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Gaming Revolution

Forget the 16-bit monsters of your childhood: With Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox, and Sony's Playstation, video games are all grown up - and worth billions

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July 2008
- More Girls Get Into Gaming
  
  newser | San Jose Mercury News | Jul 21, 08 7:53 PM CDT
  
  After years of male dominance, the video game industry is seeing a growing number of girls pick up the controllers, SiliconValley.com reports. More than half of "casual" PC card and puzzle-type game users are female, but girl-play goes further: More than half of Nintendo Wii players are now women, and 48% of US women either have a Wii system or have asked for one, the company says. More »
- Microsoft Aims to Broaden Xbox Appeal
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 15, 08 10:18 AM CDT
  
  Microsoft hopes to discard the image of its Xbox 360 as a distinctly young, overwhelmingly male form of entertainment and push more casual experiences toward a wider, mainstream audience, the New York Times reports. Microsoft debuted more accessible entertainment fare at the annual E3 convention yesterday, including features to share photos and stream Netflix movies, as well as family-friendly games. More »
- Xbox Price Cut to Clear Way for New Model
  
  newser | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Jul 14, 08 2:10 AM CDT
  
  Microsoft is slashing the price of its Xbox 360 video game system to clear shelf space for a new model with a larger hard drive, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The long-rumored price reduction knocks $50 off the $350 price of the 20-gigabyte model. The new pricetag places the Xbox 360 at $50 more than Nintendo’s wildly popular Wii system, and $100 below Sony’s Playstation 3 console. More »
- Video-Game Industry Scores Big-Name Composers
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jul 9, 08 3:30 PM CDT
  
  Far from the shrill beeps of a decade ago, video-game music has come into its own with compositions approaching the maturity of film scores, BusinessWeek reports. A new wave of composers is putting time and effort into sophisticated soundtracks that mark the continuing expansion of video games as a form of entertainment. More »
- Finally, A PC Strategy Game That's A Console Winner
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 3, 08 6:10 PM CDT
  
  Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution could be the first winner among console versions of PC strategy games, Dylan Fawcett writes in USA Today . While it’s too simple for established fans, newcomers will like its fast pace. Negatives, including a confusing help menu and the strangely even matching of ancient and modern militaries, don’t make the game any less worth buying, Fawcett says. More »
June 2008
- Metal Gear Solid 4 Is a Winner
  
  newser | USA Today | Jun 27, 08 7:11 PM CDT
  
  If you’re a fan of Metal Gear Solid , you’ll love the fourth and final chapter, Marc Saltzman writes in USA Today ; if you’re not, you might be bored stiff by the “cinematic sequences, confusing storylines and campy dialogue” of Guns of the Patriots . But don’t let that dissuade you: MGS4 is “probably one of the best-looking video games to date.” More »
- Game Over for Teens 'Acting Out' Grand Theft Auto
  
  newser | New York Post | Jun 27, 08 2:50 AM CDT
  
  Six bored Long Island teenagers have been busted for acting out the violent themes of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV with a real life spree of break-ins, a mugging, a beating and a carjacking, police charge. "These teens have difficulty separating fact from fiction, fantasy from reality," a detective told the New York Post . "It was quite alarming." More »
- Chill Chips May Take Heat Off Computers
  
  newser | ComputerWorld | Jun 25, 08 3:49 PM CDT
  
  Researchers have developed a tiny refrigeration system to keep computers cool, an invention that will do away with the clunky fan currently used—and potentially lead to much smaller and faster devices, Computerworld reports. The team at Purdue University expects the technology to be ready for installation within 2 years. More »
- Grand Theft Auto Sex Scenes Fail to Excite
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 25, 08 8:34 AM CDT
  
  Moral outrage that sparked a class action lawsuit over the hidden sex scenes in the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has failed to translate into complaints, the New York Times reports. Despite the millions of copies of the game sold to date, only 2,676 offended owners have stepped forward to file a claim under a settlement agreement reached with the game’s makers. More »
- Rock Band Indeed: Beatles Pursuing Game Deals
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jun 23, 08 6:27 PM CDT
  
