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Video game industry adds billions to U.S. economy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2010
1 min

Keep playing those video games. You’re helping Uncle Sam. The video game industry added nearly $5 billion to the U.S. economy in 2009, according...

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Blockbuster adds games-by-mail service

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2010
2 min

Blockbuster has added video games to its Blockbuster by Mail subscription service. In addition to movies delivered via mail, where it competes with Netflix,...

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Online and mobile games should generate more revenue than console games

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2010
4 min

The video games industry is big and getting bigger. But it’s changing. Console games are getting riskier to make, while online and mobile games...

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News Blips: Redeeming Pirates, Signing with Kinect, Scary Assassin’s Creed Toys, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2010
2 min

Forget hunting for bargains and preowned games — amass an armada of pirates and watch those prices plummet! News Blips: Amanita Design cuts the...

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Video Blips: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Madden, Monday Night Combat, and More

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2010
1 min

It's always cold in Call of Duty: Black Ops, but hey, I'll take frozen facial hair over embarrassing sweat stains from the eternally sun-baked...

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Nvidia scores $25M Pentagon contract to develop 1,000X faster supercomputers with graphics chips

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 10, 2010
1 min

A team led by Nvidia has won a $25 million research grant from the Pentagon to create high-performance supercomputers that exploit the computational capabilities...

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Dragon Warrior and Other Things I Didn’t Know

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2010
3 min

I Editor's note: Sean's decades-long experience with Dragon Quest has been a learning experience. As he's grown to love the series, he's also grown...