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The mid-year annual E3 Expo used to be the main event of the video game industry, must like San Francisco Macworld Expo for the Apple community, or January's Las Vegas CES show for almost the entire media and consumer electronics industry. The event attracted tends of thousands of visitors, all eager to get a glimpse of games and products aiming at the upcoming holiday season: the event developed a reputation for outlandish booths,… Read More

Nyko has made a name for itself producing accessories for the video game market, but the company may be taking a quantum leap forward in the leisure technology market with its forthcoming Party Station for the Nintendo Wii, demonstrated this week at the E3 conference in Santa Monica. Building on the idea of a coffee table centerpiece, the Wii Party Station takes advantage of the social nature of Wii gaming and aims to ofer everything a… Read More

Game publisher Ubisoft has announced it's bringing its 3rd person shooter War World to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled to be available “later this summer”—c'mon folks, there's more than one hemisphere—War World hopes to redefine thenotion of an “arcade shooter” by combining tactical game play, fast action, and next-generation visual effects. In the game, players take on the… Read More

At this week's E3 conference in Santa Monica, game publisher THQ previewed new titles it expects to bring to market in the first part of 2008, including its internally developed action-adventure title Darksiders: Wrath of War. Due in 2008, Darksiders: Wrath of War is being developed by THQ's in-house Vigil Games, which counts comic book artist Joe Madureira as a founding member. Wrath of War lets players step into the role of… Read More

Electronic Arts is the world's largest video game publisher, and it showed in the company's announcements and demonstrations at this year's scaled-back E3 Expo in Santa Monica. EA's pending titles span a wide variety of styles and genres, and leave no franchise—and no gaming platform—untapped. First up, Electronic Arts plans to capitalize on the success of the Guitar Hero franchise with Rock Band, a new… Read More

At its presentation at this week's E3 Expo in Santa Monica, Sony took the wraps off a redesigned PlayStation Portable (PSP) which is 33 percent lighter, 19 percent thinner, and sports a high quality video output so users can hook the unit to an external monitor or display to view photos, videos, or movies. On the surface, the new PSP doesn't look dramatically different from its current incarnation, and in some ways the redesign… Read More

Mega game-publisher Electronic Arts has disclosed brief details of two games it is developing with Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg. The games will mark the first fruit of EA's much-heralded (and now doubt expensive) multi-year partnership with Spielberg announced in late 2005. Under the deal, Spielberg will develop three new games for Electronic Arts; EA gets full rights to the games, while Spielberg gets first crack at… Read More

Aspyr Media today said they'd begun shipping Activision's Tony Hawk's American Wasteland for the PC. The game was developed by Neversoft Entertainment and retails for $39.99 with an ESRB rating of "T" for Teen. The PC version of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Aspyr said, gives users the ability to explore the Los Angeles skate world. Gamers can skate and BMX bike across a variety of locations, including Santa… Read More

Skateboarders and fans of Tony Hawk will be happy to know that Activision today announced that the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland video game for the Playstation 2, Xbox and GameCube is now available in stores for $49.99. It was developed for Activision by Neversoft Entertainment. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, said Activision, allows gamers to take part in a storyline which "pays homage to the roots of skateboarding and punk… Read More

Sprint Nextel and RealNetworks announced today that Sprint customers can subscribe to RealNetworks' Rhapsody Radio as part of the Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Service. The service will be available throughout the U.S. for an additional $6.95 per month on top of the normal PCS Vision Service fees and enable customers to access high-quality streaming audio from the Rhapsody service, as well as selected podcasts, music news & videos,… Read More

In the days before its famous mega-merger with Time-Warner, AOL was famous for buying armloads of small, interesting companies. Now the post-merger lull may be coming to an end: America Online announced today it has acquired online storage firm Xdrive for an undisclosed amount. AOL is expected to integrate Xdrive's secure online storage technologies into the company's forthcoming AOL.com Internet site, enabling users to back up… Read More

“”The digital projection offers picture-perfect quality and significant cost savings,” says Moira Horgan, the head of marketing for the Irish Film Board. “The boxes are being inserted as we speak.” Avica Technology is bringing the digital presentation systems to 515 screens throughout Ireland to run alongside traditional 35mm film projectors, says Kevin Cummins, spokesman for Avica Europe, the European… Read More

“The biggest impact of the relatively innocuous virus, found in about 15 variations so far, is draining mobile phone batteries, said Mikko Hypponen, director of Finnish anti-virus research company F-Secure (FSC1V.HE). Hypponen said Cabir was found on Monday in a technology gadgets store in Santa Monica, California, when a passing techie spotted a telltale sign on the screen of a phone in the store. ” Read more at Yahoo!… Read More

“Senate Bill 50, a California bill that modifies the Electronic Waste RecyclingAct of 2003, was signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday night, according to a spokesman for State Sen. Byron Sher (D-Stanford), the bill's author. A spokesman for the CaliforniaWaste Management Board also confirmed the bill's passage. In addition, Schwarzenegger also signed Assembly Bill 2901, a bill co-authored by Assemblywomen… Read More

The Spot is the first convergent media experience available today for Internet, Mobile Phones and all media. The Spot follows the daily lives of six twenty-something's living in a seven-bedroom beach house in Santa Monica. California. The shows can now be accessed on select Sprint PCS Vision Phones nationwide as well as at the website www.thespot.com. The Spot was unveiled yesterday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles… Read More