, Serious Games, Mobile, and Career.
Immersion (virtual reality) The name is a metaphoric use of the experience of submersion applied to representation, fiction or simulation. Immersion can also be defined as the state of consciousness where a "visitor" (Maurice Benayoun) or "immersant" (Char Davies)’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an artificial environment; used for describing partial or complete suspension of disbelief, enabling action or reaction to stimulations encountered in a virtual or artistic environment. The degree to which the virtual or artistic environment faithfully reproduces reality determines the degree of suspension of disbelief. The greater the suspension of disbelief, the greater the degree of presence achieved.
Mass Effect 3 Meets Kingdoms of Amalur - PS3 News at IGN EA has announced a crossover between Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Mass Effect 3. Playing the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur will unlock two Reckoning-inspired in-game items in Mass Effect 3, while playing the Mass Effect 3 demo will unlock armor and a weapon in Kingdoms of Amalur. Playing Mass Effect 3 will unlock N7 armor and omni-blades in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Cave automatic virtual environment General characteristics of the CAVE[edit] A CAVE is typically a video theater sited within a larger room. The walls of a CAVE are typically made up of rear-projection screens, however flat panel displays are becoming more common. The floor can be a downward-projection screen, a bottom projected screen or a flat panel display.
AT PLAY: COMPELLING, DYSTOPIC &FALLOUT 3& Set in a post-nuclear-war landscape, "Fallout 3" is an almost unbearably grim video game. Brett McCallon explains why he can't stop playing it ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE I'm clambering through the ruins of what was once an elementary school, now a hideout for a post-apocalyptic gang of criminals. Interactive Media Institute - Research - Anxiety Disorders Anxiety disorders, as a group, are the most common mental illness in America. More than 19 million American adults are affected by these debilitating illnesses each year. Children and adolescents can also develop anxiety disorders including, phobias, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Most people experience feelings of anxiety before an important event such as a big exam, business presentation, or a first date. Anxiety disorders, however, are illnesses that fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear that are chronic, unremitting, and can grow progressively worse.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Box Art - Dallas Video Game Box Art for the next Call of Duty chapter has turned up on the Electric Hydra forums. You may find the box art and logo for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 in the gallery to the left. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was the first of the series to take place in modern theaters of war. Call of Duty originally started as a PC game by developer InifinityWard - running on a modified version of the quake engine and showed off in full force at QuakeCon 2003.