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Microsoft cutting price of high-end Xbox 360 (AP)

Microsoft cutting price of high-end Xbox 360

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of the high-end Xbox 360 console by $100, matching Sony's $100 price cut for the PlayStation 3 last week.


Marketing guru predicts the Next Big Thing in video games

Technology / Software

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nintendo calls it the Wii Remote. You call it the Wiimote. Al Ries calls it a motion-detecting wand.


Review: `Arkham Asylum' is Batman at his best (AP)

Review: 'Arkham Asylum' is Batman at his best

Technology / Software

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The video-game industry has defeated more superheroes than Lex Luthor could ever dream of. Superman, Aquaman, Iron Man, X-Men: All rendered lifeless by forces more focused on making a buck than on ...


Customers check Sony's Bravia LCD TVs at a shop in Tokyo

Sony launches cash-for-televisions scheme in Britain

Technology / Business

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan's Sony Corp. on Wednesday launched a scheme in Britain to encourage cash-strapped consumers to swap old televisions for new ones in a plan that mirrors worldwide car trade-in initiatives.


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PlayStation 3 price cut by $100; slimmer model to come

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- After months of rumors and anticipation, Sony Corp. is slashing the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 in hopes of boosting sales of the console ahead of the important holiday season.


July video game sales show sharp decline

Technology / Business

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Hurt by the recession and few hit game launches, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in July, showing an even bigger decline than what many analysts were expecting.


Review: `Madden NFL 10' is franchise's best yet (AP)

Review: `Madden NFL 10' is franchise's best yet

Technology / Software

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Football fans have grown accustomed to spending their Sundays in front of gigantic high-def TVs, and they can't just drop their visual expectations when the game goes virtual.


China searches for high-tech leap forward

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The manicured lawns and carefully sculpted buildings of Huawei's headquarters are a far cry from the sweatshop image of southern China's factory belt.


Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next? (AP)

Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next?

Technology / Business

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one ...


Video game site lets players bet on their skills

Technology / Internet

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Although you can win or lose real money, BringIt.com is not considered online gambling, and it's legal in 39 states.


Social network for gamers helps friends play

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Raptr, a social network targeting gamers, is hoping to make it easier to see what your friends are currently playing on a broad range of platforms such as the Xbox 360 and personal computers.


Handout image from Ubisoft shows a screen shot of  the "TickTock" computer game

Ubisoft gets into the social game at Facebook

Technology / Internet

created Jul 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

French videogame star Ubisoft on Friday made its debut in the online social scene by unveiling a gaming portal at world-leading social-networking website Facebook.


June video game sales drop sharply

Technology / Business

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- Squeezed by the economic downturn, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in June, the largest year-over-year decline the industry has seen in nearly nine years.


Google's Chrome OS a direct shot across Microsoft's bow

Technology / Software

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google's dramatic announcement that it is developing its own operating system seems designed to target Microsoft squarely in its Achilles' heel: the shift to Web-based computing that threatens the very core of the software ...


Sony sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch

Happy 30th birthday, Walkman

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.