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Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison took the wrapper off his company's long-awaited online components for the PlayStation 3 video game console Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Styling the new user communities as part of its "Game 3.0," Sony's offerings ar...
Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning cartoon series "South Park" is getting its first-ever high-definition episode, "Good Times With Weapons," and Microsoft's Xbox Live service will distribute it free for two weeks. "South Park" is the raunchy and irreverent comedy about the misadventures of four fou...
More than 40 percent of U.S. households with televisions now also have video game consoles, according to a new report released Monday by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services. By the fourth quarter of 2006, 41.1 percent of all TV households -- representing 45.7 million homes -- had video game co...
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft on Monday announced the upcoming launch of a 512 MB memory unit for the Xbox 360 video game console. The company also said it will bump up the "official size limit" of games presented on its Xbox Live Arcade game site from 50 MB to 150 MB...
The pioneering computer game "SimCity," first written for the Commodore 64 in 1985, is being released this summer for the Nintendo DS platform, game publisher Electronic Arts said Thursday. One of the most popular games of all time, "SimCity" involves the planning, creation and control of virtual ci...
Shortages of the PlayStation 3 video game console should be resolved by May, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America chief executive Jack Tretton. The console remains a hard-to-get item in some areas of the country. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and ha...
Citizens of Second Life, the online virtual world, have until now communicated silently via instant messaging and chat. They will soon be given the power of speech. Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, announced Tuesday it will add voice capabilities to the Second Life grid. The new feature is "part ...
Sony fired the latest salvo in the ongoing high-definition format war Monday when it announced that it will release its second Blu-ray Disc player for about US$400 less than its current one. Priced at about $600, the new BDP-S300 model will sport a new design, advanced audio codecs, Bravia Theater S...
The PlayStation 3 consoles about to be sold in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia will not be as compatible with PlayStation 2 games as those sold elsewhere. The news may bother many gamers, but it probably won't affect Sony's bottom line. "Whatever the game console manufacturers d...
The latest reports from the front lines in the video game console wars show that Nintendo's Wii was the U.S. market leader in January, according to new market research data. Sales figures for Wii were 436,000 units that month in the United States, compared with 294,000 units for Microsoft's Xbox 360...
"Star Wars" enthusiasts can finally begin their countdown to the release of "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Game maker LucasArts on Wednesday made public long sought details on the next installment of the "Star Wars" saga. Gamers can expect to see "TFU" on store shelves in November 2007 for the Xb...
Handheld computers have simplified many activities. Individuals can surf the Web, text message their friends, buy a new pair of pants and, increasingly, try to hit the jackpot in the lottery. Juniper Research expects the worldwide mobile gambling market to grow from $1.35 billion in 2006 to $16.6 bi...
To outsiders, it may often seem that video gamers live in a world of their own. That perception will soon come closer to reality following the announcement Monday that Richard Branson's Virgin Games division has partnered with Game Domain International to form a new PC game download service, "A Worl...
Since its heyday in the late 1990s, the PC game industry has seen its share of the video game market grow increasingly smaller. Cannibalized by the onslaught of gaming console powerhouse lines Sony PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox line, sales of CD-ROM-based PC games, while still robust at $970 mill...
Parents, beware: Your video gaming kids may now have a new argument to justify the hours they spend playing. A new study from the University of Rochester has found that playing high-action video games can actually be good for your vision. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process vi...
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