Reuters - Microsoft Corp is set to cut
the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model to $299 from
$349, a source briefed on the matter said on Friday.
Reuters - Summer blockbuster
movies no longer end with the closing credits with rising
numbers of licensed video games being spun off from Hollywood
adventures, putting the gamer in the starring role. -- read full article
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:29:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Thursday it would
offer its users hundreds of popular casual online games as free
downloads backed by revenue from advertising integrated into
the games.
Reuters - Ireland should reform outdated gambling
laws that outlaw casinos and could benefit from an effective
ban on Internet gambling in the United States if it had the
right legislation, a government committee said. -- read full article
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:14:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Version 2.41 corrects defects in v2.40, released about a week ago, that caused some PlayStation 3 systems to stop working. -- read full article
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:41:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Technology - Video Games
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
