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Take-Two Interactive Software, the maker of the Grand Theft Auto video games, agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit in which the Securities and Exchange Commission had accused the company of backdating stock options.
The settlement needs approval in federal court in New York, the company said on Wednesday in a [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Booming video game sales are masking a serious concern for game makers: their economic model is in peril. Game companies are taking in more money, but, in many cases, not profits.
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The Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco. Sales of video games are [...]

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Thomson Reuters will announce on Tuesday an ambitious new video-on-demand service for its financial services clients, with thousands of searchable videos and transcripts on a range of topics, hoping to become a one-stop source for business people.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a California law that sought to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2005 law violates minors’ rights under the Constitution’s First and 14th amendments. The [...]

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Of the many great lines in the classic 1985 film “The Breakfast Club,” my favorite has always been the knowing enticement delivered by Judd Nelson’s character, the delinquent John Bender: “Being bad feels pretty good, huh?”
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Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday.
Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links — and part to display, the [...]

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I can’t remember the first time I shot someone.
It might have been when I first saved humanity from interstellar demons in the original Doom. Or it could have been when I took down a mothership full of alien slavers in the 1994 Mac classic Marathon. Maybe it was as I escaped from a Nazi prison [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Most media companies these days are desperately searching for ways to get people to pay for their content on the Web. Major League Baseball is not one of them.
Half a million baseball fans paid $120 last year to watch live video of pro baseball games on the Web, according to MLB.com, a [...]

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THE video game industry has never been more reliable in producing high-quality mass entertainment for a variety of audiences with a variety of tastes. Three years into the current generation of game systems, developers are ceding nothing to other entertainment media in terms of high-end production values and overall attention to detail.
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It probably wasn’t fair, to either the game or to myself, to expect too much from Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond game from Activision.
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After all, movie tie-in games are nearly always horrible. Over decades [...]

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