Slashing kicks off 2008 gaming releases
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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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A look back at the eight previous "Grand Theft Auto" video games:
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This week&#39;s arrival of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas kicks off a holiday parade of hot video games that promise to make this season one for the record books.
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The summer video game doldrums  are almost here, but a small flurry of new titles over the next  couple of weeks may help tide gamers over until the fall  bounty.
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SAN ANTONIO - Forget about PlayStation 2 â- Texas entrepreneur wants to kick computer gaming up to the next level by offering players a chance at some real-live killing via mouse and modem.
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A flurry of new games wing their way to the Wii.
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Video gamers relish  violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims  themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a  wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Tycho:  Last year's iteration of Tiger Woods had a fairly serious glitch in multiplayer, in that the game could not be played in multiplayer mode.  Or, it worked sometimes, but there was no way to know how or when - what combination of dances and burning herbs would right this aloof mechanism.  It was most likely the rush of new owners securing tee-times on simulated links, but after a week of trying to use the product without success I decided that I had better things to do than try and contextualize EA's grave miscalculations.    The few times we were able to jump on and actually get in there were the kind of epic, unadulterated "guy fun" one sees lionized in hilarious summer comedies.  Golf as a sport (and as a videogame) has the strong undercurrent of shared misery that one usually finds only in dive bars.  The recently released demo for this year's product - on both PSN and XBL, now - recalled those moments to us, independent of the rage that bookended each round of powerfully communal spirit lodge golf.  This year's product has a huge focus on Gamernet, a kind of user created content initiative that will hopefully see them approach the performance of their online infrastructure with more conviction.     GameFace, their face making thing, has seen a significant jump this year as well - it can take pictures from your console's camera and create actual face geometry, and I understand that photos can even be uploaded online and then brought down on the console for processing.  We were able to get some pretty good results with the earlier versions of the tool, but this is very much appreciated.  Of course, in the wrong hands, every tool is a weapon.     Ubisoft is now saying that Haze is an exclusive exclusive for the PS3, and not one of them timed or partial exclusives one might see in the lesser houses.  Truly monogamous games are rare these days, and this is certainly a surprise, but this thing has been hopping back and forth for months.  There was even a leaked document that showed this "exclusive" being released a week later for PC and 360, though all traces of the document were soon obliterated.  Assassin's Creed was (as you'll recall) a PS3 exclusive as well.  For a week, at any rate.        I'm really excited for Haze, but I'm not sure if that's a universally held belief.  The writer made a good impression on me at E3 several years ago, and Free Radical makes a good impression on me whenever they make a videogame.  It's also a four player co-op experience with a unique, asymmetrical multiplayer proposition that you've probably read about.  But, as with Bioshock, I'm really in it for the story - and, also like Bioshock, I think anything that limits its potential audience is a serious mistake.
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Last year's bumper crop  of shooter video games, such as "BioShock," "Halo 3" and "Call  of Duty 4," were notable for coupling bone-jarring realism with  finely crafted epic stories. "The Club," coming out next week  from Sega, promises something a little different.
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Video gamers relish violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 is the first in the series devoted to video games.
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2008 looks like a good year to be an independent videogame developer, as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft fish for the next big hit. Look for little games to steal the show at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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Sounds like a Ghostbusters game is in the works for 2008, according to Ackroyd, who will do some motion capture for it. In Game|Life.
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Vendors announce a slew of new games for Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation, and Nintendo's Wii.
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After a three-year  drought, gamers can again boldly dive into a new series of  "Star Trek" games now in stores.
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Legacy Interactive is  trying something unusual with its latest game based on "Law &  Order: Criminal Intent."
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Bloody video game spiked after 11 months on store shelves