  Representatives of the Beatles' companies are meeting with video-game outfits to hash out the rights for possible Beatles-themed games. The reps are holding discussions with the makers of Guitar Hero and of Rock Band , the Financial Times reports. Analysts say that a deal might lead to more licensing of Beatles songs in other digital media. More »
- Grand Theft Auto IV Marks the End for Next-Gen Gaming
  
  newser | GigaOm | Jun 19, 08 5:00 PM CDT
  
  Low sales of Grand Theft Auto IV herald the end of next-gen gaming’s heyday, writes Wagner James Au on GigaOm. The game is selling poorly compared to the previous version, and it hasn’t improved sales of the next-gen Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. “The days when so-called “next-gen” gaming reigned supreme are coming to end,” predicts Au. More »
- 'Rock Band' Reinvents the Cover Band
  
  newser | More Intelligent Life | Jun 17, 08 8:07 AM CDT
  
  The hugely popular "Rock Band" is more than just a video game—it's a musical revolution, Brett McCallon writes in More Intelligent Life. The game, which expands "Guitar Hero" to two axes, a drum kit and a singer, finally realizes “the democratizing dreams of the punk movement.” McCallon should know, because his "Rock Band" band plays live—and has amateur musicians grousing. More »
- Study: Video Game Addicts Aren't Nerds
  
  newser | Reuters | Jun 13, 08 8:20 AM CDT
  
  The stereotype of the hard-core gamer as a friendless geek may be as outdated as Pac-Man, Reuters reports. An Australian study looked at "problem gamers" who spent more than 50 hours a week playing and discovered that less than 1% had poor social skills. The findings contradict statements from the American Medical Association suggesting people hooked on games like World of Warcraft struggle to cope in the real world. More »
- Better Red Than Dead in Online Games
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 12, 08 2:24 PM CDT
  
  If you want to win, at least in the online first-person shooter Unreal Tournament 2004, get your red on. Researchers have found that red teams beat blue teams in the multiplayer game 55% of the time, even though players choose their own teams. One scientist suggested this is because the color red is psychologically distracting for men, reports the AP. More »
- Crime Pays for Grand Theft Auto Maker
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Jun 6, 08 3:34 AM CDT
  
  Profit forecasts have shot through the roof at Take-Two Interactive Software, thanks to the runaway success of Grand Theft Auto IV, reports MarketWatch. The company is boasting a $100 million second-quarter profit, up from a $50 million loss for the same period last year—even though the blockbuster game was released just two days before the quarter ended. More »
- Retired Justice Turns Video Game Designer
  
  newser | Wired | Jun 5, 08 3:28 AM CDT
  
  Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor isn't taking it easy now that she's no longer writing decisions, Wired reports. The first woman to be appointed to the top court is leading a project to help young people learn more about their government through a video game. Our Courts, an online game to debut next year, will let students step into the shoes of judges or attorneys arguing real cases. More »
- In-Game Ads Coming to PS3
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 4, 08 3:14 PM CDT
  
  Sony has struck a deal to bring in-game advertising to its PlayStation 3 console, the Wall Street Journal reports. Many games have already toyed with product placement and ads, but thanks to the deal with IGA Worldwide, those digital billboards can now be updated in real time. Electronic Arts will be the first game-maker to take advantage of the deal. More »
May 2008
- Online Gaming Boom Outpaces Real-Life Critiques
  
  newser | Prospect | May 31, 08 1:14 PM CDT
  
  The dizzying growth of the video game industry continues to alarm cultural Luddites, writes Tom Chatfield for the Prospect , but the critics are trapped in video gaming’s past. They haven't adjusted to the development of social, team-based gaming worlds, treating games “as an odd mix of the slightly menacing and the alien: more like exotic organisms dredged from the deep sea than complex human creations.” More »
- Chipmakers Get Graphic in 'Battle Royal' for Future
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 27, 08 3:07 PM CDT
  
  Three Silicon Valley companies are jockeying to plot the future course for chips that create the most realistic computer graphics, the Wall Street Journal reports. "All of them agree that graphics are the field where the battle is going to be fought," one analyst says of Intel, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. "They're going down different paths but approaching the same thing." More »
- Wii Fit Is Great for Couch Potatoes
  
  newser | USA Today | May 23, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  Nintendo's Wii Fit is great for fitness beginners who want to shed their couch-potato ways, but more experienced athletes will want to stick with the gym, writes Jinny Gunmundsen in USA Today . The game delivers a fun and inventive way to tone muscles, improve balance, and burn calories, but hard-core athletes will likely find it to be no more than an interesting diversion. More »

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