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Big Fish Games Goes Global

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

Xbox 360 Sales Double

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

U.S. Plans to Deploy DNSSEC

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

Dangerous Weight Loss Drug Hits UK Market

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

American Users Prefer Google, Yahoo Falls Behind

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

Will the US Recession Hit Gamers?

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

72% of US Population Plays Games

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

US Parents Know 'Little to Nothing' About the ESRB System

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

Over 46% of US Retailers Sell M-Rated Games to Minors

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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