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The video gaming industry has seen huge growth over the past few years with the emergence of the massive multiplayer online model. These video games, examples of which include "World of Warcraft" and "Everquest II," allow thousands of players to interact simultaneously over the Internet in a persist...
The debut last week of "Rock Band" from MTV and EA has turned the holiday shopping season into the staging ground for an historic battle of the music video game bands, with "Rock Band" going up against the current industry heavyweight, Activision's "Guitar Hero III." The competition will be steep, w...
November marks the one-year anniversary of the release of both Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 as well as the second anniversary of the debut of Microsoft's Xbox 360. It has been a long year for the three console makers, one in which the former leaders, Microsoft and Sony, were blindsided by...
Trying to bring more independent and small developers into the PlayStation 3 fold, Sony announced Monday that it has lowered the price of the PS3 Software Developers Kit by some 50 percent. The console maker has also given the SDK a boost and integrated programming tools developed by SN Systems to ...
AMD is weaving together several lines of high-end components to create a new platform aimed at enthusiast PC computing. Codenamed "Spider," AMD's PC platform combines the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors, ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics processors with Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support, AMD 7-Ser...
Fountainhead Entertainment and Id Software, the developer behind the "Doom" and "Quake" video game series, have announced they have come together to create a new division at Id Software: Id Mobile. The software developer's new arm will create games for cell phones, the handheld Nintendo DS and Sony'...
Intel announced Sunday it has made two important leaps with its new server and high-end PC processors: They are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside the processors; plus, they are the first to be manufactured on the comp...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OL...
Microsoft announced a new tool to help parents limit the amount of time their children spend playing video games on the Xbox 360 Wednesday. With the Family Timer, parents can program an appropriate amount of gaming and entertainment time on the console for their children on a daily or weekly basis.
Advanced Micro Devices has turned to graphic chip technology to boost the power of its latest high-end processor, the FireStream 9170 Stream Processor, unveiled Thursday. The hybrid chip taps into the "massive parallel processing power" found in graphics processing units and leverages it to meet the...
Hackers were able to make their copies of the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 versions of the game "Manhunt 2" even more violent less than one day after the game was released Oct. 31. The discovery could put Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rockstar Games on the defensive once again, h...
"Star Wars" fans got a lot to think about following the announcement Tuesday from LucasArts and BioWare that the two companies have teamed up on what they call an "interactive entertainment" product. "LucasArts has a deep commitment to developing compelling stories and characters for the unique medi...
To mark its second birthday Monday, Meebo unveiled a surprise for its users -- applications for the Meebo platform. With the announcement, the instant messaging site joins social networks such as Facebook and MySpace that have opened up their platform to third-party developers. The first round of ap...
There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd co...
Maintaining a solid lead among hardcore gamers in its competition with Sony, Microsoft has seemingly decided to train its sights on Nintendo and the threat posed by the Wii. On Monday Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Xbox 360 Arcade, a bare-bones system that includes the Xbox 36...
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