AFP – Havana on Tuesday debuted a baseball video game which includes famous Cuban-born defectors long expunged from official memory here after they abandoned the Communist island to play in the United States.
AP – Game maker THQ Inc. said Tuesday it is set to release a video game based on “Up,” a movie by The Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar Animation Studios that is slated for theaters May 29.
AFP – US online videogame play is on the rise as growing numbers of teenagers turn to the Internet for opponents and game software, according to an NPD Group report released on Tuesday.
Macworld.com – THQ on Tuesday announced plans to release a game based on Disney/Pixarâ??s newest movie, â??Up.â?? The movie is coming this May, and the Up video game will be released this spring. Support is planned for seven platforms, including the Mac.
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Investor’s Business Daily – Sony sees the video game console race as a marathon, not a sprint.
PC World – Microsoft’s new Xbox 360′s been spotted in the wild, per Endgadget, and as you’ve possibly heard, it’s red. Why red? Probably because it’s a limited edition of a bells-and-whistles Elite-caliber model due out simultaneous with the release of Capcom’s survival horror blood-bonanza, Resident Evil 5. (It’s certainly not an ad campaign for tomatoes, spaghetti, or ketchup.)
Reuters – Vivendi is betting on its Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft games to boost profits this year, despite the global economic slump.
PC World – I’m not sure what to make of Spong’s riff on a Turkish website’s claim that computer manufacturer Acer is teaming up with Nvidia and Intel to manufacture their very own Wii.
Macworld.com – If old iMacs that lived immoral lives of sin are reincarnated into garbage disposals and Zunes, then the ones that lived noble and righteous lives are clearly reborn as Sega Dreamcasts.