March 8th, 2010
AFP – As an electronic reader, Apple’s iPad has been touted as a possible “Kindle killer” but what has videogame makers buzzing is the potential of the touchscreen tablet computer as a gaming platform.
“It’s going to be a really powerful handheld game console,” said Asbjoern Soendergaard, founder and chief executive officer of Tactile Entertainment. “It’s going to be an awesome gaming experience.”
Soendergaard’s Denmark-based company is building a pet simulation game for the iPhone called “Pocket Creatures” and he said the iPad will allow the game developers to add “features that we only thought we could a year ago.” …
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March 2nd, 2010
AFP – Japanese electronics giant Sony assured millions of users that a system bug halting play on older versions of the PlayStation 3 had been fixed.
The company “verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally,” Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold said on the PlayStation blog.
Sony earlier indicated that the problem, which has left many PS3 owners unable to connect to the Internet for more than a day and some unable to even play games, was only affecting models released before last year’s PS3 “Slim.” …
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March 1st, 2010
AFP – At one of Beijing’s many Internet cafes, near-silence reigns: headphones on, eyes glued to the screen, web users play games online en masse, helping to make China one of the industry’s top markets. Young men crowd around terminals for role-playing adventure games while women gamers tap away to keep troupes of dancers in line – and international companies want part of the action. …
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January 18th, 2010
CARACAS (AFP) – Sony’s PlayStation video game console is “poison” and leads children down the capitalist “road to hell,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.
Chavez, in his weekly radio-TV show “Alo Presidente,” called on Venezuelan manufacturers to make “educational” toys and dolls with indigenous peoples’ features to replace capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll that “have nothing to do with our culture.”
In expanding on his dislike of western toys and games — he already slammed Nintendo for promoting “selfishness, individualism and violence,” Chavez Sunday took on the world’s top selling game console, Sony’s PlayStation.
“Those games they call ‘PlayStation’ are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, ‘you’ve got to find Chavez to kill him.’” …
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January 17th, 2010
PARIS — Drones have become synonymous with US military strikes in hotspots like Afghanistan. But now a French firm has built a mini version piloted by an iPhone that brings video games to the streets.
The flying saucer-like AR.Drone — AR stands for augmented reality — caused a sensation when it was revealed to an unsuspecting world at a trend-setting consumer electronics show in Las Vegas last week. …
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December 17th, 2009
AFP – The latest version of the blockbuster video game “Final Fantasy” hit Japan’s shelves Thursday, with hundreds queuing up for its release ahead of the North America and Europe launch next year.
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December 17th, 2009
AFP – A court in east China has handed down jail sentences of up to three years to 11 people for their roles in online gaming scams that netted them around 140,000 dollars, state media said.
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November 22nd, 2009
AFP – French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday.
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