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Gaming Pioneer Returns
Gaming Pioneer Returns
Nov 2, 2007 11:42 AM CDT

Gaming Pioneer Returns

Ultima creator launches Tabula Rasa today

(Newser) - The New York Times profiles Richard Garriott, the grand old man (at 46) of massively multiplayer online games. After several early successes, Garriott built a game world in which thousands of individuals could operate via a newfangled machine called a modem. The result, 1997's Ultima Online, changed the video game...

Battle Axe Gods in Latest Guitar Hero
Battle Axe Gods in Latest Guitar Hero
Oct 31, 2007 11:21 AM CDT

Battle Axe Gods in Latest Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero 3 includes a fighting mode with whammy bar-slamming action

(Newser) - The latest game in the Guitar Hero franchise is out and reviewers are shredding to it already. Ars Technica says Guitar Hero III hasn’t suffered from Neversoft’s loss of Harmonix, the original developers. In this release, wireless guitars are standard, more rock songs are included, and the career...

MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray
MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray
Oct 23, 2007 2:42 PM CDT

MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray

(Newser) - There are tens of thousands of people in your extended network, and they might be playing Gem Quest come January. MySpace plans to host hundreds of easy-to-learn online games to, as one company VP put it, “enhance the fun factor”—and grab a slice of the game industry’...

Video Game Maker Calls for End to Rival Gaming Systems

Electronic Arts wants 'open gaming platform'

(Newser) - Electronic Arts, a leading video game manufacturer, has called on the gaming industry to set aside the incompatible gaming platforms now competing for consumer loyalty. Instead of choosing among rivals like Wii, Playstation, and Xbox, players should be able to use an "open gaming platform" for all games, EA...

Game Over! Halo 3 Zaps Wii
Game Over! Halo 3 Zaps Wii
Oct 19, 2007 12:36 AM CDT

Game Over! Halo 3 Zaps Wii

Game launch boosts XBox 360 sales beyond Nintendo console

(Newser) - The launch of Halo 3 helped XBox 360 sales to zoom beyond Nintendo Wii, making the Microsoft system the hottest selling console in September. MarketWatch reports the extraordinary popularity of Halo 3 also helped push video game software sales up 64% over the same period last year. Game consoles were...

Sims Designer Named BAFTA Fellow
Sims Designer Named BAFTA Fellow
Oct 16, 2007 12:04 PM CDT

Sims Designer Named BAFTA Fellow

Award signals acceptance of gaming into art community

(Newser) - The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has awarded a fellowship to video game designer Will Wright, creator of The Sims, the best-selling computer game franchise in history. The award has been interpreted as a nod to the growing creativity of computer and video games. Previous recipients include...

This Week's Top Games Are...
This Week's Top Games Are...
Oct 16, 2007 12:05 AM CDT

This Week's Top Games Are...

GamePro gives top marks to latest Tony Hawk and Avatar

(Newser) - Want great games for your console? Here are this week's winners, as awarded by GamePro.com:
  • Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, the skateboard legend's latest for all major platforms except PC
  • Avatar: the Last Airbender—The Burning Earth, a multiplatformer sequel to the Nickolodeon-inspired original

Parents Believe Kids Are Too Plugged In

A third thinks children spend too much time online, but do they really?

(Newser) - American kids are spending more time than ever in front of the computer, and the trend makes some parents queasy, CNet reports. Three-quarters of Americans age 12 and up spend an average of 8.9 hours online a week, a new study finds. And the numbers will keep rising, as...

Cyber Game Olympics Vie for Mainstream

'E-sport' competitors hope to break geeky stereotypes

(Newser) - The 700 gamers in Seattle this weekend aren’t lonely basement-dwellers, say World Cyber Games planners: They're gifted athletes competing in “e-sports.” Organizers hope that such sportsmen will claw into the mainstream and bypass other fringe athletes like poker players and competitive eaters. “The goal is to...

Halo Makers Cut Microsoft Cord
Halo Makers Cut Microsoft Cord
Oct 5, 2007 1:12 PM CDT

Halo Makers Cut Microsoft Cord

Bungie Studios returns to independence

(Newser) - Microsoft is parting ways with Bungie Studios, masterminds behind the Halo video-game franchise, which it acquired in 2000. The software giant announced the news  just one day after proclaiming that “Halo 3” had eclipsed the $300-million mark in global sales. Though Bungie goes independent, Gates-led Microsoft will maintain an...

