E3 video game confab ditching glitz in overhaul
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The Electronic  Entertainment Expo, which treats more than 60,000 industry  professionals each year to video game characters, booth babes  and sensory overload, is becoming a thing of the past.
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Vendors collaborate to avoid naked avatars and other incompatibilties among virtual worlds.
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Mind control, game announcements, and graphics cards--the gaming elite flocks to the annual Game Developers Conference to discuss what you'll play in 2008.
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Greg Canessa explains his departure and the future of casual games. In Game|Life.
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Tycho: I just read through one of the conduits of Leipzig gaming news, and was jolted by a piece of news: Xbox Live is going to be moving into classic board games. I don't mean, like, Chutes and Ladders or some shit - though I don't doubt that GrowPot420 would snap that up on day one. No, I mean like Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. Pillars of the tabletop gaming community, so to speak. This is probably the biggest news of that convention for me. Getting people together to play these games, or finding people to play them with at all can be a trying endeavor. This is near Goddamn optimal.(CW)TB
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Video games are going the same road that enterprise software is increasingly taking: free software, paid services.
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(245 sec.) A look at the big titles of 2006 and how Wii, PS3 are changing the game.
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The new video game consoles already look pretty wimpy compared with the latest gaming PCs. The Wii? Whatever. The Xbox 360? No match. The PlayStation 3? You can't find one anyway.
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Some developers wonder if GDC will remain their annual rendezvous as the conference replaces E3 as the largest industry-only game event worldwide.
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LOS ANGELES  - In a move aimed  primarily at whetting the appetite of gamers heading into this  week's E3 Media & Business Summit, Electronic Arts unveiled  several details on two games it is developing through a  partnership with Steven Spielberg.
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The Entertainment Software Association has drastically cut back its video game convention. Will smaller companies get shut out?
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Holiday season in the video game industry is the equivalent of television's sweeps week, which perhaps is why new reports painting game designers as 21st century-style Dickensian factory laborers are proving especially noteworthy.
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CES 2005 Quality content coming to new format. Van Helsing too
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Blog: At this year's E3, Microsoft will once again be providing E3 updates via their "Bringing it Home" campaign.
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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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LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - A new attempt to recapture  the former spectacle of America's biggest video game show got  off to a rocky start, with sparse crowds and the absence of  many big-name game companies.
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Washington Post Staff Writer, Mike Musgrove, who also writes the @play column, will be online to discuss last week's E3 summit, the annual trade show for the video game industry.