Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users

Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company.

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Console wars: Microsoft drops Xbox 360 price

Microsoft announced that it’s dropping the price of Xbox 360 Elite by $100. The price cut comes after Sony cut the price of the PS3. Now the question is: What will Nintendo do to compete?

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Sony introduces slimmer PS3 and big price cut

Sony Corp. said it will cut the price of the 80 gigabyte PlayStation 3 effective immediately. It is also launching a slimmer, lighter model in early September that will also cost $299.

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This time, Ford’s Taurus is really back

Ford’s venerable Taurus family sedan retired in 2006 from its sales wars with old rivals Toyota Camry and Honda Accord with all the decisiveness and conviction of Brett Favre walking away from the NFL.

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More 'mature' games for Wii? Yes, please

Last week, . “Mad World,” “The Conduit” and “House of the Dead: Overkill” are replete with bullets, brains and bloodsport — a marked departure from the usual adorable-animal overload.

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'Red Ringed' Xbox 360s still dog Microsoft

Travis Williams drove around Louisville, Ky. for a week with a busted Xbox 360 in his trunk. It was his third console stricken by the dreaded “Red Ring of Death” — known as “general hardware failure” in the halls of Microsoft.

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I heart indie games — and you should too

No matter how many millions of dollars are spent, no matter how many months and sometimes years are spent … when the latest and supposedly greatest video games land on store shelves these days, I frequently find myself struggling to summon the kind of frothy-mouthed enthusiasm that the marketing campaigns pushing these games assure me I’m supposed to feel.

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Hits and misses on Nintendo's WiiWare

Offering a library of original, downloadable games on the cheap is one of this console generation's biggest definers, and this month Nintendo joined Microsoft and Sony by finally debuting its own service: WiiWare.

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Is PC gaming dying? Or thriving?

Every couple of years — usually after a fresh crop of consoles hit the market — the drumbeat starts to sound: PC gaming is finished. Consoles are where it’s at.

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Readers respond: How to catch a Wii

Some of you will go to great lengths to catch a Wii.

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Did the scarce Wii benefit console competitors?

If you went looking for a Wii over Christmas, you probably saw a lot of empty shelves.

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Nintendo exec predicts strong season for Wii

A little over a year ago, many inside the games industry thought the Nintendo Wii would be a flop.

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Companies Pursue Game Console Supremacy

The game-console war is officially under way with the sold-out launches of Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii, but there are still a lot of battles to fight — and dragons to slay.

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New Games Use Motion-Sensitive Controls

With a tilt of your wrists, the dragon you're riding dives toward the water below. With another movement of your hands, as if pulling back on imaginary reins, the scaly beast pulls out of the dive into level flight, flapping its wings.

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Nintendo's archrivals, Microsoft and Sony, are poised to release their own motion-sensing devices in 2010, with Microsoft having the best chance to out-Wii the Wii.

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The newly discounted Elite, which packs a 120 GB hard drive, will replace the company's standard 60 GB Xbox 360 Pro model, which itself will enjoy a $50 price cut (to $249) while supplies last.

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Sony might not be able to keep a secret, but they can sure make an announcement.

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The portable Xbox is coming: That much, it seems, is no longer up for debate. The question is when such a device will arrive.

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The announcement of Project Natal—Microsoft's code name for its upcoming, motion-detecting camera for the Xbox 360—seems to have sparked sparked a series of rumors about an all-new Xbox console, possibly arriving as early as this fall.

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We'd be careful about putting too much stock into an admittedly far off rumor, but the gang at 1UP claim they've heard from those in the know that Microsoft's set to release a new Xbox console in Fall 2010, and that current media darling Project Natal is "the cornerstone" of that …

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Microsoft just announced sales of Xbox 360 consoles have passed the 30 million mark globally, up 28 percent over last year, which it claims is the highest percentage growth in hardware sales of any console so far in 2009.

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What if you could stream top-end games to your TV, just like a Youtube video that you can control? You'd never need to buy a console again.

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A 13-year-old Virginia girl is back home after being lured away by a man she'd been chatting with for at least six months through a Microsoft Xbox 360 game, police said.

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Some of these are a sorry excuse to PC game over Console game, such as "10. N/A", but here is the list.

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Is your video game console a green console? A new study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows the Nintendo Wii to be the greenest of the next-gen consoles.

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A hurried launch, a desire to win the console war and design compromises lay behind the 'red ring of death' debacle that cost Microsoft $1.15bn

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Fallout 3's radiation sickness hasn't even begun to set in and already people are talking about another sequel.

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Best Buy stores at strategic nuclear targets locations will be holding midnight openings for Fallout 3 next Monday night.

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There's something strange going on. Not exactly wrong, but just… different. I feel different when I'm gaming: more competitive and yet somehow more vulnerable. I need a sense of completion and reward, a thank you and "job well done". I need trophies.

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Thursday September 25th marked the start first annual New York Games Conference, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.  The New York Games Conference brings some of the top minds and talent of the Video Game industry together in one room to discuss the latest trends, predictions, an …

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What is the worlds best game console game?

There are millions of games out there for the gaming consoles. Many people have different opinions of which game is the best. But what IS the worlds best game? One that has been played over and over again and loved by millions?

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STARTING THIS PAST MONDAY, Americans can use their Xbox Live service to register to vote in the upcoming presidentials.

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If you have followed my writing over the past few years, you wouldn't be surprised to find out that I'm not the biggest Nintendo Wii fan on the planet.

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EA Sports President has high hopes for Nintendo's console's potential. EA Sports President Peter Moore has predicted that Nintendo's Wii will take up half of all home console sales in this generation.

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It's not as crazy as it sounds. But consumers shouldn't expect the console until 2010 at the soonest, said vice president of technology for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Paul Holman.

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Video game industry sources say that Microsoft will cut the price of the Xbox 360 20GB "Pro" model in July to $299 from $349 in July. The drop is expected to be announced at this year's E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles.

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Xbox 360 getting another price cut? Source: Pictures purportedly from an upcoming K-Mart newspaper flyer originally posted on the High-Def Digest forums.

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Earlier today, hardware manufacturer AMD pulled back the curtain on AMD Game!, a new branding program meant to help mainstream consumers identify and purchase gaming-capable PCs.

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Rumours about Apple moving into gaming as the company's next big thing are increasing.

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