'Halo 3' Hits $300M in Sales
'Halo 3' Hits $300M in Sales
Oct 4, 2007 4:11 PM CDT

'Halo 3' Hits $300M in Sales

Microsoft hoping franchise will help it win the console wars

(Newser) - Video-game phenomenon "Halo 3" earned more than $300 million in global sales during its first week, Microsoft announced today. Although specific figures were not released, the Wall Street Journal reports, the game surely also drove up sales of its Xbox 360 console, which previously had been flagging in competition...

'Halo 3' Disk Comes Scratched
'Halo 3' Disk Comes Scratched
Sep 26, 2007 12:46 AM CDT

'Halo 3' Disk Comes Scratched

Limited-edition packaging can harm media

(Newser) - A limited-edition package for Microsoft's 'Halo 3' may be scratching the game disks, AP reports. The latest installment of the famous shoot-em-up franchise appears to be well on its way to huge sales, but with its new Xbox 360 suffering from news of bugs in recent months, the scratched disks...

Halo 3: Believe in Big Sales for Microsoft

Gamers turn out in droves for video game's midnight release

(Newser) - Wired predicts a surge in sick-days today as gamers who picked up some of the 4 million preordered copies of Halo 3: Believe when it went on sale at midnight skip work after all-night sessions. Crowds at the Manhattan release party—one of 10,000 nationwide—held up traffic...

Gamers Hold Tight for Halo 3
Gamers Hold Tight for Halo 3
Sep 22, 2007 2:50 PM CDT

Gamers Hold Tight for Halo 3

(Newser) - The final installment of the video game juggernaut Halo hits stores Tuesday, and rabid fans are expected to blow away sales records along with pesky invading aliens. Halo 3 will be released at 12:01 a.m., Reuters reports, with hype and sales receipts expected to rival that of Harry ...

5 Worst Video Game Deaths
5 Worst Video Game Deaths
Sep 21, 2007 7:57 AM CDT

5 Worst Video Game Deaths

Five Most Painful Video game Deaths

(Newser) - Not all video game deaths are created equal. MSNBC selects the top five most gruesome:
  1. Spine ripped out: "Mortal Kombat"
  2. Sawed to pieces: "Gears of War," "Doom," "God of War," "Star Wars"
  3. Stomped to death: "Duke Nukem"

Sony Delays Answer to ‘Second Life’

Former trailblazer's ‘Home’ won’t drop now until spring

(Newser) - Adding to a string of setbacks, Sony today delayed the release of its competitor for virtual world touchstone "Second Life," until next spring. The interactive world "Home"—made for PlayStation 3—has been demonstrated several times, the AP reports, and was to land before year’s...

Wii Are the Champions
Wii Are the Champions
Aug 24, 2007 3:29 AM CDT

Wii Are the Champions

Nintendo game console outsells Sony and Microsoft combined

(Newser) - Vdeo gamers were reaching for the Wii-mote in July after buying up an impressive 425,000 Nintendo Wii consoles—more than twice the sales of either X-Box 360 or Playstation 3.  It was a strong month for video games as a whole, with console sales more than doubling since...

Man Treats Virtual Wife Better Than Real One

Second Life getting in the way of first lives

(Newser) - A man who spends up to 20 hours a day playing the virtual-reality video game Second Life may be getting more fulfillment from his online wife than his real one—and his non-cyber-spouse isn't feeling fulfilled at all. Ric Hoogestraat, a 53-year-old ex-teacher, says his virtual matrimony is only a...

Microsoft Drops Price of Xbox 360
Microsoft
Drops Price
of Xbox 360
Aug 7, 2007 8:55 AM CDT

Microsoft Drops Price of Xbox 360

Trims $50 in wake of Sony's cuts to PlayStation3

(Newser) - Microsoft is shaving $50 off the price of Xbox 360 video game consoles in the US, just a month after Sony dropped the price of its PlayStation3 by $100. Both have faced unusually strong competition from Nintendo’s hot Wii, Reuters reports, and want to boost preholiday sales. Premiering in...

Xbox Guru Quits Microsoft
Xbox Guru
Quits Microsoft
Jul 18, 2007 6:16 PM CDT

Xbox Guru Quits Microsoft

Redmond claims charismatic exec's departure unrelated to warranty woes

(Newser) - Microsoft's former entertainment honcho Peter Moore has decamped, the company confirmed today, after a four-year tenure highlighted by the release of the wildly popular Xbox 360. The announcement comes two weeks after Microsoft answered persistent Xbox hardware defects with a massively expensive warranty extension.

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