Big Picture won't turn your media center into a game console, but it definitely makes outputting high end PC games to your living room a smoother experience.
The Akwesasne Mohawk Casino in Hogansburg, established under a 1999 compact with the state, now has more than 1, 800 slot machines, table games and a 150-room hotel.
The company is also working on a Steam "box" - a set-top device that will let people play games on a big-screen TV in their living room.
There is processing done at the camera and on the XBOX, but the user must stand in a certain place in the room and games are limited to non-complex titles that take minimal compute resources.
Peter Konig, who also designs characters for video games, sat in a pitch-dark room, before a glowing screen.
I've spent a lot of time with him, we get on very well and at the World Cup we'd sit in a room together and watch the other games.
In a few years, it's likely we'll see an all-out battle between the likes of Virgin, Sky, Microsoft, Sony and even the BBC, Apple or Google to own your home's de facto entertainment hub - providing movies, music, television and games via a web connection in your living room.
Sports fans can watch their hometown teams' live games from another room in the house on a tablet, or in another country as the action happens.
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With Kinect, Xbox 360 transformed gaming and entertainment in the living room with a whole new way to play games and find entertainment - no controller required.
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The lucky folk over at Refinery 29 got a tour of the New York campus, complete with games room, library and, well, you imagine it and they probably had it.
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And the ceiling of a newly built weight room caved, throwing into doubt whether the Games could even proceed as scheduled.
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With all the build-up to England games, including a look around the stadia, BBCi gives living-room supporters a real flavour of the atmosphere and tension of Germany.
Summer is filled with distractions and trying to keep your focus on big initiatives while everyone else is off frolicking or when you can smell the newly-mown grass outside your living room window as you drill yourself on logic games is a formidable task.
Instead, we could find ourselves with, basically, a souped-up iPad that can run games and other apps through the living room TV.
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For family fun, try the hotel's game room, replete with pinball, air hockey and video games and a four-lane five-pin Canadian bowling alley.
We were shown a video of someone playing Xbox games and making it seem like it's snowing in the room, for example.
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He spoke after the first of a series of daily ministerial meetings - in the Cobra briefing room - to be held throughout the Games period.
Particularly versus the latter, Microsoft knew it would be engaged in a war for the living room and the future of digital entertainment distribution including, but beyond, games.
The England squads will stay in a new hotel built as part of a deal between the FA and Hilton, where they will have their own private dining area and games room.
Sony has already shown a strong commitment to more artistic, independent games, and more flexibility on pricing gives those small devs more room to play.
If there were any statisticians in the Milan dressing room then they may have known that Barcelona had won both of its previous games during a papal conclave.
The Camp Room is decked out with two large flat-screen TVs, a library of videos and games (Legos, Connect Four, Sorry), three computers, water noodles, boogie boards and even microscopes.
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And as long as video games continue to utilize violence primarily as a game play element rather than a narrative one, there is no room to deal with acts and implications of sexual violence in a mature, narrative fashion.
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The Bluetooth portable speaker doubles as mobile home theaterin the office, garage or dorm room, providing the same impressive audio when playing movies, TV shows, or games on a connected mobile device. boomBOTTLE also features a built-in microphone for use as an enhanced speakerphone capable of delivering clear, echo-free phone conversations.
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Under a deal struck in 2005, Locog booked around 600, 000 room nights in London during the course of the games, for Olympic officials, media and others.
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