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Can Videogames Be Funny?

June 21, 2008
Hail to the Chimp, a videogame who's humor revolves around lampooning the political process and the cable-news cycle, is a rare humor entrant in a marketplace dominated by action and musical rhythm games.
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At E3, video games shift their aim to casual players (USATODAY.com)

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 years ago - even as the industry grew from $10.5 billion in 2005 to $18 billion in 2007.
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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.
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B.B.C. NEWS Future fun

Nintendo boss talks about what's next for the Wii
07/17/08
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Yahoo! News Videogames getting more social ...

AFP - Videogame makers are riding the social-networking wave with a flood of soon-to-be-released titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters.
07/17/08
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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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International Herald Tribune GAMES REVIEW: Action heroes

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...
06/06/08
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B.B.C. NEWS Nintendo shows off new Wii add-on

Nintendo unveils a highly-sensitive motion controller add-on for its Wii system at the E3 conference in Los Angeles.
07/16/08
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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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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.
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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.
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Yahoo! News Make Father's Day a day for play ...

USATODAY.com - Some guys like ties, but all boys love toys. Whether dad's the sporting type, a race-car driver in training, an action hero, a rock-star wannabe or the more...
06/10/08
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International Herald Tribune GAME REVIEWS: Ready to rumble: 'Smash...

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...
03/21/08
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Yahoo! News 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...
03/19/08
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WRAL.com US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand...

Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
08/21/08
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Yahoo! News US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand...

AP - Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
08/21/08
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Yahoo! News US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand...

AP - Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
08/21/08
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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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Arstechnica Of gyroscopes and gaming: the tech...

The new "MotionPlus" add-on for the Nintendo Wii is supposed to again revolutionize motion-controlled gaming. Check out this exclusive look at the tech in the MotionPlus direct...
08/26/08
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Yahoo! News Week in video-game news (AP)

AP - News from the virtual world:
04/08/08
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msnbc Nintendo sued over Wii remote patent

Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.
08/21/08
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WRAL.com 'NHL 09' first star in hockey franchise

In the world of sports video games, not much can really change year to year. The game at its core is the same, but it's what video-game developers add that makes it worth...
10/08/08
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International Herald Tribune 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...
04/25/08
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Yahoo! News GAMES REVIEW: Wii suffers glut of...

AP - 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...
04/22/08
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