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"Grand Theft Auto 4" set to entertain and inflame (Reuters)

April 25, 2008

An in-game screenshot of Grand Theft Auto IV is seen in a handout image courtesy of Rockstar Games. (Rockstar Games/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Beatings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, drunk driving and hookers. For video game fans, it can only mean one thing: "Grand Theft Auto 4" is here, with all the subtlety of a shotgun blast.


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Microsoft, Sony Copy Nintendo's Playbook (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Nintendo raised the bar for casual, easy-to-play video games again Tuesday, as rivals Microsoft and Sony scrambled to imitate the family-friendly appeal of Nintendo's Wii game console with their own product announcements this week.
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Keeping Up Nintendo's Momentum

After overseeing several years of rapid growth at Nintendo, President Satoru Iwata faces new challenges: how to keep players of the company's videogames interested, and how to cultivate a new wave of customers.
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CNN Grand Theft Auto IV: A quick review

To watch the opening scenes of "Grand Theft Auto IV" is to experience the beginning of a new chapter in video game storytelling.
04/30/08
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Arstechnica Racing à la Kart: a review of Mario...

Mario Kart makes its debut on the Wii with some great new elements and a strong online offering. The kart racer is still surviving in the HD era.Read More...
04/29/08
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Yahoo! News 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is exhilarating...

USATODAY.com - Let's cut right to the chase: Grand Theft Auto IV is not a video game for kids, tweens or even young teenagers. As with its controversial predecessors, the latest...
04/29/08
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Yahoo! News 'Grid' takes the checkered flag in...

AP - With gasoline prices at $4 a gallon and rising, the leisurely Sunday drive is turning back into a luxury. But there is an alternative: The automotive video game. And the...
06/30/08
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Yahoo! News Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart...

AP - It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online...
05/01/08
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Yahoo! News Review: Online play makes `Mario Kart...

AP - It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online...
05/01/08
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International Herald Tribune

Action games deliver thrills

The truly great action films of our time — "Die Hard," "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," say — can be summed up in one word: relentless. Once they get in gear, they put the pedal to the metal and don't slow down. If only "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Whatever" had such single-minded drive.
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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."
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International Herald Tribune Video-game review: Online play makes...

It's not often that a series installment can stray so little from its past and still make a mark, but "Mario Kart Wii" waves the checkered flag with a 12-player online racing...
05/09/08
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Yahoo! News Top Video Games For Gamers Of All...

TechWeb - We look at World of Warcraft, Desktop Tower Defense, Orange Box, Wii Sports, Civilization IV, and other top video games to see why video gamers of all ages are getting...
04/12/08
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Yahoo! News Sega capitalizes on Olympics with...

AP - The Beijing Olympics are about to get under way. And thanks to NBC and its assorted networks and Web sites, you'll be able to spend the next two weeks pondering the...
08/05/08
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Engadget Logitech unveils Speed Force Wireless...

Up until now, Wii-owning racers have been stuck with the Wii Wheel, Brando's Wii Multi-Axis Racing System or something they cooked up in arts and crafts. Now, however, Logitech...
08/21/08
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Yahoo! News Wii Fit's Sales Likely Healthy ...

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...
05/17/08
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Yahoo! News Nintendo set to launch "Wii Fit"...

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.
05/17/08
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GAME REVIEWS: `Smash Bros.' (AP)

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."
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U.S. video game sales rise 57 percent in May (Reuters)

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 immune to wider economic woes.
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Yahoo! News 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...
06/04/08
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msnbc 'GTA IV' lifts April game sales by 47...

U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software's "Grand Theft Auto 4" and Nintendo's Wii console stole the...
05/16/08
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CNN Nintendo bucks trend to hold Wii price

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04/25/08
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Yahoo! News Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3-to-1 in...

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 ...
04/04/08
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CNN 'Theft' multiplayer lets you, 15 pals...

I've often asked myself what I would do without a cell phone. In "Grand Theft Auto IV," just as in real life, the answer is simple: not much.
04/10/08
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PCWorld GameOn Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox...

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...
07/03/08
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