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Not all fun and (video) games
Big Huge Games in Timonium closed last May, taking nearly 100 jobs with it. Nine months later, a local studio that was launched from the ashes of the video game-maker shut down, too. And Zynga, which created FarmVille and Words with Friends, closed its...
Tags: Hunt Valley, Petroleum Industry, Gaming Industry, Entertainment, Gaming
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'Oz' fest: Chicago startup creates 'Wizard of Oz'-themed game
For RedEyeIt's not exactly the Yellow Brick Road, but a proverbial hop, skip and a jump up the Kennedy Expressway from the wizard of Oz's birthplace lies the origin of a new kind of Oz creation. More than a century after L. Frank Baum penned "The Wonderful ...Tags: L. Frank Baum, Gaming Industry, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Zynga closes Timonium video game studio in broader consolidation
Zynga, the video game maker best known for FarmVille and Words With Friends, has closed its Timonium office as part of a broader corporate consolidation, company officials said Monday. The company also made changes at three other offices, closing and...
Tags: Words With Friends (game), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Gaming Industry, FarmVille, Entertainment
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Video game creator Eugene Jarvis is Player One
The young guy in the trucker cap, skinny jeans and Air Jordans squeezed the trigger on the toy shotgun and his umpteenth round of “Big Buck Hunter” blasted to life. The guy was maybe 25 and so focused on bagging digital deer, the butt of the...
Tags: Nintendo Company Ltd., Genres, Arts and Culture, Companies and Corporations, Superman (fictional character)
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Defunct Big Huge Games goes on the auction block
Hundreds of computers, monitors, office furniture and digital design tools were auctioned Tuesday in Timonium to raise money for creditors of defunct Big Huge Games and its Rhode Island parent company, 38 Studios LLC.
Traces of a one-time creative...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Gaming Industry, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Entertainment, Gaming
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Friday Buffet: New 'Skyrim' trailer and the 'Hitman: Absolution' clip that's too hot for the Internet
News Roundup •••• Bethesda released their trailer for the “Dawnguard” expansion to “Skyrim,” and like everything in the last three years, it’s about vampires. Anything that breathes new life into...
Tags: Justin Bieber, Sex Crimes, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Entertainment, Gaming
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Medical Specialization, Parties and Movements, Gaming Industry, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Psychology
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Phelps, Maryland's Olympians welcomed home
Arriving aboard the Pride of Baltimore II and hailed by a cannon blast from the Constellation, Michael Phelps and Maryland's other Olympic athletes were celebrated in true local style Monday afternoon by elected officials and an Inner Harbor crowd. "I...
Tags: Katie Ledecky, Entertainment, Kevin Kamenetz, Martin O'Malley, Awards and Prizes
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Plenty of pain to go around
Earnings stung investors last week, showing that in a global economy U.S. investors will get hurt when a good chunk of the world is in pain. And there definitely is pain. As much of Europe sinks deeper into a recession, Spain reported a 25.02 percent...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economic Indicator, Labor Markets, Europe, UPS Inc.
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Zynga exec joins National 4-H Council Board of Trustees
CHEVY CHASE, MD - National 4-H Council is pleased to announce the newest addition to the Board of Trustees, Colleen McCreary. McCreary currently serves as Chief People Officer at Zynga Inc., where she grew the company from 130 employees to 3,000 in...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Columbia University, Economy, Business and Finance, Chevy Chase, Chase (tv program)
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Other Voices
Republicans are frantically trying to get U.S. Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri after his remark about abortion and rape, but not because it was offensive and ignorant. They're afraid he might lose and cost them a chance at a...Tags: Social Issues, Apple iPhone, Biofuels, Politics, Barack Obama
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Apple upsets Microsoft's record for most valuable company ever
CNNAs Apple's stock rose to new high on Monday, the technology giant set another record: It became the most valuable public company in history. Apple's market value -- the price of its stock multiplied by the number of outstanding shares -- hit $623 billion...Tags: Apple iPhone, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Apple TV, Petroleum Industry
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