Video Games
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Microsoft makes pitch to gamers with Xbox One E3 presentationJun 15, 2013 8:11 am - Microsoft Corp., under pressure to generate excitement among video-game enthusiasts for its coming Xbox One entertainment console, showed exclusive, hyper- realistic tit...
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Companion apps, open worlds: 5 trends from E3Jun 15, 2013 8:01 am - LOS ANGELES — From companion apps with the power to affect gameplay to racing games where players persistently speed across virtual roads, there’s several innovations on...
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Parker, Stone talk ‘South Park’ game at E3Jun 15, 2013 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Trey Parker and Matt Stone have killed Kenny hundreds of times on “South Park,” but the video game based on their popular Comedy Central animated series is...
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'Animal Crossing: New Leaf' charms on 3DSJun 11, 2013 6:00 am - They're whiny, materialistic, gossipy and co-dependent. If they weren't so cute, I would really hate the little animal people who populate Rooty, a seaside village I ina...
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EA's sci-fi shooter 'Fuse' lacks sparkJun 04, 2013 6:00 am - If you discovered an energy source as potent as Fuse — a combination of alien and human technology that promises unlimited power — how would you use it? Would you delive...
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Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainmentMay 21, 2013 3:28 pm - REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for...
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Improved 'Metro: Last Light' digs deep under MoscowMay 21, 2013 6:00 am - What are you doing after the apocalypse? Video-game creators have been asking that question for years, with results ranging from Bethesda's sublime “Fallout 3” to id Sof...
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'Blood Dragon' a blast of pure '80s mayhemMay 14, 2013 6:00 am - Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. Thirty years later, you don't have to look hard to see the inf...
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'Star Trek' game sets phasers on dumbMay 07, 2013 6:00 am - “Arena,” a 1967 episode of “Star Trek,” features the original series' most laughable fight scene, an epic duel between Capt. James T. Kirk and a rubbery lizard-man of th...
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Same old problems in new 'Dead Island' gameApr 30, 2013 6:00 am - Zombie stories never have happy endings. So when the heroes of 2011's “Dead Island” made it out alive, you knew there had to be a catch. The catch is that any video game...