Video games muscle in on movies
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Traces of the word &quot;video&quot; linger beneath a new sign that just went up on a suburban Blockbuster store here. In its place hangs
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Games have helped resuscitate many actors' careers, and they could affect industry pay scales.
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Sleek new specs take playing games or watching movies the a whole new (possibly sickening) level. In Game|Life.
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High-action video games may boost visual acuity, study finds.
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Today's cutting-edge video games have the look and sound of movies; some even have blockbuster budgets. But even game developers concede that their creations usually lack the emotional impact of a great film or book. Bridging that gap will be a key topic at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco, a five-day gathering that attracts the industry's talent pool.
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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Itâs not much of an exaggeration to say Halo did to videogames what The Lord of the Rings did to feature films. Epic in scale and addictive in entertainment, the first Halo, like The Fellowship of the Ring
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If the video game industry is beginning to rake in revenue that rivals the movie industry, it's also beginning to accumulate Hollywood-like headaches.
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A chain goes for the testosterone with big burgers and video games.
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Video game makers are intent on winning the hearts and cash of those that prefer trivia, puzzles, mysteries, music or virtual zaniness to animated warfare.
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The use of psychic powers adds a novel twist to the action in two new video games.
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Gamers may be some of the first to appreciate high-definition content.
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A US surgeon working on a "tele-health" breakthrough has devised a way for video game warriors to feel shots, stabs, slams, and hits dealt to their on-screen characters.
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You need more than an Xbox 360 and a plasma-screen TV to exploit the latest video games for their full entertainment value. These days, you also need a friend.
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This season&#39;s blockbuster video games give players the opportunity to hijack cars, mow down the walking undead with heavy artillery and ogle topless women.
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Ziff Davis - If you play games a lot, you may have recently found yourself thinking that despite epic advances in graphics, the video-game industry is in a rut.
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Why do video-game publishers bother with movie tie-ins? The cost of licensing an anticipated blockbuster (like, say, this summer's "Transformers") is expensive. Designers have to work within creative constraints imposed by the Hollywood studio, and then have to rush to crank out something playable by the time the movie's released. And usually no one &#151; neither gamers nor moviegoers &#151; is satisfied with the results.