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HopeLab's CEO Pat Christen Speaks at White House Event as President Inspires Americans to Support Innovation (PRWeb Jun 30, 2009)

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Feeling really good about your gamer skills? Next week’s WiiWare release, Bit.Trip Core, will beat those confident feelings right out of you.
The second in a six-game series of retro-styled challenges that recall the focused gameplay and abstract graphics of the Atari 2600, Core follows directly in the wake of Bit.Trip Beat, which added rhythm-based timing [...]

LEVEL Studios, an independent digital agency, announced the completion of a series of new sites for NAMCO BANDAI Games America, including teaser sites for Splatterhouse and Dead to Rights Retribution as well as game sites for Tekken and Afro Samurai . The latter was selected as an official honoree by the 13th Annual Webby Awards in the "Games-Related" category. (PRWeb Jun 30, 2009)

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Sometimes it pays to be subnormal.
Half an hour into Red Faction: Guerrilla, I was wondering what kind of crack my fellow gamers were smoking. I’d seen loads of praise for Guerrilla, a game in which you play a freedom fighter (terrorist?) bringing down a repressive military government on Mars by bombing buildings, assassinating generals and [...]

The new chapter in the Fable series was mentioned in the New York Times on Friday, but not in the way you’d expect.
In the Times’ Weddings & Celebrations section, which isn’t typically subject to errors, the wedding announcement of Lionhead Studios employee Joshua Atkins stated that he was the “lead designer of Fable III.” The [...]

Sony said Tuesday that it would expand its Official License Program for its consoles’ peripherals and accessories to third-party manufacturers.
The program will allow peripheral and accessory manufacturers to gain access to technical documentations needed to create licensed products for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP and eventually the PSP Go.
Peripheral makers will also be [...]

Robomodo honored with award nominations at video game industry's largest event, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2009 (PRWeb Jun 30, 2009)

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I have heard many PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 fanboys say this over and over. These relatively new video game consoles just keep getting better and better, and for some, you have not experienced gaming unless you have used these consoles. Indeed, I know some people who would not play on anything than [...]

The current generation of game consoles could constitute the last “console cycle” as we know it, says Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
In a massive 210-page report entitled “Money for Nothing: How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend the Console Cycle,” the widely-read industry pundit and financial guru pontificates on most every facet of the videogame industry [...]

Sony is considering development of a gaming and cell phone hybrid to compete with Apple’s iPhone.
According to Reuters, Japanese business daily Nikkei said that the company aims to form a development team as early as next month to create a product that combines the PSP handheld gaming device and the Sony Ericsson mobile phone.
This would [...]

Michael Jackson isn’t the only recently deceased celebrity with a videogame-related tribute.
Yesterday, after 50-year-old Billy Mays was found dead in his home, a mash-up video of the informercial guru combined with Team Fortress 2 resurfaced.
Originally created in response to Team Fortress 2’s Scout character peddling the Slap Chop, this video features a clip of Mays [...]

This month, Mingoville (www.Mingoville.com) launched the first virtual world where kids learn English for free by interacting in a global community in a safe and fun environment. Parents and teachers around the world seek quality English as a second language (ESL) courses focused on English for kids. Now out of beta, Mingoville offers every child, teen, or ESL student a chance to improve their opportunities later in life by learning proper English at a young age. They even get to do so by playing games and having fun in a social learning environment. (PRWeb Jun 29, 2009)

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Each Brings Decades of Math Education Expertise and Leadership to Growing eLearning Technology Company (PRWeb Jun 29, 2009)

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CopperGate Communications Ltd., the Everywire Home Networking Company™, has shipped over 10 million HomePNA chipsets. CopperGate HomePNA chips are used in digital devices deployed worldwide in home entertainment networks and IPTV solutions, converting existing home wiring into usable Ethernet over coax and phone networks. They are deployed by more than 40 telecommunications, cable, and satellite companies as key components of their home entertainment offerings to consumers. The chips provide high-speed, low-cost, triple-play (voice, data, and video) options for use with existing coax and phone wiring inside homes. (PRWeb Jun 29, 2009)

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Save high-resolution digital images on MyPhotoAlbum, then share and print photos on Facebook with one easy upload. (PRWeb Jun 29, 2009)

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Sunny day, chasing the clouds away…
I am pretty sure that those of you who are around 30 years old remember those lines very well. Go back to your childhood and I am sure that you will remember days of sitting in front of the TV set, watching Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and all the [...]