Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes
After the write-off There has been a lot of executive turnover in Microsoft’s game division, but none of it has been laid directly at...
Grand Theft Auto IV tops 10 million sold
“Grand Theft Auto IV” is on its way to breaking records, despite a feared slowdown in sales. Take-Two Interactive reported that it has sold...
Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices
Microsoft cut Xbox 360 prices on all three of its console versions today. The $50 to $79 price cuts mean that Microsoft will have...
Nintendo revises its financial forecasts upward yet again
Okay, this console war is getting really boring. Nintendo is thrashing everyone else. Today, the Japanese company revised upward its financial forecasts for the...
Webcarzz raises $4 million to create online car game for boys
Many of the successful online games for kids — from Club Penguin to Neopets — are appealing to girls. But Webcarzz is going after...
Roundup: Nvidia battles recall flyers, Google dives deep and the Internet is broken again
Here’s the latest action: The Internet is broken — This is starting to sound like a broken record. Didn’t we just write about the...
Nvision 08: Emerging Companies Summit highlights visual start-ups
Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one...
Q&A with Nvidia CEO: Jen-Hsun Huang on visual computing, tension with Intel, and product bugs
Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, started his graphics chip company in 1993 and is now the last man standing. Back then, no one...
Nvision 08: Surprise, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang predicts visual computing revolution
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at the inaugural Nvision 08 conference to celebrate the era of visual computing. You’d expect him...
From the ashes of the graphics wars, another start-up
It seems obvious that the graphics chip wars are done, as far as start-ups are concerned. Intel is squaring off against Advanced Micro Devices...