Disney’s new racing video game at core of big bet

March 11, 2009 – 9:28 am

By Jane Wardell, Associated Press
LONDON — Walt Disney is taking the wraps off an advanced new car racing video game that the entertainment company hopes will bolster its success in the lucrative gaming sector. As sales of video games prove relatively resilient in the economic downturn, Disney is betting that it can prosper broadly from [...]

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High Tech Titans Share Their Favorite Games

December 25, 2008 – 6:20 am

By Jake Widman, Computerworld
Do video games stimulate the intellect? Are gamers more social and better equipped to make decisions than nongamers?
Author Steven Johnson drew fire from cultural hand-wringers for presenting those assertions a couple of years ago in his book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter.

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