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There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd co...

Maintaining a solid lead among hardcore gamers in its competition with Sony, Microsoft has seemingly decided to train its sights on Nintendo and the threat posed by the Wii. On Monday Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Xbox 360 Arcade, a bare-bones system that includes the Xbox 36...

Sony continued its seemingly weekly shuffle of models and pricing Thursday, this time shifting focus to stateside and announcing the imminent arrival of the 40 GB PlayStation 3 as well as lower pricing for the 80 GB model. The news comes after similar changes were made first in Europe and then in Ja...

Wii Won't Budge on Pricing

Wii owner wannabes hoping for a dip in pricing for the holidays will have to wait a while for the Nintendo console to drop below it $249 retail price, the company said Thursday. George Harrison, Nintendo's U.S. marketing chief, quashed any hopes for a lower price citing the continued strong demand f...

Gaming fans may find that life in "SimCity" suddenly gets a lot more realistic this fall with the release of "SimCity Societies," which has been designed to incorporate some of the harsh realities of global warming. Through a partnership between Electronic Arts and energy giant BP, the next-generati...

Sony's PlayStation 3 price shakeout spread to its home territory in Japan Tuesday with a price cut on its 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 models, the company announced. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said it will make the latest 40 GB model available to Japanese gamers. The announcement comes le...

It was trouble enough when Sony released "Resistance: Fall of Man," a video game that includes shoot-outs between people and aliens that take place within Manchester Cathedral. To give the game an award is salt in the wound, says the dean of the cathedral. The Very Rev. Rogers Govender is upset that...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced Friday that it will launch a new 40 GB model of the PlayStation 3 in the UK, Europe, in the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. It will also drop the price of its 60 GB model of the video game console. The move, just in time for the 2007 holiday season, ...

Microsoft confirmed Friday that Bungie Studios, the developer behind the "Halo" franchise, will begin a transition to become an independent company, verifying rumors that had been circulating for a week. Microsoft will retain its rights to all things "Halo" and will continue to publish any games fro...

The hit video game "Halo 3" has raked in more than $300 million and drawn some 3 million gamers to play online on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft. However, the part about "Halo" that really has the Web rumor mill working overtime is whether or not Microsoft and Bungie Studios, the developer behind...

Enthusiastic Wii gamers know that it can be hard not to get carried away in play, but one consequence of the fun can be a damaged Wii Remote. With such players in mind, Nintendo on Monday announced the new Wii Remote Jacket, which is designed to add an extra level of protection. The Wii Remote Jacke...

Consumers who thought Christmas would be the perfect time to join in on the hottest craze in video game consoles could be disappointed, according to Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. The supply for Wiis will remain tight for the holiday season, he said. Extremely high demand for th...

OK, we clearly can't talk about the events of last week without mentioning the huge surprise "Halo 3" was in terms of popularity and execution. I was having doubts prior to the launch, but those doubts are dead now. This is a wonderful game. In fact, it's actually hard to find anyone saying anything...

Gamers have made "Halo 3" the biggest launch in entertainment history by scooping up enough units to bring in an estimated $170 million in its first 24 hours on store shelves. Moving that amount of product puts the Xbox 360 title ahead of smash hit movie releases and blockbuster book launches, such ...

Right smack in the middle of Microsoft's most important Xbox 360 game launch of the year, some "Halo 3" discs have been scratched before their unlucky owners ever got a chance to play them. Not all of the scratches resulted in unplayable discs, but the problem is systemic enough that Microsoft is wa...

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