Publishing

Is Google trying out patents?

TITLE: ‘Method and system for enhancing video games and video game systems’ DESCRIPTION: A system making use of video games and data communications external to video games is used to provide advertisements, prizes and other benefits to gamers. The prizes relate to either of real world products and services as …

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Is Google trying out patents?

TITLE: ‘Method and system for enhancing video games and video game systems’ DESCRIPTION: A system making use of video games and data communications external to video games is used to provide advertisements, prizes and other benefits to gamers. The prizes relate to either of real world products and services as …

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Nintendo updates Wii web browser

A new update is available for Nintendo’s Opera-based Wii Internet Channel that adds support for USB keyboards and also allows for the easy sharing of web links with people on Wii Friends lists. As well as the keyboard support, which makes typing out messages and entering information on web pages …

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Nintendo updates Wii web browser

A new update is available for Nintendo’s Opera-based Wii Internet Channel that adds support for USB keyboards and also allows for the easy sharing of web links with people on Wii Friends lists. As well as the keyboard support, which makes typing out messages and entering information on web pages …

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Ubisoft ‘not interested’ in SCi buyout

French publisher Ubisoft has ruled itself out of the race to acquire the SCi Group, saying it has ‘no intention’ of buying the Eidos parent firm. SCi revealed that it had received several approaches last month – and Ubisoft’s name was immediately touted as a possible suitor. But a spokesperson …

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Ubisoft ‘not interested’ in SCi buyout

French publisher Ubisoft has ruled itself out of the race to acquire the SCi Group, saying it has ‘no intention’ of buying the Eidos parent firm. SCi revealed that it had received several approaches last month – and Ubisoft’s name was immediately touted as a possible suitor. But a spokesperson …

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Warner Bros invest $500m in UAE push

Warner Bros has signed a deal with the Abu Dhabi Media Company and a property developer Aldar to develop various media ventures, including videogames, in the United Arab Emirates region. According to Gamasutra Warner Bros is investing $500 million in the project. The first games to be released will be …

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Warner Bros invest $500m in UAE push

Warner Bros has signed a deal with the Abu Dhabi Media Company and a property developer Aldar to develop various media ventures, including videogames, in the United Arab Emirates region. According to Gamasutra Warner Bros is investing $500 million in the project. The first games to be released will be …

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Does PS2’s long tail need a snip?

Ozzy Osbourne. Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy. They began their careers by flicking two scarily unfamiliar fingers in the face of civilised acceptance. But as the years rolled on, their worn out frames stumbled into the safer bracket of ‘family entertainer’. And so it is with PS2. Once, it tore up …

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Does PS2’s long tail need a snip?

Ozzy Osbourne. Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy. They began their careers by flicking two scarily unfamiliar fingers in the face of civilised acceptance. But as the years rolled on, their worn out frames stumbled into the safer bracket of ‘family entertainer’. And so it is with PS2. Once, it tore up …

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