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Kingdom rush tops iPad app chart
By AAP | 09 February, 2012 08:48Devotees of the strategy defence game genre have helped Kingdom Rush emerge as the most popular paid-for app for the iPad this week.
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Sony merges PlayStation Network into broader online services
By Jay Alabaster | 07 February, 2012 22:57Sony will merge its PlayStation online gaming service into its broader online platform from Tuesday.
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Angry Birds comes to Facebook on Valentine's Day
By Sharon Gaudin | 31 January, 2012 06:39Looking for an interesting Valentine's Day gift? Big fan of Angry Birds?
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Nintendo: Wii U will launch in time for 2012 holiday season, use touch-card tech
By Jay Alabaster | 27 January, 2012 16:09Nintendo said Friday its next-generation Wii U game console will launch in time for the holiday season in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
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Nintendo slashes annual targets for 3DS despite price cuts, software bonanza
By Jay Alabaster | 26 January, 2012 22:37Nintendo has slashed its annual sales target for the flagship 3DS handheld, conceding that price cuts and a barrage of software titles were not enough to recover from a weak launch last year.
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Japan's DeNA looks beyond Alibaba to target Chinese market
By Michael Kan | 17 January, 2012 20:46Japanese mobile platform operator DeNA has made another move to expand its business in China by partnering with local company NetDragon Websoft to develop and operate mobile games in the country.
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IGT to acquire Facebook game developer for $500M
By John Ribeiro | 13 January, 2012 21:11International Game Technology, a maker of slot machines, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire social games developer Double Down Interactive for US$500 million, as it expands in online gaming, it said Thursday.
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Xbox 360 in 2012: what about the games?
By Patrick Miller | 13 January, 2012 01:42Microsoft is reaping the rewards of the Xbox 360 and Kinect's success over the past year, and they're showing it off in a big way at CES 2012. However, very little of the Xbox buzz coming from Microsoft has to do with games. 2012 might very well be the Year of the Xbox 360, but not for many of the gamers that brought it so far.
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Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple
By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.
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Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft
By Nancy Gohring | 14 December, 2010 06:43For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually because it works so poorly. But recent developments, including harnessing the computational power of the cloud, have made it more usable and will make it even better in the near future, according to Microsoft.
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Apple's switch to Sandy Bridge: Impact for gamers?
By Keir Thomas | 11 December, 2010 09:28Rumors suggest that Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple's cozy relationship with Intel and its habit of adopting each new generation of Intel's processors, this would make a lot of sense.
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Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs
By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.
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10 games you probably don't know about but should
By Matt Peckham | 08 November, 2010 11:39Sometimes we can't play everything. And sometimes we're too focused on Madden NFL this or Mass Effect that, missing more-intrepid games. What's a consumer to do?
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US to ban violent video games?
By JR Raphael | 03 November, 2010 09:44Thank God Steve Jobs isn't on the Supreme Court.
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The world's worst game controller fails
By Benj Edwards | 16 July, 2010 14:41When it comes to game controllers, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. For every good step forward in controller design, there are a dozen dead ends. Some devices may work very well, but are destined for the dustbin anyway. This slideshow is dedicated to those oddball controllers that set out earn our amazement but only aroused our amusement, instead.
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New Xbox 360 in development for two years
By Matt Peckham | 14 July, 2010 02:20It's smaller, shinier, and back in black: Microsoft's new Xbox 360 took many by surprise at last month's E3.
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