That order is on hold--as are ones by Harrah's Casino, Starwood Hotels and IGT video-game stores.
Participants say the attraction lies in seeing your video-game or movie fantasies come to life.
Japan accounts for about a quarter of all video-game sales globally and is crucial for Microsoft.
Because Sony cannily included a Blu-ray player in its latest video-game console, PlayStation 3.
The video-game player has been out of stock in the home market since November.
As in films, a few winners in the video-game business support a lot of losers.
Sceptics might argue that video-game players did better on the tests because of pre-existing differences.
By fifth grade, he was building his own video-game console with an electronic-projects kit from Radio Shack.
Phobias may represent the biggest market for video-game and virtual-reality therapy, and clinics are popping up worldwide.
The machines, developed jointly by video-game developers Atlus and Sega, take a customer's picture for imprinting on stickers.
While playing the video-game, the Light-core and Series 2 figures soon become favorites.
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The game proved very popular and over 90 versions of it have been produced, including versions for home video-game consoles.
In just a couple of years it has grown into one of the most significant video-game series for family gamers.
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And its video-game styling might be exactly what young men want to see this weekend after gorging themselves on turkey.
In the meantime, the video-game industry is continually trying to increase the realism of its basketball players and brawny mercenaries.
He also highlighted the fact that the video-game sector has been in decline and in need of new products like this.
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More than a few people learn about sport by playing the video-game version rather than by running around the playing field.
The game came under scrutiny from video-game critics after a shakeup at Infinity Ward, the developer most often associated with the franchise.
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That year, someone mailed Hotz a PlayStation 3 video-game system, challenging him to be the first in the world to crack it.
Microsoft's presentation was the first from the three major video-game console makers.
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In video-game terms, that meant creating someone the player would connect with emotionally but who would also be useful to them during gameplay.
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The brand new video-game-focused television show and website, Platform32, threw some footage of the upcoming title up on Youtube, fresh from a press event.
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The video-game developer best known for its "Grand Theft Auto" franchise posted a quarterly net loss and fiscal 2009 forecast below Wall Street's estimates.
With his minimalist stroke and robotic discipline, he was like a video-game player who had found a loophole in the programming code to exploit.
And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.
No, it's not the theme to another "Dance Dance Revolution" video-game, it's a method used to trick the human eye into viewing a higher resolution.
That order is on hold--as are ones by Harrah's Casino, Starwood Hotels (nyse: HOT - news - people ) and IGT video-game stores.
Nintendo's Wii controller already has motion-sensors and it seems it won't be long before more interactive gear, including clothing, become part of a video-game player's wardrobe.
Second Life opened in 2003 and is now inhabited by about 100, 000 people from around the world (still a small number compared with the video-game giants).
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But gamers who already loved the expansive, altered-reality world of the series first met her in 2011 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the world's largest video-game gathering.
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