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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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First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...


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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.


Online payment firm PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers

PayPal courts outside developers

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service.


Bringing gaming to the disabled

Technology / Other

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

Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston. Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms ...


KEAP1 Keeps major cancer-promoting protein at bay

KEAP1 Keeps major cancer-promoting protein at bay

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A tumor-suppressing protein snatches up an important cancer-promoting enzyme and tags it with molecules that condemn it to destruction, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


A Japanese woman plays a game on the Apple's iPod in Tokyo

As phones get smarter, game makers ring the changes

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tetsuya Ide doesn't own an iPhone, but the teenage computer boffin is betting that Apple's hit gadget is the key to having a new generation of video game players in the palm of his hand.


Gulf fritillary is back

Gulf fritillary is back

Biology / Ecology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A showy butterfly with bright orange-red wings and a 4-inch wingspan is back in the Sacramento metropolitan area after a four-decade absence and in the Davis area after 30 years.


Tokyo Game Show kicks off with turnaround hopes

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Tokyo Game Show, billed as the world's largest computer entertainment fest, kicked off Thursday with hopes that depressed sales of game consoles will enjoy a holiday resurrection.


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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.



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