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Video games inspired by TV, movies, board games
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 AP - Like so many American creations — baseball, comic books, rock 'n' roll — the video game is a mongrel art form. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to figure out how to make the whole package interactive as well.
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Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient
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Reuters - British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft sold 28 million Xbox 360s by end of 2008
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 Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on Monday.
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Wii Sports Best Selling Video Game Ever?
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PC World - The console game Wii aficionados literally can't live without is now unofficially the top selling video game ever. That game would be Wii Sports, a hodgepodge of Mii-infested no-frills sports games that comes with every single Wii, desired or no.
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Trends & Innovations - Monday
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Investor's Business Daily - A majority of U.S. consumers -- 51% -- plan to reduce their spending on technology this year because of the recession, with the biggest drops in demand expected for smart phones, satellite radio, GPS units and video game devices. That's according to a survey of 5,000 adults by research firm Forrester. Some 63% of survey participants said they were less likely to buy a smart phone because of the economy. Some 66% and 62% said they're less likely to buy satellite radio and GPS units, respectively.
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Nielsen's Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008
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PC World - World of Warcraft, Tetris, and the PlayStation 2 make strange bedfellows, but they each topped Nielsen's 2008 year-end scan of popular media trends in the U.S. World of Warcraft's a no-brainer on the PC games chart. But what about Alexey Pajitnov's twenty-some-year-old Tetris for mobiles? And are people really still playing the PS2?
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AFP - Japan's video game market shrank for the first time in four years in 2008 in the absence of new console launches, a report said Tuesday.