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The world’s largest maker of video-game machines, Nintendo, has its full-year loss forecast and can only sit and watch as Apple devices trample over a gaming market that it once dominated. The net loss in the year ending in March may be $838 million, over triple what it originally forecast, report Naoko Fujimura and Takashi Amano for Bloomberg. Nintendo, in an effort to keep its latest gaming device the 3DS from languishing on shelves, cut prices by as much as 40 percent, only 6 months...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- from ShowStoppers @ CES 2012 -- GAEMS, Inc. announced today that the GAEMS G155, the world's first personal gaming and entertainment environment, will be on display at the CES 2012 ShowStoppers. ShowStoppers is an invitation-only media event that takes place at the Wynn Hotel Lafite Ballroom on Tuesday, January 10 from 6 to 10pm. The GAEMS G155 self-contained personal gaming and entertainment environment lets you stay in the action even...
Single Chip 6-Axis MPU-6150 with Embedded MotionFusion™ and Run-Time Calibration Delivers High Performance, Low Power, and Simple Integration for CE Manufacturers Sunnyvale, California (PRWEB) January 05, 2012 InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionTracking™ devices for consumer electronics, today announced availability of the MPU-6150, the world first and only single chip 6-axis MotionTracking device designed for the low power, low cost, and high performance...
The Sony Corporation issued a public apology on Tuesday, Dec. 20 to customers who have purchased their new handheld videogame console, the Playstation Vita. Just days after its release, Sony’s Japanese division has already received a deluge of complaints concerning the new unit’s malfunctioning software and hardware. After selling some 321,000 units in the first two days after its release, game-enthusiasts quickly began to lodge reports about faulty touch screens and frequent software...
SAN BRUNO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart (NYSE: WMT) today announced the launch of its popular VUDU entertainment service on Xbox 360. Xbox LIVE customers can now shop VUDU's library using new, interactive features such as voice search, voice control and Kinect gesture commands to rent or own the latest Hollywood hits, TV shows, cinema classics and independent gems in standard or high definition. To encourage customers to try VUDU on Xbox, VUDU is offering a...
SEATTLE, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Screenlife® today revealed its new Scene It?® Movie Night game, which includes a series of downloadable Game Packs with Add-on content for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation® Network. Scene It? Movie Night: Mega Movies, features actual movie scenes with dynamic film trivia challenges in a party game setting. Scheduled for release November 30, 2011, Scene It?...
LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced that its "Just for Kids" section is now available to Netflix members in the U.S. on the Wii(TM) game console. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111122/SF11181) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101014/SF81638LOGO) Simply selecting Just for Kids within the Netflix app for Wii takes Netflix members to a section that's perfect for their children 12 and under. Parents and kids can...
Microsoft’s Xbox home console celebrates its 10th anniversary this week with its successor, the Xbox 360 a vital frontrunner in home gaming systems. In a market dominated at the time with offerings from established and credible gaming companies, Xbox began life as a critical underdog with tech pundits all but writing off the platform before it even hit store shelves. However, Microsoft instead of releasing a gaming console that underwhelmed, much like its ubiquitous but not-much loved PC...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Atari, one of the world's most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, announced today the release of the re-imagined legendary video game franchise Centipede: Infestation for Wii and Nintendo 3DS now available at all retail outlets. Media have rallied around Centipede: Infestation's post-apocalyptic action experience: "It's a fun romp through a good story with some fun gameplay...[Centipede: Infestation] has something...
Nintendo Co. has seen its shares drop 45 percent in 2011 in Osaka trading due to concerns that the flare may have run out on the company's video-game consoles. The company sold fewer than a fifth of the 16 million 3DS handheld game consoles it expected to sell in the last five months. Nintendo slashed its 3DS prices as much as 40 percent in July after initial sales fell short of estimates. Some experts believe this will still not be enough to revive the company's stock price....
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The Fairchild Channel F is a game console manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor that was released in August 1976. It was the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console as well as the first to use a microprocessor. The original name for the system was the Video Entertainment System, but when Atari released their VCS the name was changed to Channel F. By 1977 sales had reached 250,000 and was second to the Atari VCS. The Channel F, using an F8 CPU, produced enough AI to use...
The Sega Genesis is the fourth generation of game consoles developed by Sega. It was also known as the Sega Mega Drive released in Japan on October 29, 1988. It was released in other regions as the Sega Genesis. In the US, New York and Los Angeles were the first cities to get the console on on August 14, 1989 in. On September 15, 1989 it was released to the rest of North America. It was released in Europe as the Mega Drive on November 30, 1990. It was also released in Brazil in 1990 as the...
The Sega Master System (SMS) was manufactured by Sega as the third generation video game console, released on October 20, 1985 as the Sega Mark III in Japan. The system was redesigned and released as the SMS in June 1986 in North America, 1987 in Europe, and 1989 in Brazil. A re-release of the SMS came in late 2006 with a hand held device that used 3 AAA batteries and contained 20 built in games. The console featured a cartridge slot and a card slot for game play. The unit also featured a...
The Nintendo 64 (N64) is a game console produce and sold by Nintendo. It was released in June 1996 in Japan; September 1996 in North America; March 1997 in Europe and Australia; September 1997 in France; and December 1997 in Brazil. The N64 was the third generation home game console from Nintendo and the last to use ROM cartridges. The N64 was discontinued worldwide by the end of 2003. Its successor was the Nintendo Game Cube released in 2001. Worldwide sales for the N64 reached 32.93...
The Nintendo GameCube (NGC in Japan, GCN in North America) is a video game console produced by Nintendo and released on September 14, 2001 in Japan, November 14, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia. It is the sixth generation game console produced by Nintendo that uses optical discs as the primary storage, and uses miniDVDs instead of full sized DVDs. The GameCube was the first Nintendo console to support online play outside of Japan using a modem...
