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Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1 million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and fire damage, the company said. The affected game consoles were made before January 12, 2004, except in continental Europe, where the cutoff date is October 23, ...
Take-Two Interactive Media may not have hit a home run, but the video-game maker swatted a solid double against its major opponent, Electronic Arts, when it cemented a deal with Major League Baseball. Take-Two, developer of the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, signed a long-term agreement ...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property ri...
Sony seems to be finding success for its portable PlayStation, or PSP, with nearly a million units shipped in less than two months, but that is not stopping the electronics giant from planning new features for the device. In a recent talk, Sony executive Ken Kutaragi boasted of 800,000 PSP units shi...
After eight years at the helm, TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey has decided to relinquish the CEO's chair when a successor is named. Ramsey will continue in his role as chairman. TiVo's struggles to gain market share in the digital video recorder (DVR) market that it pioneered are well documented. Last w...
In the doldrums of January, how could it be hard to sell Tahiti? Perhaps that was TiVo's thought when it named the strategy it unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. "Tahiti" is the umbrella term for the company's plans for a host of premium services designed to compete ag...
Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year. Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) went on sale in Japan this week a...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
2005 will see the next big battle for the home. The concept of the digital hub is slowly becoming reality, and both TiVo and Microsoft are making a run for the gold. ReplayTV is all but gone. Apple seems to have taken a pass on the entire concept. Sony is a player but has never been able to gain t...
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray.
The proliferation of video servers was amazing at the EHX show, as was the cost of some of these devices. The norm seemed to be about what PCs sold for in the early 1980s -- $2,000 and up -- and you certainly could see strong margins even if you couldn't see strong volumes at these prices. I rea...
Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...
Landing a contract with a major record label can be nirvana for an artist, but it's a heaven out of reach for many musicians. That's because backing an act is risky business. And while record companies can make millions from an artist's success, they can also lose millions, if the artist fails to ca...
Forget about a spot on the grassy knoll: A new Internet video game offers players the opportunity to shoot President John F. Kennedy themselves, for a $9.99 download. JFKReloaded, released today, the 41st anniversary of the president's death, is a first-person game in which the player sees the view ...
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