News tagged with xbox gaming

Xbox Live links to Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm

Microsoft has said social networking sensations Twitter and Facebook, along with Internet radio star Last.fm, are connecting to the Xbox 360 videogame console online world.

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft adds touch screen, Web browser to Zune

(AP) -- The next generation of Microsoft's Zune music player, due in the fall, will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

April video game sales decline 17 percent

(AP) -- Lacking the big hits that made the year-ago period a standout, U.S. video game sales dropped sharply in April for the second month in a row as customers continued to watch their wallets.

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created May 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

OnLive to distribute video games digitally

Distributing content digitally over the Internet, rather than in physical form, seems to be the wave of the future.

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created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

XBox forensics

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law en ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Nintendo's big challenge: letting others win

One would think Nintendo Ltd. has little to worry about in the video-game market the company seems to rule, having sold more than 50 million of its Wii consoles to date.

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

March video game sales slump more than expected

(AP) -- U.S. video game sales slumped more than expected in March and were flat in the first quarter when compared with a year earlier - hurt by the recession, a shift in the Easter calendar and fewer big game launches.

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created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nintendo not planning price cuts for hit machines

(AP) -- Nintendo has weathered the global recession because of the popularity of its game machines and won't be resorting to price cuts to boost sales, the company's president said Thursday.

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created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Qualcomm backs game console for 'next billion'

(AP) -- A startup called Zeebo Inc. is betting that people in emerging markets want to play good video games just as much as people in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan do.

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created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Video game industry bucks downturn with Feb. sales

(AP) -- The video game industry continued to defy the recession in February, posting double-digit year-over-year growth with Nintendo Co.'s popular Wii gaming system leading the way.

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created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US online videogame play on the rise: NPD Group

US online videogame play is on the rise as growing numbers of teenagers turn to the Internet for opponents and game software, according to an NPD Group report released on Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Playing a ruthless game

Plenty of young gamers dream about playing videogames for a living, but Robert Bishop has a plan: It's all a matter of suckering in enough victims to make it happen.

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created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Students Launch Audiball, an Xbox Community Game

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most students like to play video games, but Georgia Tech students Holden Link, Cory Johnson and Ian Guthridge have built and are selling their own. Their game, Audiball, was launched during the first week ...

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created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Good games get lost in year-end sales push

If game makers take anything away from 2008, it should be that sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. So many good and great games were released at the end of the year during the holiday blitz that gamers were forced ...

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created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0