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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...

Steven Parker · Mar 26, 2008 · Hot! with 79 comments

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...

· Jan 18, 2008 · Hot! with 2 comments

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...

· Mar 17, 2007 · Hot! with 9 comments

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...

· Sep 4, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

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...

· Aug 16, 2004 with -1 comments

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...

· Aug 5, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

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,...

· May 20, 2004 with -1 comments

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,...

· Sep 5, 2003 with 1 comment

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 26, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Marcel Klum · Oct 10, 2002 with -1 comments

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...

· Mar 13, 2002 with -1 comments

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,...

· Nov 5, 2001 with -1 comments

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...

· Nov 1, 2001 with -1 comments

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