Console games are much harder to pirate than PC versions, as the console hardware needs to be modified.
Pitino had tears in his eyes as he tried to console his players.
In the days following, cars pulled up at the house at all hours as friends and colleagues came to show their support and to console Diana, as if I had died.
Comcast and Cox were also name dropped as potential candidates to bring console-quality HD games directly to customers, based on tech from startups like Playcast, CiiNOW and Agawi.
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Love it or hate it, the conceptual Ouya console has stirred up the pot of video game publishing in recent weeks, as the hackable console promises to change the landscape of gaming forever.
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Nintendo has announced, alongside the many other games coming to its next-gen Wii U system, that it will be bringing Bayonetta 2 to the console as a Nintendo exclusive.
Sony's security breach is particularly embarrassing because it wants to position its PlayStation console as an entertainment hub capable of delivering films and music over the internet, in addition to video games.
This early failure in the Japanese market has a compounding negative effect on worldwide console sales, as game developers are less willing to invest in high-risk projects for console platforms that are shaky out-of-the-gates, which makes it less attractive for gamers to buy these consoles, and so on.
Like Microsoft, Sony has been supporting the use of its current console as a way to watch movies as well as play games.
This launch follows a three-month closed beta test, and it comes about a month after the company's announcement that the service would come to the Xbox 360 as a console launch exclusive.
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To help make its forthcoming hardware more palatable to gamers, Nintendo plans to offer the "Wii U Pro Controller, " a more traditional button-laden device along with the console as an alternative to the GamePad.
The Wii was compromised pretty early on to be able to play burned discs and GameCube homebrew such as Linux, but until now Nintendo has managed to isolate Wii hardware such as the extra horsepower of the console and wireless connectivity from hackers.
Interestingly, the next-gen Microsoft console is referred to as the Xbox 720 in the contract itself.
Of course, like Nintendo and especially Microsoft, Sony wants to continue branding its console as an entertainment hub for the living room, not just a gaming toy.
Recently a document was leaked that gave away quite a bit of information on the next-gen Microsoft gaming console commonly referred to as the Xbox 720.
Consoles have always fared better than PCs when it comes to piracy, and as a result console games have traditionally been free of the sorts of digital rights management that PC gamers have been using for years.
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The Gizmondo may have edged out the N-Gage as the portable game console everyone loves to hate on, but that isn't stopping Tiger Telematics from pushing ahead with their oft-delayed plans to introduce the new console here in the States.
According to the same article, it is claimed that Microsoft has decided to do the same as Sony and include an optical drive as part of its next-generation games console, widely expected to be called the Xbox 720.
It will be interesting to see whether the new prominence of the iPad as an app platform will help old console warhorses like Electronic Arts and Activision to find a better footing in the mobile game market.
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However, others were just as quick to point out the history of new console release prices.
Bobby Kotick, CEO of "Call of Duty" publisher Activision, says console games can be as integral to young people's social lives as Facebook and text messaging.
While hardware sales of all other systems are slowly winding down, as tends to happen near the end of a console generation, Xbox 360 is spooling up.
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Yarn Yoshi: The team that created Kirby's Epic Yarn is hard at work on the first console game to feature Yoshi as the main character since 1998's Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64.
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Reviews for the long-awaited 3DS are coming in as Nintendo prepares to release the the handheld 3D games console in North America this Sunday.
With the inclusion of nongaming apps for the Wii U, the gaming console appears to be positioning itself as a hub for more than just games.
Players will be able to use the hand-held console as a camera, take pictures of themselves and automatically convert their images into Miis -- personalized in-game avatars like ones from Wii console games.
The Wii put up incredible sales figures as it attracted a slew of non-gamers to the console.
But as a console designed for this, there are limitations to functionality it could provide in this new world.
In April, Nintendo reported its first annual loss as sales of its Wii console and other gadgets started to slow.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) knew this, and it was one of the first to build a game console that truly served as a multimedia device.
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