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  January 23rd

  News Video games linked to poor relationships

  A new study connects young adults' use of video games to forming poorer relationships with friends and family. The research is based on information collected from 813 college students around the country. As the amount of time playing video games went up, the quality of relationships with peers and parents went down.

  Related categories : Gaming

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  January 11th 2007

  News MP Boris Johnson blasts video games

  Conservative MP Boris Johnson has attacked video games claiming they stunt reading skills and do no good at all

  Related categories : Consoles

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  December 6th 2008

  News Korea aims for world video games domination

  If asked to name any of South Korea's biggest exports, we bet you'd be hard pressed to come up with much beyond ships and anything with a Samsung badge on it, but would video games feature in that list?

  Related categories : Gaming

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  March 11th

  Blogs British Academy Video Game Awards winners announced

  The British Academy Video Games Awards took place last night, awarding the best and brightest video games with a jolly good booze up and fistfuls of BAFTA masks.

  Related categories : Gaming

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  February 6th 2007

  News Action video games make you sharper

  Playing video games is good for you - or so say researchers at the University of Rochester who found that gaming actually improves your eyesight. Daphne Bavelier put a group of students in front of first person shooter Unreal Tournament...

  Related categories : Gaming

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  July 23rd 2007

  News GunBound gang kidnaps video game expert

  A gang of four crazy gun-wielding maniacs went berserk last week and decided to kidnap one of the world's top video games experts. The Sao Paulo-based gang used a social networking site to lure the successful GunBound gamer into a fake hot date

  Related categories : Gaming

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  February 13th

  Blogs Video game of the week: Skate 2

  Skate made waves in 2007 with its daring challenge for Tony Hawks' crown as the quintessential skateboard sim.

  Related categories : Gaming

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  February 2nd 2007

  News US schools use video game to battle obesity

  Schools in the US state of West Virginia are planning to use a PlayStation2 game to battle escalating rates of childhood obesity. The state, situated in the north east of the US, has the worst obesity problem in North America

  Related categories : Consoles

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  November 11th 2008

  Blogs Video game of the week: Fable II

  "If you want to spend three hours chatting up women and then getting married and having protected (or unprotected) sex and starting a family and buying a house and decorating that house, then you can do that".

  Related categories : Consoles

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  March 15th 2007

  News Video set to explode on mobile phones

  User-generated video content and the rise of video sharing sites like YouTube are fuelling demand for MPEG-4 functionality on mobiles. iSuppli says that there'll be 509 million phones with MPEG-4 playback by 2010, a rise of...

  Related categories : Wi-fi , Mp3-players , Mobile-phones , Camcorders

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  February 26th 2007

  News BitTorrent opens video download store

  BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing network, is to open a legal video download store, due to go live today. The BitTorrent Entertainment Network (BTEN) will offer paid-for downloads of movies, TV shows, video games, and other media...

  Related categories : Web

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  February 22nd

  News Schwarzenegger game law overturned

  Hollywood tough guy Arnold Schwarzenegger took one in the eye this weekend, when a US court overruled a law he signed forcing games companies to restrict the sale of violent software.

  Related categories : Gaming

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  January 28th

  News Top games take a growing slice of $20bn gaming pie

  Overall computer and video game industry hardware, software and peripheral sales climbed to $21 billion in 2008, with entertainment software sales comprising $11.7 billion of that total figure - a 22.9% jump over the previous year - the US Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today

  Related categories : Gaming

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  February 11th 2008

  News Apple working on secret games hardware?

  As Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony continue to dominate the gaming industry, more companies are trying to find a way into the business. And, by the look of things, Apple may be one of those firms that are trying to do just that

  Related categories : Handhelds

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  September 5th 2008

  News Games ratings: Byron review consultation

  On the one side we have the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) that issued a press release today clearly headed, "Computer Games Industry Tells Margaret Hodge There Is Consensus On Age Ratings."

  Related categories : Gaming

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  July 26th 2008

  News P2P debate: Rock games stimulate music sales

  Following the agreement this week between the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and six of the UK?s biggest internet service providers (ISP) to send out warning letters to those users abusing P2P music download services, games developer Harmonix has claimed that videogames stimulate music sales far more than traditional methods.

  Related categories : Internet , Audio , Gaming

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  October 14th 2008

  News London Games Fest aims for fancy dress record

  London Games Fest aims to smash fancy dress record for the most people dressed as video games characters

  Related categories : Gaming

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  September 24th 2007

  News Microsoft: Video Marketplace coming 'soon'

  Microsoft has confirmed to our sister title ComputersandVideoGames.com (CVG) that its Xbox Live Video Marketplace service will launch in the UK and the rest of Europe before Christmas

  Related categories : High-definition

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  August 20th 2007

  News EA games poised for Apple Store displays

  Apple's online store is now accepting orders for four Electronic Arts video games. And while the games were promised in July, EA and Apple have announced that they will be available in all retail outlets soon

  Related categories : Gaming

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  October 29th 2007

  News Study: Men play casual games too

  According to an industry report, men are just as likely as women to play casual video games, but are less likely to admit it. Further, women are more likely to buy casual games than men, who are more likely to find a free version or attempt to circumvent piracy controls

  Related categories : Consoles