Analyst Fears Video Game Industry May Hit Six-Year Low
NPD Group last week announced that video games sales for the month of April were down 26% and software sales plummeted from $630.4 million to…
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Angry Birds Follow-Up Dubbed 'Amazing Alex'
Rovio earlier this week confirmed that it bought the IP for the game Casey's Contraptions. The company's founder and CEO Mikael Hed revealed to Finnish…
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Real-Life 'Avengers' Would Cost New York $160 Billion In Damages [Video]
Nick Fury and "The Avengers" save the world from imminent doom in Paramount Pictures' movie of the same name, but in real life, the star-studded…
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Angry Birds Generated $106 Million For Rovio In 2011
Rovio on Monday announced the company's financial results for 2011. The mobile game developer generated $106.3 million in sales based on the success of its Angry…
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Sega Launches A New Video Game Powered By... Urine [Video]
Sega exited the video game console business in 2001 after stiff competition from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo forced the struggling company to shift gears. Now,…
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Microsoft Reportedly Plans To Bring Kinect To Windows Phone 8
Microsoft's motion- and voice-based Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs is coming to Windows Phone 8, VR-Zone reported this week. The software…
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Microsoft Says Xbox Hacking Claims Are 'Unlikely'
A report emerged last week from a security researcher claiming Microsoft's Xbox lacked important security features that might protect owners who sell used consoles from…
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Google And Paramount Strike A Deal: 500 Movies Coming Soon To YouTube, Google Play
Google on Wednesday announced a new deal with Paramount Pictures that will allow more than 500 movie titles to be rented through YouTube and the…
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Sony Says PlayStation 4 Will Launch Ahead Of Next Xbox, Report Claims
Sony is aiming to launch its next-generation PlayStation video game console ahead of rival Microsoft, a recent report claims. Microsoft's next Xbox console — which…
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Hackers Can Easily Steal Credit Card Info, Other Data From Used Xbox Consoles [Update]
Using nothing more than a few common tools, hackers can reportedly recover credit card numbers and other personal information from used Xbox 360 consoles even…
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File-Sharing Site RapidShare Deemed Legal By Court
RapidShare is widely known as an invaluable tool for the illegal sharing of copyrighted digital material. Much like Megaupload, which was shuttered earlier this year…
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Online Movie Streaming In U.S. To Top DVDs For The First Time In 2012
Online movie streaming in the United States is expected to top both DVD and Blu-ray use for the first time ever in 2012, according to…
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Next-Generation Xbox Will Not Block Used Games, GameStop CEO Says
Rumors that Microsoft's next-generation video game console might somehow block owners from playing used games began swirling earlier this year, and gamers around the world cringed.…
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ARM-Based Xbox 'Lite' Coming In 2013, Xbox 360 Successor Later, Insider Claims
Microsoft had intended to unveil its next-generation Xbox console during the annual E3 conference this year according to a BGR source, but it now looks…
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Angry Birds Space Now Available For $0.99 [Video]
Rovio on Thursday released Angry Birds Space for iOS and Android devices, as well as OS X and Windows PCs. In the fourth major Birds…
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Blizzard 'Looking Into' Bringing World Of Warcraft To iOS
The world's most subscribed-to MMORPG may be coming soon to a mobile device near you. World of Warcraft's senior producer John Lagrave sat down with…
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Rockstar Games And OnLive Release 'L.A. Noire' For Android Tablets
OnLive on Monday announced that it has added a redesigned version of Rockstar Games's award-winning "L.A. Noire" to its cloud-based video game streaming service. The…
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New Sonic Game Showcases Xbox, Windows Phone Integration [Video]
Microsoft first discussed its "three screens and a cloud" gaming strategy in 2009, describing a scenario that could carry a single video game across a…
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Court Orders File-Sharing Site RapidShare To Monitor For Copyrighted Content [Updated]
A court in Germany ruled on Thursday that RapidShare must implement a system that proactively filters user uploads in order to prevent the illegal sharing of copyrighted…
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Video Game Publishers Need To Embrace Different Pricing Models To Survive, Nexon CEO Says
Nexon, the free-to-play gaming developer behind the hit game MapleStory, sees the traditional publishing model fading away. As game consoles become more advanced, video game…
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U.S. ISPs Become 'Copyright Cops' Starting July 12th
Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other Internet service providers in the United States will soon launch new programs to police their networks in…
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The iPad Could Be The Future Of Gaming
With Friday's release of the new iPad, Epic Games president Mike Capps has offered a huge amount of praise for Apple's new tablet in the…
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PirateBox Offline File-Sharing Solution Puts Pirates Out Of Authorities' Reach [Video]
The recent ordeal surrounding the now defeated SOPA and PIPA proposals followed by the shuttering of file-sharing giant Megaupload has put online piracy back in…
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Apple's Upcoming Streaming TV Service Again Tipped By CBS CEO
Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached CBS approximately one year ago in an attempt to secure a content deal for a streaming television service that was…
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With Megaupload Down For The Count, MPAA Sets Sights On Hotfile
The Motion Picture Association of America this week filed a motion for a summary judgement against file-sharing service Hotfile in a U.S. District Court in Florida,…
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Police Reportedly Plan To Raid The Pirate Bay
Swedish authorities have reportedly secured warrants and are planning to raid The Pirate Bay. Unnamed Pirate Bay team members speaking with TorrentFreak claim to have…
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Redbox Surpasses 2 Billion Movie And Video Game Rentals
Redbox announced this week that the company crossed the two billion mark for movie and video game rentals. It will celebrate the milestone by offering…
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