Activision’s merger with vivendi will shake gaming biz (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Friday 25 July 2008 at 9:30 am

People crowd into the Activision Inc. booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 23, 2002 in Los Angeles. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Let the games begin.


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Activision-vivendi merger will shake gaming biz (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Thursday 24 July 2008 at 9:30 pm

People crowd into the Activision Inc. booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 23, 2002 in Los Angeles. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Let the games begin.


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’serious’ video games aid training for real world emergencies (afp)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Thursday 24 July 2008 at 9:30 am

This image shows a scene from a video training game designed for emergency services which depicts a street after a bomb explosion. The game ' Triage training' was designed in Coventry, southern England, by TruSim, a division of Blitz Games Studios Ltd, which creates 'Serious Games'.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A bomb explodes in a busy shopping street, leaving injured shoppers requiring rapid assistance — thankfully it is only on a computer screen, but it has a deadly serious purpose.


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Square enix launches its first ipod game (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 9:30 pm

Shoppers make their way past the Apple Store at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois, October 22, 2007. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co Ltd said on Tuesday it had launched its first game for Apple Inc’s iPod, broadening its target hardware to the top-selling media player.


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Video-game news: best of 2008, so far (ap)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 9:30 am

AP - Real news from the virtual world:

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Chipmaker connects a wireless world and makes it run faster (investor’s business daily)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 9:30 pm

Investor’s Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.

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Sony ps3 update locks consoles, web site attacked (newsfactor)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 9:30 am

NewsFactor - Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony’s PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now Sony’s PS3 firmware update is turning some consoles into bricks.

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Game makers eye young girls with “boogie superstar” (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Monday 21 July 2008 at 9:30 pm

Nintendo Co's Wii game console is displayed as a woman looks at a game software title for Wii at at a Sofmap store in Tokyo's Akihabara district April 24, 2008. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)Reuters - If “American Idol” and a modern fairy tale combined to create a video game, you’d get “Boogie SuperStar” — Electronic Art’s latest game for the Nintendo Wii system.


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Game group falls on fear demand has peaked (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Monday 21 July 2008 at 9:30 am

'Grand Theft Auto IV' video game boxes are displayed on a rack inside a GameStop store in New York prior to the midnight release of the video game, April 28, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - British computer games retailer Game Group smashed first-half profit forecasts, boosted by new releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Wii Fit, but its shares slumped on concern that demand has peaked.


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Sony ps3 catching up to wii in japanese sales (reuters)

Blogged under Gaming by admin on Sunday 20 July 2008 at 9:30 pm

A gamer plays a Sony Playstation 3 game in a file photo. Nintendo's Wii game console once again outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in June, but its lead is fading, a game magazine publisher said. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) Wii game console once again outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 in Japan in June, but its lead is fading, a game magazine publisher said.


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