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  In Pictures: The Angry Birds phenomenon
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  In Pictures: The Smithsonian celebrates The Art of Video Games
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  IN PICTURES: CES 2012 Gadget Preview
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• GAME goes into administration, gamers lose out

  By Spandas Lui | 15 May, 2012 12:37

  Video games retailer, GAME Australia, has gone into voluntary administration putting many customers with game pre-orders, gift cards, and in-store credits in the lurch.

• Angry Birds reaches 1 billion downloads

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 10 May, 2012 07:12

  Rovio announced today that its Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than one billion times, an astounding accomplishment for a simple slingshot game with a goofy birds-vs-pigs backstory.

• PRODUCTS: latest from OpenText, Kaspersky, Western Digital, and Cooler Master

  By Nermin Bajric | 07 May, 2012 13:52

  News in mobility enterprise solutions, security for SharePoint, hard drives, and gaming mice.

• Angry Birds Space rockets to 50 million downloads in 35 days

  By Ed Oswald | 01 May, 2012 06:54

  Angry Birds Space has broken a new record: it's the first app to hit 50 million downloads in just 35 days, which is two weeks faster than the previous record-holder, Draw Something.

• Meet the Linux Tycoon tycoon

  By Jon Gold | 07 April, 2012 00:27

  If the idea of a game about managing a hypothetical Linux distribution doesn't sound like your idea of a good time, you probably aren't alone. In fact, you'd probably guess, if you had to, that no such game existed.

• In Pictures: The Angry Birds phenomenon

  By Michael Cooney | 27 March, 2012 09:23

  From space to Rio, the Angry Birds game seems to be out to conquer the world

• In Pictures: The Smithsonian celebrates The Art of Video Games

  By Ken Gagne | 26 March, 2012 15:01

  The Smithsonian American Art Museum's newest exhibition is The Art of Video Games, offering attendees a hands-on experience with the evolution of the gaming medium.

• Rovio launches Angry Birds Space

  By Ian Paul | 23 March, 2012 00:30

  The wait is over Angry Birds fans: Rovio has officially launched Angry Birds Space for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows. The new Angry Birds game features 60 different levels, and, as usual with Angry Birds games, Rovio is promising regular updates with more free new levels. IOS users can also buy new levels via an in-app purchase, and players on all platforms can uncover several secret levels hidden in the game.

• NEWS FEATURE: Kinect - more than just a toy

  By Patrick Budmar | 18 July, 2011 15:23

  When the Kinect for Xbox 360 was released in late 2010, it created a buzz in the video gaming industry that had not been seen in many years. A webcam-style add-on peripheral for Microsoft’s video game console, the Kinect eliminated the need for a traditional control pad and instead allows the user to interact with video games through body gestures and voice commands. While Kinect was a success, selling an excess of 10 million units as of March, it was still just a video game accessory that was locked to the Xbox 360 platform and its implementation did not go further than video games.

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Well, 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.

• US to ban violent video games?

  By JR Raphael | 03 November, 2010 09:44

  Thank God Steve Jobs isn't on the Supreme Court.

• New Xbox 360 in development for two years

  By Matt Peckham | 14 July, 2010 02:20

  It's smaller, shinier, and back in black: Microsoft's new Xbox 360 took many by surprise at last month's E3.