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US videogame sales continue downward slide

US videogame sales slid again in August as the industry hoped that hot titles and new motion-sensing controllers due out in coming months would reverse its fortunes. Revenue from videogame software and hardware tallied 818.9 million dollars, 10 percent less than the 910.3 million dollars taken in during the same month last year, according to data released Thursday ...

"Resident Evil" movie uses 3D to engage viewers

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Video gamers are used to immersing themselves into virtual worlds so filmmakers turning video games into movies are aiming to keep them as involved, by adding 3D. Sony Pictures' "Resident Evil: Afterlife," which opens September 10, is the first video game movie filmed in stereoscopic 3D. Writer/director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson even used the same ...

Military bases ban sale of video game that lets players 'shoot' US troops in Afghanistan

Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and "shoot" U.S. troops in Afghanistan. "Medal of Honor" by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood ...

No really, that's where I live _ Microsoft, Xbox sorry for blocking gamer from Fort Gay, W.Va.

Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay ...

Microsoft's long-awaited Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 videogame console will hit the Japanese market in November, the company said Wednesday, as competition in the sector heats up. Scheduled for a November 20 release, Kinect uses a 3D camera and motion recognition software to let people play videogames using natural body movements and voice commands, and does not ...

Xbox Live rules chief apologizes to W.Va. gamer suspended for listing real hometown: Fort Gay

Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the ...

Conventional wisdom tells us some things just shouldn't work, like the magical equilibrium of a Segue, the stupefying strength of Pykrete, and the over-the-top action of Call of Duty on the Nintendo DS. But sometimes insane ideas breed remarkable results, and with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized, developer n-Space proves once again that a surprisingly good version of ...

The Tower of Spirits features some of the trickiest level design ever to grace the series. While the "main" dungeons are fairly standard stuff -- find a weapon, use that weapon to acquire the boss key, kill the boss by exposing its weakness with your new acquisition -- the tower has less emphasis on formulaic gimmicks and centers around pure, brain-bending puzzles ...

Way back in 1980, a year after the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series appeared, came Fighting Fantasy, a series of "gamebooks" that melds pen-and-paper RPGs and the mechanic central to "Choose Your Own Adventure" -- picking your path through a story.

The series is in the middle of a relaunch, which also includes a videogame. The first videogame based on the ...

What Happened to the Fun

Since the music and cine industry were hit harder by the internet bootleggers, a lot of of the money is now accepting fabricated in video games. This is not too say that video amateur are not aggregate online, but they are aggregate a bit beneath as humans can not amount out how to accomplish these copies playable on assertive new ...

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