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AP – Shares of several Chinese video game companies traded slightly lower Tuesday despite a report from an analyst that said game companies, particularly ones that focus on casual online games, performed well during the Chinese New Year. The holiday trend “should favor the companies with deeper casual games portfolios, which certainly includes Tencent...
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AP – “Heavy Rain” isn’t a fun video game. It’s actually not much of a game at all.In this video game image released by Sony Computer Entertainment America, a scene is shown from “Heavy Rain.” Quantic Dream has created a captivating mystery set in a bleak urban landscape that happens to be interactive. Laced...
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AP – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. reports its fiscal third-quarter results after the stock market closes Monday, the day after running its first-ever Super Bowl advertisement. WHAT TO WATCH FOR: EA, known for games such as “The Sims” and the popular “Madden” football series, gave a forecast below expectations in January amid...
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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...
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AP – NEW YORK – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. cut its full-year guidance on Monday, as ongoing weakness in its game disc sales didn’t ease up over the holidays as the company had hoped. The news sent shares down sharply in extended trading. EA, best known for such games as the “Madden”...
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AP – A new video game designed to help New York students learn to manage their money tries to make the dullness of balancing a checkbook look more like the thrill of driving for a touchdown. Tweet
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AP – The cinematic action adventure “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” nabbed three prizes including game of the year at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Tweet
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Investor’s Business Daily – With more children playing video games, educators are increasingly partnering with game developers to create interactive ways to explain molecular biology or space. One new game called “Immune Attack” is a first-person shooter in which the targets are proteins on veins’ interior surfaces. Another game designed in conjunction with NASA,...
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AP – The video game aisle can be intimidating for aspiring Santas who haven’t touched a joystick since “Pong.” But it has something for everyone: riveting solo adventures, online multiplayer battles and fun-for-the-whole-family social games. Here are some of the best picks for this holiday season. Tweet
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AP – James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The “Titanic” director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on his upcoming sci-fi epic “Avatar.” Tweet
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