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World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Subscribers

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its MMOG World of Warcraft has broke the 9 million subscriber mark. Launched in November of 2004, World ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2007

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Ubisoft Acquires Rights to James Cameron’s Avatar

Ubisoft has announced that it will develop and publish a videogame based on James Cameron’s upcoming film Avatar. The movie tells the story ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 24, 2007

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New Postal Promotional Trailer Released

Movie-list.com has put up a new trailer for the soon-to-be-released Uwe Boll movie, Postal.Based on the 1997 game of the same name, Postal ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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AOL Hosts Videogame Boot Camp For Moms

A “videogame boot camp” sponsored by AOL and All You magazine aims to teach gaming skills to mothers in order to help them ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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Top-Ranked GunBound Player Kidnapped For Password

A top GunBound player was kidnapped and held hostage for five hours in Brazil in a new approach to password cracking. The hostage ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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Microsoft Releases Vista Patch for Multiple GPUs

Microsoft has released a patch for Windows Vista that fixes a problem with systems using multiple video cards. According to the Microsoft web ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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Atari Faces Nasdaq Delisting

Atari has received a notice of delisting from the Nasdaq, the company announced on Friday. The notification that Atari is subject to delisting ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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All-Pro Football 2K8 Features Simpson and a Knife

Take-Two Interactive is continuing its controversial ways with the release of All-Pro Football 2K8, complete with O.J. Simpson and a knife-wielding maniac. The ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 23, 2007

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Inappropriate Content: A Brief History of Videogame Ratings and the ESRB

The upheaval struck on two fronts. First were the arcades, hit with the release of Mortal Kombat, a fighting game of unprecedented violence. ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2007

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Former Take-Two Executives Plead Guilty

Two former officials from Take-Two Interactive have pleaded guilty to charges of falsifying stock option records. Patti Tay, former chief accounting officer at ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2007

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University of Alberta Team Develops Unbeatable Checkers Program

A team at the University of Alberta has solved the game of checkers, creating a checkers-playing program that cannot be beaten.Led by Jonathan ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2007

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Microsoft’s Entertainment Division Loses $1.9 Billion

Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division has reported a fiscal year-end loss of nearly $1.9 billion. The loss includes the $1 billion set aside ...

By Andy Chalk Legacy AuthorJuly 20, 2007

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