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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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I live alone these days, but my favorite memento of my old roommate is the 2005 headline from The Onion that is still stuck to my refrigerator three years after she put it there: “Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared for Full-Scale Zombie Attack.”
The line makes me smile every day because the concept of zombie apocalypse is [...]

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The actor and comedian Jack Black will be the host of the the awards.
WHEN the Video Game Awards are held here on Sunday, game publishers and voice-over actors will line the red carpet. But the viewers will be watching to see something else: sneak peeks at [...]

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WATCHING videos on the Web is fast becoming a national pastime. More and more people are turning on their computers to view clips of shows they missed on television or to watch the increasing number of full-length TV programs and movies now available online.
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The media mogul Sumner M. Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, said Monday that he had sold his majority stake in the video game publisher Midway Games as his family’s holding company sought to get out from under $1.6 billion in debt.
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In these challenging economic times, it may come as a surprise that a well-chosen video game can be one of the most cost-effective gifts possible. Sure, the $60 price tag on some top games can be daunting, but when you realize that the right one can wrangle dozens or even hundreds of hours out [...]

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British regulators rejected a plan on Friday to add locally focused video news to BBC Web sites in Britain, dealing a setback to the digital ambitions of the BBC, which has expanded aggressively on the Internet.
The BBC Trust, which oversees the public broadcaster, and Ofcom, the British media regulator, said the proposal would have [...]

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Trying to find deep cultural meaning in a game like Gears of War 2 is a bit like seeing rich social commentary in Hollywood’s latest comic-book adaptation. If you jump through enough facile intellectual hoops you can get away with it, but the results usually come off as an overblown exercise that ultimately misses the [...]

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At this profound moment in our nation’s history, I’ve spent almost 50 hours recently picking through the rubble of one of its potential futures.
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Battles are plentiful in Fallout 3’s post-atomic Beltway world.
Call it a subconscious yet stubborn refusal to acknowledge the obvious, but it took [...]

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