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Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library (AP)

Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market - first with the Game Boy, now with the DS - for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore ...


Nintendo's portable game console "Game Boy Advance" (released in 2003)

Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Twenty years ago Japan's Nintendo Co. launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.





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Nintendo to sell cell-phone-size games

Electronics /

created Aug 19, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nintendo said Friday it will launch a video-game console that will be as portable as the cell phone.


A Best Buy customer walks by a display for the new Nintendo Wii in 2006 in San Francsico, California

US gun maker arming Wii shooter game

Technology / Software

created Oct 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 12

Legendary rifle maker Remington Arms Company said Friday it has teamed with videogame maker Mastiff to put virtual versions of its guns in a hunting title tailored for Wii consoles.


Computer games outgrow the stereotypes

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 09, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

UQ Business School academic Frank Alpert believes the stereotypical image of computer gamers is a long way wide of the mark.


'Uncharted 2' leads Video Game Award nominations (AP)

'Uncharted 2' leads Video Game Award nominations

Technology / Software

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" has seized a leading eight nominations for this year's Video Game Awards, Spike TV announced Wednesday.


Japanese woman holds up a mobile phone with the game "Tetris"

'Tetris' still a videogame star at age 25

Technology / Software

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.


Leaked video game footage shows terrorist attack

Technology / Software

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.


England have already qualified for next year's World Cup finals in South Africa

England first as game live on Internet, in cinemas

Technology / Internet

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on Saturday is to make history by being the team's first international to be shown live in cinemas and on the Internet but not on TV, media group Perform said.


'Star Trek Online' to beam gamers to the bridge (AP)

'Star Trek Online' to beam gamers to the bridge

Technology / Software

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- The most iconic setting in "Star Trek" almost didn't make it into the series' online video game.


'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world (AP)

'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world

Technology / Software

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on ...


DSi adds cameras, downloads to Nintendo's portable (AP)

DSi adds cameras, downloads to Nintendo's portable

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- When Nintendo introduced its portable DS system in 2004, many longtime fans were skeptical. Its innovations - the dual screens, the stylus-based controls, the built-in microphone - seemed gimmicky. ...



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