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Date: Sat, 14. May 2011 02:21:26

Lenovo is entering a very large gaming market in China with EEDOO Technology’s iSec Sports & Entertainment Center, which has been designed to bring video games to a market plagued by piracy. The device bypasses the traditional console business model by allowing consumers to purchase gaming apps online and play them on the device. Omek Interactive and EEDOO Technology have equipped this new gaming device with motion gesture recognition and body tracking technology that will allow players to have interactive experiences similar to those on Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360.

Date: Wed, 16. December 2009 19:27:02

Reuters - Online gaming software firm GigaMedia Ltd said it would sell 60 percent of its online gambling software business to France's Mangas Gaming, sending its shares up as much as 15 percent.

Date: Tue, 3. May 2011 08:04:19

The Digital Foundry blog took a detailed look at gaming on Apple's recently released iPad 2. While most reviews of the device focus on the tablet's size, accessories and software features, this one puts the new A5 processor through its paces, finding "anything from a 4x to 7x leap over what was seen in the original version of the tablet." The authors suggest that it has boosted mobile gaming to a point where Apple could be preparing for a much bigger entrance into the gaming market. "Either we are looking at a company looking to consolidate its iron grip on the mobile games market by combining its existing unparalleled developer support with state-of-the-art technology, or else iPad 2 represents the first stages of a plan to expand iOS' reach from mobile phones and MP3 players through to tablets and perhaps in the near future, home games consoles. ... Technical and hardware challenges aside, there's no doubt whatsoever that Apple is extremely well-placed to expand its reach in the games market and launch a new, disruptive assault on the status quo every bit as effective as its mobile offerings have been. There have been plenty of creditable attempts at claiming the multi-purpose set-top box market, but there has been no outright winner. Arguably, Apple has the brand presence, the games, and the music/video services to actually make it happen." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Mon, 17. August 2009 15:05:37

A round-table discussion at Gametopius looks into the state of downloadable content for games as it has evolved over the past several years, going from an occasional, welcome supplement to being a common marketing strategy for most of the industry, frequently causing irritation over pricing and availability. "All of the map packs so far released for the Call of Duty games have been $10 each to download on consoles through closed networks, while PC gamers could download those same packs for free off of FileShack or somewhere else. Valve's own Team Fortress 2 has received a significant amount of DLC that's been completely free on the PC. Xbox owners of the same game, however, have only received perhaps half of that content, and they have had to pay for it in $5 packs. Why is this? The idea of this kind of content delivery was scarcely heard of on consoles, so console gamers see no reason not to pay for it. But on the PC, these amounts of content are usually just considered parts of patches. Furthermore, why pay for a few extra maps and costumes when modders are making and offering new ones for free all the time?"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/16/1630252/Are-Game-Consoles-Ruining-DLC?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/08/16/1630252"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/16/1630252/Are-Game-Consoles-Ruining-DLC?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vEPwZ0DswQ6HDbUnUxBI9RVAunw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vEPwZ0DswQ6HDbUnUxBI9RVAunw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vEPwZ0DswQ6HDbUnUxBI9RVAunw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vEPwZ0DswQ6HDbUnUxBI9RVAunw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/H4tGDwjbS2I" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sun, 6. December 2009 15:36:00

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Date: Wed, 29. October 2008 10:21:34

Reuters - Global economic slowdown will hurt the mobile gaming market this year and next, after it already suffered an unexpected slump last year, the head of gaming at Nokia said on Wednesday.

Date: Fri, 4. March 2011 07:19:11

Reuters - Sony Corp said on Friday shipments of its PlayStation 3 game consoles were being seized by customs officers in the Netherlands following a court injunction initiated by LG Electronics over a patent dispute.

Date: Tue, 15. July 2008 00:46:58

AFP - Microsoft has announced an alliance with Netflix in which the popular US online video rental service's members will be able to download films for viewing using Xbox 360 videogame consoles.

Date: Mon, 14. June 2010 18:00:00

New motion-sensing game consoles that have 3-D technologies will be unveiled at E3.

Date: Tue, 22. July 2008 13:30:00

Nintendo plans to build more consoles. But shortages will still persist.