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China grants permission for launch of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
1 min

China’s oversight agency has granted permission for Blizzard Entertainment’s Chinese partner, NetEase.com, to launch an important expansion pack for World of Warcraft. The General...

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Sixense shows off fast-action gesture-controlled games (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
4 min

Sixense Entertainment‘s TrueMotion technology is an interesting entry in the market for controlling games using hand gestures. While other companies are capturing motion using...

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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg promises the best year ever for Xbox 360 (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
1 min

I caught up with Aaron Greenberg tonight at the Microsoft X10 event. He said that this was going to be the best year ever...

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Bungie reveals more about “Halo: Reach” where you fight on a planetary scale (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
2 min

At Microsoft’s X10 event in San Francisco, I had a chance to catch up with Brian Jarrard, community director at Bungie, to hear more...

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Microsoft’s Game Room will take you back to the arcade classics (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
1 min

Microsoft’s Game Room is a cool virtual space on Xbox Live where you can hang out with your cartoon-like avatar and enjoy the games...

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Microsoft shows off a grand game line-up at its X10 event

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2010
3 min

Microsoft showed off a stellar line-up of games at its X10 event today in San Francisco. I just returned from the event. Given that...

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Dungeons & Dragons: Not Just For Nerds

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2010
1 min

Kids at school stole your lunch money, picked on you, and directed hurtful comments toward you. Why? Because of your poor taste in after-school...

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Guess Who: Round Thirteen

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2010
1 min

OK, kiddos: Put your pencils down. It’s time to figure out the mystery video game character in our weekly Guess Who game. What’s that?...

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Video game sales fall 13 percent in January

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 11, 2010
2 min

Overall U.S. video game sales fell 13 percent in January to $1.17 billion, according to market researcher NPD. Game hardware sales fell 21 percent...

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A third of people may send virtual flowers or chocolate this Valentine’s Day

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 11, 2010
2 min

Valentine’s Day is going virtual. More people are planning to send virtual gifts to their sweethearts than ever before. An online survey by Viximo,...