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Video Gaming for Health: Major New Trends to Be Discussed as National Conference Gets Underway (Broadcast Newsroom)

BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON , May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest "gaming for health" trends -- including "exergaming," health elements in popular commercial games (e.g., a "disease" being unleashed inadvertently on the population in "World of Warcraft") and sophisticated, new videogames used to train emergency medical personnel -- will be outlined during a live, two-way phone-based ...

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Video Gaming for Health: Major New Trends to Be Discussed as National Conference Gets Underway (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

The latest gaming for health trends -- including "exergaming," health elements in popular commercial games (e.g., a disease being unleashed inadvertently on the population in World of Warcraft) and sophisticated, new videogames used to train emergency medical personnel -- will be outlined during a live, two-way phone-based blogger/online news event at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday (May 8, 2008).

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19:06 (BST), 06/05/2008 SNAP Mobile Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS JavaOne - San Francisco, CA and Espoo, ... (gamesindustry.biz)

JavaOne - San Francisco, CA and Espoo, Finland - SNAP Mobile, Nokia's end-to end solution for connected mobile gaming in Java TM technology, has today announced its latest Software Development Kit (SDK 2.0). After several years of market deployment and continuous technology development based on developer feedback, the SNAP Mobile SDK 2.0 has evolved to make game development even more intuitive ...

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Microsoft's Unangst: 'PC Will Always Be At The Center Of Innovation' (Gamasutra)

For several years, Microsoft has been building its Games For Windows initiative in an attempt to breathe new life into the PC gaming market - which, depending on who you ask, is either dead and buried, thriving like never before, or anywhere in between. In 2006, then-Microsoft VP Peter Moore declared that the company had "neglected the PC business" in the wake of its Xbox focus. Since then, ...

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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Steams Ahead (IGN PC)

The latest title from S2 Games will be a featured steam download. May 6, 2008 - Independent game developer S2 Games and Valve today announced that Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is now available through the Steam digital download client.

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