AFP - Videogame colossus Electronic Arts has said an online Scrabble game customized for Facebook will be released this month to challenge the popular unauthorized version Scrabulous.
USATODAY.com - If you see your nephew or daughter waving a plastic wand like a crazy person at the TV, rather than calling a shrink, you might want to dial your broker. Novel types of controllers, like the motion sensitive wand used to move on-screen characters on the Nintendo Wii console, have shown investors that video games have burst light years beyond the dark basements of geeks. -- read full article
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:53:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
PC Magazine - PlayStation 3 owners who had to suffer through the long weekend without the perks of the recently released and then pulled 2.40 update can officially end their gnashing of teeth. -- read full article
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
AFP - Ubisoft said Tuesday it has bought Canadian special effects studio Hybride Technologies in a move that will wed the French firm's hot videogames with Hollywood films.
Reuters - Activision Inc
shareholders approved a deal on Tuesday to merge with French
telecommunications and media group Vivendi SA's games
unit, creating a public company called Activision Blizzard.
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it complied with a
regulator's request for more information on its Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc bid, moving a step closer to
buying its rival.
AFP - Videogame colossus Electronic Arts has said an online Scrabble game customized for Facebook will be released this month to challenge the popular unauthorized version Scrabulous.
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.
