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Microsoft will not reduce the price of its Xbox 360. So said John Porcaro, group manager of PR and communications for Microsoft U.S. After ongoing rumors that Microsoft would slash the price of its gaming console, Porcaro used his blog to set the record straight. "If you've been holding off picking...
Video game titan Electronic Arts on Wednesday announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mythic Entertainment. Mythic is recognized for its success in the online gaming space with the "Dark Age of Camelot." The company is currently developing "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning" under lic...
U.S. District Court Judge James Brady in Baton Rouge has granted a temporary stay on a new Louisiana law signed last week that would outlaw the sale of violent video games to children under 18. The request for a stay was made by two industry organizations -- the Entertainment Software Association an...
The video game industry is feeling the strain of slower summer sales and console transitions, with stock prices of several of the top publicly traded game publishers taking a big hit this June. With talk of options backdating becoming the next major Wall Street scandal -- more than 30 companies are ...
As the future of video gaming services comes into focus, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are all enhancing their online gaming services in a bid to offer gamers richer, more challenging interplay experiences than they can find when playing just by themselves. What is not as easy to discern is how the ...
The Federal Trade Commission reported on Friday that a settlement has been reached with the companies behind the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games, which were sued for deceptive practices over hidden sexual content in the game. The companies ...
Nintendo is forecasting minimal losses with its next-generation game console, Wii. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said Tuesday that he is confident that Wii will compete well against the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation 3 when it debuts sometime in the fourth quarter of this yea...
Dell looked beyond its usual volume business to speed and style this week, rolling out three new XPS entertainment and gaming PCs, including a hybrid desktop-notebook with 20-inch screen that can stay in the office or hook together to go. That computer, the XPS M2010, was rounded out by the XPS 700 ...
Microsoft is like the earth. When it moves, people notice. Among the Redmond, Wash., softzilla's recent maneuvers are its purchase of Massive Inc., of New York City, and its imminent -- if The Wall Street Journal is to be believed -- acquisition of Third Screen Media, of Boston. Massive provides a p...
In a move to appeal to a wider audience, Nintendo is rebranding a portion of its line of handheld gaming titles. The video game giant on Tuesday said it will begin branding its more casual Nintendo DS titles under the new Touch Generations label beginning in June. Touch Generations will be one eleme...
Confirming wide speculation on the price of its next-generation console, Nintendo said this week that its new Wii gaming machine will retail for under $250. The Japanese game company also said it would aim to ship six million of the new consoles during the first fiscal year of its availability. In a...
Being branded illegal by federal government authorities hasn't stunted the growth of online gambling, which will become a US$20 billion worldwide industry by 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying arm of the commercial ...
A video game based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., the deadliest episode of school violence in the U.S., is stirring up controversy this week. The online game, "Super Columbine Massacre RPG," has been available on the underground Internet for the past year, but so...
Bolstering what some are calling clear evidence that the gaming industry is moving online, Microsoft claimed that its Xbox Live service has passed the 24 million download mark. The milestone comes just months after the Xbox 360 launch last November. Xbox Live is Microsoft's platform for high-definit...
Opera Software on Wednesday announced plans to bring a Web revolution to the living room. The Norway-based browser developer intends to do this through a partnership with Nintendo. Specifically, Opera is putting its browser on Nintendo's much-anticipated new generation Wii console. Wii users can bro...
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