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Date: Mon, 8. June 2009 03:29:44

Ant sends in a story at CNet about the evolution of downloadable console games, ranging from Intellivision's PlayCable in 1981 to the modern systems we see today. Quoting: "Intellivision was the first home console to let users download games via a coaxial cable line. Subscribers rented a special cartridge that hooked up to local cable and would be able to download single games that could be played until users decided to download new titles. The service's downfall was a result of innovations to Mattel's Intellivision game system, which began using cartridges with ever-increasing amounts of memory. The PlayCable service could no longer keep up, since the special cartridge could hold only a fourth of the total space that newer games required."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/07/1412241/A-Brief-History-of-Downloadable-Console-Games?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/06/07/1412241"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/07/1412241/A-Brief-History-of-Downloadable-Console-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UhSakwikbvh3myZW6r5m2lQ610Q/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UhSakwikbvh3myZW6r5m2lQ610Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UhSakwikbvh3myZW6r5m2lQ610Q/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UhSakwikbvh3myZW6r5m2lQ610Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/RsfhOEbRQbQ" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Fri, 16. May 2008 22:36:03

Reuters - For years, video games have been blamed for turning kids into idle layabouts who only venture off the couch to fill up on potato chips and soda.

Date: Sun, 4. January 2009 23:09:00

Some Xbox 360 mods are the product of serious craftsmanship, some are rather silly, and some -- like this Suzuki automobile console / Xbox 360 game console hybrid -- really give one pause. This isn't the sort of thing that one spends moments / hours / w

Date: Tue, 2. September 2008 15:04:51

Microsoft on Monday slashed the prices for the Xbox 360 video game consoles in Japan, an intensely competitive market where the U.S. software company has long been struggling against formidable rivals Nintendo and Sony .

Date: Wed, 21. May 2008 11:03:28

GameSHOUTThe state of the next-gen video game consoleCNET News.com - 7 hours agoThe Xbox 360 became the first next-gen console to sell 10 million units in the United States. With the release Monday of Wii Fit, the exercise game that some video game analysts have predicted could become one of the best-selling titles of all time, ...Microsoft back peddles on "winning" the console war GamePro.comWii, Xbox 360, PS3 not green, says Greeenpeace Punch JumpKotaku.com - eFluxMedia - USA Today - ChattahBoxall 146 news articles

Date: Thu, 12. March 2009 13:25:13

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Date: Fri, 6. March 2009 14:45:33

The Fab Four's Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii debut arrives on 9/9/09. It will be available as $250 limited-edition hardware bundle or $60 game - with stand-alone guitars at $100 each. After widespread rumors, MTV Games-owned Harmonix announced that it was developing a rhythm game based on The Beatles,...

Date: Tue, 2. June 2009 14:22:49

The gaming industry has been pointing fingers at used games for some time, calling them the bane of the industry. Florida, apparently, has quietly enacted a way to slwo down the trade, requiring fingerprinting when selling used games back to a game store.

Date: Thu, 12. June 2008 15:04:02

Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries. Downloadable tunes for music-based games "Guitar Hero," "Rock Band" and "SingStar" have become as vital as iTunes itself -- and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.

Date: Thu, 12. June 2008 12:45:45

AP - Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries. Downloadable tunes for music-based games "Guitar Hero," "Rock Band" and "SingStar" have become as vital as iTunes itself — and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.