Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land
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An Australian gamer spends $26,500 on a virtual island that exists only in a PC role-playing game.
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Microsoft has released a new SKU for their Xbox 360 console--but should you buy it?
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics experience in Microsoft&#39;s Virtual Earth mapping system.
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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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Entertainment company teams up with new ad seller from the software giant.
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Advance copies of the aliens-versus-space marines video game "Halo 2" have already fetched as much as &#36;265 on Internet auction site eBay, days before the official launch.
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Electronic Arts, a maker of video games, said that it bought 19.9 percent of a French competitor, Ubisoft Entertainment.
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Shoppers in America spend more than $6 billion a year on video games according to a Software Association survey. Holiday sales bring an extra boost to game
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An internet casino operator said it is offering Donald Trump $US400 million ($561.25 million) for a stake in his ailing casino company.
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An online virtual world playfully branded &quot;Monopoly on steroids&quot; is offering England to the highest bidder, with the winner to be crowned king or queen.
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Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics experience in Microsoft&#39;s Virtual Earth mapping system.Caligari started making 3D modeling and animation software for the Amiga computer in the mid-1980s. Its signature tool, called trueSpace, has a user interface that makes it easy to build complex 3D animations, according to an entry on the Virtual Earth blog on Wednesday announcing the acquisition.Caligari has offices in Mountain View, California, and Slovakia. Its development team will work with the Virtual Earth group, and Caligari&#39;s &quot;tightly knit community of beta testers&quot; will stay the same, said Roman Ormandy, founder and CEO of Caligari, in a blog posting. He said the company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.&quot;Now we will have more resources to rely on, larger market to consider and I hope more fun doing that,&quot; he wrote.Microsoft was not available for additional comment.In December, Microsoft bought Multimap, which also became a wholly owned subsidiary and works with the Virtual Earth and Search groups. Multimap develops online mapping services. At the time of that acquisition, Microsoft said the buy would help it expand its online services offerings to consumers and businesses.Virtual Earth&#39;s 3D version, currently in beta, lets users zoom in and out of 3D maps of cities and natural areas. It is similar to Google&#39;s Google Earth product.
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Someone needs to buy a firewall. The game industry, Rockstar in particular, has once again been a victim of piracy. After the big-time thefts over the last year or so, such as Half-Life 2, Doom
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Yesterday I stopped by Habbo Hotel USA, where nearly 4,000 "habbos" had checked into cartoon-like rooms to partake in a virtual party. I wanted to see for myself what sorts of Internet companies are pulling in big bucks from venture capitalists these days.
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People are searching online for everything from free games to free money
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Big Blue is investing big to see how it can make 3D virtual environments pay off for the company and its customers.Images: Big Blue in 'Second Life'
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Video game retailer says it bought $111.5M worth of shares back from book selling giant B&amp;N. NEW YORK  - GameStop Corp.