Why I kept playing: confessions of a video game addictSure, it’s funny to laugh at the geeky online gamers spending hours (or days) glued to their screens, but for some, it’s a serious addiction with serious consequences. One such gamer has written an excellent piece detailing the destructive toll his addiction to EverQuest took on his life.
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Will the music video game survive The Beatles: Rock Band?
The Beatles: Rock Band is make or break time for the music video game. With a budget of close to $US100 million to make, can the investment pay off? asks Harold Goldberg
Gaming’s new frontier: social networking
Traditional video games take years to develop and market. Which is why social gaming (think, at a basic level, Scrabble over Facebook) is so appealing. Quick and cheap to build and with a massive potential player base.
Gaming the health system: rational response to bad policy
Hospital administrators who push the purchasing system to its limits have little to gain personally. They are merely trying to keep their hospitals afloat, says Tom Keating.
Spotlight on Pansy Ho
Portfolio looks at Pansy Ho, daughter of gaming billionaire Stanley Ho and the brains behind a new $1.2 billion megacasino in Macao.
MGM Mirage casino should ‘disengage’ from controversial Pansy Ho
New Jersey gaming regulators have advised that MGM Mirage should be “directed to disengage” from its Macao joint venture partner, Pansy Ho. Where does that leave James Packer?
We need to wind back the pub’s pokie addiction, too
It is common for the industry to present itself as a folksy, struggling community level business, providing mostly harmless fun to the suburban working class. Unfortunately the reality is vastly different, writes Charles Livingston.
Blow up the pokies… but not at the expense of the pub
Senator Steve Fielding’s taxation schedule and his plans to modify poker machines would devastate pubs and clubs and wipe many of them out of existence, writes Alex Mitchell.
Rudd needs to play cards right on Pay TV gambling
The Opposition will today challenge Kevin Rudd to walk the walk on gambling by banning pay-TV gambling services, writes Bernard Keane.
Crown gambling punts on the margin
James Packer’s Crown gambling operation is now also in the finance business, writes Glenn Dyer.
Have Packer’s US gaming plans cooled?
Has the worldwide credit crisis hit James Packer’s gaming and gambling business? Glenn Dyer writes.
