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Report: 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Tops Global Video Game Sales

8/21/2008 7:59:23 PM

Source: Home Media Magazine

RetroforceGO! records episode 57 tonight: The Atari 2600

8/21/2008 7:47:46 PM

Source: Destructoid

B.R. scores major video game company

8/21/2008 7:46:41 PM

Source: The Times-Picayune

Master blasters

8/21/2008 7:42:43 PM

Source: The Times, South Africa

Foundation 9 Showcases Monster Lab, Gauntlet(TM) and Chimps Ahoy! at Penny Arcade Expo

8/21/2008 6:48:41 PM

Source: BetaNews

ESPN signs digital rights deal with baseball

8/21/2008 5:42:33 PM

Source: Boston Globe

EA Drops $2 Billion Hostile Take-Two Bid, Enters Talks

8/21/2008 3:44:39 PM

Source: Information Week

Electronic Arts won't extend Take-Two deadline

8/21/2008 10:56:49 AM

Source: Yahoo! News

ESPN signs digital rights deal with MLB

8/21/2008 9:42:18 AM

Source: Yahoo! Sports

Funny Or Die sites expand into cooking, videogames

8/21/2008 9:24:06 AM

Source: Businessweek

Blogs

Samba de Amigo gets dates, DLC and full song list

8/21/2008 8:28:39 PM

Source: Joystiq

Joystiq eyes-on: Heavy Rain

8/21/2008 8:28:08 PM

Source: Joystiq

Rumor: New Guitar Hero peripheral coming?

8/21/2008 7:35:06 PM

Source: Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Sega shows off new Sonic Unleashed screens

8/21/2008 7:04:09 PM

Source: Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Popular video game series teaches kids about saving the whales

8/21/2008 6:58:14 PM

Source: Green Daily

Latest Articles

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

A stiffly-animated, money-grabbing afterthought
It is Star Wars , but it's also an ad for an upcoming video game and an animated TV series debuting in October.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  August 20, 2008
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Championship Calibur

The soul still burns for a select few
Ten years ago, you couldn’t take a step through the electronics department without knocking over a stack of crappy fighting games.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  August 19, 2008
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Follow the leader

Geometry Wars 2 shoots and scores
What makes a man lust for the high score?
By MITCH KRPATA  |  August 12, 2008
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Fantastic voyage

A classic RPG gets made over
This is a nostalgia trip worth taking.
By RYAN STEWART  |  August 04, 2008
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Dream on

Aerosmith can’t make Guitar Hero sing again
It is somehow fitting that the Guitar Hero series should follow the trajectory of the countless rock bands who achieve too much success too soon.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  July 28, 2008
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Civil service

Sid Meier brings Revolution to the people
The upshot of all this building and scheming is that you can turn Paris into an Aztec city and settle Fyodor Dostoevsky in Tenochtitlan.
By RYAN STEWART  |  July 21, 2008
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Back to the future

A new generation of Space Invaders
Of all the things to love about games, the best is when one comes out of nowhere to knock you upside the head.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  July 15, 2008
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Tour bust

The wheels come off for Guitar Hero
It’s more pleasant than being eaten by a T. Rex.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  July 08, 2008
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War of words

The final Metal Gear Solid doesn’t go down quietly
“War has changed,” Solid Snake tells us, both at the beginning and at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots . He would know.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  July 01, 2008
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Block party

Indiana Jones goes Lego
Somehow I missed out on the whole Lego video-game universe.
By AARON SOLOMON  |  June 24, 2008
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Blood sport

Ninja Gaiden II scores a flesh wound
To judge by the way they’re portrayed in video games, ninjas are suffering from an identity crisis.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  June 17, 2008
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Bourne to lose

Action, but no thrills, in this Conspiracy
The Bourne Conspiracy is a video game not directly based on the Bourne films starring Matt Damon — a fact its makers have taken great pains to obscure.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  June 10, 2008

Inherit the wind

The Wii’s first original, downloadable content
One of the most exciting aspects of this console generation has been each platform’s approach to downloadable content.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  June 03, 2008
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Fitter, happier?

Nintendo offers its new workout plan
Nintendo’s newest runaway sensation is, of all things, an exercise game.
By MADDY MYERS  |  May 27, 2008

Upping the game

Letters to the Boston editor, May 23, 2008
I believe games should be able to choose their setting.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  May 21, 2008
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Helter-skelter

The World Ends  with a bang, not a whimper
New gameplay quirks erupt from  The World Ends with You  like popcorn from an industrial-strength popper.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  May 19, 2008
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Citizen Kane? Or ‘Citizen You’?

Grand Theft Auto IV  puts the player behind the wheel
Anyone who wants to know what makes a video game a video game — what makes it different from movies, television, books — can find the answer in Grand Theft Auto IV .
By MITCH KRPATA  |  May 15, 2008

Fair game

Boston Phoenix Letters: May 9, 2008
There is a big difference between games that are consciously edgy or controversial, such as Postal or Super Columbine Massacre, and games that are intended as nothing but exploitive pornography, such as Custer’s Revenge.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  May 07, 2008
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Shell on wheels

The Nintendo Wii’s kart attack
Unless Nintendo is planning to drop a surprise Kid Icarus remake on us, Mario Kart Wii will be one of its last franchises to make the leap to the next generation.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  May 07, 2008
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Polar excess

The brutal but beautiful Ikaruga
Warning: if you’re the type to scream profanities and toss controllers when a game is too difficult, you’ll want to give Ikaruga a wide berth.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  April 28, 2008
Audio

Video-game makers say a deal is near

8/19/2008 4:56:23 AM

Source: LA Daily News: Business

Video

Not Your Parents Library: Video Game Checkout

8/20/2008 8:15:42 PM

Source: CBS4 WCCO Top Stories Video


Game Up: August

8/19/2008 10:07:08 PM

Source: ESPN Video


Gaming stocks play well

8/19/2008 3:28:03 PM

Source: CNNMoney.com Video


Meet Emily ... Human or Animation?

8/19/2008 11:39:48 AM

Source: ABC News Video: Technology & Science


Pirates and Storm Troopers Unite

8/15/2008 5:09:24 PM

Source: ABC News Video: Technology & Science

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