Video Game Makers Rush to Cash In
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The 2004 shopping season is turning out to be the year of the blockbuster for video game companies as they race to score one more big hit before the current generation of Xboxes and PlayStation 2s makes way for new machines.
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One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale.
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November is proving to be a bumper month for computer games - and it is not over yet.
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Makers of gaming consoles want part of the on-demand-video future.
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Game addicts meet a potentially addictive new game. Will profit ensue?
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Video gamers, finally  emerging from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's  bumper crop of best-selling titles, are now turning their  attention to upcoming releases.
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Video game developer is moving in the right direction, despite an "unprofitable" image it needs to shake.
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A flurry of new games wing their way to the Wii.
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MAKUHARI, Japan  - Japanese game makers, faced  with a shrinking local market and increasing competition from  overseas rivals, are pinning hopes on mobile platforms such as  handheld machines and cellphones to stir up demand.
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Investor's Business Daily - Game makers are looking toward the simplicity of Pac-Man to gobble up big bucks. And now with the success of the Nintendo Wii, which can run many simple games, the casual game market is being taken more seriously. Casual games -- those that don&#39;t rely on top-of-the-line graphics and intense game-play to master -- have typically targeted middle-aged females. The perk for game makers is that simple games take less time and money to make, so far less is lost if the game flops. They&#39;re also easy to get to people via downloads.
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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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As video games take on an ever slicker, more cinematic feel, developers are increasingly turning to cartoon actors, movie-trailer announcers and even film stars to read the lines.
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A collective of gamers is hoping to purchase the online game Ryzom to save it from bankruptcy.
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Video game makers are straying from virtual blood-and-guts battles to letting people play at being rock music stars.
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Video games makers searching for the next big thing to pull in players at Europe's biggest computer games fair hope to tempt more gamers to pit their wits against one other online as Web technology improves.
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Making games for the future consoles is going to take a lot of time and money, a games conference is told.
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Now comes the mass-market video game festival, perhaps a surprising latecomer to North America.