Video Game Industry

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• Walmart takes a whack at Wii prices with holiday promotion (via postie)

  
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  Bookmark this categoryAs the nation’s biggest retailer, Walmart has a lot of clout in the video game industry. Today, it’s taking a big whack at console and game prices.The retailer is announcing a special promotion where it will offer a $50 Walmart gift card with the purchase of a $199 Wii game console, as well ...
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• Black Friday sprint begins for video game industry

  
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  Black Friday marks the beginning of the most critical time of the year for video game makers, as customers jam stores on the day after Thanksgiving to pick up games and consoles as gifts. As a brutal 2009 winds to a close, the gaming industry is hoping that a strong six weeks of sales in the United States, the ...
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• SIEGE 2009

  
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  Nestled in metro Atlanta, this year’s Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo (lovingly known as SIEGE) was my first of many experiences to come with Georgia’s booming gaming industry. This year, the overall theme of the weekend was connections – meeting like-minded individuals, having discussions ...
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• hi5 recruits a beastly gaming veteran as its president (via postie)

  
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  Bookmark this categorySocial network hi5 has hired a pioneer in the video game industry to kick its social gaming strategy into high gear. It remains to be seen if hi5 truly realizes what it’s getting in the hiring of Alex St. John.St. John, founder of online game firm Wild Tangent and a former Microsoft games ...
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• Call of Duty Franchise Tops $3bn In Revenue - Gaming Union

  
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  TG Daily Call of Duty Franchise Tops $3bn In Revenue Gaming Union The game has now appeared on a host of major platforms, including more recently the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii and it means that more than 55 million ... Video-game industry pins hopes on new titles USA Today Call ...
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• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Review

  
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  Game Review: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Release: September 15, 2009 Genre: Action RPG Developer: Vicarious Visions, n-Space, Savage Entertainment Available Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, and DS Players: 1-4 MSRP: $59.99 ESRB Rating: T Website: http://marvelultimatealliance.marvel.com/ ...
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• Do Game Industry Luminaries Lean Left?

  
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  Leave it to GamePolitics to tease (if not quite answer) that question by pulling together an ad hoc list of republican and democratic contributors that at first blush looks awfully Obama-friendly. Using publicly available records provided by Newsmeat (”America’s… Source: blogs.pcworld.comJames Cameron’s ...
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• MAGFest 2010 Lineup Released

  
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  image: MAGFest While most of us will be doing little more than groggily breaking our resolutions on New Year’s Day, a fine collection of geeks and gamers will be gathering in Alexandria, VA for the annual Music and Gaming Festival. MAGFest 2010, which will go down January 1-4, promises to be another fantastic ...
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• Lol – Sims 3 New Moon Twilight Parody Video

  
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  Below is a completely hilarious parody video of Twilight New Moon done in the Sims 3 . The video is complete with shirtless boys, lipstick wearing vampires, lots of making out, strange Sims 3 language, and awkward sexual confusion. The below video is about 1 minute long. Check it out below. Sims 3 New Moon ...
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• Video Game Industry Sales Drop Ushers In Holiday Season - Stage Select

  
  Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review — Authority: 160
  TopNews United States Video Game Industry Sales Drop Ushers In Holiday Season Stage Select The Nintendo Wii has been bumped to $199, a savings of $50. This is on par with the Xbox 360 Arcade, which has 512MB of internal memory, but no harddrive. ... Nintendo Wii Once Again Tops Sales ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video Game Developers Say That Piracy Really Isnt A Big Threat ...

  
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  Well this is a bit of a surprise. For all the talk we keep hearing about how piracy is destroying the video game industry, and news stories with video game execs talking up DRM and the threat of piracy, a recent study of video game developers had only 10% saying that piracy was a threat to their business . Plenty ...
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• NPD: Wii reclaims lead in US sales, but console gaming market shrinks by a fifth

  
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  The NPD has released its US video game industry figures for October, which reveal that total monthly revenue from hardware, software and accessories among all manufacturers fell to $1.07 billion, constituting a 19 percent drop from what the American gamer spent over the same period last year. After being toppled from ...
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• NPD: Wii reclaims lead in US sales, but console gaming market shrinks by a fifth

  
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  The NPD has released its US video game industry figures for October, which reveal that total monthly revenue from hardware, software and accessories among all manufacturers fell to $1.07 billion, constituting a 19 percent drop from what the American gamer spent over the same period last year. After being toppled ...
  2 weeks ago

• NPD: Wii reclaims lead in US sales, but console gaming market shrinks by a fifth

  
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  The NPD has released its US video game industry figures for October, which reveal that total monthly revenue from hardware, software and accessories among all manufacturers fell to $1.07 billion, constituting a 19 percent drop from what the American gamer spent over the same period last year. After being toppled ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Rapelay” – The Aftermath

  
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  “Rapelay,” a Japanese Hentai title by Illusion Soft , casually bypassed the Amazon Marketplace early 2009 and with little effort, “Rape Lay” became the core of industry controversy and a leading example of questionable content in video-games.  Admittedly, from a Journalist’s perspective, it’s always been ...
  3 weeks ago

• EA posts 2Q loss, cutting 17 pct. of work force (AP)

  
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  This came from Yahoo News AP - Electronic Arts plans to cut its work force by 17 percent as it tries to align its business with a transforming video game industry. Go to Source
  3 weeks ago

• Electronic Arts Cutting 1500 Jobs

  
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  Video and computer game maker Electronic Arts is planning to cut 1500 jobs, or about 17% of its total workforce.  The cuts are a reaction to  sharp drops in consumer spending on entertainment.  EA recently acquired online game maker Playfish and is shifting its focus away from traditional “pay then play” games ...
  3 weeks ago

• Activision posts 3Q profit, backs 2009 outlook (AP)

  
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  This came from Yahoo News AP - It’s been a rough year for the video game industry, but Activision Blizzard Inc. reported a profit for its third quarter because of a lower costs and a good response for games such as “Guitar Hero 5″ and “World of Warcraft.” Go to Source
  3 weeks ago

• Self-Pixellation

  
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  In his recent work “Papercraft Self Portrait”, 3D artist Eric Testrole did something really cool for Halloween. He pixellated his own head! It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe. He’s been a character designer in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• VanCity Allie – a Vancouver girl who lives and breathes the West Coast

  
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  This the blog of a 24 year-old Vancouver girl who loves and writes about everything “Vancouver” and West Coast. What can you expect? Lots of her photos, coverage of the Vancouver video game industry, the Canucks hockey team, snowboarding and surfing spots and gear, computers/video games/gadgets… and other ...
  4 weeks ago

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