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This will definitely be Sony’s flagship title in 2010. As an avid fan of this series that started on the Playstation 2, I am definitely more than excited that is finally releasing. This series is one of the best I’ve witnessed – hands on and spectating. One of the main things that I loved...
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Americans bought more than $21 billion worth of video game systems, software and accessories in 2008. This year, Wake Forest University students have created the blog, VGameU.org, to help players and parents evaluate new video games for the holiday season.
Four students enrolled in the first-year seminar “Video Games: Research and Theory” created the blog,...
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Friends rank as the largest influencing factor in the purchase decisions of video games, according to a study released today by global integrated communications agency Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and Harris Interactive. Industry trade groups say the video gaming software industry represented sales...
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Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to set sell-through records crossing the $1 billion mark in retail sales worldwide since its launch in November, according to internal Activision estimates.
In its first five days alone, the game sold an estimated $550 million worldwide, outpacing...
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GamersFirst (www.gamersfirst.com), today’s most popular free2play online game destination, has released its 2010 gaming predictions.
“The next year will mark some pretty significant shifts in the gaming industry,” said Joshua Hong, CEO of GamersFirst. “We see casual players becoming the key to the global video game industry in both PC and Console games. MMO Game...
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Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing), announced today the February 9, 2010 release of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief for the Nintendo DS(TM). Based on the first title in Rick Riordan’s best-selling book series and the highly anticipated film from 20th Century Fox,...
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Ahoy Matey! Pull up anchor and get ready to set sail in search of stolen booty as Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Pirates Plund-Arrr for Wii(TM). In this fun and frantic beat-’em-up, players hunt the high seas for the renegade captain Rudebelly...
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CyberPower Inc. www.cyberpowerpc.com, a manufacturer of custom gaming machines, will debut a new line of budget-friendly Intel Core i3-based gaming systems at CES 2010, January 7-10 in Las Vegas.
The new CyberPower Gamer Xtreme line is timed to Intel’s formal release of its new 32-nanometer chip manufacturing technology today. CyberPower’s new Core i3 gaming PCs...
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