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The NPD Group is well known for putting up two charts every month showing how videogame consoles and software releases perform in the United States market. But the group also does other researches related to the industry, and its newest study is saying that more American are playing videogames than are going to the m... |
25 May 2009
02:39 GMT |
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It seems that the North American version of Nokia E75 has made it to the company's flagship stores in the US, and the device is already available for purchase. According to the news, only the black version of the handset has been shipped to the Nokia stores in the United States, yet the red and gold versions sho... |
7 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Now that Eidos is officially and entirely the property of Square Enix, the Japanese publisher might again go out and seek new companies to acquire. Yoichi Wada, who is the president of the company, sees acquisitions as the first steps in a global expansion strategy for Square Enix.Wada has talked to the Financial Tim... |
30 April 2009
02:04 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 currently has the upper hand on its rivals as, despite the very low price it currently has, there are a lot of features that will attract people who might be interested in other consoles like the Wii or PlayStation 3, most important being the Netflix deal that Microsoft made in order for people to view t... |
5 March 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The shooter game genre is a very popular one, with a lot of developers creating titles based on a first-person view and arming the main character with a wide variety of fictional weapons. Seeing the growing popularity of these games, the United States Army has decided to create its own title, based on the conditions ... |
21 January 2009
02:30 GMT |
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A new governmental report warns that numerous Southern and Midwestern states, including Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas, are at significant risk of being severely affected by a potential large-scale earthquake. The states are on top of a high-intensity seismic area,... |
21 November 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Street Fighter IV is currently one of the most expected titles set to hit the store shelves at the beginning of 2009. Slated for a February 17 release date in the United States, and scheduled for February 20 in Europe, the game will definitely attract a lot of fans who can hardly wait to get their hands on this new t... |
20 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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The international scientific community is in disarray again, after a scientist from Virginia – a naturalized American citizen, who was born in China – admitted to federal indictments on several accounts, including the transmission of classified military data and breaking the Foreign Corrupt Practices law.... |
19 November 2008
04:38 GMT |
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The presidential race for the United States’ White House is entering its final stage, with the elections taking place on November 4. The two main candidates, the republican John McCain and the democrat Barack Obama have held debates about every topic on their campaign lists which were hosted by almost every ki... |
29 October 2008
17:31 GMT |
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The last decade showed increased rates of suicides in the US, a new survey shows. Strangely enough, middle-aged white women proved more prone to ending their own lives than any other category, which raises new concerns that the existing prevention programs are not entirely accurate. Currently, psychologists advise th... |
21 October 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Big Fish Games, one of the most important casual game developers and creator of the Mystery Case Files series, announces that it has attracted $83.3 million dollars in expansion funds from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Salmon River Capital. Reuters reports that this is the biggest line of credit ob... |
15 September 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is claiming that sales of its Xbox 360 gaming consoles have doubled since a cut in prices was announced earlier in the month for the United States market. A Bloomberg report is cited, in which retailers say that they have seen a 100% increase in demand for all the models of the console, compared to the... |
12 September 2008
05:06 GMT |
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The White House released a memo, signed by Karen Evans, the Administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, which instructs all government agencies to prepare for securing the federal government’s DNS infrastructure over the next year.The document outlines a plan for the agencies to dep... |
29 August 2008
09:29 GMT |
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A few months ago, we were talking about the dangers posed by weight-loss drugs and the many side-effects of synthetic appetite-suppressants such as phentermine, which work to make us feel less hungry but also mess with our moods and induce everything from hallucinations to vomiting and seizures if taken for too long.... |
25 June 2008
04:27 GMT |
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A recently released comScore data has placed Google as the leader of the online audience in the United States. It appears that the Mountain View giant has had an audience growth of approximately 18% in April this year. The 141.1 million US users visiting the Google pages have placed the American company on top of all... |
15 May 2008
05:17 GMT |
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There's no denying that the United States is in the middle of an economic downturn launched by the real estate lending crisis and compounded by the bank crisis that has seen most important financial players lose millions and even billions of dollars in bad deals and bad credit. The question is whether the videog... |
10 April 2008
06:34 GMT |
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The latest reports from sales tracking group NPD claim that the US gaming population has grown to 72% in 2007, compared to 64% in 2006. Offline play still wins the battle against online play, with only 42% of those who spend their time enjoying a video game doing it online. Another interested aspect revealed by the s... |
3 April 2008
15:06 GMT |
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What do you know, a study reveals again that youngsters can easily get their mitts on M rated video games in the United States. The survey conducted by a certain family group, revealed that "seven out of ten parents know little to nothing" about the video games rating system.According to the piece of information up o... |
5 December 2007
08:48 GMT |
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Who would have guessed it? American teens, that's who, and the "corrupt" retailers exploiting the video games market, selling M-rated titles to individuals getting negative answers at other stores, on the count of being under age. It happens with cigarettes and alcohol, so why wouldn't it be the same with v... |
26 November 2007
06:56 GMT |
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