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Microsoft unveils the Xbox One, the ‘ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system’
After months of speculation and rumour, Microsoft Corp. finally unveiled its next-generation video game console, the Xbox One, at a glitzy media event at the company’s headquarters on Tuesday.
Microsoft is positioning its new video game console as an all in one solution that will give users access to video games, over the top video services like Netflix and live television through one interface.
For Microsoft, the Xbox One represents not only the company’s challenger to Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii U and Sony Corp.’s forthcoming PlayStation 4 video console, but also the software giant’s best hope at reshaping the face of television entertainment and placing its technology at the centre of millions of living rooms.
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Can playing more games improve your life and save the world?
By Christine Pellegrini
Adventure Time to receive sequel and Regular Show get its first game
By Matthew O’Mara
New Pokémon X and Y details: Customizable characters and Pokémon you can ride
By Matthew O’Mara
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Ubisoft Montreal’s Watch Dogs revels in uncovering the moral grey zone
We get a hands on look at Ubisoft’s next potential blockbuster.
By Chad Sapieha
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Electronic Arts severing ties with gun manufacturers, but not their guns
In the midst of the United States’ bitter national debate on gun violence, gun manufacturers and videogame makers are delicately navigating one of the more peculiar relationships in American business.
Violent “first-person shooter” games such as “Call of Duty” are the bread and butter of leading video game publishers, and authenticity all but requires that they feature brand-name weapons.
Electronic Arts licensed weapons from companies like McMillan Group International as part of a marketing collaboration for “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” Activision Blizzard gives “special thanks” to Colt, Barrett and Remington in the credits for its “Call of Duty” titles.
Rifles by Bushmaster, which made the gun used in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting last December, have appeared in the hugely popular “Call of Duty.”
Yet, in the wake of the Newtown shooting, the biggest advocate for gun ownership, the National Rifle Association, took aim at videogames to explain gun violence. One week after 20 schoolchildren and six adults were killed in the shooting, NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre called the videogame industry “a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.”
Now at least one game maker, the second largest by revenue in the United States, is publicly distancing itself from the gun industry, even as it finds ways to keep the branded guns in the games. (AP Photo/Electronic Arts Inc.)
I spent $250 on plastic video game people and soon you will, too!
I decided early on that my family would skip the whole Skylanders thing.
In case you’ve somehow managed to bypass this particular gaming phenomenon, Activision-Blizzard Inc.’s Skylanders is a series of kids’ action games that merges the virtual world with the physical by having players transport actual plastic figurines into the game via a portal accessory.
Oh, and did we mention that most of those plastic figurines will cost you about $10 (and up) and are sold separately?
It brings a costly new meaning to the “gotta catch ‘em all” concept. As many parents have discovered, the families of avid fans can easily spend hundreds of dollars on just this one game and its related toys.
Warner Bros, 5th Cell Media face lawsuit from feline memes Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat
By Matthew O’Mara
Check out the new Grand Theft Auto V trailer in all its glory.
Review - Latest Star Trek game is a potential Kobayashi Maru for devout fans
By Chad Sapieha
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For many indie game developers, it’s all about balancing the bill-paying jobs with the passion projects.
Daniel Kaszor on the agony and the ecstasy of life as an indie game developer: http://natpo.st/11FgKx3
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The Knife of Dunwall delivers what it promises: More Dishonored
Review by Daniel Kaszor
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Tetris as a cure for lazy eye? A team of McGill researchers says it worksThe popular Russian video game, when combined with a set of specialized goggles that forces someone with lazy eye to use their two eyes together, may help train the brain to eliminate the symptoms of amblyopia. It’s amazing stuff…[Photo credit: Graham Hughes/Canadian Press]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f07d71507e188e7b174beff0353d9a4/tumblr_mlq58qPkHV1s0oiwfo1_1280.jpg)
Tetris as a cure for lazy eye? A team of McGill researchers says it works
The popular Russian video game, when combined with a set of specialized goggles that forces someone with lazy eye to use their two eyes together, may help train the brain to eliminate the symptoms of amblyopia. It’s amazing stuff…
[Photo credit: Graham Hughes/Canadian Press]
If the Wii U’s excellent Lego City Undercover is Alec Baldwin, the Nintendo 3DS’s Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins is Daniel Baldwin.
Review by Chad Sapieha
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Are games on Apple’s App Store curated or censored?
By Chad Sapieha
