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News about video games you can leave a comment.Paul Taylor noted a story that I would have thought to be an april fools day joke a few weeks from now, which makes it only seem more tragic. A 3 year shot himself with a gun after mistaking it for a Wii controller.

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News about video games you can leave a comment.suraj.sun writes “Microsoft has shown off XNA games running on Windows Phone; full 3D is a go. From Engadget: ‘Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 9. The [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.eldavojohn writes “A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.adeelarshad82 writes “After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17 for Windows and Mac. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will allow them access to the service. However, [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra:
“Valve will release a version of its Steam digital distribution service for Mac next month, along with Mac-native versions of its own games, the company confirmed today after days of hints — and owners of Valve games will have [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget:
“Microsoft’s Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.Last year we discussed news that an Xbox Live gamer was banned for identifying herself as a lesbian on her profile. Microsoft said at the time that nothing sexual in nature could appear in Gamertags or profiles. Now, they seem to have reconsidered their stance, and they’ve [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.wintersynth writes “We hacked a toy brainwave reader to electrocute people if their brainwave frequency got too high (by concentrating). We took outputs off of the 5 level LED indicator, put the outputs through a transistor/resistor/relay circuit to give 2 levels of high voltage through an electric [...]

News about video games you can leave a comment.Colonel Korn writes “Ubisoft’s recent announcement that upcoming games would require a constant internet connection in order to play has been discussed at length on Slashdot (‘The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work’). Many were of the opinion that this new, more demanding DRM would have [...]