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Date: Tue, 27. October 2009 03:13:02

PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.

Date: Thu, 13. May 2010 15:05:14

An article at Wired discusses the difficulties involved in transferring games that were purchased and downloaded online when users replace their Wii or DSi. "Neither the Wii nor Nintendorsquo;s portable DSi consoles have an upgrade path for downloadable content, since games are tied not to user accounts but to specific machines. Itrsquo;s impossible for a user to copy content from an old console to a new one. Even some Wii owners whose machines have malfunctioned said it was difficult, or impossible, to get Nintendo to transfer the software licenses at its headquarters." One gamer, who bought the recently released black Wii console, explained that she got Nintendo to transfer her games, but needed to "mail both of her Wii consoles to Nintendo, and wait two weeks," hardly a convenient solution.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F05%2F13%2F0755231%2FNew-Hardware-Models-Highlight-Nintendos-No-Transfer-Policy" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+Hardware+Models+Highlight+Nintendo's+No-Transfer+Policy%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9vD5C1" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/13/0755231/New-Hardware-Models-Highlight-Nintendos-No-Transfer-Policy?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1650694amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CiZSLRJucI7mghWH_NiKkgSboOQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CiZSLRJucI7mghWH_NiKkgSboOQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CiZSLRJucI7mghWH_NiKkgSboOQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CiZSLRJucI7mghWH_NiKkgSboOQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/R5ZO9o3LFGY" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 2. January 2009 14:05:46

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13i-0fd=Rurl=http://www.pressemeldungen.at/65534/nintendo-wii-console-new-gaming-experience-for-the-whole-family/cid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNGiywKJi3RYqkfKMdFjs5ztVWee_wimg src=http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=pGqqxLYF1JcJimgurl=www.pressemeldungen.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nintendowii.jpg width=52 height=80 alt= border=1brfont size=-2Pressemeldungen.at (Pressemitteilung)/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-0fd=Rurl=http://www.pcworld.com/article/156259/nielsens_top_10_pc_games_and_consoles_of_2008.html/cid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNF3K3MheDlp4WiMzODL30bdnU0pMwbNielsen#39;s Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fPC Worldnbsp;-/font nobrJan 2, 2009/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1World of Warcraft, Tetris, and the PlayStation 2 make strange bedfellows, but they each topped Nielsen#39;s 2008 year-end scan of popular media trends in the US World of Warcraft#39;s a no-brainer on the PC games chart./fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-1fd=Rurl=http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/4384.htmlcid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNGphkw_5XXVdXygYrdcjLfJZmWBZQWhy Do Gamers Opt For PlayStation?/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrPSX Extreme/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-2fd=Rurl=http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16497.cfmcid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNGJl2k0J0JMUGlVCV438j1LNf5OIgPlayStation 2 still the most played console/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrAfterdawn.com/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-3fd=Rurl=http://www.neoseeker.com/news/9538-playstation-2-most-played-console-wow-dominates-pc-gaming/cid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNGXmhqe3JI-3riEFjg7Lw64ALhqwgnobrNeoseeker/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-4fd=Rurl=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory%3FcId%3D3172108cid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNG-4V3K_EvcSBe-y0LZUab8staDPgnobr1UP.com/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-5fd=Rurl=http://www.forbes.com/markets/2009/01/02/nintendo-wii-microsoft-markets-equity-cx_ll_0102markets12.htmlcid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNHgi0Hh-yL04orDZGiuj1RCPV2_6wnobrForbes/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-6fd=Rurl=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php%3Fstory%3D21695cid=1286623637ei=nytgSYuIA8WPmAeXkKSSAgusg=AFQjCNFdWCffRdG8SnXi_FoVMHt-Z_DcignobrGamasutra/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?ned=usncl=1286623637hl=ennobrball 36 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

Date: Sun, 20. July 2008 15:04:51

stoolpigeon writes with this snippet from an AFP story carried by Google: "Nintendo said Thursday that its globally popular Wii has become the top-selling video game console in the United States, a crown coveted by rivals Microsoft and Sony. Market-tracking firm NPD Group reports that 666,000 Wii consoles were sold in the United States in June, raising the total sales count in the country to nearly 10.9 million units." I'd rather play board games than video games, but the Wii Fit makes one of these tempting anyhow.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Tue, 22. July 2008 18:12:50

Gov. David Paterson signed a law Tuesday that he said will lead to restrictions on video game violence and help families better monitor grisly games.

Date: Sun, 18. October 2009 15:05:31

An article at Gamasutra explores the decisions by Microsoft and Sony to launch significant hardware additions mdash; their respective, upcoming motion-control schemes mdash; in the middle of a console cycle, rather than waiting until the next generations of their systems are ready. It's indicative of a change to the established pattern of console wars; nowadays, it's more about adding features and gadgets to improve existing products than developing entirely new ones. Quoting: "... for Sony and Microsoft, motion controllers are their next-gen consoles. And it's a damn sight easier than launching Xbox 720 or PS4. They can debut these peripherals without needing to engineer completely new boxes for consumers, potentially bundle them over time, and they have a much better chance at getting exclusive games, thanks to the specificity of the hardware (something that's happened a lot for the Wii). Thus, both hardware manufacturers and publishers like EA see these controllers sparking new interest in Xbox 360 and PS3, which will delay the next dreaded console transition for another few years."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/17/1511203/The-Changing-Face-of-the-Console-Wars?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/17/1511203"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/17/1511203/The-Changing-Face-of-the-Console-Wars?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QObXW5WUi6j0jCcYukWtRRmysnQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QObXW5WUi6j0jCcYukWtRRmysnQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QObXW5WUi6j0jCcYukWtRRmysnQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QObXW5WUi6j0jCcYukWtRRmysnQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/d41zZ3ZykRM" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 24. March 2009 15:05:16

ThinSkin writes "Imagine playing bleeding-edge games, yet never again upgrading your hardware. That's the ambitious goal of OnLive's Internet delivered gaming service. Using cloud computing, OnLive's goal is to 'make all modern games playable on any system,' thanks in large part to OnLive's remote servers that do all the heavy lifting. With a fast enough Internet connection, gamers can effectively stream and play games using a PC, Mac, or a 'MicroConsole,' 'a dedicated gaming client provided by OnLive that includes a game controller.' Without ever having to worry about costly hardware upgrades or the cost of a next-gen console, gamers can expect to fork over about $50 yearly just for the service. If this thing takes off, this can spell trouble for gaming consoles down the road, especially if already-established services like Steam and Impulse join the fray."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/24/135212amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/24/135212"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/24/135212amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xgD4RyxOv-rQjbTXkrnbA8sQhb0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xgD4RyxOv-rQjbTXkrnbA8sQhb0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zpus1wbBd2U" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 21. November 2011 19:36:02

With more females playing games online, the typical stereotype of an average online gamer being an introverted, overweight teenage boy who spends most of their time indoors playing computer or console games, has been blown out of the water. According to a new survey conducted online in October 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse among over 2,000 U.S. adults, more than half (55%) of online gamers (people who play online games on their computer, social networking sites, or mobile devices) are women. Furthermore, these women are more social and were found to have more sex than females who do not play online games.

Date: Thu, 17. February 2011 00:48:15

Sony is working on a PlayStation gaming tablet, according to tech blog Engadget. It will come pre-loaded with PlayStation 1 games, will have an unusual folding design and is scheduled to launch in September.

Date: Tue, 4. January 2011 08:11:58

If you've been wishing you could ditch your clunky computer mouse and control your PC with gestures -- the way you can using Microsoft Corp.'s Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console -- computer maker Asus expects to have a solution for you this year.