AP - Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:44:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it has complied with the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission's request for additional information
related to its takeover offer for rival Take-Two Interactive
Software .
Reuters - Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co
Ltd said on Tuesday it had launched its first game for Apple
Inc's iPod, broadening its target hardware to the top-selling
media player.
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
