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    Online Hate Activity Rises, Extremists Using Web 2.0 Technologies (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - A report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center highlights how extremists have turned to YouTube, Facebook, online games, and Second Life to recruit new members. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 17:23:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    'Penny Arcade,' 'Teenage Zombies' bring the funny (AP)
    AP - Late last year, when I was playing Valve's brilliant puzzle game "Portal," I felt a weird sensation: Laughter. I'm not sure when I first noticed it; perhaps it was when GLaDOS, the insane artificial intelligence that was tormenting me, promised "grief counseling and cake" after my ordeal. What really threw me was the idea that a video game could make me laugh out loud. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 20:42:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    GameStop Stops Selling Microsoft's Zune in Its Stores (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Retailer GameStop has decided to stop selling Microsoft's Zune media player. According to news reports, the decision was actually made about a month ago but was only recently made public. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 15:53:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Retailer GameStop Discontinues Zune Sales (PC World)
    PC World - GameStop is no longer going to sell Microsoft's Zune digital media players in its retail stores. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 17:20:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Greenpeace: Game Consoles Still Too Toxic (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Game consoles are one of the fastest growing segments of the electronics industry, so reducing the level of toxic components in the machines should be a top priority of manufacturers, the environmental group Greenpeace charged in a report released this week. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 17:59:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Microsoft Responds To GameStop Dropping Zune Sales (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software giant remains optimistic in the face of the latest obstacle to adoption of its portable media player. -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 19:27:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Rock acts ringing up sales via video games (Reuters)
    Reuters - Games like "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero III" have proved their ability to breathe new life into classic rock sales. But can they do the same for new music? -- read full article
    Fri, 23 May 2008 23:10:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Guitar Hero Takes a Page from Rock Band (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - While Michael Hollick, the actor who played the voice of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, complains that he didn't earn enough cash, fans of Guitar Hero are getting all the glory for themselves in the privacy of their own living rooms -- and Activision is giving them new gaming software to further the fantasy. -- read full article
    Thu, 22 May 2008 15:20:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Activision's "Guitar Hero" to get drums, microphone (Reuters)

    Show attendee Brian Weinberg plays Guitar Hero III on a Dell laptop during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 8, 2008. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)Reuters - Activision Inc is adding drums, bass guitar, and microphone to its popular "Guitar Hero" video game, a move aimed at winning away fans of MTV's rival musical title "Rock Band."


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    Thu, 22 May 2008 16:08:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Xbox 360's Wii-Style Controller: First Pictures? (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - Previous Internet reports have suggested Microsoft is working on a Nintendo Wii-style controller for the Xbox 360 under a project code-named Newton. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 18:01:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Greenpeace Pushes for Greener Video Game Consoles (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Greenpeace has released the results of its investigation into hazardous materials in next-generation video game consoles. The study reveals that the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 Elite and Microsoft Xbox 360 have all tested positive for hazardous chemicals. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 20:41:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Games Review: Gaming into shape with `Wii Fit' (AP)

    In this photo released by Nintendo, Thomas DelDuca, of Seneca, S.C., attends a demonstration of Wii Fit, Nintendo's new fun-and-fitness game for Wii, Monday, May 19, 2008, during a launch event at Central Park in New York.  Wii Fit includes the Wii Balance Board and a collection of dynamic activities that provides every member of the household with ways to get active. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, Nintendo)AP - If someone had pulled me away from "GoldenEye 007" in the late 1990s to tell me that I'd one day be using my video game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond's Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory.


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    Tue, 20 May 2008 14:42:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Electronic Arts Questions ESA Departures (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - It may seem recently that there's been an exodus from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). First came Activision/Vivendi's departure, and then again more recently with LucasArts just last week. But not all agree that it was the right thing to do. -- read full article
    Tue, 20 May 2008 16:45:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    Wii Fit Puts the Fun in Fitness (BusinessWeek Online)
    BusinessWeek Online - Nintendo's (ntdof.pk.PK) Wii strategy was conceived from the get-go to encourage a less sedentary form of gaming. Now the company is unveiling its calorie-burning coup de grce, Wii Fit. -- read full article
    Wed, 21 May 2008 12:08:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
    EA again extends Take-Two deadline (AP)
    AP - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. has for a third time extended the deadline for its $2 billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., but it did not raise the price as many analysts had expected. -- read full article
    Mon, 19 May 2008 13:40:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
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