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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go (AP)

Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go

Technology / Software

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through ...


Iowa town seeks status as video gamers' mecca (AP)

Iowa town seeks status as video gamers' mecca

Technology / Software

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- For a brief shining moment in the 1980s, Ottumwa was the unlikely hot spot of the fledgling video game industry as gamers around the globe flocked to this sleepy Iowa city and its video game arcade ...


NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...





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American gamer chronicles Japan's vibrant arcade culture in book

Technology / Other

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The death of the video game arcade has not, alas, been greatly exaggerated. For gamers older than 30, memories of plugging endless quarters into Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and After Burner cabinets are just that: memories. ...


Microsoft's Live Arcade to be game central

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created Nov 10, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Walk into the Los Angeles Convention Center during the Electronics Entertainment Expo each May and you'll see what video-game industry insiders wrestle with on a daily basis: Amid the bright lights, throngs of attendees, ...


University of Texas Students Show Off TrekEase

Aerobic exercise for the wheelchair-bound

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

University of Texas at Austin alumnus, Chris Stanford (MSEE '91), and Electrical & Computer Engineering undergraduates are working on making exercise fun for wheelchair users. For the last year, Stanford has ...


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.


UB driver simulation study targets high-risk teenage drivers

UB driver simulation study targets high-risk teenage drivers

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the bells and whistles of a state-of-the-art entertainment arcade, a University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education project aims to improve the driving habits of teenagers at the ...


Interview: The man in charge of Xbox Live

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created Dec 13, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

As an original member of the Xbox planning and launch team, Aaron Greenberg has spent the last six years working on the Xbox business. Greenberg spent his first few years on Xbox as the business manager, which included managing ...


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Nintendo cutting Wii price by $50 to $200 (Update)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario ...


`Need for Speed' titles lead pack of racing games (AP)

'Need for Speed' titles lead pack of racing games

Technology / Software

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

(AP) -- The video game racing genre is gearing up for a traffic jam.


The offices of Ubisoft in Montreal

Security heightened ahead of Ubisoft's 'Avatar' game release

Technology / Software

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Security cameras in hallways, double locked doors and strict confidentiality clauses, Ubisoft employees are working in a veritable bunker in downtown Montreal to create their latest 3D video game.


iPod Touch 8GB or 16GB

iPod Touch offers video-game fun

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

My video-game addiction took on a new, smaller footprint after the holidays. Resigning myself to the fact that my four-year-old iPod was never going to die of its own accord, I proactively put the clunky, ...



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