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Pro gaming tournament sets sights on U.S.
Filed under: First Person Shooters, Strategy, Competitive Gaming, BusinessThe news that the World Cyber Games is headed for Seattle in 2007 goes hand-in-hand with this recent announcement of a new U.S....
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USA Today checks out next-gen systems
Filed under: News, Fan stuff, InterviewsUSA Today, a respected and widely-read newspaper, recently took an objective look at the next-gen lineup of systems. While they summarize each system into fairly...
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Trauma Center interview
Filed under: InterviewsTomm Hulett of Atlus USA recently sat down with IGN to discuss his project Trauma Center: Second Opinion on the Wii. During the interview, Tomm discusses such things as how the...
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MLG goes FTW on USA TV [update 1]
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Competitive Gaming[Update: Commenter Ben found a second part of the preview, which interviews pro gamer Walshy and shows some...
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SimCity DS not just for the Japanese anymore
Filed under: SimulationsWe've been waiting for this announcement a while now. In a very irregular press release from EA Japan this morning, originally causing us to think this was a hoax or accidental...
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And lo, the angels hath smiled upon thee: NiGHTS 2 confirmed
Filed under: News This isn't some sick, delayed April Fool's joke. After endless rumors and speculation, Japanese gaming mag Famitsu has finally confirmed ONM's "world exclusive": the official sequel...
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Game addiction on the rise, but 'stable' genes should prevent violent outbursts
Filed under: Culture, PoliticsWhen combined, a pair of new studies (conveniently stacked on GamePolitics.com) suggests that game addiction is a rising concern among American youth, but, if we also...
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Wii Warm Up: Our worst NiGHTmare
Filed under: Features, Wii Warm Up Brought to you by our good friends at 2-P Start, this image highlights exactly how Sonic Team USA, responsible for such crap as Shadow the Hedgehog, could crush the...
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For every Wii sold in December, 8.1 games were sold with it
Filed under: NewsAccordng to IGN, the NPD numbers for December hold more worth than just comparing figures for hardware and software sales in the U.S. during that month (or fueling fanboy debate)....
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So the paddle isn't coming to North America?
Filed under: News, ImportsOkay, we're confused. It looks like, based on a press release that got sent out today, that the paddle controller that came bundled with Arkanoid DS in Japan won't be seeing a...
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Xbox Live US presidential election poll results
Filed under: Culture Following up on some presidential election polling results from September, Microsoft has revealed the results of its Xbox Live polling from the Halloween weekend. Obama jumped 10%,...
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Microsoft speaks out on Obama's Xbox remarks
President Obama hasn't exactly been known for his positive stance on kids playing tons of video games (even though he owns a Wii and ran campaign ads on Xbox Live, ahem). Recently in a speech given to...
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Harmonix heads honored in USA 'Character Approved' awards
USA -- the television network, not the nation -- has selected Harmonix founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy as the two most important "New Media" figures in its annual Character Approved Awards....
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Report: Activision reshuffles execs in US, UK; layoffs result
According to "internal memos" acquired by the LA Times, Activision has switched up more of its executive positions, in addition to the change in position for Thomas Tippl, who is currently co-serving...
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ESA: Games industry responsible for $5 billion of US economy
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture A study commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) found that the video game industry added about $5 billion to the US...
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Obama launches national STEM game design challenge
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Announced late last year, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is now underway. The challenge asks both established developers and middle...
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Move sales around 1.5 million in Europe, 300K estimated for US
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture It seems that Sony settled on the right name for its PlayStation Move motion controller, as the company is definitely moving plenty of units in...
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October NPD: NBA 2K11 tops charts, Xbox 360 'best selling console in 2010'
Here is the second edition of the revised (and less informative) monthly NPD report. With the market research group no longer sharing specific hardware figures, it's noteworthy to point out that only...
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Just Dance series sales have combined for an estimated 5 million units in US...
Following up on the estimated 2 million combined unit sales of Just Dance 1 and 2 in the UK, as calculated by MCV, we contacted market research firm NPD to see how the series has performed at US...
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Retailers: 3DS games priced at $40-50 in US; £33-40 in UK; €50-60 in Europe
Nintendo has refuted our attempts to wrangle 3DS game pricing info so far, but retailer listings may be shedding some light on the subject. We hope you weren't hoping for a standard price point,...
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