AFP - A bomb explodes in a busy shopping street, leaving injured shoppers requiring rapid assistance -- thankfully it is only on a computer screen, but it has a deadly serious purpose.
Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties. -- read full article
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:24:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console once again outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3
in Japan in June, but its lead is fading, a game magazine
publisher said.
Reuters - British computer games retailer Game
Group smashed first-half profit forecasts, boosted by
new releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Wii Fit, but its
shares slumped on concern that demand has peaked.
NewsFactor - Sony is feeling some gaming-division woes this week with a double PlayStation 3 whammy. First, Sony's PlayStation Web site fell victim to SQL-injection attacks. Now Sony's PS3 firmware update is turning some consoles into bricks. -- read full article
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:54:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - If "American Idol" and a modern
fairy tale combined to create a video game, you'd get "Boogie
SuperStar" -- Electronic Art's latest game for the Nintendo Wii
system.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The site runs a script that pretends to do an online security scan of your computer and presents a bogus warning message that your PC is infected with malware, researchers said. -- read full article
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company released firmware 2.40 Tuesday, and reports of problems started flowing in soon after on the official PlayStation 3 message board. -- read full article
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:01:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 for the
seventh consecutive month in Japan in June, a game magazine
publisher said. -- read full article
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:24:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is looking to maintain recent Xbox sales' momentum in the face of stiff competition from Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii unit. -- read full article
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:32:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - The makers of video game "Rock Band
2" said on Monday the sequel to last year's best-selling
predecessor "Rock Band" will be released for the Xbox in
September, months ahead of key rival "Guitar Hero."
