Video Games
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Comic-Con is both fan festival and marketing meccaJul 14, 2011 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Perhaps the only ones more excited than the 130,000 fans getting ready for next week's Comic-Con are the Hollywood studios and networks hoping to capture t...
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Parents must set the limits on video gamesJul 14, 2011 3:00 am - When the Supreme Court shot down a California law banning children from purchasing violent video games, parents were handed another reason to step up. The state wanted t...
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Choose your own video game adventureJul 05, 2011 3:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Menacing alien machines descend on Earth, and amid all-out war, a soldier searches a building to find a frightened boy hiding in a vent. "It's OK," says th...
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'Shadows,' 'F.E.A.R.' weird but not scaryJul 04, 2011 12:00 am - What makes a video game scary? Does it need zombies, vampires, werewolves or other characters from the Halloween costume catalog? Or is the essence of horror harder to d...
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'Duke Nukem' a mean-spirited messJun 30, 2011 11:00 pm - There's a sequence in “Duke Nukem Forever” that's destined to be remembered as one of the all-time low points in the history of video games. It takes place in the Hive, ...
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'Rage' clamors to cure franchise fatigueJun 28, 2011 3:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Three seemed to be the magic number at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo, with "Gears of War 3," ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" and "Uncharted 3:...
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'Child of Eden' both dizzying and dazzlingJun 26, 2011 11:00 pm - The latest game to take full advantage of Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor does so with a mind-bending approach that is probably unlike anything you've ever played. “Chi...
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'Alice' returns to a twisted WonderlandJun 17, 2011 12:00 am - If Lewis Carroll were alive today, I suspect he would enjoy playing video games. After all, he was a devotee of puzzles and board games, and the twisted dream logic of, ...
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'Battlefield 3' takes aim at 'Modern Warfare 3'Jun 13, 2011 11:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Beyond the flashing flatscreens, blaring speakers and "booth babes" at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there was no bigger showdown at the video...
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Study: Minority youth have big media appetiteJun 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Minority youth spend more than half their day consuming media content, a rate that's 4.5 hours greater than their white counterparts, according to a Northwestern Univers...