Neowin News Feed for: Playing

Is Microsoft Playing Games With XP SP3?

Steven Parker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:49:43 +0000

Call it a Hamlet moment for the PC industry, filled with political intrigue and machinations worthy of the great Shakespeare play: to wait for XP SP3 or move to Vista now that Microsoft has released... Read more...

Surgeons 'are better after playing Nintendo Wii'

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:40:02 +0000

Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii. US researchers are designing software that will allow... Read more...

Playing video games improves eyesight

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:07:49 +0000

New research claims that not all games, but action games, mainly shooters, can improve your eyesight. People who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person action video games showed... Read more...

Nintendo wants to know how you will be playing with your wii

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:05:22 +0000

Nintendo has decided to use social networking site myspace to promote its next console: Nintendo Wii. The myspace page features a video of how nintendo sees people as using the Wii controller showing off some... Read more...

Playing the convergence game

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:14:53 +0000

Several companies believe that a single device/appliance will be used to handle just about any entertainment task a user can throw at it. Especially Sony and Microsoft as they prepare/tweak their all in one... Read more...

Virgin: Apple's not playing fair with iPod

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:19:19 +0000

Today Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple. This French online music store claims that Apple's refusal to license its Fairplay technology for its iPod is damaging competition. This complaint comes shortly... Read more...

Playing to your strengths: Xbox Japan (Part 2)

Thu, 20 May 2004 22:07:45 +0000

Xbox Japan leaders discuss how they plan on leveraging the hardcore gamer and cultural nuances to increase awareness, loyalty, and sales. With the bulk of Xbox hardware sales occurring in North America,... Read more...

Microsoft: Asia not playing fair over OS

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:00:53 +0000

A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an operating system alternative to Microsoft's Windows software could raise concerns over fair competition, Microsoft said Friday. Japan, the world's second-largest economy,... Read more...

FIX: Hardware-Created ASF Files Stop Playing in WMP9

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:40:43 +0000

SYMPTOMS When you try to play back certain ASF files created by hardware devices, you may receive the following error message approximately three or four minutes after playback has started: 0xC00D1199 -- Windows Media... Read more...

Man dies after playing computer games non-stop

Marcel Klum — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:42:54 +0000

Thanks Josh for this one. A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours, police said yesterday. The jobless man, identified by police only by his... Read more...

Playing hooky for Xbox U.K. launch

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 03:13:33 +0000

Over 90 percent of Xbox buyers are planning to take the day off work tomorrow, according to a survey conducted by Amazon.com. Microsoft's Xbox gaming console is due to go on sale... Read more...

Morpheus, others: Playing to Napster's audience

Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:48:41 +0000

The downing of the popular file-swapping service, Napster, has had little impact on the Australian market thanks, in part, to the emergence of some solid competition. According to reports by Jupiter Media Metrix,... Read more...

Universal DRM may block PCs from playing CDs

Thu, 01 Nov 2001 06:07:43 +0000

In an effort to protect its copyright material for digital distribution, Universal Music Group Inc. is preparing to incorporate technology that may keep consumers from playing their legally bought CDs over their PCs at work... Read more...