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Nowadays, Shigeru Miyamoto Would Not Be Hired by Nintendo

The goals of any respectable, young Japanese high-school graduate is to enter a famous and renowned university, like the Tokyto University, and then to go on and be recruited by a respectable and powerful company. It may not sound like all that different from the rest of the world, but Japan has a bit of a cult of th...

24 November 2009
04:18 GMT

Samsung Aims Its Fast 256GB SSDs at the Gaming Industry

Samsung recently announced that it's targeting the PC gaming industry with its high-performance 256GB Solid State Drive (SSD), designed to provide impressively fast processing power that will consequently deliver a superior PC gaming experience. According to the company, traditional hard disk drives are expected...

13 August 2009
03:40 GMT

NVIDIA 3D Vision, Highly Appreciated by Game Developers

NVIDIA Corporation announced that its NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision technology, the first home high-definition 3D stereo solution in the world, had seen high appreciation from the game development world. According to the company, the 3D Vision has been tested by designers, artists, as well as by the developers of the grea...

4 March 2009
02:58 GMT

British Politician Supports the Gaming Industry

Politics and games haven't really gotten along so well, with politicians blaming videogames for corrupting innocent kids and having a bad influence on society. But most gamers have gotten used to such claims which are, very often, made by people who haven't even played a game in their life, but venture out ...

27 October 2008
11:01 GMT

Financial Crisis Hits Gaming Industry

These are troubled times, the economical situation in the United States isn't very good. With stock prices falling for almost every company, some analysts said that one of the most sure investments these days are in the large companies in the gaming industry. Names such as Electronic Arts or Activision  Bli...

30 September 2008
03:41 GMT

Ninety-Seven Percent of America's Kids Play Video Games

A recent survey involved questioning 1.102 children 12 to 17 years of age and their parents concerning their gaming-related habits. As it turns out, 94 percent of the young girls and 99 percent of the boys show different degrees of game addiction.  Pew Internet & American Life Project demonstrated in a survey pa...

17 September 2008
11:19 GMT

Sony Sells 1 Million Slim PSP-s and ... a Big Part of the Company

It seems that Sony's ready to deliver both good and bad news to us, fans of its consoles and gaming titles: the company's reached 1 million Slim PSP-s sold (in Japan) and it has also welcomed a "substantial investment" coming from a private equity company. As I'm not sure you've figured out the l...

26 November 2007
11:11 GMT

Eidos Wants the Games Industry to Be ' Taken Seriously!' - ELSPA Agrees

This final piece of news I'm posting today has something to do with Eidos (responsible for the Tomb Raider series) being backed up by the ELSPA that the UK Government needs to do more for the gaming industry. OK... more what? More funding of course. According to the report, Jane Cavanagh OBE, Chief Executive of ...

10 August 2007
11:12 GMT


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