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HP Getting into Handheld Gaming

I'm not affiliated with HP, but I do like toys. There. I said it. A new player on the handheld block may be quite refreshing: hopefully a HP machine won't have the proprietary limitations of the PSP..."Word has it that HP Labs is working on a gaming platform dubbed Mscape,...

Could Thousands of Gamers be Wrong?

I think not. Thousands of gamers submitted their favorite games and rated them. Here are the results.The Great Games Experiment

15 year old Xbox junkies to be performing surgery soon

"Laparoscopic surgery, in which instruments and cameras are inserted into patients via small incisions, has played a key role in the development of minimally invasive surgery. But the technique involves a distinct set of skills, including reconstructing a three-dimensional...

Apple Embraces Casual Gaming

"As iconic as Apple may be in consumer electronics—from personal computing to digital music and, now, mobile phones—it hasn't exactly set the gaming world on fire. The Mac lags behind competing brands in...

The Stuff I Didn't Get To -- 2/7/07

"-This is what happens when Mike Tyson's your role model-World cruiserweight boxing champ O'Neill Bell is under arrest and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after throwing a hatchet at his sparring partner...

Dell working on a gaming handheld?

"Surely you jest! But we don't, you see, 'cause it comes straight from the horse's proverbial mouth. The worldwide head of gaming for Dell, Abizar Vahkaria, was recently asked by UK publication PC Plus whether Dell was planning to release some sort of gaming-oriented...

Milton Keynes lands 'large' casino license

"THE City is cheering after the announcement that it is to be the site for one of eight 'large' casinos being licensed around the country by the government. It will be a complex of some 1,500sqm, with up to 150 gaming machines. Jackpot prizes of upto £4000 will be up for...

DS breaks 10m mark in Europe

"DS breaks 10m mark in Europe 13:15, Jan 22nd by Tim Ingham Nintendo has announced that its DS console has become Europe’s fastest selling console of all time – reaching ten million sales in the EU just two...

Microsoft does an Apple on Zephyr Xbox 360 Mark II claims

"Microsoft’s first response to the wave of Xbox 360 Zephyr rumors is no different to the response Apple gives when asked about new products: an elaborate ‘no comment’. Details within…Gaming website...

Italy will issue online gambling licenses

Italian government announced that it is ready to issue over 17,000 gambling licenses. From: http://www.ogpaper.com/news/news-0215.html

Harrah's Entertainment accepts buy-out bid

Harrah's Entertainment has agreed on the $27.8 billion buyout offer from the private equity firms Apollo Management Group and Texas Pacific Group. From http://www.ogpaper.com/news/news-0210.html

In a pivotal year, video console makers battled for supremacy

"We saw a new front in the battle among all three console-makers (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) - and PC gaming, expected to start to fade, didn't. Hence, the best of times. Unfortunately, this was also the year...

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