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Nintendo unveiled a new game developing tool for its Wii video game console Wednesday. The company hopes the WiiWare tool will attract budding game programmers as well as experienced independent game makers interested in putting their programming skills to the test on the next-generation console and...
Game personalization, or soft modding, has been a hobby among hardcore gamers for at least a decade. In recent years, however, the underground pastime has been gaining popularity, so much so that the art of creating a personalized version of a video game is even being taught at summer cyber camps. I...
Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz. Although the increased speed does not affect games currently being sold, those under development could afford players an i...
Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and add...
After a ban in Ireland and the UK, as well as an Adults Only rating from the U.S. Entertainment Software Ratings Board, Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games, said Thursday it has temporarily suspended the release of "Manhunt 2" for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable video game syste...
Sony has bet its PlayStation 3 fortunes on some 380 new games coming to store shelves in 2008 Kaz Hirai reportedly told just over 7,000 shareholders Thursday at the company's 90th annual shareholder meeting held in Tokyo. The PS3 maker believes the new titles will boost sales of the next-generation ...
The British Board of Film Classification on Tuesday put the kibosh on the scheduled July 13 release of "Manhunt 2" in that country. The independent board, established in 1912, rejected the video game headed to Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's Wii because of its "unrelenting focus on stalking and...
Sony, maker of the PlayStation line of gaming consoles, is reportedly in hot water with the Church of England, which has accused the company of desecrating one of its churches through its representation in a video game. At issue is the depiction of the Manchester Cathedral in the video game "Resista...
Forget Nintendinitis -- the new affliction for those who enjoy gaming just a little too much may be "Acute Wiiitis," which was first reported Thursday in a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site. "A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pa...
It is perhaps one of the most distinctive sounds in video game history -- the "wakka, wakka, wakka" of 1980s pop culture phenom "Pac-Man." Now, 26 years after the game was first introduced, Microsoft has kept the beloved sound but flipped the script on Pac-Man, Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde with the...
Intel unveiled its 3 Series chipset family designed for playing high-definition media and for supporting the company's 45nm Penryn processors due later this year. The highly anticipated chipsets, formerly codenamed "Bearlake," were presented at the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan. The first chi...
The PS3 hasn't been doing well. It has been getting thrashed by the Xbox 360 and the Wii. To add insult to injury, even the PS2 has outsold it -- and it's obsolete. It now looks like Sony is executing a comeback plan, and that the PS3 may be looking interesting again. The Microsoft patent thing tha...
Starting Thursday, PlayStation 3 owners in North America will be able to add some new capabilities to their gaming console with the release of the latest PS3 firmware update. The regular system update from Sony bumps up the appearance of standard definition PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games as wel...
Speculation surrounding a new Sony PlayStation 3 model sporting an 80 GB hard disk drive has gone into overdrive once again after the company's South Korean unit announced the arrival of the newest addition to the console line on its Web site. The system, according to Sony Korea, will become availab...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life. Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstand...
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