GAME REVIEWS: `Smash Bros.' (AP)
March 19, 2008
AP - Online multiplayer gaming has really come into its own on the current generation of video-game consoles, with millions of people logging in every day to play "Call of Duty 4" or "Halo 3."
GAME REVIEWS: Ready to rumble: 'Smash Bros.' returns with lively multiplayer mayhem
Online multiplayer gaming has really come into its own on the current generation of video-game consoles, with millions of people logging in every day to play "Call of Duty 4" or "Halo 3."
Wii Fit's Sales Likely Healthy (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Nintendo's "Wii Fit" video game is likely to continue the company's winning streak as it keeps finding new ways to break the traditional video game mold.
GAMES REVIEW: Wii suffers glut of...
Nintendo's Wii has dominated video-game hardware sales since its debut in November 2006, and it shows no sign of slowing down. In March, U.S. stores sold more Wii consoles than...
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Reuters - Do you have childhood memories of
having G.I. Joe fight Luke Skywalker, or throwing Superman into
battle against the Bionic Man?
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U.S. video game sales rise 57 percent...
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and
software rose 57 percent from a year earlier, industry data
showed on Thursday, evidence that the industry has so far been ...
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GTA helps boost video game sales
US sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 per cent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software's Grand Theft Auto IV and Nintendo's Wii console stole the...
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Nintendo set to launch "Wii Fit" exercise game (Reuters)
Reuters - For years, video games have been blamed for turning kids into idle layabouts who only venture off the couch to fill up on potato chips and soda.
Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3-to-1 in Japan in March (Reuters)
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game console outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 by 3-to-1 in Japan in March but its DS handheld machine fell behind the PlayStation Portable for the first time in six months, a game magazine publisher said.
U.S. game sales jump 47 percent in...
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware
and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two
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At E3, video games shift their aim to...
USATODAY.com - This year's downscaled E3 video game expo drew about 4,500 gamemakers, analysts, retailers and journalists to L.A. last week - less than a tenth of E3's size two...
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Keeping Up Nintendo's Momentum
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Top Video Games For Gamers Of All Ages (TechWeb)
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GAMES REVIEW: Action heroes (AP)
AP - I don't envy video game designers who have to work on movie tie-ins. Artists have to duplicate the look of a film with a much smaller budget. Writers have to stick pretty closely to someone else's script, even as they stretch a two-hour story into an eight-hour game. There's not much room for creativity.
Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart...
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Can Videogames Be Funny?
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In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from six-to-one in May to just one-point-seven-to-one in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According...
GAMES REVIEW: Action heroes
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Wii sends Nintendo profits up 48 per...
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cent on the back of strong sales of its Wii console, but forecast lower than
expected annual...
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Action games deliver thrills
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