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Grand Theft Auto IV smashes Halo sales record
New York - Controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV has smashed the sales record set last year by the shoot-em-up game Halo, with first week sales of over 500 million dollars, its publisher said Wednesday. The interactive game, which casts player...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Grand Theft Auto IV blows away reviewers, analysts - Feature
Los Angeles - The latest episode of the hit dystopian video game Grand Theft Auto was set to debut Tuesday in US stores to rave assessments from reviewers and predictions that it would become the most successful game launch in history. Grand Theft Au...

[Posted on : 2008-04-29 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

When 'recommended' is not enough: System requirements for PC games
Berlin - If that game you have been waiting breathlessly to install doesn't live up to the graphics shown in the advertising, the problem may be with your PC - specifically, in the way it matches up to the hardware requirements listed on the packaging ...

[Posted on : 2008-04-27 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

European Commission wants common rules on violent video games
Brussels - The European Commission on Tuesday asked European retailers to stop selling violent video games to small children and urged national governments to stick to a common age-rating system. The European video games sector is booming, with reven...

[Posted on : 2008-04-22 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

The Sims sells 100 million video games
San Francisco - Video game giant Electronic Arts has sold 100 million copies of their The Sims video game franchise, the company said Wednesday. The massive sales target was reached eight years after the launch of the first Sims game, and amounted to...

[Posted on : 2008-04-16 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Singapore video games to carry ratings indicting violence, nudity
Singapore - Video games will carry ratings starting April 28 to help consumers and parents in particular make informed choices about what children play, Singapore's Board of Film Censors (BFC) said on Monday. The games will carry rating stickers sayi...

[Posted on : 2008-04-14 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Home leave - first impressions of the Sims 3
San Francisco - The fans have spoken and the creators of the Sims have heard. It's time for the Sims to get out of the house. Electronic Arts, which produces the Sims, has had its staff hard at work creating Sims 3, the next instalment of the wildly ...

[Posted on : 2008-04-13 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Government may tell German shops to switch off games consoles
Berlin - German authorities are reportedly mulling an appeal to electronics marts to turn off demonstration games consoles in the daytime because they are often a hangout for truants from school. The newspaper Welt am Sonntag quoted Udo Nagel, interi...

[Posted on : 2008-04-12 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Sims3 to offer more individuality and freedom
Cologne, Germany - The Sims is one of the most popular computer game series of all time. Sims 3, the next iteration of the series, is due to hit stores in 2009, according to Electronic Arts (EA), the game's publisher. Among the most important changes...

[Posted on : 2008-03-30 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

Three out of every four German youths play video games
Allensbach, Germany - Three out of every four young Germans regularly play games on a console or personal computer, according to a study by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research. Around 76 per cent of people aged 14 and 19 spend time g...

[Posted on : 2008-03-23 ] Category : [ Games (Technology) ]

 



 

 


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