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- Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy
- Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii
- News items 2008-06-26
- Welcome WiiWare
- CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi brings you the latest Nintendo Wii news and throws in some yoga and ski moves from a recent media party in San Francisco. Expect to see new WiiWare titles from indie game developers in the Wii Shop; slick third-party games from Lucas Arts and Electronic Arts;...
- Tags: News, nintendo, wii, major league eating, tower of goo, wii fit, mario cart, wiiware, kara tsuboi
- Videos 2008-04-15
- Xbox360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii price war?
- After watching the Nintendo Wii run away with the game console market for the past 6 months, Sony and Microsoft finally appear willing to make the hard decisions to try and recapture the market.Sony dropped the price of its PS3 by $100 on Monday after introducing an upgraded version, and...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- The number one reason I may buy a Wii
- ...Mario Kart, details of which were announced today.This is a great game. I have a special place in my heart for racing games, but driving around as a cartoon character, throwing bananas and what-not at opponents and trying to avoid falling off the Rainbow bridge can't be beat (and is...
- Tags: Wii, Nintendo, Games
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Sony is / is not slashing the PS3 price
- Corporate approaches to media relations never cease to amaze me. Just last week, Sony's president, Ryoji Chubachi, claimed that no price cut on the PS3 was in the works. This morning, however, news from Reuters reported that the PS3 price WILL be slashed by $100.00...at least in the United States.That's...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- The battle for the living room platform
- Nintendo announced yesterday WiiWare, a program which will enable developers to create games that can be downloaded to the Wii console. Such games can be sold through the Wii Shop Channel, creating revenue opportunities for smaller-scale developers who wouldn't have the resources to create more labor intensive productions of a...
- Tags: Digital Media, DRM, Media Center, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Television, Wii, XBOX, XBOX 360
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Sony's nightmare scenario
- Reports all across the web have suggested that Microsoft will lower the price of the XBOX 360 game console sooner rather than later. This report claims the reduction will be on the order of $100.00 for the Core edition, bringing the price down to $199.00 for a base XBOX 360...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Sony, PS3, PlayStation, Nintendo, Microsoft, HD DVD, HD, Games, BluRay
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- XBOX 360 and HD-DVD
- In a recent discussion, a friend wondered why Microsoft had opted not to include an HD-DVD drive in the recent update to the XBOX 360 console (the XBOX 360 Elite). The logic would seem obvious. In the US, 94% of Blu-Ray players sold are included as part of the PS3...
- Tags: PlayStation, HD DVD, HD, XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, Nintendo, Microsoft, General, Games
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Game consoles are evil
- Richard Stallman is the godfather of the Free Software Movement. He is also maddeningly hard core in his beliefs, to the point where I wonder if he would allow doctors to work on him if the machines they were using run anything but open source software. The following is an...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, PS3, Games, Wii, Sony, PlayStation, Nintendo, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Guitar Hero II on XBOX 360 released
- Activision has ported its popular PS2 game franchise, Guitar Hero, to the XBOX 360. Now XBOX 360 users can pretend they are musician gods of old, stopping meteorites with the force of their strumming and releasing endless streams of near-perfect albums because, heck, us moderns just cant do music anymore...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, PlayStation, Nintendo, Microsoft, General, Games
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- BluRay making up for lost time
- The BluRay disc format has made up for HD-DVDs early sales lead, exceeding the number of HD-DVD discs sold last month for the first time. Of course, as always, the stastistics are maddeningly short on real detail, as they dont announce how many discs in each format were sold. Discs...
- Tags: Wii, Nintendo, PlayStation, PS3, XBOX 360, Games, XBOX, BluRay, Sony, HD DVD, HD, Microsoft, General, Hardware Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Wii News Channel Launches: Video & Images
- While many companies are promising the bring the Web 2.0 world to the living room, the only company I see doing it well so far is Nintendo. Yesterday I got my new Wii, just in time for the release of the Wii News Channel.In case you arent familiar with the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, News, Media, Tech, RSS, Social Media, Social Software, Nintendo, Community, Nintendo Wii
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
- Want a Wii? Try a Widget
- Weve wanted a Wii since before Xmas. The problem of course is locating them. Yesterday I read a post on the Cult of Mac Blog describing a Wii Finder Widget. From the widget creators site:"Stay on top of Wii inventory like never before with the Wii Finder Widget. The Wii...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Tech, Design, Yahoo, Apple, Mac, Windows, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Wii Finder Widget
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
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- Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience
- Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot
- News items 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- iCrash: Buggy apps tarnish iPhone 2.0 appeal
- Installation problems, buggy applications, lack of trial versions, and a mediocre selection have dampened initial enthusiasm for Apple's brand new iPhone App Store. Not counting punishing server load when the store debuted last week, some users like me have encountered a series of obstacles to get apps...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Engineering, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Nintendo's announcements from E3 2008
- Nintendo showcases new hardware and software titles. A new add-on called Wii Motion Plus adds another level of precision to the Wii Remote for super accurate motions in the new beach-themed game, 'Wii Sports Resort.' The Wii gets voice-chat capability with the Wii Speak Mic in 'Animal Crossing: City Folk.'...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, News
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Photos: Game on at E3
- Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and others make their big announcements and gamers rev up for new titles. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-15
- Netflix grabs more distribution via Microsoft's Xbox
- Netflix grabs more distribution via Microsoft's XboxWhat do you want to bet?What do you want to bet that Canadian XBox and Netflix customers need not apply? :(well if you people here would cover things like say E3 '08 like you do forwell if you people here would cover things like...
- Tags: Game players, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Wii-habbing your way back to health
- Turns out video games can be good for your health. At San Francisco's St. Mary's Medical Center, a trauma rehabilitation doctor prescribes Nintendo Wii sessions as part of treatment. CNET's Kara Tsuboi takes a look at this "alternative" medicine and meets patients who seem to forget their pain thanks to...
- Tags: Health Care, Games, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, News, kara tsuboi, nintendo wii, st. mary's medical center, trauma, rehabilitation, medicine, dr. justin liu
- Videos 2008-07-09
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