Blogs Posts in Gaming category; 29 blog posts

Gamers are enlisted to battle bugs in military weapons

Software bugs can prove deadly on the battlefield — a lesson learned when a buggy Patriot missile defense system failed to intercept a Scud missile that killed 28 American soldiers during the first Gulf War in 1991. To prevent such [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Video game sales up 37 percent to $1.12B in May

U.S. retail sales of video games, consoles and game accessories hit $1.12 billion in May, a 37 percent rise over the same month last year, driven by the chart-topping Grand Theft Auto video game, market researcher NPD Group reported Thursda [...]

Posted On : Jun, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Adversary Rises Instinctively at Yahoo Bid

More than a decade ago, Andrew S. Grove, then the chief executive of Intel, aptly described the hypercompetitive mentality of Silicon Valley in his book title “Only the Paranoid Survive.” Google’s chief executive, Eric E. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Gaming under a microscope

GUELPH–It was the cop and the doughnuts that started Karen Finlay putting money into a slot machine in Las Vegas."I'd never been in a casino before," she said. "The bonus round on this machine looked like such fun. If y [...]

Posted On : Jan, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Nintendo: Online VC play out, voice chat possible

Pokémon Snap, released this week as part of Nintendo's weekly Virtual Console update, lets gamers share photos taken in-game with their online friends via the Wii's new photo-sharing functionality. The online photo-sharing capabiliti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

PlayStation Phone, Just A Rumor

Last week a new rumor has spread all around the Web: Sony is working on a PlayStation phone, a device that will combine the power of gaming with that of a mobile phone.The rumors starter was The Economic Times of India which quoted Sony Com [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2007 | Comments : 0

Sony to start selling 40GB PS3 in Europe

Sony will start selling a new configuration of its PlayStation 3 video game console, with less built-in storage capacity, in Europe on October 10, priced at 399 euros (276 pounds) , the company said on Friday.The model, which will also be a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

IPhone Knockoffs Steal Sales as Apple Delays in Asia

At the end of an alley in Taiwan's most violent city, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan blocks a sliding- glass door that opens only from within. Inside, technophiles can buy iPhone knockoffs for two-thirds the legitimate price.With a touch-scree [...]

Posted On : Sep, 11 2007 | Comments : 0

Red ring of death': What's wrong with Microsoft's Xbox?

There are seven stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, bargaining depression, testing and acceptance. But with the Xbox 360, which has been giving a significant number of its owners grief, Microsoft last week moved directly from the f [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2007 | Comments : 0

Microsoft touts new Halo -- and takes on Wii, too?

Last night was Microsoft's night at E3, the big video game convention that takes place in L.A. every year (this time on a more muted basis, sans booth babes). The big news was ... well, was there big news?Perhaps it was that in honor of Hal [...]

Posted On : Jul, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

Sony slashes PS3 price

Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. on Monday announced a new 80GB model of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system, as well as a price cut on current models.Beginning in August, the new PS3 model will be available in No [...]

Posted On : Jul, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

PS3 Price Cut Sony must strike now

With Microsoft’s Xbox running into hardware failures, its Xbox 360 Elite lurking on the horizon and Nintendo’s Wii continuing its strong performance, the time is ripe for Sony to hit back with a price cut.The Playstation 3 is th [...]

Posted On : Jul, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Game|Life's E3 Predictions

We're mere days away from the beginning of E3. By all appearances, the show will be what military types refer to as a Charlie Foxtrot; having to run all over Santa Monica from hotel to hotel is going to take up way too much time, and nobo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2007 | Comments : 0

Xbox 360, Playstation 3 to Get Civilized

2K games today announced Civilization Revolution, Sid Meier's first game built explicitly for next generation consoles. Read that again: not a Civilization 4 port, but Civilization crafted "from the ground up" for consoles and han [...]