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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the upcoming release of the long-rumored new version of the Xbox 360 gaming console, a system with beefed-up storage capacity, a high-definition port, a black case and more. The unit, called the "Xbox 360 Elite," will sell for about $480 and be in stores April 29, Mi...
Popular video games, such as Electronic Arts' "Madden NFL," have been viewed traditionally as an enemy rather than an ally in the educational process. After all, many educators have questioned: What good can possibly come from students sitting and banging away at gaming consoles for hours in an ofte...
The less-than-stellar sales for Sony's next-generation video game console PlayStation 3 continued Thursday as the platform was made available in Europe. According to reports from around Europe, the scene bore little resemblance to the frenzy that greeted the release of the PlayStation 2 console in 2...
Ill-willed players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system managed to gain access to other players' accounts by using pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information. By making numerous calls to the Xbox Live customer support center, t...
Rumors have been circulating for months about a black Xbox 360, and now they appear to be confirmed: The Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, due at the end of April, will reportedly be shipped in black -- but just for a limited time. With HDMI output and a 120 GB hard drive, the $479 Xbox 360 Elite will inclu...
Bill Gates is not used to finishing in second place but the Microsoft chairman did just that this week, losing a virtual soccer match on penalty kicks to star Mexican player Rafael Marquez 2-1. Commemorating Microsoft's 20th anniversary in Mexico, Gates dropped the match to the international soccer ...
A new software update for Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles includes Bluetooth support, enhanced downloading and the ability to help a Stanford University distributed-computing program hoping to cure protein-related diseases. Dubbed "Firmware 1.60," the upgrade can be installed directly to Internet-conn...
Mario must be feeling super today. The latest game console sales figures for America, compiled by NPD Group, show his creator, Nintendo, outdistancing the competition by thousands of units. There were 485,000 Nintendo DS units sold in February and 335,000 sales of Nintendo's newest console, Wii, acc...
The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that Stanford University researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer. The Tokyo-based Sony s...
Nintendo Wii owners will be able to do battle against each other online for the first time beginning in June, after partnering with a company that specializes in multiplayer gaming technology. Nintendo says it has partnered with GameSpy, a division of Fox Interactive Media, to provide Wii gamers onl...
Coming closer to founder Bill Gates' goal of providing gamers the chance to play online almost anywhere, Microsoft Wednesday said its Games for Windows Live will be activated May 8. When that happens, people playing PC games on computers running the new Windows Vista operating system will enjoy many...
As the video game market has matured over the past few years, so, apparently, has its fan base. No longer are video games the exclusive domain of young kids and teens; the age of gamers is on the rise, according to a new study. In fact, more than one in three U.S. adults who go online -- approximate...
Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home. PS3 Home is an immersive, virtual 3D world for PS3 gamers where they can create th...
A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a $400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology un...
Forget Nintendo Wii's motion-sensing controller. After less than six months on the market, Nintendo's groundbreaking video game controller technology may be on the way out following the unveiling of a game platform that controls gameplay using a player's thoughts and emotions. Emotiv Systems gave at...
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