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Date: Thu, 2. October 2008 17:49:20

Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games. Under a new pilot program called InSight, Allstate will offer specialized computer games to 100,000 customers in Pennsylvania aged 50 to 75. The games' developer, San Francisco-based Posit Science, will track the total number of hours these drivers play.

Date: Sat, 29. August 2009 13:02:00

PC World - All around the world, the focus of games has been moving from video games to arcade games and further towards online games. Currently, the online game market is growing steadily with an increasing number of users due to higher provision rates of broadband, enhanced console network functions, diversification of online game genres and an expansion of casual MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).

Date: Tue, 3. March 2009 17:47:18

Microsoft stopped making the original Xbox in 2006 and now has ended out-of-warranty support for the gaming console - some eight and a half years after its debut. In early 2006, several months after it launched the Xbox 360, Microsoft ceased manufacturing the original Xbox. Today, the company pulled...

Date: Thu, 12. March 2009 16:20:20

A new report from the NPD Group shows that online gaming is up, PC gaming is slightly down, and the Xbox 360 is sitting on top of the console heap for online play.

Date: Tue, 6. January 2009 02:32:55

Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on Monday.

Date: Wed, 3. June 2009 19:26:16

Both Microsoft and Sony debuted prototype motion controllers for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, while the only gadget that gaming leader Nintendo unveiled was a device that Wii users can use to check their pulse.

Date: Sun, 7. December 2008 19:41:55

Nintendo's Wii has emerged as one of the few hot products this holiday season, and Wal-Mart will offer "tens of thousands" of the hard-to-get video game consoles on its Web site starting on Monday.

Date: Wed, 25. March 2009 12:27:12

OnLive, a new video game company, is using cloud computing technology to provide on-demand access to games and other entertainment. OnLive looks to challenge more established gaming systems such as the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox.br/ - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A new videogame company is aiming to challenge the big three console makers by providing a quot;cloud-based quot; gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time. The fledging company, called OnLive, said its service will allow users to play games on a... pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nz_sdnlJKsmeu260X8TosZLbPl8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nz_sdnlJKsmeu260X8TosZLbPl8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=qOlvhzd-L3Q:xiznXoQ-11s:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/qOlvhzd-L3Q" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 2. June 2009 01:53:41

Reuters - Microsoft Corp on Monday offered a glimpse into a future where the Xbox 360 console is the centerpiece of any living room, and games, social interaction and communications are controlled with the wave of a hand.

Date: Wed, 7. January 2009 00:04:48

Reuters - British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday.