Video game expo gets toned down for '07
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The video game industry's annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant multimillion dollar exhibits, blaring lights and pounding music. Celebrity appearances from the likes of Paris Hilton or Snoop Dogg are a thing of the past, too.
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The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas next week, but economic headwinds, such as a global credit crunch and  higher oil prices,  may tone down the glitz of a conference that defines what gadgets are in store for 2008.
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Tokyo has played host to an exhibition showcasing the latest attractions for gamers.
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Telling video game developers at the Game Developer Conference to resist producing hit sequels and games of horror and revenge, Nintendo's top designer wants to bring joy to the widest audience. By the Associated Press. Plus: Keynote disappoints in GameLife.
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I'm writing this from CES 2007 &#151; the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR. \
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Blog: The revamped video game conference is well underway, with the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows announcements kicking it off.
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Nearly half of video game players  watched less television last year or plan to cut their viewing  time this year, according to a report issued on Thursday that  lends credence to industry fears that young men are switching  off the tube.
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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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The Alien and the  Predator, monsters from a great science-fiction film and an  above-average one, respectively, have been reduced in "Aliens  vs. Predator: Requiem" to featured attractions in a dull  actioner that looks like a bad video game.
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The video game industry gathers  for its annual expo next week, and anticipation is running high  that cheaper hardware and a host of keenly awaited new games  will fuel the strongest sales in years.
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Is competition to keep up with the next-gen Joneses slowly running the video-game industry into the ground?  In Game|Life.
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Gabe: This is a heads up for all our Omeganauts. I had originally told you all that the first round of the Omegathon would be Pac-Man. That game has actually been replaced with Jenga. Not the new Wii version of Jenga but actual wood blocks on a table Jenga. Sorry for the mix up.-Gabe out
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Ah, what a difference a year makes. At the beginning of last year&#39;s E3 tradeshow, one of the most visible gatherings of the video game industry, Sony and Microsoft were belles of the ball, and Nintendo was a Cinderella still in rags.
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Electronic Arts is embarking on a project that entails trying to redefine video games for a new audience.
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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 aftermath of an upcoming World of Warcraft patch could get messy. Plus: NBC
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When the annual trade  show once known simply as E3 kicks off this week, attendees  will discover a distinctly downsized event.