Video Games
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'Epic Mickey' romps through Disney archiveDec 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has the most ironic name in animation history. His co-creator, Walt Disney, lost the rights to Oswald in the 1920s, so he started over with a new...
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Neil Patrick Harris to host Video Game AwardsDec 05, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Spike TV says Neil Patrick Harris will host this year's Video Game Awards. The star of stage, video games and TV's "How I Met Your Mother," Harris will presi...
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New 'Donkey Kong' will delight fans of the big apeNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - No video-game company values its characters as deeply as Nintendo. Visit the company's flagship store in Manhattan and you'll find plush versions of dozens of Nintendo f...
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New 'Assassin's Creed' a worthy follow-upNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - Following a widely popular title such as “Assassin's Creed II” in a year's time inevitably leads to murmured worries about whether a company is trying to rush out a sequ...
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'Epic Mickey' draws on Disney historyNov 21, 2010 10:00 pm - GLENDALE, Calif. — When veteran video game designer Warren Spector spots a pamphlet for a never-erected extension of Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A. inside the Walt Disn...
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Cold War gets reheated in 'Black Ops'Nov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Activision's “Call of Duty” series has become such a global phenomenon that the controversies surrounding each release are more interesting than the games themselves. Th...
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Kinect motion-sensing system impressesNov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn ...
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New 'Call of Duty' blasts last year's sales recordNov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — "Call of Duty: Black Ops" blasted entertainment records this week by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication...
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Robbers steal new 'Call of Duty' video gameNov 07, 2010 10:00 pm - BEL AIR, Md. — Authorities in northeast Maryland say robbers have stolen more than 100 copies of the highly anticipated "Call of Duty: Black Ops" video game, which does...
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'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notesOct 25, 2010 11:00 pm - I've spent so much time playing "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero" over the last five years that, by now, I ought to be able to give Eric Clapton a run for his money. That's ...