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When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.'s Wii and play a few rounds of "Wii Sports" or "Mario Party 8."
The powerful "Cell" microprocessor that fuels Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 video game console will be available in IBM mainframe computers so those high-performance machines can run complex online games and virtual worlds.
The company responsible for marketing successes like Dungeons & Dragons and Magic The Gathering is betting its newest game will develop the same cult-like following.
The Cartoon Network is developing a "massively" multiplayer online game in the vein of "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest" for kids 6 to 14.
The buzz at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo usually surrounds the latest new video games. This year, the hot topic isn't a sneak peek at "Halo 3" or "Metal Gear Solid 4" but a price tag — namely, the $499 and $599 Sony Corp. said it will ask for its eagerly awaited, next-generation PlayStation 3 gaming consoles when they hit retail shelves around the world on Nov. 17.
Professional video gaming is set to debut on cable television later this year, potentially paving the way for the kings and queens of game controllers to become as familiar to American households as the faces of Johnny Chan or Annie Duke in televised poker.
Walk into any store that sells or rents video games, and chances are you'll find only a few shelves, if any, for personal computer games amid the aisles dominated by console software.
San Jose Mercury-News scribe Mike Antonucci reports that Common Sense Media has issued a press release urging parents to boycott the game. Not bad advice, actually, since no one under the age of 17 should be playing Manhunt 2, anyway...
This week in Critical Mass, we take a look at the review scores for Ratchet and Clank Future, Zack and Wiki, Ace Combat 6, Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles, Eye of Judgment, Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, Conan, and Clive Barker's Jericho.
Sony is still reeling from sales of the PS3 compared to their last generation offering. Nintendo exec's will be dining on Condor eggs and washing it down with cool thick glass of White Tiger milk.
Remmers single-handedly saved the bank accounts of Forza 2 fans. After much internet insanity, and hopefully a bit of commonsense, Turn 10 and Microsoft have announced that they are lowering the price of the upcoming map from $7.50 down to the bargain basement price of $5.
Do you own a modified Wii? Wait, don't answer that. For those bad people that do have one Mario Galaxy has made its way to these here tubes.
It revised its annual net profit forecast to 275 billion yen, up 12.2 percent on its previous estimate and 58 percent higher than the previous year. It also hiked its dividend forecast for the year to 1,090 yen from 960 yen.
Although revenues, largely down to the sales of the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite, jumped 43 per cent to JPY 243 billion (USD 2.1 billion), last year's operating loss of JPT 43.5 billion (USD 381 million) more than doubled to JPY 96.7 billion (USD 841 m …
On November 20th the Nintendo DS will finally be getting the long talked about and thought to be canceled DS TV Tuner. The Tuner is essentially some rabbit ears sticking out the back of your DS. How much will you have to pay for the such a luxury? Why only $60 or 6800 yen.
Wall Street made a reasonable job of reassuring investors that the economy wasn't as bad as feared last week. Blue chip companies such as Apple and American Express beat earning expectations and Google continued its meteoric rise says Betonmarket's Michael Wright.
As of typing this, the news station that I have in the background states that over 450,000 acres have burned and more than 1 million people being evacuated from the San Diego area due to the wildfires raging through.
I'm going to label this story rumor as of right now since there is no other confirming story. An internal email sent from a source that would like to remain anonymous outlines EA's plan to get their rising costs in line with revenue.
Have you ever saw an advert in a video game and thought to yourself, "Hmm, I could really go for a nice cold Bawls right now. But, all I see is an ad and no way to purchase it while I play." The days of intrusive ads are over and the era of immersive ads is upon us.
Insomniac's sci-fi FPS Resistance: Fall of Man may have missed out on a couple of hard-fought nominations at last night's BAFTA awards, but it can finally go to sleep at night with a clear conscience.
According to IGN's GamerMetrics, music and rhythm games have generated a total 70 million page views thus far in 2007, compared with 20 million page views in 2006 -- a 250 percent increase.
Today, Microsoft confirmed to GameSpot that Forza 2's first downloadable track is off the blocks and will be delivered over Xbox Live on October 26. Forza 2's 14th track is Twin Ring Motegi, which is based on a real-world track designed by Honda in 1997 for testing cars.
Achaea is one of the most exciting RPG game that I've played in a long time!
I once read some where (and I wont be able to remember where) that McDonalds' goal was to open so many restaurants that a person in the United States would never be more than a mile and a half from a Big Mac. World domination via saturated fats is so 20th century.
Games are never finished until they're finished. We hear this spoken many times over and over again, but Will Wright is sticking it to that mantra and stating that Spore is roughly 6 months away from being be completed. We can hope, but we'll just have to wait and see...
A small bug in the U.S. released version of Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction that occurs at the start up prevents you from playing the game. When the game is loaded it scans the PS3's HDD to determine free space to load files onto it.
A great article written by Jeffrey D. Barnett, a veteran of the war in Iraq, about the impact of video games on his life before and after the war.
One of Rock Band's most attractive features, the ability to play Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive" alongside other virtual musicians over the internet in the fake band of your own design, may be more limited than originally thought.
Beautiful Katamari, Hellgate London, Demi Grabs a Wii, Brütal Legend, NPDs, What Makes A Game Great?, Fighting Games, Win A Prize Pack with Orange Box! Your Emails and more!
In its Q3 2007 call to analysts, video rental service Netflix said that it would consider delivering movies to its subscribers via internet-connected HD-DVD and Blu-ray devices, which include the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3...
Evidently it's not out of the question that a senior producer of one of Sony's most creative titles would disregard the wildfires of southern California to spread the gospel of The Eye of Judgment on the air.
First of all, I would like to send a message to all the people who complained to Activision, Harmonix and Red Octane that they were not using the "Original Track by the Original Artist" in Guitar Hero 1 & 2. @!$%# you people. @!$%# you very much...
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