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For years -- and I mean years -- consumer electronics and computer companies have been struggling to replace the panoply of boxes hanging off American televisions. Game consoles, DVD players, cable boxes, DVRs -- it's a mess. So it was no surprise that Microsoft announced today a new Xbox it hopes will become the all-in-one device in your living room.What remains to be seen is if it's already too late to become the entertainment hub in the home, and perhaps more important, whether it can save the flagging fortunes of the console gaming market.Ignoring the computer business cliche that you should never buy version 1.0 of anything, Microsoft has dubbed the new set-top box Xbox One . The hardware, which includes an updated, more precise version of Kinect, looks like an obsidian Ninento Wii but its feature set -- including a DVR-like video game recording function -- is aimed squarely at Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 4.The Xbox One has a Blu-ray player, built-in Wi-Fi, 8 GB of memory, and ...
They've vanquished elves, trolls, and all manner of magical monsters. But one select group of online gamers is facing an even more formidable foe: The U.S. sanctions...
Thought that the Origin Eon 17S couldn't get any faster? Think again. Origin announced today that they're going to start shipping all of their notebooks with Virtu M...
Blizzard Entertainment CEO Mike Morhaime on the company's latest video game 'Starcraft II.'
Blizzard Entertainment's Mike Morhaime and Rob Pardo on the success of the role-playing game.
An eagerly awaited expansion pack to the online video game " World of Warcraft " will not be ready in time for the key Christmas holiday season, the game's maker sai...
The makers of "World of Warcraft," the online game with more than 11 million players worldwide, on Tuesday ended to a virtual plague that has infected hundreds of th...
A former prisoner of a Chinese labor camp claims guards are forcing detainees to play online games as part of a huge money-making scam.Liu Dali told The Guardian web...
A schoolboy collapsed and went into convulsions after playing a new version of the "World of Warcraft" online computer game for 24 hours straight.The 15-year-old boy...
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As one of the most Internet-savvy demographics on the Web, gamers are generally the wrong group to provoke. Nevertheless, Electronic Arts — not gaming's favorite com...
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FNC contributor Steven Crowder on U.S. government ads on sites pirating movies and concerns about food safety in the U.K.
Avert your eyes.On Sunday night hackers stormed major cities in the online adventure game World of Warcraft and killed innocent avatars everywhere.Forbes quoted a pl...
As if millions of " World of Warcraft " addicts needed an even greater time-sucking challenge, along comes "The Burning Crusade" expansion pack.This T-rated add-on t...
FBN’s Jo Ling Kent on Coca-Cola’s plans to offer low- or no-calorie alternatives in emerging markets.
Colleen Lachowicz is the Democratic candidate for state Senate seat in Maine. She also leads a "time-consuming double life" as a powerful orc in the online fantasy r...
OSLO -- The Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik became angry and refused to answer questions in an Oslo court Wednesday after a prosecutor sought to quiz hi...
Playing a popular online game may improve some older adults' abilities to focus their attention, a new study suggests.Those who spent two weeks playing " World of Wa...
Norwegian prosecutors say a Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people last year in a bombing and shooting rampage played a popular video game nearly seven hours a day...